The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 360 Relaxation
Qin Huai stood in front of the kitchen counter and fell into deep thought.

After studying the double crab buns for such a long time, this is the first time he actually started to make the stuffing for the double crab buns. It is really absurd to say that it doesn't sound like what a professional dim sum chef should do after studying a dim sum for such a long time before officially starting to make it.

Although he is indeed not a professional dim sum chef.

The combination of crab paste and sea cucumber is very bold, very ingenious, and at the same time very difficult. The previous nine batches can be said to have failed. Each batch is improving, and each batch is failing. Zheng Siyuan has conducted many trials and errors for Qinhuai, but has not found the right path.

Zang Liang took out the crab roe sauce he had made the most, and Zheng Siyuan also kneaded the dough that he and Qin Huai had agreed was most suitable for making double crab buns. Tan Weian also had an empty stomach and was ready for the next tasting.

The three members of the Double Crab Bag research team have completed all the tasks they can do, and now it’s up to the team leader to start his performance.

Qin Huai was thinking about how to start his performance.

Before this, he had rehearsed in his head many times how to make the filling of the double crab buns, and even how to handle sea cucumbers and how to make crab roe sauce. The latter two could only be rehearsed in his mind due to technical issues, but the former was indeed his responsibility.

Qin Huai was thinking about the reason why Zheng Siyuan had failed before.

First, there are technical issues.

As a hexagonal warrior, Zheng Siyuan's seasoning is not as good as Qin Huai's. His current seasoning level is not enough to control the filling of double crab buns. This is because every batch of double crab buns he makes has obvious problems with the filling.

Qin Huai's good tongue allows him to taste out the problem, but he can't find the solution.

Even Zheng Siyuan's answer may not be the answer to this question. The double crab buns that Zheng Siyuan knows and understands are the double crab buns made by Master Jing, and the double crab buns that Qin Huai wants to make are actually the double crab buns made by Xu Nuo.

What kind of buns will Xu Nuo make?

It has to be fresh, and the original flavor of the double crab buns has to be retained as much as possible. It has to combine the best of both red and white cuisines, and most importantly, it has to taste good.

This is the bun that Xu Nuo loves to eat. He loves it so much that he is willing to risk being beaten to death by his parents and spend a huge amount of money to buy the recipe and give it to Master Jing. Even if he is not as good as Master Jing and cannot reach the level of Master Jing, he will definitely do his best to make his version of the double crab bun delicious.

Taste is the first priority!

No matter what method or means are used, as long as it tastes good, it is fine. There is no need to follow a set idea or rules. Because Xu Nuo himself is not a professional chef. He is the youngest son of Director Xu. He wanted to learn from Jing Lixiang but failed. In a sense, he is also a self-taught chef.

Qin Huai understood.

If that's the case, he has an idea.

The combination of crab roe sauce and sea cucumber is very similar to a dish. If these two are used to make a dish, Qinhuai can give it many names, such as: crab roe sea cucumber, sea cucumber stewed with crab roe, crab roe...

Well, Qin Huai doesn’t even know how to give a name.

But it sounds delicious.

Qin Huai has been making crab roe noodles for a long time, and he also made crab roe steamed buns for a long time last year. He has become a little fond of crab roe food. In addition, he is very familiar with crab roe as an ingredient. He knows very well how to season, process and cook crab roe to make it more delicious and more in line with everyone's expectations for crab roe snacks.

As for sea cucumbers...

To be honest, Qin Huai is still not very familiar with sea cucumbers. Even though he has been making cold-mixed sea cucumbers for a while, he is still unfamiliar with them.

But it doesn’t matter, Qin Huai can do it based on his feeling.

Qin Huai moved.

The processed crab paste has been seasoned for the first time, but this is only the basic seasoning. Fresh sea cucumbers still have a fishy smell, and the combination with crab paste is somewhat incompatible. If you want to neutralize the taste of the two, you need to work harder on the seasoning.

The recipe for cold sea cucumber that Cao Guixiang gave to Qin Huai is very valuable for reference.

Add some salt, some sesame oil, some cooking wine, and a little mustard...

Do you feel that too much seasoning will affect the taste?

It doesn't matter. Just do it.
Qin Huai added the seasonings one by one according to his ideas, and felt that the vague double crab bun in his mind gradually took shape.

At first, Zang Liang was cooking the crab roe sauce step by step at the stove. As he was cooking, he found that the seasoning at Qinhuai seemed a little unconventional, a little arbitrary, a little self-indulgent, and a little like giving up, so Zang Liang also gave up.

He decisively finished the current batch of crab roe sauce and went to the edge of Qinhuai to watch.

Zheng Siyuan had already started watching.

Zang Liang looked at it and felt that it was a bit outrageous. He asked Zheng Siyuan: "Is this right?"

Zheng Siyuan was very tolerant: "Let's see the results first."

Soon, Qin Huai finished preparing the stuffing, wrapped the dumplings, and steamed them.

Qin Huai was standing by the steamer, and Zang Liang quietly approached and asked, "Are you sure?"

Qin Huai answered confidently and decisively: "No, it will most likely be worse than the worst time Zheng Siyuan did it."

Zang Liang:?
Seeing Zang Liang's confused look, Qin Huai realized that Zang Liang had never joined the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls Research Team before, and quickly explained: "It's like this at the beginning, it's normal, it will get better slowly."

"But..." As a professional chef, Zang Liang certainly knew the standard process of researching new dishes, "Zheng Siyuan has already made a very bad version."

Under normal circumstances, after teammates have found the wrong path, they should then head back to the right path. But why is Qin Huai still rushing on the wrong path?

"Zheng Siyuan has his own ideas, and I have mine. Have you never tasted the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls made by Zheng Siyuan? If you have a chance, you can ask Zheng Siyuan to make one for you, but he may not like making them. His Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls are completely different from mine. He has his own ideas for making dim sum. You'll know after you taste them."

“His dim sum…is very personal.”

Zang Liang:?
A few minutes later, the double crab buns came out of the pot. Normally, Tan Weian should have tasted these batches, but Zang Liang wanted to know why Qin Huai was so sure that this batch of double crab buns would fail, so he volunteered to taste them.

Then Zang Liang discovered that he didn’t know whether Zheng Siyuan had his own personal style in making dim sum, but the Qinhuai snacks were quite unique.

There is a kind of beauty that goes like this: you won’t turn back until you hit the wall, and even after hitting the wall you will take two steps forward.

That afternoon, Zang Liang had a completely new understanding of the wild way.

For the next week, the Double Crab Bag research team fell into a long vicious circle.

Everyone did their job, but no one did their job well.

Zang Liang found a little feeling in thickening the sauce, but only a little.

I understand it, but not completely.

Yes, but not completely.

This is not Zang Liang's fault. Cao Guixiang's thickening technique is difficult in itself. Qin Huai himself has not learned it, let alone teach Zang Liang. When Zang Liang was thickening, Cao Guixiang watched him through a video call. She felt that Zang Liang learned quickly and there was nothing wrong with him. It was just that his technique was not good enough, so he couldn't thicken it well.

The thickening technique was not good enough, which directly led to the crab sauce being a little better, but only a little better, and it was still far from what everyone wanted. Zheng Siyuan's progress was not ideal either. When Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan thought the noodles should be softer, they found that it should not be so soft, and should be chewier.

When they kneaded the dough towards a chewier texture, they found that it should be softer and not chewy. It can be said that it doesn't work if they move it to the left or the right, and they can't find the right balance.

For the first time, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan felt that the dough was so unfamiliar. They had been pastry chefs for so many years, but they didn’t even know how to knead the dough.

Not to mention Qin Huai, his failure was not just an ordinary one.

He crashed, crashed slightly, got better, looked good, was close to success, and finally crashed. Then he crashed again, got better, looked good, was close to success, and recently crashed again, and he was directly trapped in a vicious circle.

Whenever he feels that he is close to success, success will slap him twice in the face and say: You still want to get close to me? Dream on! Get away!

In 7 days, Qin Huai was successfully slapped in the face at least 70 times, his face was almost swollen, but he still couldn't find the balance between the red case and the white case.

Now Qin Huai fully understands why Zheng Siyuan was afraid to face the failure for a long time after his first double crab bag failure, because only after doing it did he know how difficult it was to face this failure.

This is not an ordinary failure, this is a failure that requires you to face up to your own technical level and ability problems.

As for Tan Weian, he is actually the one who suffers the most.

Tan Wei'an seemed to have been away from the team for 7 days. He made mung bean cakes for 7 days and made some progress. He was the most successful person in the team. But in fact, his real task in these 7 days was to taste the double crab buns, because he was the one who knew crab roe snacks best in the team.

Those double crab buns that failed miserably could be given to Ouyang for tasting, but whenever Qin Huai was close to success, Tan Weian would need to eat and taste them repeatedly to grasp the key to success.

Tan Weian wanted to catch it very much, but he really couldn't. During these 7 days, he wanted his great-grandfather to tell him in his dreams what the key to making the double crab buns was.

It is said that Tan Weian called his father last night and asked him to go back to his hometown to see if there are any notes left by his great-grandfather.

Look for a small hole hidden in the corners, cellars, or under the tiles of their old home. Inside the hole is a box, and inside the box is a treasured notebook, which records all the recipes and experiences sold by his great-grandfather.

Opening the first page of the book will show the guide to making Double Crab Buns. They can graduate from Double Crab Buns painlessly and let Tan Weian end this painful taste tasting.

As for others, these seven days have not been easy either.

As the chief taster of Qinhuai, Ouyang now dares not even eat breakfast in order to support his brother's dim sum business. Every day, he goes to Xiaoou Hand-made Lemon Tea Shop to shake milk tea, and when the time is almost up, he goes to Yunzhong Canteen to taste the food. After eating too much, he goes back to shake milk tea again, and then tastes the food again, and then goes to the gym to exercise and lift weights to digest.

Even the personal trainer that Ouyang hired at great expense praised Ouyang for his rapid progress and said that he could eat and exercise well, but he ate too much carbohydrates. It's okay to want to make progress, but you can't think like that, it will hurt your body.

And the issuer of our Double Crab Bun task, Uncle Wang Gensheng, the only person who had tasted the Double Crab Bun made by Xu Nuo, was almost having Double Crab Bun PTSD.

When Qin Huai first invited Uncle Wang to Yunzhong Canteen to try the crab roe sauce and crab roe noodles, Uncle Wang, who had a strong sense of morals, would think about whether he deserved it. Given his relationship with Master Qin, was he worthy of such a high-end meal?

Now Uncle Wang has stopped thinking and now he wants to fire himself.

Uncle Wang no longer envied Ouyang. He found that it was not easy for the young man Ouyang. As an uncle was old, he was no match for the young men. Food tasting was really a physical job.

You have to eat, think, comment, and comfort.

Unlike the previous time when we tried the Sixi Tangtuan in Suzhou, when everyone ate one bowl every night and the rest of the time was spent writing reviews, Uncle Wang now eats at least six batches of baozi in an afternoon, and these six baozi are the limit of Uncle Wang's stomach, not the limit of Qinhuai.

Uncle Wang has to think of six food reviews every day, and he cannot cheat. He also has to work hard to recall long-forgotten memories. His hair is about to fall out from thinking about it every day, and he looks haggard.

Even Xu Tuqiang, who had always been very jealous of Uncle Wang, is no longer jealous now. Whenever he mentions Uncle Wang, he always sighs and says that the food is not that good. Then he says that Uncle Wang is not good enough. If Xu Tuqiang were to eat, he could write 6 articles a day, not to mention 16.

It can be said that everyone has been tortured by the double crab bag to the point where life is worse than death.

In Qin Huai's words, he knew that Shuangxiebao was a tough nut to crack, and he had made a lot of preparations in advance, including psychological preparation. But when he really started fighting Shuangxiebao, he found that this bone was too hard to crack. Not only did he lose his teeth, but now the teeth of 6 people are almost gone, and he still can't chew this bone.

Another day of vicious cycle ended. After today's rollover, Qin Huai realized that he couldn't go on like this.

Shuangxiebao is not like Sixitangtuan. Sixitangtuan failed because everyone lost their direction, while Shuangxiebao can find the direction but still fails. If it continues like this, it is either a technical problem or a mentality problem.

Zang Liang was right about one thing when he talked about feelings before. When you feel that you have not found the feeling and have been stuck in a dead end, you are already wrong.

Try looking for it another way, maybe you will find it.

"Let's take a day off tomorrow." Qin Huai said.

Qin Huai didn't know which way to go, but he could choose to go on strike for a day.

"Rest, what do you want to do?" Zheng Siyuan thought Qin Huai wanted to change the place where he made snacks, such as going to the welfare home he was familiar with to get a feel for it.

"It's just a simple rest." Qin Huai said, "Everyone is tired during this period. Ouyang and Uncle Wang are also tired from eating. We have to let them rest for a day, otherwise Ouyang will really become a strong man."

"It just so happens that Ouyang has bought some annual passes for the amusement park. How about we go to the amusement park tomorrow? Relax and unwind. It just so happens that Luoluo doesn't have classes tomorrow, Sunday, so we can take Luoluo to the amusement park together."

"Amusement park?" Zheng Siyuan was confused.

"Amusement park!" Zang Liang was instantly excited. "It would be great to go to an amusement park. I've been to an amusement park once during an autumn outing in elementary school, and I haven't been there since then."

"I thought I could go to the amusement park with my girlfriend after we started dating, but I ended up staying in the kitchen for so many years. I've barely even seen a woman, let alone a relationship."

"We really have too few female chefs in the red case!"

Qin Huai:......

Your master's direct disciples are a bit too hardworking.

"Tan Wei'an, have you ever been to an amusement park?"

"I've been in love." Tan Weian said.

Zang Liang: ...

Qin Huai made the final decision: "That's it for now. Let's take a day off tomorrow and go to the amusement park. But we may not be able to leave too early. I have to finish practicing my sword skills before I can go, and Luo Luo also has to do her homework first."

Zheng Siyuan nodded: "It just so happens that I also need to make a batch of snacks first."

Zang Liang said cheerfully, "Then I'll make some cold dishes to practice seasoning, and then I can bring them in to eat. Can we bring food to the amusement park?"

"can."

Tan Weian: "...Then I...make some mung bean cakes?"

Aren't we going to relax tomorrow? Why do you have to work before you relax? Do you guys know how to relax?

(End of this chapter)