Chapter 343: A windfall

Qin Huai's second thickening was the same as in the afternoon, far less "feeling" than the first time. The movement felt roughly the same, but Qin Huai knew very well in his heart that having a "feel" and not having one were just different.

When there is a "feel," it is like divine help; when there is no "feel," it is just following the book.

The crab roe sauce was out of the pot.

A very ordinary crab roe sauce, not as good as what Zheng Siyuan usually makes.

Even if thickening adds points, it cannot offset the gap brought by poor heat control. Qin Huai held the crab roe sauce a bit embarrassedly, letting the plate get closer to the phone so Cao Guixiang could see clearly, not knowing that Cao Guixiang on the other side of the phone had already taken off her reading glasses.

"Master Cao, my heat control is indeed not very good, and I am not very proficient in making crab roe sauce. The final product is like this, you can just take a look." Qin Huai said with his head up.

Cao Guixiang smiled and said loudly: "Okay, don't hold the plate so high, your hands will be sore if you hold it for a long time. Take the phone down too, I have already seen it."

Hearing Cao Guixiang say this, Qin Huai put down the plate, stood on the chair, took down the phone and phone stand placed at the highest place of the cabinet, and first observed Cao Guixiang's expression.

He didn't see any regret or dissatisfaction, which shows that Cao Guixiang was generally satisfied with his thickening performance today.

"Master Cao, is there any problem with my thickening? If I want to practice thickening now, how should I practice? Is it stewing crab roe sauce, or stir-frying yam or doing something else?" Qin Huai asked humbly.

Cao Guixiang asked a question that was not answered: "Is your canteen busy lately?"

Qin Huai was stunned, thinking that this is not chat time, but since Master Cao wants to chat, it is okay to chat, and shook his head: "It's okay now."

"Tan Weian brought several chefs from Does Zhi Wei Ju to communicate, and our canteen's menu is almost unable to hang. Yesterday, some dim sum menus were not ready, Sister Xi directly wrote on paper and pasted it on the window, and shouted when it was out of the pot. More than one old regular customer said that there are too many types of dim sum in the canteen now and they can't eat them all."

Qin Huai laughed as he said it.

He didn't lie. There are indeed too many types of dim sum now, and customers can't eat them all. With so many chefs from Does Zhi Wei Ju coming, each person makes at least 3~4 types of dim sum every day. The Cloud Canteen can now easily display more than a dozen types of dim sum that are large and full on the dim sum shelf.

According to Tan Weian, these apprentices rarely have the opportunity to stand on their own in Does Zhi Wei Ju and make dim sum for sale alone. After all, Does Zhi Wei Ju is the largest sect in the white-case path, and the requirements for chefs are high, and the requirements for dim sum quality control are also high. Even Su Gan is mostly helping Master Zhou, let alone these ordinary elite apprentices.

In a sense, coming to Cloud Canteen for communication is indeed an opportunity for these apprentices, not only to learn things, but also to let them know what it feels like to truly become a dim sum chef.

"Not to mention that Zang Liang came today. Zang Liang is a Huaiyang cuisine chef. If he is willing to make some staff meals, our food should be greatly improved."

Cao Guixiang nodded thoughtfully and asked: "Yes, I remember you said that Xiao Zang is also here for communication. How long will he stay?"

"This is not very clear. Last night, he just mentioned it and he came today. But he should stay for more than half a month. Zang Liang mentioned this afternoon that his master has something to go out for half a month next week, it seems to be going abroad, and he just took this time to come to us for communication."

Cao Guixiang thought for ten seconds or so, and asked again: "Then if he didn't learn anything in the first week of communication, it's a bit of a loss. What is Xiao Zang best at?"

"Knife skills, but he wants to communicate about seasoning this time. Of course, he is mainly here to help us thicken this time, and study crab roe sauce with us. He is quite interested in crab roe sauce." Qin Huai said honestly.

Cao Guixiang had a count in her heart, didn't speak, obviously calculating something.

Qin Huai didn't speak either, waiting for Cao Guixiang to speak first.

After about three or four minutes, Cao Guixiang showed a clear look: "Let's do this, it's definitely not possible to let you come back immediately. You also have business to deal with there, and so many colleagues to communicate with."

"But it's not possible to be too late. This thickening of yours needs someone to stare at the side. If you study and mess around by yourself, I'm afraid that like knife skills, bad habits are difficult to correct."

"Xiao Zang came from afar for communication and will stay for about half a month. It's not good to leave people alone and ignore them. Our industry doesn't communicate like this."

"Can you come back the day after tomorrow?" Cao Guixiang looked at Qin Huai.

That is, three days later.

Qin Huai thought about it. In fact, he can come back any day in theory. As long as it is not Cao Guixiang's whim, calling him in the morning and asking him to book a flight to Guangdong in the evening, he can basically free up time.

Being a boss is the good point, time is very free.

And as long as it is not for too long, customers can accept it. The regulars of Cloud Canteen have accepted the behavior that Master Xiao Qin will occasionally disappear for 1~2 days.

After all, they have no way to accept it. When Qin Huai went to Huang Ji for communication, customers didn't accept it, and they couldn't chase to Gusu like the rich and willful grandpas and grandmas in the Cloud community, so they could only wait bitterly in place.

Just thinking about it is a bitter tear.

Qin Huai went through whether there was anything important in these two days in his mind, and found that there was nothing important except studying double crab buns, and decisively nodded: "Yes."

"But am I going to practice the next stage of knife skills when I go to you in three days? Is it a bit too early? I feel that my knife skill level has not been practiced to the point where I can enter the next stage." Qin Huai was a bit confused.

He has a lot of self-knowledge about himself. This self-knowledge is not only reflected in the dim sum he is good at kneading and seasoning, but also reflected in the knife skills and heat control he is not good at.

Every day's knife skill practice, whether there is progress, whether there is unfamiliarity, whether the proficiency grows fast or slow, Qin Huai doesn't need to look at the attribute panel at all, he knows it in his heart.

Although looking at the attribute panel alone, knife skills are only 100 points away from intermediate, but Qin Huai knows very well in his heart that these 100 points of proficiency cannot be brushed out within three days.

Qin Huai feels that the mechanism of this proficiency is that the lower the level, the harder it is to brush, and the higher the level, the easier it is to brush.

It only takes 1000 proficiency points to upgrade from primary to intermediate, 10,000 from intermediate to advanced, 100,000 from advanced to master, and 1 million from master to upgrade again. Except for the exaggerated 1 million proficiency points of the master level, the 1000 proficiency points from primary to intermediate are not necessarily faster than the 10,000 from intermediate to advanced.

Looking at the numerical value alone is useless, mainly relying on your own feeling.

Yes, "feeling" master Qin Huai relies on feeling for everything.

Cao Guixiang smiled and said: "Who said I let you come back to practice knife skills? Your knife skills, it's about the same to come back after practicing for another 10 days. It's also good to practice for a period of time, practice for half a month, more than half a month and come back. Time is not too much, practice more and consolidate more."

"I let you come back the day after tomorrow to teach you thickening."

"Thickening." Qin Huai didn't expect Cao Guixiang to take the initiative to teach him thickening.

Seeing Qin Huai's shocked expression, Cao Guixiang chuckled twice: "Why are you so shocked? You shouldn't think that your Master Cao only knows how to teach knife skills, right? Among so many techniques in red-case, what I am best at is thickening. My two senior brothers are not as good as me in thickening. Teaching you is more than enough."

Seeing the shock on Qin Huai's face, Cao Guixiang chuckled twice: "Why so shocked? You didn't think that I, your Master Cao, only know how to teach knife skills, did you? Among the many techniques in savory cooking, my specialty is thickening sauces. When it comes to thickening, even my two senior fellow apprentices aren't as good as me. Teaching you is more than enough."

"That's right, theoretically it is like this. But even if I don't teach, won't you study it yourself? I see you are quite interested in thickening." Cao Guixiang had an expression of "I have given you online classes for so long, I still don't know what kind of virtue you are."

Qin Huai smiled embarrassedly, showing a fickle smile.

"Don't be embarrassed, everyone has come over like this. When I first learned to cook, I didn't cut the vegetables well, and I also wanted to learn to flip the wok, learn to adjust the soup, learn to sink sugar at the bottom of the oil, learn to thicken, learn to carve melons, want to learn new things and difficult things is very normal, want to learn means want to progress, having enterprising spirit is a good thing."

"If you can't learn, you will be laughed at, if you learn, it is a real skill."

"Since you have talent in thickening, don't waste this talent, don't mess around by yourself. Otherwise, it will be like knife skills, practicing from holding the knife. You just tell me if you want to learn, if you want to learn, come back the day after tomorrow, I will teach you from the most basic. This technique of thickening is very simple to get started, two days is enough."

"Once you have learned the basics, it doesn't matter how you mess around later. As long as the foundation is correct, no matter how you do it, it can be called an innovation."

"Just two days, including back and forth, it's three days, not too much delay. You have the group of Does Zhi Wei Ju led by Xiao Tan there, and Xiao Zang who came from afar to specifically help you study crab roe sauce, you can't stay with me for a long time."

"I also saw your thickening method just now, learned from me, but didn't learn well, didn't fully learn the essence. My kind of thickening can also be considered an exclusive technique, a bit wasteful to use on crab roe sauce, but it is very easy to use on red-case."

"If there is more time, I will train you separately, learn as much as you can, and teach Xiao Zang when you go back."

"You have to work hard and suffer, suffer more than the few days you practiced knife skills with me before, be prepared mentally." Cao Guixiang had a tone of scaring children, but on the surface was an unstoppable grandma-style kind smile.

Hearing Cao Guixiang say this, Qin Huai was really surprised.

Of course he knew that Cao Guixiang had many exclusive secret recipes and many exclusive techniques. Cao Guixiang is the successor of Tan family cuisine. Qin Huai searched online, very awesome.

Basically equivalent to the awesome of Shaolin sweeping monk and hidden sect in fantasy novels.

Because he knew that Cao Guixiang had many things that could not be learned outside, Qin Huai never took the initiative to mention what Cao Guixiang taught him in front of Zheng Siyuan and Tan Weian, and he rarely shared the recipe for cold sea cucumber with everyone.

Of course, others also have a sense of proportion in this regard. When Cao Guixiang takes online classes, she never approaches Qin Huai, for fear of hearing things that shouldn't be heard.

The chef industry is like this, even if many things are transparent, there are still many exclusive things that are not easily passed on.

Qin Huai knows very well that Cao Guixiang teaches him things without reservation, maybe because she sees talent and likes it, or maybe because Cao Guixiang herself has a very good personality and is willing to teach. But the one who is willing to teach is Cao Guixiang, and he Qin Huai is just a student who is lucky enough to learn all this. He can learn what the teacher teaches him, but he cannot teach others without the teacher's consent.

There should be the most basic social distance and sense of proportion between people. You can't feel that everything is taken for granted just because the other party is good to you. Qin Huai knew this from a very young age in the welfare institute.

This is the first time Cao Guixiang has taken the initiative to ask Qin Huai to teach what she taught him to others, or she didn't come forward to let Qin Huai teach, which is equivalent to giving this huge favor to Qin Huai.

"Master Cao, you..." Qin Huai didn't know what to say for a moment.

Cao Guixiang knew what Qin Huai meant as soon as she saw Qin Huai's expression, and explained with a smile: "Xiao Zang is willing to run over from afar to help you because of your phone call when you just met. No matter what he wants to learn, he is a good child and a friend worth making."

"Chefs need good friends in the industry."

"Even if Xiao Zang can't help you with anything in the end, you can't let him come for nothing. You have to let him learn something back, so as not to make him feel that he has suffered a loss for coming here, right?"

"My thickening is not so easy to learn, whether Xiao Zang can learn it depends on his own ability, and also depends on your ability."

Qin Huai smiled: "Don't worry, Master Cao."

"I have a special feeling for thickening, I will definitely work hard to learn it."

When Qin Huai arrived at the canteen the next morning, Zang Liang hadn't come to work yet. This is also normal, he is a red-case chef, and the working hours of red-case chefs are not as early as white-case chefs.

When Zang Liang arrived at the Cloud Canteen, there were no chicken soup noodles and crab roe mixed noodles, and the meals made by Does Zhi Wei Ju chefs for Qin Huai to taste were all swept away by Ouyang.

However, Zang Liang is not picky, he ate two buns made by Chen An as breakfast.

"Are we continuing to study crab roe sauce today? I am responsible for thickening." Zang Liang asked while gnawing on the bun, "I was very inspired by Qin Huai's thickening movement this morning, and I studied it for a long time when I went back. I think my thickening today will definitely be better than yesterday, maybe I can find the feeling you all mentioned."

Tan Weian, a believer in the feeling faction who has never found a feeling, said coldly: "You find the feeling of crab roe sauce first. Do you know what kind of crab roe sauce you want to thicken?"

Zang Liang glared at his old friend, raised his voice: "Isn't this looking for it? I'm not like you who loves eating crab roe mixed noodles. You are almost pickled by crab roe sauce, can I compare with you?"

Qin Huai smiled and came out to smooth things over, indicating that these are not important, and briefly mentioned that he was going to leave the Cloud Canteen to return to his hometown to study thickening the day after tomorrow.

Emphasize that if this study is successful, he will return like lightning to teach Zang Liang the latest exclusive technique of thickening, and then the two will study thickening together and make progress together.

Zang Liang: °°

There is such a good thing!

Coming from afar to help, and can learn the legendary exclusive technique!

Master, why didn't you tell me that there is such a good thing about going out for communication? If you had said so earlier, I would have gone out for communication long ago. Didn't you also go abroad in the past two years!

Qin Huai upheld the principle of rain and dew, and indicated to Tan Weian and Zheng Siyuan that if they are interested in this, he can also teach. He has already discussed it with Master Cao, and Master Cao doesn't mind him teaching two more good friends.

Zheng Siyuan is not very interested in the exclusive technique of thickening, indicating that he has no clue about the big wok flip, and it is better to spend time practicing the big wok flip than practicing thickening. Thickening is really not used much in white-case, and his current level is enough.

Tan Weian also declined, indicating that he couldn't learn it.

Laugh to death, his ordinary thickening is very average, and he can't learn the exclusive technique at all.

In the end, only Zang Liang felt that it was a windfall.

"Going out for communication is too good!" Zang Liang sighed.

Tan Weian looked at his good buddy eating and taking, and didn't want to say anything for a while, just wanted to bite his back teeth.

At this moment, he finally understood why Pei Xing bit his back teeth every day, and he also wanted to bite.

Tan Weian: t^t

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