Chapter 358

Qin Huai stood in front of the cooking station and fell into deep thought.

Researching the double-crab bun for so long, this is the first time he has truly started to make the filling for the double-crab bun. It is indeed outrageous to say; researching a dim sum for so long before officially starting to make it doesn't sound like something a professional dim sum chef should do.

Although he is indeed not a professional dim sum chef.

The combination of crab roe sauce and sea cucumber is very bold, very ingenious, and at the same time very difficult. The previous nine batches can be said to have all failed; every batch was improving, every batch was failing, Zheng Siyuan had conducted many trials and errors for Qin Huai, but had not explored the truly correct path.

Seeing Zang Liang took out the crab roe sauce he made with the most feeling, Zheng Siyuan also kneaded the dough that he and Qin Huai discussed was most suitable for making the double-crab bun, and Tan Weian also emptied his stomach to prepare for the subsequent tasting.

The three members of the double-crab bun research team had already finished the tasks they could do, and now it was just waiting for the team leader to start his performance.

Qin Huai was thinking about how to start his performance.

Before this, he had practiced how to make the filling for the double-crab bun many times in his head, and even practiced how to handle the sea cucumber and how to simmer the crab roe sauce. The latter two could only be practiced in his head due to technical problems, but the former was indeed the work he should be responsible for.

Qin Huai was thinking about the reason for Zheng Siyuan's previous failure.

First, there are technical problems.

As a hexagonal warrior, Zheng Siyuan's seasoning is not as good as Qin Huai's, and his current seasoning level is not enough to control the filling of the double-crab bun; this is the obvious problem with the filling in every batch of double-crab buns he made.

Qin Huai's good tongue can let him taste where the problem is, but he can't taste the solution.

Even Zheng Siyuan's answer might not be the answer to this question. The double-crab bun that Zheng Siyuan knows and understands is Master Jing's version of the double-crab bun, and the double-crab bun Qin Huai wants to make is actually Xu Nuo's version of the double-crab bun.

What kind of steamed bun would Xu Nuo make?

It must be fresh, must retain the original taste of the double-crab bun as much as possible, must gather the strengths of both red and white cases, and most importantly, it must be delicious.

This is the steamed bun Xu Nuo loves to eat, loves so much that he didn't hesitate to risk being beaten to death by his parents, spent a huge amount of money to buy the recipe and give it to Master Jing just to eat it. Even if he doesn't have Master Jing's level and can't reach Master Jing's height, he will definitely do his best to make his version of the double-crab bun delicious.

Delicious is the first priority!

No matter what method or means are used, as long as it is delicious, it is fine; there is no need to do it according to established ideas, nor is there any need to do it according to the rules. Because Xu Nuo himself is not a chef from a professional background; he is the youngest son of Factory Manager Xu, and wanted to apprentice to Jing Lixiang but failed. In a sense, he is also a wild path.

Qin Huai realized it.

If this is the case, he has an idea.

The combination of crab roe sauce and sea cucumber itself is very much like a dish. If these two are taken to make a dish, Qin Huai can take many names, such as: Crab Roe Sea Cucumber, Sea Cucumber Braised Crab Roe, Crab Roe...

Alright, Qin Huai simply doesn't know how to name it.

But it sounds delicious.

Having made crab roe mixed noodles for so long, and Qin Huai also made crab roe Shaomai for a long time last year, he has already started to like crab roe-type food. Plus, he knows the ingredient crab roe very well, and he knows very well how to season, handle, and cook crab roe to make it more delicious and more in line with everyone's expectations for crab roe-type dim sum.

As for sea cucumber...

To tell the truth, Qin Huai is actually still not very familiar with sea cucumber, even though he has been making cold-mixed sea cucumber for a period of time, he is still a stranger to it.

But it doesn't matter; Qin Huai can do it by feeling.

Qin Huai moved.

The processed crab roe sauce has already gone through the first round of seasoning, but this is only basic seasoning. Fresh sea cucumber still has a fishy smell, and after combining with the crab roe sauce, it is somewhat incompatible with the water and soil. To neutralize the taste of the two, it is necessary to put some effort into the seasonings.

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

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

Feel that too many seasonings will affect the original taste?

It doesn't matter, just do it.

Qin Huai added seasonings one by one according to the ideas in his heart, feeling that the blurry double-crab bun in his heart gradually took shape.

Seeing Zang Liang was still simmering crab roe sauce step by step at the stove at first, but as he simmered, he found that Qin Huai's seasoning seemed to be a bit unconventional, a bit willful, a bit letting go of himself, and after a bit of giving up on treatment, Seeing Zang Liang also gave up on treatment.

He decisively ended the current batch of crab roe sauce and leaned over to Qin Huai's side to forcefully watch.

Zheng Siyuan had already started watching.

Seeing Zang Liang watched and felt it was a bit outrageous, asking Zheng Siyuan: "Is this right?"

Zheng Siyuan was very tolerant: "Let's look at the result first."

Soon, Qin Huai's filling seasoning ended, he wrapped the buns, and put them in the pot to steam.

Qin Huai guarded the steamer, Seeing Zang Liang quietly leaned over and asked: "Are you sure?"

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

Seeing Zang Liang:?

Qin Huai saw Seeing Zang Liang's confused face and realized that Seeing Zang Liang had not joined the Four-Joy Tangyuan research team before, so he hurriedly explained: "It's like this at the beginning, it's very normal, it will get better slowly."

"But..." Seeing Zang Liang, as a professional chef, of course knows the standard process of researching new dishes. "Zheng Siyuan has already made a very bad version."

Under normal circumstances, the teammates have explored the wrong path, and next they should walk on the correct path; how is Qin Huai still speeding on the wrong path.

"Zheng Siyuan has Zheng Siyuan's ideas, and I have my ideas. Have you never eaten the Four-Joy Tangyuan made by Zheng Siyuan? If you have a chance, you can ask Zheng Siyuan to make it for you to eat, but he might not like making Four-Joy Tangyuan. His Four-Joy Tangyuan is completely not the same idea as my Four-Joy Tangyuan; he has his own ideas for making dim sum, and you will know after eating."

"His dim sum... has very personal characteristics."

Seeing Zang Liang:?

A few minutes later, the double-crab buns came out of the pot. Under normal circumstances, these batches should be tasted by Tan Weian, but because Seeing Zang Liang wanted to know why Qin Huai was so sure that this batch of double-crab buns would definitely fail, he took the initiative to ask to taste it.

Then Seeing Zang Liang discovered that he didn't know if Zheng Siyuan had personal characteristics when making dim sum, but Qin Huai's failure had quite personal characteristics.

There is a beauty of not turning back until hitting the south wall, and walking two steps forward after hitting the south wall.

This afternoon, Seeing Zang Liang had a brand new understanding of the wild path.

For the next week, the double-crab bun research team fell into a long death loop.

Everyone performed their own duties, but no one did their own work well.

Seeing Zang Liang found a bit of feeling in thickening, but only found a little.

Realized it, but not completely realized it.

Learned it, but not completely learned it.

This actually can't blame Seeing Zang Liang; Cao Guixiang's thickening technique itself is very difficult, and Qin Huai himself hasn't learned it, so it's even more impossible to teach Seeing Zang Liang. Even when Seeing Zang Liang was thickening, Cao Guixiang had seen it through a video call, and she felt that Seeing Zang Liang learned quite fast and there was no problem, just simply that the technique was not home, so he couldn't thicken well.

The thickening technique was not home, directly leading to the crab roe sauce being a little better, but only a little, and there was still a gap from the crab roe sauce everyone wanted. Zheng Siyuan's progress was also not ideal; when Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan felt that the dough should be softer, they would find that it shouldn't be so soft, and should be more chewy.

After they kneaded the dough in the direction of being more chewy, they would find that it shouldn't be so chewy, and should be softer. It can be said that moving a little to the left doesn't work, and moving a little to the right doesn't work, and that balance in the middle is always not found.

Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan felt for the first time that the dough was so strange, and they had been pastry dim sum chefs for so many years and didn't even know how to knead dough.

Qin Huai's side goes without saying; he is not an ordinary failure.

He is failure, small failure, a little better, looks quite good, close to success, and finally failure. Then small failure, a little better, looks quite good, close to success again, and then failure, directly falling into a death loop.

Whenever he feels that he is close to success, success will give him two big slaps and tell him: just you want to approach me, go dream, get out!

In 7 days, Qin Huai was slapped by success at least 70 times, his face was almost swollen, and he still hadn't touched the point of balancing the savory and pastry cases.

Now Qin Huai understands very well why Zheng Siyuan didn't dare to face it for a long time after the first failure of the double-crab bun, because only after doing it did he know that this failure is really difficult to face.

This is not an ordinary failure; this is a failure that requires facing one's own technical level and ability problems.

As for Tan Weian, he is actually the most miserable.

Tan Weian seemed to have been wandering outside the research team for 7 days, making mung bean cakes for 7 whole days, and the mung bean cakes had a certain improvement, making him the most successful person in the research team. But in fact, his real task for these 7 days was to taste the double-crab buns, because he is the person in this research team who understands crab roe dim sum the best.

Those double-crab buns that failed badly could be handed over to Seeing Ouyang to taste, but whenever Qin Huai approached success, Tan Weian needed to taste and evaluate repeatedly to grasp where the point of success was.

Tan Weian really wanted to grasp it, but he really couldn't grasp it; he wanted his great-grandfather to entrust a dream to tell him where the point of success of the double-crab bun was after eating for these 7 days.

It is said that Tan Weian had already called his father last night, asking his father to go back to his hometown to flip through whether there were any notes left by his great-grandfather.

See if there is a small hole hidden in the corner of their hometown wall, cellar, or under the tiles, and if there is a box in the hole, and if there is a treasured notebook in the box, recording all the recipes and insights his great-grandfather sold.

Opening the first page of that notebook is the double-crab bun production guide, and they could painlessly graduate from the double-crab bun, letting Tan Weian end this painful tasting.

As for the others, these 7 days were also not easy.

As Qin Huai's chief taster, in order to support his brother's dim sum career, Seeing Ouyang now doesn't even dare to eat breakfast. Every day when he opens his eyes, he goes to the Little Ou Hand-Shaken Lemon Tea shop to shake milk tea, shakes until the time is almost up, then goes to Yunzhong Canteen to taste, goes back after eating full to continue shaking milk tea, then tastes again, and then goes to the gym to exercise and digest.

Even the private trainer that Seeing Ouyang spent a huge amount of money to hire praised Seeing Ouyang for his rapid progress, being able to eat and practice, but this carbohydrate intake is really a bit too much; wanting to improve is fine, but you can't want to improve like this, it hurts the body.

And our issuer of the double-crab bun task, the only person who has eaten the double-crab bun made by Xu Nuo, Grandpa Wang Gensheng, also has a bit of double-crab bun PTSD.

At the beginning, when Qin Huai invited Grandpa Wang to Yunzhong Canteen to open a small stove to taste crab roe sauce and crab roe mixed noodles, Grandpa Wang, who had a very strong sense of morality, would think about whether he was worthy, and whether he was worthy of eating such a high-level small stove with Master Qin.

Now Grandpa Wang no longer thinks; now Grandpa Wang wants to fire himself.

Grandpa Wang no longer envies Seeing Ouyang; he found that this young man, Little Ou, is quite not easy. Grandpa is old and not as good as a young man; this tasting is really a physical job.

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

Different from tasting Four-Joy Tangyuan in Gusu before, at that time everyone ate a bowl every night, and the remaining time could be used to write comments. Now Grandpa Wang has to eat at least six batches of buns in an afternoon, and these 6 buns are the limit of Grandpa Wang's stomach, not Qin Huai's limit.

Grandpa Wang has to think of 6 food reviews every day, and can't fake it, and has to try hard to recall memories that have long been forgotten; every day he thinks until his hair is about to fall out, and the person is haggard.

Even Xu Tuqiang, who has always been very jealous of Grandpa Wang, is no longer jealous now. When mentioning Grandpa Wang, he has to sigh and exclaim that this small stove is really not that delicious. Then he steps on him to show that Grandpa Wang's strength is not good, and if he, Xu Tuqiang, came to eat, let alone 6 reviews a day, he could write 16 reviews a day.

It can be said that everyone is tortured by the double-crab bun until they are somewhat miserable.

In Qin Huai's words, he knew that the double-crab bun was a hard bone to chew, and he also made a lot of preparations in advance, including psychological preparations. But when he really went to war with the double-crab bun, he found that this bone was too hard to chew; not only did it break his own teeth, but now the teeth of 6 people are about to fall out, and this bone hasn't been chewed yet.

Another day of death loop ended. After ending today's failure, Qin Huai realized that it couldn't go on like this anymore.

The double-crab bun is not like the Four-Joy Tangyuan; before, the Four-Joy Tangyuan failed because everyone couldn't find the direction, but the double-crab bun is that the direction can be found but it continues to fail. If it goes on like this, it's not a technical problem, but a mentality problem.

Seeing Zang Liang was very right when he said "feeling" before; when you feel that you haven't found the feeling and have been drilling into a horn, you are already wrong.

Change the path to find it, maybe you will find it.

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

Qin Huai doesn't know which path to change to find it, but he can choose to strike for a day first.

"Rest, what do you want to do?" Zheng Siyuan thought Qin Huai wanted to change to a place to make dim sum, for example, go to the welfare academy he is familiar with to find the feeling.

"Just simply rest." Qin Huai said. "Everyone is tired during this period, and Seeing Ouyang and Grandpa Wang are also tired of eating; we must let them relax for a day, otherwise Seeing Ouyang will really practice into a strong man."

"It just so happens that Seeing Ouyang got a few annual cards for the amusement park; why don't we go to the amusement park to stroll around tomorrow? Relax and relax, it just so happens that Did Luo Luo doesn't have classes next Sunday, so we can take Did Luo Luo to the amusement park together."

"Amusement park?" Zheng Siyuan was stunned.

"Amusement park!" Seeing Zang Liang was instantly excited. "Going to the amusement park is great; I have only been to the amusement park once since I went to the amusement park during the autumn outing in elementary school, and I haven't been to the amusement park since then."

"I originally thought that after falling in love, I could go to the amusement park with my girlfriend, but I didn't know that I have been staying in the kitchen for so many years; let alone falling in love, I haven't even seen many women."

"There are really too few female chefs in our savory-dish case!"

Qin Huai:...

Your master's direct disciple is a bit too hard-working.

"Tan Weian, have you been to the amusement park?"

"I have fallen in love." Tan Weian said.

Seeing Zang Liang:...

Qin Huai finalized the decision: "Then let's tentatively decide like this; let's take a day off tomorrow and go to the amusement park. But we might not be able to set off too early; I have to finish practicing my knife skills before I can go, and Did Luo Luo also has to finish her homework first."

Zheng Siyuan nodded: "It just so happens that I also have to make a batch of dim sum first."

Seeing Zang Liang said happily: "Then I will make some cold-mixed dishes to practice seasoning; it just so happens that I can take them in to eat. Can you take food to the amusement park?"

"Can."

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

Isn't tomorrow for relaxation? Why do you still have to work before relaxing? Do you people really understand relaxation?

(End of chapter)