The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 357: Online Class by the Master of Sensation School

After the first plate of fried yam came out of the pot, Qinhuai immediately fried the second plate.

In fact, if you want to show it, you only need to fry one plate, mainly because Qin Huai is used to it. If you don't fry all 10 yams, you will feel uncomfortable all over, so you must fry them all at once.

Zheng Siyuan and the other two stood on the sidelines and watched intently, all with their arms crossed over their chests, brows slightly furrowed, eyes focused, their gazes following Qin Huai's movements, the three of them standing there as if they were copied and pasted.

Soon, the second plate of fried yam came out of the pot.

Just like the first dish, this is a very good stir-fried yam. The knife skills are good, the heat is good, and it can even be called OK. The thickening is excellent. All these combined together, this dish of stir-fried yam can be praised by customers even if it is placed in an ordinary restaurant.

Don't underestimate this adjective. You have to know that with Qin Huai's previous cooking skills, he would be complained by customers if he cooked in an ordinary restaurant.

Every time Qin Huai and Qin Luo embezzled food expenses and decided to cook their own meals at home, it was a gamble.

Zang Liang held the first plate of fried yam and ate while watching Qin Huai frying. The more he watched, the more he felt that Qin Huai had become a qualified community canteen chef.

Anyway, Zang Liang felt that it would be just a matter of time before Qin Huai surpassed the two chefs in Yunzhong Canteen. The two chefs in the canteen were really average. They were okay for home-cooked stir-fries, but when it came to the main dishes, they exposed countless shortcomings, especially the braised pork with preserved vegetables.

Zang Liang still can't figure out how the preserved vegetable pork could be cooked like that.

During the days when Qin Huai was away, Zang Liang had consciously taken over the work of preparing staff meals. At first, Zang Liang actually didn't want to be responsible for the staff meals. This was basically the case for all chefs in large restaurants. The staff meals were extra work and a hard job, and were basically taken care of by chefs with lesser skills. Some chefs would not eat the staff meals, and would just cook two side dishes for themselves.

Zang Liang never ate the food served to employees at his workplace, but always ate the special meal prepared by his master.

But Zang Liang didn't expect that the staff meals in Yunzhong Canteen were so unpalatable. He thought it was okay to eat one or two meals, but if he ate more, Zang Liang couldn't stand it.

Unlike Qin Huai, a child from an ordinary family who ate home-cooked meals since childhood, Zang Liang had been a disciple of Zang Mu since he was very young. Zang Liang's good tongue was not only innate, but also cultivated by Zang Mu's soup dishes.

This teaching method is very common among old-style masters and apprentices. Whether it is Cao Guixiang, Zheng Da or Huang Shengli, they all ate a lot of delicious dishes at the beginning of their apprenticeship. In addition to helping the apprentices gain experience and set goals, it is also to give them a good taste.

Zang Liang, who had been eating top-notch Huaiyang cuisine since childhood, had never experienced such a hard life. On the second day after Qin Huai went to Guangdong Province, no one suggested that Zang Liang prepare employee meals, but Zang Liang took the initiative to take on the responsibility of preparing employee meals.

Of course, Zang Liang prepared the staff meals casually, with fried rice, two vegetables, and a portion of stir-fried meat. He prepared his own meals in a more elaborate way, and Zheng Siyuan, Tan Weian and Zang Liang ate together.

Of course, employees can also choose not to eat the employee meals prepared by Zang Liang and eat normal dishes.

Then, after tasting Zang Liang's cooking, all the employees of Yunzhong Canteen chose stir-fried vegetables and stir-fried meat. Don't ask, the answer is that summer is coming soon and everyone needs to lose weight, so eating more vegetables is better for the body.

Even Ouyang joined the ranks of those happily eating employee meals, sitting at the kitchen door with his meal tray to eat every day.

Even the two famous chefs in the Yunzhong Canteen eat the staff meals prepared by Zang Liang.

When Zang Liang came to Yunzhong Canteen on the first day, he thought he was here to help Qin Huai with some work. Every day, apart from working with Qin Huai on thickening crab sauce, he would help the kitchen cook some simple side dishes in his spare time.

As a result, plans could not keep up with changes. Zang Liang first found that he could not study the thickening of crab sauce at all. He did not even find the feeling of crab sauce. Then he found that he did not have spare time to help the kitchen cook super simple side dishes, because he did not even find the feeling. He wished that he could find the feeling as soon as he opened his eyes every day.

Finally, although he had no free time, for his own meals, he contracted the staff meals of the Yunzhong Canteen.

Sometimes when Zang Liang thought about what he had done in the past few days, he felt that he was actually a chef invited by Qin Huai from afar to be in charge of employee meals in order to motivate the enthusiasm of the employees in Yunzhong Canteen.

Don’t ask, the only thing I know is that the welfare benefits are good and the employee meals are all Huaiyang cuisine.

The three of them stood by the Qinhuai River and watched him cook one dish after another. Zang Liang also ate one dish after another and even burped after eating so much.

Finally, when Qin Huai was cooking the last dish, Tan Weian asked in a low voice, even a little guilty, "How good is Qin Huai's thickening now? Why do I feel that his thickening has become normal, and seems to be better than mine..."

"Yes, you are not wrong." Zang Liang affirmed Tan Weian's feeling, "Qin Huai's current level of thickening is higher than yours."

"He is now thickening the sauce normally. There is no problem with the timing, the ratio of starch to water, or the cooking time. If you were asked to stir-fry yam now, yours might not be as good as Qinhuai's."

Tan Weian: ...Thank you, we don’t want this feeling.

Tan Weian said weakly: "I am... a plain-cooked chef, so of course my fried yam is just average..."

Tan Weian hadn't said a few more words, but when he said the word "usually", he had already realized what the problem was with his words.

He is a plain-cooked chef, and Qin Huai is also a plain-cooked chef. Qin Huai is even a plain-cooked chef who is a self-taught plain-cooked chef, a plain-cooked chef with a poor foundation in red-cooked dishes, a plain-cooked chef who needs to cut a lot of radishes every day to practice basic skills, and a plain-cooked chef who doesn't understand how to use the spatula when cooking and always feels something is wrong.

It is such a pastry chef that, when he cooks a decent stir-fried yam, people who know him can intuitively feel how obvious, terrifying and rapid his progress is.

Now even if Qin Huai told Tan Weian that I actually have a magic weapon, my day has 240 hours, and I seemed to have gone back for further study for 6 days, but in fact I had gone back for further study for 60 days, Tan Weian would believe it.

Tan Weian didn't understand, and couldn't understand. He directly snatched the chopsticks from Zang Liang's hand, picked up a piece of fried yam and put it into his mouth. The yam was fried well and tasted crispy. The sauce was evenly spread and thin, which was very suitable for the yam, which had a sticky feeling.

Not to mention seasoning, Qinhuai can even fry the dishes without any problems when seasoning.

It was a far cry from the dish of yam that Qin Huai made when he first tried to imitate Cao Guixiang’s thickening and stir-frying.

Thousands of words finally turned into one sentence after eating this piece of fried yam.

"How did he do it?" Tan Wei'an exclaimed, "Is he a pervert?"

Zheng Siyuan nodded silently: "Is this your first day meeting Qin Huai?"

Tan Wei’an: …

Sorry, he was rude.

Compared with Tan Weian and Zheng Siyuan, Zang Liang seemed very excited. Even though he was full, he still insisted on eating fried yam. The more he ate, the more he felt that Qin Huai's progress was amazing.

This is not just a small improvement, but a qualitative leap in progress at a certain stage.

He must have found the feeling. The feeling Qin Huai talked about that day is the secret of this progress!
Master, I am almost finding the feeling you described!

When you return home after your exchange, I, your apprentice, will also give you a surprise like the one Qin Huai gave us today!
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Qin Huai fried all the yams.

How should I put it, it’s really enjoyable.

After frying the yam day and night for several days, this practice of cutting ten yams and frying several plates of yams has been engraved into Qinhuai's DNA. Cutting one less is not good, cutting one less will not give you that feeling.

Qin Huai felt that this good habit of stir-frying yam should be maintained. At this stage, stir-frying yam is the most suitable way for him to improve his knife skills and proficiency in heat. At the same time, he can practice thickening and lay a good foundation for double crab buns.

Get more in one fell swoop.

"How is it?" Qin Huai turned his head and saw the amazement in the eyes of the three people. He felt refreshed, and the pain brought by the devilish training in the past few days disappeared in an instant.

Sure enough, if people don’t show off after achieving success, what is the meaning of this achievement?
"How did you do it?" Zang Liang asked the same question, but his eyes were different from before. Before, Zang Liang's eyes were full of curiosity, but now they were full of amazement, admiration, and determination that I must learn it.

"I know I have asked this question before. You also told me that to practice seasoning, I need to practice knife skills and heat to get a feel for it. But how do I get this feeling specifically? How do I practice? With my current level, how should I practice knife skills and heat? Should I stir-fry yam like you? Or should I practice other dishes?" Zang Liang asked several questions in a row.

Tan Weian:?

No, buddy, you really believe Qin Huai’s nonsense. To practice seasoning, you have to practice knife skills and heat control first. Do you think this is reasonable?

However, Qin Huai's progress is indeed a bit surprising. It is said that folk remedies can cure serious diseases. Is it true that such uncanny tricks can often achieve unexpected results?
Tan Weian has been very troubled about his dough-making skills recently. He began to seriously think whether he was going in the wrong direction. If he wants to practice dough-making, he cannot just practice dough-making. He needs to practice mixing fillings and making pastry.

Well, I'll study it with Su Gan when I have time. Su Gan is better at making crispy cakes.

Qin Huai fell silent again.

He was silent this time not because he was tongue-tied, but because he didn't know how to answer. Zang Liang's level of red case was much higher than his, and he didn't know what Zang Liang should practice.

But Qin Huai could see that Zang Liang really wanted to know. Zang Liang was the one who wanted to find the feeling the most among the believers of the feeling school.

It also has the greatest potential.

Tan Weian couldn't find it, and Zheng Siyuan didn't bother to look for it. Only Zang Liang really wanted to follow Qin Huai's footsteps and explore the true meaning of feeling.

Qin Huai didn't want to disappoint such a loyal believer.

For Zang Liang, Qin Huai racked his brains and tried to organize his words, saying: "Well, let me tell you what I feel when I cut and stir-fry yams."

"Okay, okay." Zang Liang nodded frantically.

Qin Huai began to elaborate on the two completely different but effective otherworldly feelings.

There was not a single lie in his words, they were all true, and in order to make his language seem less poor, he even used idioms.

It was very detailed, even Qin Huai described his inner thoughts and the time when he was a child learning hard pen calligraphy while practicing.

Zang Liang listened attentively, Zheng Siyuan listened with great interest, and Tan Weian seemed to understand but not quite.

It took Qin Huai more than half an hour to finish talking about those two mysterious feelings.

Qin Huai's mouth was dry as he spoke. If Su Gan hadn't been considerate enough to hand him some tea to moisten his throat, Qin Huai felt that his voice would have been hoarse by now.

Hey, wait, why did Su Gan just offer me tea?

Qin Huai took a closer look and found that all the apprentices who came to exchange ideas at Zhiweiju were slacking off. It was not accurate to say that they were slacking off. They were all pretending to work hard, but in fact they were eavesdropping quietly. They pretended to be busy but did nothing. They must have heard a lot.

Even Gu Li was eavesdropping at the cooking table not far away.

Not to mention Li Hua and Pei Xing, they both almost came close to Tan Weian and listened openly.

Qin Huai: ...?
Was what he said just now so vivid, eloquent and fascinating?
Is his language so good at telling the truth now?

Seeing Qin Huai looking at everyone, everyone dispersed embarrassedly. Even Su Gan just silently added a cup of tea and walked away with the pot.

Everyone knew Qin Huai's temper and personality. Since Qin Huai was willing to talk about this matter in public, and his voice was getting louder and louder, it showed that he didn't mind everyone listening. However, Qin Huai didn't mind, and he didn't take the initiative to invite everyone to listen. Of course, it's better to listen secretly.

In fact, Qin Huai didn't mind. He looked directly at Zang Liang and said, "Do you understand what I mean by feeling?"

Zang Liang said thoughtfully: "I understand a little bit."

"This is like the epiphany of the protagonist in a martial arts novel. It requires a lot of practice to accumulate to a certain level, and then by chance, you break through the bottleneck, open up the Ren and Du meridians, and have an epiphany."

“So my master said that the reason I didn’t find the feeling wasn’t because my strength wasn’t good enough, but because I had accumulated enough, but I didn’t have the epiphany.”

"I have been practicing seasoning hard, but I have fallen into a dead end. The more I practice, the more anxious I become. The more anxious I become, the farther I can get from it. The farther I can get from it, the less I feel it."

"Just like I was thinking about what crab roe sauce felt like a few days ago. The more I kept thinking about crab roe sauce in my mind, the harder it was to find the feeling of crab roe sauce. These few days, I started to focus on thickening and stopped thinking about what kind of crab roe sauce the double crab buns needed. Instead, I began to understand the feeling that crab roe sauce was looking for."

"I understand. No wonder Qin Huai told me that to practice seasoning, you need to practice knife skills and heat control. People can't think of a solution when they are stuck in a dead end. Knife skills, heat control, and seasoning are the basic skills of red case. The three complement each other. All roads lead to Rome."

“Just because I can’t make it on the road of seasoning doesn’t mean I can’t make it on the road of knife skills and heat control. If one road is blocked, I can take a detour from the other two. As long as I practice knife skills and heat control enough and well, I will be able to find the feeling of seasoning in one day!”

Qin Huai: ...How do you understand? Why don’t I understand?

Without waiting for Qin Huai to speak, Zang Liang continued, "I understand again."

"You can't get stuck in a dead end. I kept thinking about how to improve the seasoning. My mind was full of seasoning, and the more I thought about it, the worse it got. In fact, I can not only practice knife skills and heat control, but also practice thickening. Thickening is also a skill. Change something to practice, change your mood, and change your mindset."

"Different mindsets lead to different states. If you are in the right state, you will naturally find the feeling you are talking about. I know what you are talking about! Thank you Qin Huai!"

"This feeling is really hard to understand. You explained it so clearly. Tan Wei'an even said that you are not good at talking, but you are not good at talking at all."

Tan Wei’an: ???

Not buddy.

"Yes, that's the feeling. I finally know what it feels like. Qin Huai, when are we going to start practicing thickening?"

"Don't worry, you've helped me so much, I will definitely stay in the Cloud Canteen until your double crab buns are successfully made! What do you want to eat for lunch? As long as it's something I can make, I can make it. From now on, give me a list of what you want to eat one day in advance, and I'll come early every day to prepare it for you."

"Wow, this feeling is really great. So this is what you are talking about. I will call my master tonight and tell him the good news!"

Qin Huai:......

What did he say? How come Zang Liang understood it immediately?

Forget it, it's not important. Qin Huai knew that from today on, they felt that they had added another general.

Qin Huai smiled and said, "Then."

"Let's start practicing thickening the crab sauce now?"

"Ok!"

(End of this chapter)