Life is a Game

The segment that Jiang Feng chose to trace back was from when Master Peng started making crab-stuffed oranges to when Cao Guixiang finished making crab-stuffed oranges, about an hour or so before and after. Since the quality of the screenshots was really poor, Jiang Feng deliberately took more screenshots forward and backward to avoid missing some key content.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Feng reappeared in the back kitchen of Yongheju.

Manager Yin's rainbow fart has come to an end, and Cao Guixiang is staring straight at the bag Manager Yin brought, wishing to write "I want to try" on his face.

Jiang Feng focused all his attention on the stoves next to Master Peng. He remembered that Master Peng steamed crabs on the stove next to him, and there were only two stoves next to Master Peng.

As a single-family restaurant, Yongheju occupies a larger area than Taifeng Building, and the corresponding back kitchen is also larger than that of Taifeng Building, and there are more employees. hang out together. When Jiang Feng was looking at the memory before, his attention was all on Master Peng, Qin Guisheng and Cao Guixiang. Even Peng Changping didn't pay much attention to it, and the others just ignored it as the background board.

Jiang Feng went around behind the stove to look inside the stove, and found that there was no fire in the stove, so he waited beside him.

To make crab stuffed oranges, you need to steam the crabs.

Sure enough, as soon as Manager Yin walked away from Master Peng, he asked Cao Guixiang to steam the crabs.

Cao Guixiang got the master's order to brush crabs, and an apprentice who Jiang Feng had no impression of before heard what Master Peng said and hurried to start a fire.

With a few pieces of firewood and a handful of hay, a raging fire ignited in the stove in the blink of an eye.

There is nothing wrong with steaming crabs on high heat.

Master Peng started to process the oranges, and Jiang Feng went to Master Peng to watch him process the oranges.

Cao Guixiang’s method of processing crab-stuffed oranges was learned from Master Peng, basically the same, except that Master Peng is more experienced and fast, and he can handle the complex structure and intertwined fascia inside the orange with ease.

However, in about 20 minutes, the three oranges were hollowed out and cleaned up. Even the amount of orange juice remaining in the oranges was about the same.

"Guixiang, go and take out the crabs and pick off the meat." Master Peng ordered.

Jiang Feng has been paying close attention to the movement on the stove. Cao Guixiang went to the steamer to take out the crabs. The apprentice who had been burning the fire before also hurried to the stove to take out the unburned wood and cover it with firewood ashes. .

Master Peng saw the apprentice's movements and said, "Leave a small part."

Keep a little bit?

Jiang Feng was taken aback, every word Master Peng said might be the key to solving the case, but what does it mean to leave a small part?

Jiang Feng didn't understand, but the apprentice did, and knocked off a section of unburned wood with iron pliers. The wood that had been burned in the stove for more than 20 minutes was very fragile and broke into several pieces with a light tap. The apprentice picked a section of moderate size and left it inside, leaving this small piece of ash, gray and white and fragile wood covered with firewood to stay alone on the pile of firewood ash, flickering a faint red light from time to time.

Jiang Feng seemed to know how Master Peng steamed crabs and stuffed oranges.

He is too familiar with this method of burning wood until the end and leaving a small piece in the stove. Grandma Jiang likes to do it when she cooks rice.

When the old man was in the country, Grandma Jiang usually did the cooking for the old man. Grandma Jiang is a very firewood-saving person. She needs to burn a lot of firewood for every meal at her place, and not even half of it is very useful.

In Jiang's house, if rice is cooked with a firewood stove, the rice must be cooked last. When all the dishes are fried and there is little or no firewood left in the stove, use the residual heat in the stove to cook the rice.

The airtightness and thermal insulation of earthen stoves are generally very good. Even if the firewood in the stove is burned out, the high temperature in the stove will last for a long time, enough to cook the rice.

The advantage of stewing rice like this is to save firewood. Grandma Jiang had six children in her family when she was a child, but only one was a boy. There was a serious shortage of labor. Firewood, which requires children to go to the mountains to collect it, is a precious asset and needs to be used sparingly. This habit, which was formed due to the serious shortage of labor force, did not change until Grandma Jiang gave birth to five fat boys, and it has continued to this day.

If the crab-stuffed oranges made by Master Peng are braised, the sweetness and umami of the oranges can indeed be preserved to the greatest extent.

Jiang Feng remembered that when he was in high school, he read a short article in a newspaper. For many years, he had determined to make the seasoning accurate to the gram, the time to the second, and even the Germans who tried to replace the chef with robots many years ago. I found out that you don’t need to cook the eggs for so long. You only need to cook for two-thirds of the original time, and then you can turn off the heat. The remaining temperature and energy are enough to cook the eggs.

This is a discovery that sounds practical, but 99% of people don't make it.

But Jiang Feng felt that he might have to practice this skill of boiling eggs hard in the future.

If you want to cook the food, it is very important to control the remaining heat.

Jiang Feng continued to stare at the stove, and had no time to pay attention to Master Peng and Cao Guixiang's movements.

Jiang Feng just watched the small piece of firewood in the stove getting smaller and smaller, slowly merging with the ashes of the firewood underneath, and even the red light of the fire became dimmer and more sporadic, like a fire in the dark night. The dim stars are stubbornly shining faintly. After watching it for a long time, Jiang Feng even became a little dazed. He himself was not sure whether the firewood in the stove was completely burned.

Jiang Feng couldn't help but looked up at Master Peng. He had already processed the oranges in his hand and was watching Cao Guixiang picking crab meat.

Is it possible that Master Peng also cooks according to fate?

Jiang Feng was a little puzzled. How come the difficult technique of stuffing crabs into oranges is not as important as master Peng's guiding his apprentices.

Could it be that he was thinking too much? Could it be that Master Peng didn't plan to stew crab stuffed with oranges at all, leaving a piece of firewood in the stove at the end of the fire is just a habit of Yongheju to show that he is rich and not short of money.

Jiang Feng looked at Master Peng, his thoughts were all on Cao Guixiang now, he pointed to a part of the crab and told Cao Guixiang how to kick the crab meat faster.

He didn't even look at the stove.

After another few tens of seconds, Master Peng looked at Cao Guixiang's shaved crab meat, nodded to her and said, "There are still two oranges in the bag, you can practice with the rest of the crab meat later."

After finishing speaking, Master Peng walked to the stove, walked around behind the stove, and stood behind Jiang Feng.

This was an ordinary move, but Jiang Feng suddenly became nervous and stared into Master Peng's eyes.

Master Peng glanced at the stove.

It might have been two seconds, or it might have been three seconds, as if he glanced inadvertently, he quickly looked away, turned to Cao Guixiang and said, "Guixiang, bring the crab-stuffed oranges to the steamer."

He only glanced at it and concluded that the temperature was fine.

Jiang Feng froze in place.

This is the first time he has seen what is called a master level.

He has seen so many memories, whether it is Cao Guixiang, Sun Zheran, Jiang Chengde or Jiang Hengzhong, none of them are as shocked as Master Peng's glance.

He felt that Master Peng only needed to take a look at things that needed to be pondered over, studied slowly, and treated with caution.

For Jiang Feng, mastering the timing of stuffed crab stuffed oranges is a major event that needs to be squatted by the stove and waited and watched slowly, just like cooking porridge.

But for Master Peng, judging when the crab stuffed oranges are cooked is just the simplest and most trivial thing, and it doesn’t even require a large number of teachers, just walk behind the stove and take a look around.

A master's fight, only one move can determine the outcome.

Jiang Feng suddenly discovered that on the endless mountains of cooking, he might have just climbed a small mountain, and there are countless mountains behind, each mountain is higher than the other.

After Master Peng asked Cao Guixiang to steam the stuffed oranges with crabs, he went to deal with the sunflower ducks himself. Jiang Feng was a little unwilling to continue squatting at the stove and staring at the stove, hoping to find out some tricks.

As a result, I couldn't see anything except the double vision of the eyes.

Master Peng has cooked his whole life with an earthen stove. He knows when to burn what kind of firewood, how much firewood to burn, how big the fire is to burn, and when to draw firewood. The ruler in Master Peng's heart could not be understood by a young man like Jiang Feng who was used to using a gas stove.

Seeing that there was nothing in the stove, Jiang Feng went to look outside the stove to see if there were hidden things in other stoves.

Sure enough, Jiang Feng saw some tricks.

The firewood in Yongheju is carefully stacked.

Different types of wood, different lengths, different thicknesses, whether they are whole or split, whether they are burnt or not, are all stacked separately.

Jiang Feng also discovered that there were actually two apprentices who were in charge of burning firewood in the entire Yonghe residence, they were very professional.

On the surface, Yongheju is just a normal state-run hotel with a large number of staff, but in fact, everyone has their own division of labor, and the division of labor is very detailed, and everyone performs their own duties.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

When Jiang Feng came back to his senses, Master Peng's Stuffed Crab Oranges were already out of the pot. Cao Guixiang was carefully taking out the Stuffed Crab Oranges and putting them on the tray. Jiang Feng hurried up to have a look.

The oranges were not covered, and Jiang Feng knew that the three crab-stuffed oranges in front of him were definitely A-level just by smelling them.

fragrant.

It is not an ordinary fragrance, the fruity aroma and wine aroma are mixed together, and it is already very strong before the lid is opened. The unique cooking method of stewing allows the Xiangxue wine to fully evaporate, penetrate into every corner of the orange, including the orange peel, and combine with the fruity aroma of the orange, which is amazing.

Not curious, but amazing.

This kind of crab stuffed with oranges is worthy of the name of a famous dish.

Cao Guixiang went to deliver the food, but this time Jiang Feng did not follow Cao Guixiang up, but stayed in the back kitchen.

When he read this memory for the first time, he didn't realize that the back kitchen of Yongheju is really a place called a treasure. Not only the heirs of Tan family cuisine from Master Peng's lineage, but also the other chefs, and even the mediocre helpers, are all excellent and powerful.

As soon as Cao Guixiang left, the quiet back kitchen suddenly became lively.

"Old Peng, it's not good for you to let Guixiang serve the dishes like this. Master Jin's little apprentice is famously handsome. Be careful that Guixiang has taken a fancy to him and he is seduced by him." Master Wang said with a smile.

"What nonsense are you talking about? There are still juniors here, don't talk nonsense, and it will ruin Guixiang's reputation." Master Peng said calmly.

Master Wang smiled without saying a word.

Qin Guisheng was at a loss when he heard what Master Wang said, and wanted to find someone to explain his confusion, so he could only go to Peng Changping's side.

"Brother, what did Master Wang mean by that?" Qin Guisheng asked curiously.

"Literally." Peng Chang calmly wiped the kitchen knife. Now that he is dead, he can only wipe the knife.

"You said little junior sister wouldn't really just fall in love with that little apprentice of Master Jin? Have you ever seen that apprentice of Master Jin? Is it really as handsome as they say? I don't think it is possible in this world to be so handsome." There is such a handsome man, how could someone be so nice to ask a little girl to open the window, I don't even have a little girl to open the window of my house." Qin Guisheng seemed to be asking Peng Changping a question, but in fact he was talking to himself .

"What if Master Jin's little apprentice is really handsome? Little Junior Sister is a superficial person, and she usually likes to stay with good-looking people like me. Oh, what if Little Junior Sister really likes me?" But what to do, he is just an apprentice and has no formal establishment or salary, how can this kind of person..." Qin Guisheng turned into a humanoid BB machine and became a prophet.

Peng Changping continued to wipe his knife with a look of no surprise, and he didn't even pay attention to him.

Jiang Feng wandered around in the back kitchen of Yonghe Residence again, focusing on the firewood and stove in the back kitchen, time passed quickly.

Even Jiang Feng himself didn't realize that he was staring happily at the stove when he was kicked out of his memory and returned to the back kitchen of Taifeng building.

The first thing Jiang Feng did when he left his memory was to boil a pot of water.

He wanted to know how much energy the boiled water still had after the fire was turned off.

An earthen stove was different from a gas stove, and Jiang Feng couldn't set up an earthen stove in the back kitchen of Taifeng building just to make crab stuffed oranges.

There is an earth stove method for an earthen stove, and a gas stove for a gas stove. Jiang Feng has now held the key to open the door, and all he needs now is the strength to push the door.

Now that you are on the right path, it is only a matter of time before you reach the end.

Jiang Feng stared at the water in the pot. The water surface was calm, and it was still a long time before it boiled.

He also has a long way to go.