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Chapter 181 The American Kitchen

"Hey, does this belong to uncle? Is it okay for me to use it?" Si Zhai took the apron and looked at it curiously, acting very like a girl.

"No problem, you're also tall, so it shouldn't be too big for you to wear." Aunt Mei said while helping Si Zhai put on the apron.

Si Zhai obediently bent over to make it easier for her to tie the belt.

After putting on the apron, Si Zhai took the initiative to pick up the two bags containing the big crab and the turkey, waved at Aunt Mei, and said in a very energetic and naive way: "Today I will show you my cooking skills!"

Aunt Mei was amused by Si Zhai's cute movements, and said straight up: "Okay! Let me see Linna's craftsmanship!"

After entering the kitchen, Si Zhai was stunned.

Although it has been known for a long time that American kitchens are different from Chinese kitchens, such a big difference is beyond Si Zhai's expectation.

There are three sets of gas stoves in this kitchen. Si Zhai knows all these stoves. After all, the British chef also has them, but it is a restaurant. It is not surprising that there are more stoves. Why do you use so many stoves at home!

These three stoves are low soup stove, double-burner stove, and ordinary stove.

It is said that at home, an ordinary stove is enough, right?The American people don't like cooking so much. It's a waste of the capitalist class to make so many stoves...

In addition to the stove, the biggest gap is in kitchen utensils.

In a Chinese family, a kitchen knife can make a full banquet without heavy samples.

but now……

Si Zhai counted these kitchen utensils, there were no fewer than ten of all kinds of knives, not to mention the other unknown ones.

I don't get it, I really don't get it...

It took a while for Si Zhai to find an ordinary kitchen knife in the knife box, put it on the chopping board, take out the turkey, put it in a large iron basin, and wash it with water.

After cleaning, Si Zhai was about to use the kitchen knife to disembowel the turkey when Aunt Mei came to stop him.

"Oh, you child, I heard you say you want to cook, I really thought you could do it. How can you use this kind of knife to handle chickens, you need to use a machete!"

While talking, Aunt Mei took out a short, thin, crescent-shaped knife from the knife box.

"Eh..." Si Zhai took the scimitar that Aunt Mei handed over, looked at the two knives in his hand, and felt...there was a difference?As long as it can disembowel you, any one will do, right?
But when he came here, he had already thought about being an obedient boy today, so Si Zhai had no choice but to put down the ordinary kitchen knife in his hand, pick up the machete honestly, and open up the turkey.

Americans don't like to eat chicken offal. Si Zhai knows this, so he didn't need Aunt Mei to remind him. He cut out all the offal from the chicken belly and put it in a small basin alone. He didn't care what to do with it. .

Wash the blood in the belly of the chicken, because when the chicken is killed, the blood is usually drained, so there is not much blood in the belly, just rinse it with clean water twice and it will be clean.

For turkey, the common practice in American families... No, it should be said that all Americans have one practice: roasting.

Or the whole turkey is roasted in a large oven, or the chicken wings and chicken legs are roasted separately. Anyway, no matter what it is made, the process is roasting.

Although Si Zhai knows how to roast chicken, he is not good at how to use an oven, so he plans to use the Chinese method - to make shredded chicken.

To fry shredded chicken, you need to slice the chicken first, so Si Zhai picked up the ordinary kitchen knife again, planning to cut the big turkey into several portions first, and then slice each portion.

Seeing that Si Zhai was about to attack the turkey with the ordinary kitchen knife, Aunt Mei who was watching from the side asked strangely, "Linna, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I recently learned some skills from a Chinese cook in Chinatown, and I plan to make you some stir-fried shredded chicken. I just want to cut a few pieces of this turkey first!"

"Oh, you child, how can you use this kind of kitchen knife for chopping chicken? It will damage the blade!" Aunt Mei confiscated the ordinary kitchen knife that Si Zhai was holding, and took out a knife similar to chopping bone from the knife box. The thick knife of the knife: "Here, use this!"

"Um...um." Si Zhai didn't want to complain anymore, so he took it directly, and Bang Bang Bang chopped the big turkey into five portions.

After dividing, the next step is to shave the chicken off the skeleton. This time, Si Zhai asked for instructions: "Auntie, where is the boning knife?"

"Well...here!"

Sure enough there is!After receiving the new kitchen knife that Aunt Mei handed over, Si Zhai complained in his heart.

After all the chicken was shaved off the skeleton, Si Zhai picked up a large piece of chicken and cut it into smaller pieces with the ordinary kitchen knife, put it in a basin, sprinkled it with a thin layer of salt, stirred it, and put it there to marinate .

Afterwards, Si Zhai handled the big crabs, and this time Si Zhai picked up the ordinary kitchen knife again. Seeing this, Aunt Mei was puzzled and said, "Linna, you don't need a knife to handle crabs!"

Then he picked up a small metal hammer hanging on the wall and handed it to Si Zhai: "Use this!"

Si Zhai took it honestly, because it is indeed more convenient to use.

Handling live crabs requires a procedure: kill the crabs!
The way of Chinese families is generally to break off the navel of the crab, and then use a kitchen knife to cut it against the central line of the crab's abdomen. This will seriously injure the crab, and the crab roe will not flow out. After removing the rubber band, there will be no more crabs. The resistance is gone.

The small hammer in the United States is more convenient. Both sides of the hammer head are pointed. When smashing, just hit the crab abdomen with the tip of the hammer head, and it will destroy its internal organs, and it will also not cause the crab roe to flow out.

Si Zhai quickly hit the crabs with a small hammer like a seal, and they were all smashed in a short while. After removing all the rubber bands, they were put together in a big iron basin, and the densely packed crabs moved around. The sight was a little creepy.

Afterwards, Si Zhai made fried shredded chicken first, but because of the lack of some ingredients, it was inevitable that it lacked some authentic taste.

Si Zhai scratched his ear, first put a small plate for Aunt Mei: "Would you like to try it?"

Aunt Mei was very novel about Si Zhai’s Chinese cooking method, and she was also very curious about the taste. She took a piece with a fork and tasted it, her eyes lit up: “It’s very delicious! I’ve never eaten chicken with this taste. !"

Si Zhai breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't mess up, it's the last day, and it would be too sinful to feed the old man dark food...

Then Si Zhai cut the crab in half, dipped it in flour, fried it in oil, put onion, ginger, garlic, sprinkled with cooking wine, salt, soy sauce and other ingredients, covered the pot and slurped for a while, and made a dish crab box.

After making these two dishes, Aunt Mei didn't ask Si Zhai to continue making them, because in her opinion, two people couldn't eat them.

The two dishes each used a large dinner plate. Even so, there was still a third of the crab box in the pot that was not filled.

Si Zhai first let Aunt Mei eat fried shredded chicken, then he picked up a crab box and showed Aunt Mei how to eat it.

Aunt Mei looked like Si Zhai, first took a sip of the soup in the crab box, and then sucked out a few pieces of crab meat.

The soup is rich but not greasy, and the crab meat is tender and juicy. It is somewhat similar to the creamy baked lobster that I ate when I was young, but it is not the same flavor.

"Yeah! It's very delicious!" Aunt Mei praised.

Si Zhai said with a smile, "It's good that you like to eat."

(End of this chapter)