Chapter 418: Guide

What kind of egg tart is delicious?

This question can basically be answered by everyone who has eaten egg tarts. Some people think that egg tarts that are just baked out of the oven and are still hot or even burning the mouth, the tart crust is crispy enough to fall off with one bite, the tart heart is soft and sweet, qq-bouncy, the taste is very like pudding, but more mellow than pudding, and the milky fragrance and egg fragrance are very rich, are delicious.

Some people think that egg tarts just out of the oven are not that delicious, and it is delicious to wait for the egg tart to become warm, remove the fragrant filter when out of the oven, and still be able to eat crispness and fragrance with one bite, but not that crispy, and the tart crust is a little bit hard.

Some people like sweet ones, some people like relatively light ones.

Some people like to add ingredients, such as corn, purple potato, durian, mango, chocolate, thinking that such egg tarts taste more flavorful.

Delicious egg tarts are hard to be defined.

If this question is asked to Qin Huai, Qin Huai will say that the egg tart made by Master Zhou is the best egg tart. Using Master Zhou's seasoning level and pastry-opening skills to make egg tarts is simply a dimensionality reduction strike.

Even the most ordinary, most ordinary, most basic egg tart can make people eat the wonderful taste of the pastry crust layer by layer and layer by layer under Master Zhou's cooking bonus. Even if it is not the hottest just out of the oven, one bite can feel the unparalleled fragrance of pastry-opening dim sum. Let diners eat the fragrance of the tart heart, the wonderful taste of the combination of sugar, milk, and eggs, and can also feel the deliciousness of the tart crust.

Master Zhou's egg tart will clearly tell diners that perhaps in your cognition, the protagonist of egg tart is the tart heart, but today I want to tell you that the real protagonist is the tart crust. Even if you think it is a supporting role, you have to affirm that its role is very important.

If Qin Huai scores, he will give Master Zhou's egg tart 99 points, and the remaining 1 point is left for Master Zhou's room for progress.

Then if Qin Huai scores the egg tart he made, how many points will he score?

Qin Hu

In one afternoon, Qin Huai made many batches of egg tarts. Compared to the complexity and precision of the egg tart crust, the egg tart liquid was relatively much simpler. For red-case dishes, the most important cooking process was even simple enough to be negligible.

Qin Huai didn't ask about the baking of the egg tarts at all; it was Tan Weian who took them to the oven to bake. If it weren't for the fact that Tan Weian really had no work to do as a helper today, this step wouldn't even need Tan Weian; any apprentice could bake them.

Set the temperature and time, and anyone with hands can do it.

Qin Huai was eating his first batch of egg tarts.

In all fairness, Qin Huai felt there was no obvious difference between the batches of egg tarts he made this afternoon. His state when making each batch was about the same; there was no extraordinary performance, no failure, and not even a learning process.

He had already completed enough practice papers to take the exam; he wasn't flipping through books and learning while taking the exam.

The freshly baked egg tarts were delicious; this was Qin Huai's favorite state.

At the same time, it was hard for Qin Huai not to compare the egg tarts he made with the ones Master Zhou made.

As for the tart filling, there was actually no difference. The egg tart liquid was that recipe and that ratio; it couldn't be much worse, and it couldn't be much better. Not to mention that Qin Huai used Master Zhou's egg tart liquid recipe, which was basically a 1:1 reproduction.

As for the tart crust, one was in the sky and the other was on the ground.

As the number one white-case master most proficient in puff pastry dim sum, for Qin Huai to want to compare his puff pastry level with him, it was equivalent to trying to touch porcelain on the moon.

But Qin Huai silently gave the egg tarts he made a score of 70 in his heart.

Qin Huai felt that the egg tarts he made today were quite good, at least better than those sold by K-something-C and the vast majority of cake shops on the market. The reason it was "vast majority" was because there might still be small shops on the market opened by people like Zheng Siyuan.

Qin Huai silently took another bite of the egg tart. The tart crust was very crispy; one bite allowed one to taste the layered texture, and one could taste the unique fragrance of butter kneaded into the dough after baking.

One could taste the sweet aftertaste left on the tip of the tongue after chewing and swallowing the tart crust wrapped around the tart filling between the teeth.

Qin Huai felt that an egg tart that could leave an aftertaste was definitely qualified, and could even be considered excellent.

Qin Huai quietly glanced at Master Zhou. Master Zhou was also tasting, with no expression. Master Zhou was always like this when eating dim sum; his calmness revealed a trace of numbness, and one could see a bit of impatience or even anger between his brows. It made people feel awe-inspiring just looking at him, and they couldn't help but want to take a few steps back, their legs trembling and wanting to leave before Master Zhou even opened his mouth.

Now, Master Zhou's expression was considered very calm; there was no impatience between his brows, let alone anger, and of course, no satisfaction either.

Because he didn't know Master Zhou very well, Qin Huai found it hard to read his inner thoughts from his face and could only cast his gaze toward Tan Weian.

Perhaps because he knew Tan Weian too well, Qin Huai felt that Tan Weian's thoughts were almost written on his face.

It was full of "delicious," "love to eat," and "like to eat," and he himself couldn't stop eating. In the time it took Qin Huai to savor one egg tart, he had eaten two, and his eating speed was second only to Qin Luo and Ouyang.

Even his eating manner was leaning toward Ouyang's, eating in a wolfing-down style.

Looking at Tan Weian's eating manner, Qin Huai even began to repent in his heart, thinking about whether he shouldn't have arranged for Tan Weian to taste the double crab buns a while ago. Look at what Xiao Tan, the master of Does Zhi Wei Ju, had been eaten into; he had been eaten into the image of Ouyang.

Tan Weian ate three egg tarts in a row before stopping.

It wasn't that he was full; it was that he was tired of eating.

Tan Weian wanted to find tea to drink, only to find that he was a helper now and no one poured tea for him. Of course, no one poured tea for him before either; he could only go and pour tea silently by himself.

After Tan Weian left, only Qin Huai and Master Zhou remained at the cooking station that belonged to Qin Huai. Master Zhou had long finished tasting, and seeing Tan Weian leave, he gave his back a look that was quite sensible and knew to leave, then slowly opened his mouth:

"Xiao Qin, any thoughts?"

Qin Huai:?

According to the normal plot, shouldn't this be the time for you, Master Zhou, to comment on my egg tarts, scold me until I'm battered and exhausted, and then I suddenly wake up, reflect on my mistakes, strive for excellence, start rolling hard in Does Zhi Wei Ju, and finally recount the insights gained from this exchange?

Why was the middle process all deleted, and it went straight to the last step?

Qin Huai looked at Master Zhou with some hesitation and found that Master Zhou really didn't mean to be sarcastic. His expression, tone, and state were all very calm, looking like an irrelevant person had finally left, and it was our turn to start talking about business.

"Th... thoughts..." Qin Huai was at a loss for words for a moment; he was truly at a loss for words.

From the bottom of his heart, he respected, or even feared, Master Zhou. Even though Master Zhou was kind and amiable when he saw him, it didn't prevent Qin Huai from being a little bit afraid of him.

Perhaps this was the pressure of the Supreme Elder of a legendary top sect, especially in a situation where this Supreme Elder liked to be sarcastic.

"Master Zhou, what do you think of the egg tarts I made today?" Qin Huai chose to throw a new question back.

"Average," Master Zhou answered very objectively. "In terms of culinary level, you and Old San should be on par. Old San might be slightly inferior to you; you two each have your own strengths. You are better at steamed dim sum and slightly more niche dim sum like Four Happiness Tangyuan. Old San is my apprentice; even if his personality is lively, he has dabbled in all kinds of dim sum, and what he is best at is still puff pastry dim sum."

"If Old San were making egg tarts today, his tart crust wouldn't be as crispy as yours. Too much is as bad as too little; an egg tart is not a crispy cake. It needs to balance crispiness and softness. Maybe you haven't thought about it this way, but you can't control this degree well."

"When you were kneading the dough, I noticed that your technique is very good. You know how to use skills, how to use clever force, and you know when to be slow and when to be heavy. These past few days, you should have also seen some techniques from me. Although you only learned a little bit of the fur, being able to learn this little bit of fur just by watching is already very rare."

"However, you are indeed not good at puff pastry dim sum. Your technique is very raw; you blindly imitate, but your technique is not as mature as Old San's, so the imitation is a bit like drawing a tiger by looking at a cat."

Master Zhou's commentary can be said to be very vivid and hit the nail on the head; he is worthy of being a veteran master who has brought up three apprentices with different personalities and different styles.

"Then what about my egg tarts today..." Qin Huai asked tentatively.

Master Zhou smiled slightly, a smile that was like a spring breeze, incomparably warm: "I am very satisfied."

Qin Huai could tell that Master Zhou was very satisfied.

"You are more talented and have more understanding than I heard, imagined, and witnessed in the past two days."

This sentence can be said to be quite high praise, praise that even shocked Qin Huai.

Qin Huai tried to explain: "Ma... Master Zhou, did Tan Weian not tell you that I have always been like this when making dim sum? I am very good at imitating others, including when thickening..."