The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 337 It’s time to come back
After Qin Huai returned home, he secretly practiced thickening for two hours.

Yes, practice secretly.

Qin Huai himself had never imagined that one day he would become the most hated test-taker in his student days, quietly becoming introverted and then surprising everyone.

Qin Huai not only practiced secretly, but also practiced secretly while taking online classes.

Because he forgot to bring the wooden phone holder made by Zhang Chu home, Qin Huai used a cheap phone holder that he had bought online at a flash sale for 3 yuan. He placed the phone holder on a high cabinet so that Cao Guixiang could see the situation in the pot clearly from a bird's-eye view.

The advantage is that the view is good enough, but the disadvantage is that the phone is too far away from Qin Huai, so Qin Huai cannot communicate with Cao Guixiang in time. Sometimes Cao Guixiang speaks in a low voice and Qin Huai cannot hear clearly.

When thickening the sauce for the first time, Qin Huai tried to chat with Cao Guixiang while thickening it like practicing knife skills. After several attempts, Qin Huai found it difficult and gave up. He switched to stand-alone mode and watched Cao Guixiang do it.

Qin Huai felt that he really had some talent in thickening.

How to put it, although thickening is not difficult, he feels it is a little too easy.

Many things can be thickened, not just crab paste.

Since there were some yams in the kitchen that Chen Huihong had stockpiled some time ago and had not yet taken away, the first dish that Qin Huai thickened was fried yams. Thickening fried yams does not require too much superb skills, just the most ordinary thickening will do.

Cao Guixiang was chewing an apple and staring at her phone.

At first she just looked at it casually.

After giving Qin Huai online classes for such a long time, Cao Guixiang has more or less understood Qin Huai's impulsive personality.

Qin Huai likes to make new snacks and likes to make one today and another tomorrow. Cao Guixiang doesn't find it strange that he has this habit when practicing red case techniques. In fact, Cao Guixiang chats with Qin Huai every day during video teaching, not only to train his concentration level, but also to make Qin Huai feel that practicing knife skills is not so boring.

Cao Guixiang has never taught an apprentice, but she has raised grandchildren. The way she teaches Qinhuai sword skills is actually the same as the way she raised her grandchildren back then - both are to coax children.

Coax children into learning things, give praise when appropriate, give rewards when necessary, and then conduct regular fishing enforcement, and you will usually get good results.

Seeing that Qin Huai was interested in thickening and took the initiative to express his talent in this art, Cao Guixiang had already prepared words of praise and encouragement in her mind.

As a result, when the first dish of Qinhuai fried yam came out of the pot, Cao Guixiang was speechless.

Cao Guixiang forgot to eat the apple. She stared at her phone, not wanting to blink.

If Qin Huai could look up at the camera of his mobile phone, he would find that Master Cao, who was always smiling and joking, now had a dazed expression on his face that he had never seen before.

Another plate of fried yam is out of the pot.

Qin Huai looked at the fried yam on the plate and felt that although he did not cook it very well and his control of the heat was just average, the starch was really good and it added the finishing touch.

Qin Huai picked up the plate and pointed it at the camera so Cao Guixiang could see it more clearly: "Master Cao, I won't fry the yam. It would be a waste if I fry too much."

"Can you please take a look at the thickening of my fried yam? Is there any problem?" Qin Huai asked loudly.

When Cao Guixiang heard Qin Huai talking, she subconsciously took a bite of the apple, paused for a few seconds, and then said loudly and vaguely: "It's good."

"Xiao Qin, who did you learn this method of thickening starch from?"

"I learned it from you." Qin Huai wanted to look up, but it was too weird to look up and talk to the phone, so he simply opened the refrigerator and took out the crab sauce. "Didn't I watch you cook in the kitchen before? I learned how to thicken the sauce by following your way."

Cao Guixiang fell silent again.

Seeing Cao Guixiang didn't say anything, Qin Huai looked up at his phone and asked, "Is there any problem?"

"When I was thickening the sauce this afternoon, they said there was nothing wrong with my technique and that I had a good grasp of the timing. But there are some problems with the basic skills. I did a good job of pouring the sauce on, but the subsequent stirring and stir-frying were not so good. Is this a problem with the basic skills?" Qin Huai asked.

Cao Guixiang said: "This is normal. You are not experienced. Newbies will have similar problems."

"As for the rest... it's... pretty good."

"Then I'll make the crab roe sauce now. It's a good opportunity for you to take a look at the process of making crab roe sauce and help me see if there are any steps that can be changed."

"But I haven't been making the crab roe sauce during this period. It has always been Zheng Siyuan who has been making the crab roe sauce. Plus, my heat control is not very good, so there may be problems in many steps. You can just take a look at it, and pay special attention to the two thickening steps."

"Okay." Cao Guixiang nodded, not caring whether Qin Huai could see her movements or not. She squinted her eyes and held the phone farther away in an attempt to see it more clearly. To no avail, she could only call her husband.

"Lao Zhang! Old man, where are my reading glasses?"

Zhang Chu hurried out of the carpentry room, took out Cao Guixiang's reading glasses from the TV cabinet and handed them to her. He glanced at his phone and found a new teaching perspective. He asked casually:
"Why are you taking online classes tonight as well?"

"Shh, keep your voice down and don't disturb Xiao Qin." Cao Guixiang made a gesture to keep quiet.

Zhang Chu was amused and lowered his voice: "Don't you usually chat while teaching to distract Xiao Qin? Why are you afraid that I will disturb him today?"

Cao Guixiang also lowered her voice: "Today is different."

After saying that, Cao Guixiang put on her glasses and stared at her phone intently.

Meanwhile, Qin Huai is trying to make crab roe sauce for the first time.

How should I put it? Maybe it was his talent in thickening that gave Qin Huai confidence. Or maybe it was because Ouyang lived downstairs, so he could send the sauce to him after it was done so it wouldn't go to waste.

In the past, Qin Huai would never rashly prepare crab roe sauce at home when he knew that his skills were not as good as Zheng Siyuan's, but today was different.

I really feel something today.

how to say.

I have to say something that really deserves a beating, but when Qin Huai was thickening the sauce for the first time in the afternoon, he felt like he was the chosen one, as if he was assisted by God. The second time he thickened the sauce, he found that it felt just as good as the first time.

When he came back in the evening and stir-fried the yam and thickened it to make the dish easier, Qin Huai felt like he was the chosen one again.

It feels so good.

Qin Huai often finds the feeling in making dim sum, but this is the first time that he feels so good in the technique of red case.

Before, whether it was practicing the heat or practicing knife skills, the most common thing everyone said to Qin Huai was that this was basic skills and that no corners could be cut. No matter how talented one was, one still needed to spend time and energy practicing and accumulating knowledge. There were no shortcuts.

This is indeed the case. How much you practice, or whether you practice at all, will be fully reflected in the control of the heat and the knife skills.

Qin Huai had never experienced the feeling of being able to make plain dim sum without any instruction and to do it well at any time when making red dim sum.

Qin Huai felt exactly the same as Tan Weian on the Red Case.

Where is the feeling? What is the feeling? Where is the feeling? Is there really a feeling on the red case?
Before, Qin Huai always thought that there was no such thing as feeling when solving the Red Case. The Red Case was 99% of effort plus 1% of talent. You had to fill up the first 99% of the progress bar and pave the way for it before you could use your talent to break through the last 1%.

Now Qin Huai feels that he has some feeling about the red case, and he has to find this feeling himself.

He has a good feel for thickening sauces.

Thickening the sauce is a piece of cake.

Although his yam was not fried well, the starch was good. It was a pity that the game system did not count starch as a skill, otherwise Qin Huai would think that his starch was at least advanced.

Qin Huai is making crab roe sauce very seriously.

His cooking skills were very average, and everyone knew that Qin Huai's cooking skills were only better than his knife skills. The reason why his cooking skills were better than his knife skills was not because his cooking skills were good, but because his knife skills were really poor.

Of course, my knife skills have caught up now, but not by much. These two basic skills are still as poor as ever.

However, considering that Qin Huai's cooking skills will soon reach the advanced level (he still needs one thousand proficiency points, but this proficiency point increases very slowly), and his knife skills will soon reach the intermediate level (he still needs one hundred proficiency points, and this proficiency point increases very slowly), Qin Huai can still boast that his cooking skills are better than his knife skills.

There were many problems with Qin Huai's sauce-making process, some of which he could see at a glance, but he couldn't correct them.

Making crab roe sauce is actually a rather difficult technical job. It may be easier to make it with fresh crab roe, but the difficulty of secondary processing of finished crab roe sauce will increase rapidly.

This is why making crab roe sauce is still Zheng Siyuan's job - Tan Weian's ability is not up to par. Zhang Chu sat next to Cao Guixiang and watched Qin Huai making crab roe sauce.

The angle of Qin Huai's phone was very good, and he could see the situation in the pot clearly. He could only see the back of Qin Huai's head, which was a standard surveillance angle.

Zhang Chu, a carpenter who is not very good at cooking but has eaten a lot of good food, made an amateur comment: "Xiao Qin's sauce is not good enough."

"Are you angry? I remember when you were making sauce at home before, the sauce in the pot was not like this. Or are the sauces different from each other? Aren't fried sauce, sweet noodle sauce, and crab roe sauce made in the same way?"

Cao Guixiang didn't really want to pay attention to her husband, so she said perfunctorily: "Xiao Qin's temper is not good enough, there's no rush, I'll correct it slowly."

"Don't talk. If you want to watch, just shut up and watch quietly."

Zhang Chu:?
Did he offend his wife today? Did he miss a bowl when washing dishes? Did he miss a bag of garbage when throwing away the garbage? Or did he not catch any fish the day before yesterday, so he went to the market and bought two fish to make up the number and was discovered today?
Zhang Chu's brain was thinking rapidly.

Just when he was thinking about whether he had embezzled money for grocery shopping last week and his crime had been exposed, Qin Huai was about to start thickening the sauce for the first time.

He is mixing starch water.

Preparing starch water is actually a technical job.

What kind of starch to use, what is the ratio of starch to water, and whether to mix the two starches together are all things that need to be studied.

It is difficult to make a good dish simply by following the proportions in the recipe.

Cooking is a very flexible thing, and it often depends on the chef's experience and feeling. Qin Huai's first two times of thickening the fried yam were very simple to adjust the starch water, because the proportion of more or less is not very important, but the crab sauce is different.

Crab roe sauce needs to be thickened with mung bean starch, and it also needs to be thinned. In this case, it is very important to adjust the starch water to the right state.

Zang Liang helped Qin Huai prepare the starch water this afternoon.

Qin Huai didn't pay much attention when Zang Liang was mixing the starch. He was concentrating on listening to what Zang Liang told him. This led to Qin Huai not knowing how to mix the starch water when he really had to mix it himself.

Qin Huai was a little stunned.

Qin Huai thought about it and decided to go with his feeling.

Wait, how does he feel?

Forget it, there’s no time to get started, just take it one step at a time.

Cao Guixiang saw Qin Huai's confusion, bewilderment, hesitation and decisiveness.

She knew that under normal circumstances, as a teacher taking an online course, she should loudly remind Qin Huai what she should do next, but she didn't.

She just watched quietly with her reading glasses on.

Qin Huai prepared a bowl of starch water which seemed full of problems to Cao Guixiang.

Qin Huai held the starch water and looked at the pot quietly.

The crab sauce in the pot had gradually begun to boil, and small bubbles began to rise and burst one after another. Even Zhang Chu, who was next to Cao Guixiang, knew that it was time to thicken the sauce, but Qin Huai had not moved yet.

"What is Xiao Qin doing? The sauce in the pot is about to boil." Zhang Chu muttered.

"Quiet." Cao Guixiang didn't even spare a glance at her husband. She put down the apple and stared at the phone.

Finally, at the moment when a small bubble near the corner swelled and burst, Qin Huai's feeling told him that it was now.

He got it.

He used the same action as Cao Guixiang, twisting his arms and wrists very widely and pouring the starch water into the pot, making a big circle.

The starch water flows very smoothly and fluently along the edge of the bowl in a standard pouring state.

yes!

The villain in Qin Huai's heart was cheering.

Another successful and satisfying thickening.

Qin Huai found that thickening the sauce during the cooking stage was much better than thickening it during the frying stage.

Qin Huai had a failed experience in the afternoon when he was too excited to stir the sauce after thickening it. This time, he remembered to stir it. He picked up the spatula and stirred it randomly. Then he looked up excitedly and said to the camera of his mobile phone: "Master Cao, how was my thickening just now?"

Cao Guixiang's face showed a standard satisfied and kind smile: "Very good."

“It’s better than I thought.”

Qin Huai continued to process the crab roe sauce. After successfully thickening it, he was a little nervous and confused about collecting the sauce and stir-frying it.

Seeing the huge difference between Qin Huai's behavior before and after, Zhang Chu couldn't help but complain: "Xiao Qin is really good at making sauce...wasn't he just thickening it just fine? Why is he so flustered now?"

Cao Guixiang glared at Zhang Chu in annoyance and said, "You are the only one who talks too much. It's good enough that Xiao Qin can do this. Don't ask for too much. He is a white-case dim sum chef, not a red-case chef."

Zhang Chu felt that his wife's attitude was a little strange today.

In the short ten minutes that Qin Huai was making crab roe sauce, Cao Guixiang had glared at him several times, and each time it was because he spoke.

Zhang Chu boldly guessed: "Did you teach Xiao Qin how to thicken the sauce?"

"Does thickening have to be taught face to face? You're making it too difficult for Xiao Qin to take this online course. When I was learning the craft of shaving wood flowers, my master had to watch from the side."

"I didn't teach him." Cao Guixiang had already seen what she wanted to see. She looked away from her phone and took off her reading glasses. "Xiao Qin learned it by himself."

"You learned it yourself?" Zhang Chu didn't understand. "But wasn't the way he thickened the sauce the same as yours? Isn't your method of thickening the sauce a unique technique for Tan's cuisine?"

"Yes, he can see it." Cao Guixiang's eyes were full of admiration and disbelief. "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really wouldn't have believed that someone could see it just by watching."

"It seems that we have run out of shark fins, sea cucumbers and bird's nests at home. Go contact Lao Wang and ask him to find some good stuff."

"Xiao Qin loves mangoes. Buy some mangoes next week."

"Oh, yes, there is also good pork belly. Go to the market early next week and pick out some good ones. The chef in Xiao Qin's cafeteria doesn't cook pork with preserved vegetables well. Xiao Qin has complained to me several times. We need to let him eat some good pork with preserved vegetables."

"Have you finished practicing Qinhuai knife skills?" Zhang Chu asked.

Cao Guixiang did not answer immediately, but opened WeChat to look for the chat records with Qin Huai to find out which prescriptions she had given to Qin Huai.

"It seems that I really need to spend some time to organize all these prescriptions. I really can't remember them for the time being." Cao Guixiang murmured, and then responded to Zhang Chu's words.

"It's time to come back even if he hasn't finished practicing. I have to teach him how to thicken the sauce. He can't learn the essence by self-study."

Zhang Chu looked at his wife's serious expression and a bold guess came to his mind.

"Guixiang, you don't want to take Xiao Qin as your apprentice, do you?" Zhang Chu asked.

Cao Guixiang shook her head: "I told you, I don't accept apprentices. And Xiao Qin may not want to be my apprentice. How can a white case chef be my apprentice?"

"But I think it would be a shame not to pass on my skills to a talent as good as Xiao Qin."

"What's the difference between that and being a disciple?" Zhang Chu said with a smile.

Cao Guixiang rolled her eyes at Zhang Chu and said, "What do you care?"

"My pleasure."

(End of this chapter)