The story of a cook

Chapter 17
Xinchuang Restaurant is the second hotel I worked in after I embarked on the road of being a chef.

It is an internal restaurant of Zhongzhong Group, with an area of ​​[-] square meters, not counting the kitchen.The kitchen is [-] square meters, and it felt like a basketball court when I entered for the first time.

There are four chefs in the kitchen, four water tables, a cold dish chef, a pastry chef, and a dishwashing lady.

The head chef is from Sichuan, and he manages the kitchen.

Since it is an internal restaurant, the menus are all set in advance. After going to work every day, the menus of each private room come down, and the kitchen starts to prepare.Cut what should be cut, what should be served, what should be processed, what should be heated, and served directly when the guests come.Since the dishes are all prepared in advance, the serving speed is fast, and there is no phenomenon of rushing the dishes.

I'm in charge of the vegetables.There is nothing complicated about green vegetables, and it is very easy to do.After finishing my own work, I will help other water projects. Whoever has a lot of work will help others. I will go to help with processing ribs, cutting beef and mutton, cleaning fish, and steaming things. I will get to know everyone within a few days. .

I get along best with Master Gao of Chaotouguo, he is more easy-going, and he is the only one from the Northeast among the four masters, and the other three are from Sichuan.Maybe it's a language barrier. The three Sichuan masters brought out the Sichuan dialect from time to time. We couldn't understand it, so there was less communication.Master Gao is from the Northeast, so it is convenient to communicate.

Master Gao's cooking is very good, technically speaking it is the best among the four masters, so it is the first pot.

The head chef doesn't cook, and sometimes he doesn't see anyone for a day, and the kitchen is managed by Master Gao.

Other water cases go out to smoke and chat after work, but I seldom go out.It is not easy to come to such a big hotel to work, so I have to hurry up and study hard. Time is precious and cannot be wasted.

There are a lot of raw materials that have never been seen before, and this is the first time I have seen Sichuan cuisine. It is the first time I have seen many seasonings. Even the ingredients used by the Sichuan chef are the first time I have seen them. You must see more study.

In the kitchen, I go wherever I need, not for anything else, just to increase my knowledge and learn more things.Craftsmanship is not afraid of too much, the more the better, no one can take away what you have learned, and follow yourself for the rest of your life, there is nothing wrong with learning more.Don't worry about not being able to use it for the time being, I don't know when it will be used, and I won't be in a hurry to learn it now.

The chef of Sichuan cuisine is very rigorous in his work, paying attention to stir-frying ingredients, sauce, and sauce.The sauces they make include spicy sauce, fish sauce, spicy sauce, old fire sauce and so on.The red oil is also very particular. Unlike the Northeast cuisine masters, who fry the chili noodles in oil, they need several steps to cook a barrel of red oil. Each step adds different spices and takes six hours. Only when it is finished, the boiled red oil is bright red in color and has a tangy aroma.

Master Gao told me to learn from others well, and what I learn is my own, and I think so too.If you want to learn, you have to give up some free time. People can go out to smoke and chat, and have sex with waiters. I can’t. I have to learn from the kitchen and help the Sichuan chefs when they are cooking, and rush to work. .

Stir-fried spicy ingredients need to prepare Sichuan pepper, pepper, pepper, bean paste, butter, spices, etc., and the master will watch while frying, and take what is needed immediately.

One of the most troublesome steps in frying spicy ingredients is to chop the fried Sichuan pepper. No one likes to do this job.Stir-fried Sichuan peppers are crispy and crispy. When chopping, the peppers will be hot and the peppers will collapse. The small pieces will jump up and fall on the face.I have done this before, the chili flakes fell on my face and I wiped it with my hands, it didn't fall off, I rubbed it, it didn't fall off, and it broke.

Immediately afterwards, my face was burning hot, and I ran to the pool to wash it with cold water. It was cool at the time, but I couldn't open my eyes. The pepper water got into my eyes, and it took me a long time to get better. My eyes were red and swollen.When I saw on TV that pepper water was sprayed on the demonstrators, my eyes hurt because of the conditioned reflex.

Well now, there is a grinder, which can directly grind the fried Sichuan pepper, which saves trouble and is convenient.However, the speed of the grinder is too fast, and the temperature rises during the process of grinding. The peppers that have been minced will be hot, and the fried spicy ingredients will not have such a good effect and will not be fragrant.

Making "fish-flavored juice" is not dangerous, and it smells good, sweet and sour, with a slight spicy taste, which will make you appetite.

Follow the master of Sichuan cuisine and learn all these things bit by bit.

The first skill of a chef is knife skills.The so-called knife skill refers to the degree of familiarity and mastery of the raw materials in the process of cutting and matching, and the knife skill facilitates the maturity and flavor of the ingredients, which is the basis of cooking.

The chef's second effort is to understand the use of various seasonings and the preparation of various sauces.

Everyone knows seasonings, such as refined salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, oil consumption, sugar, vinegar, cooking wine, etc. When knowing these seasonings, one must also know the role of these seasonings in the cooking process. For example, sugar is used for polishing and color preservation. Yes, vinegar is to remove fishy and greasy, and cooking wine is to dispel evil and strengthen the body. After knowing these, combine seasonings and spices to form sauces and juices of different flavors, so that the dishes can have their own unique taste.

Chinese food pays attention to five flavors and hundreds of flavors, which is also the charm of Chinese food.

Familiar with the raw materials and understand the raw materials can ensure the original flavor of the dishes, delicious and without loss of nutrients, so as to achieve a healthy diet.

Familiar with seasonings and seasonings can maximize the original taste of the ingredients, achieve the original taste, and return to the original.

When a chef learns to cook, don't learn how to cook it alone. After learning, you only learn one dish, which is a copy.You have to learn how to use raw materials, how to use seasonings, learn the whole production process and understanding of dishes, so that you can make a summary and make your own style of dishes.

If a chef wants to cook a dish well, make it taste good, and be welcomed by guests, he must first know what is a dish and what is cooking. Only after knowing these can he make a good dish.

Dishes are not as simple as combining several ingredients together.

How to put it, my feeling is that if you want to make a good dish, you must first understand the dish, and then you can make the dish well, make the taste, make the characteristics, and make the common people like it.

Food is for people to eat, and taste is the most important thing.

Food has character, and only with character can it have characteristics, be remembered by people, and have vitality.

Since it is an internal restaurant, it is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. It was the first time I encountered such a good treatment, and I was very happy.

After rest, the staff close to home went home, and I was the only staff living in the kitchen, and I didn't know where to go.

When the hotel is not closed, I look forward to rest, so I think about how great it would be if I could rest for a day, get a good sleep, then go out for a stroll, come back to eat and drink after shopping, and have a cool day.I had a rest and couldn't sleep anymore, got up earlier than usual, sat on the bed and didn't know where to go or what to do.

I want to see Master Chen, think about it or not to go, Master Chen has just been here for a week, he is not stable yet, it is not good now, wait for him to work there for a period of time and stabilize before going.After I came to Xinchuang Restaurant, I called him and told him that it was very good here, so I told him not to worry.I told him about the situation here, and he said that we should work here first and learn the Sichuan cuisine from others.

I thought of Li Haina and Zhou Lan. It is impossible for them to come back so soon after they return to HLJ. Besides, even if they return, they will not be found, and there is no contact information. Where can I find them.

The rest is Li Yanhua, I don't know if she sells clothes in the mall, but I know that mall, it's very big, it's a high-end mall in the provincial capital.But she didn't tell me which floor of the shopping mall and which store sells clothes, she just said that she did it there.I want to look for her in the past, but I don't know if I can find her.

Since we separated last time, I have been missing her a lot. She said that she needs to think about it carefully to see if she really wants to be with me, but there is no news after that.Although she never thought about getting married to her, if she decides to have sex with me and marry me, then marry her.

I was also thinking about it during this time, but since she heard nothing from her, I knew in my heart that it was impossible. If she wanted to be with me, she would come to me. Since she didn't come to me, it proved that she didn't want to be with me.

Decided to look for her, if you can't find her, it's a shopping mall, anyway, I haven't visited a shopping mall in the provincial capital, go shopping, it's best to see her, if you can't see her, it's useless.As for whether we can meet again in the future, it depends on fate, and we will meet each other if we are destined.

Pack yourself up, change clothes, leave the dormitory and take a car to the shopping mall.

Men don't like to go shopping. Going to the mall is a physical effort. It's better to do something brisk in the kitchen, especially if you don't buy anything, it's even more tiring to go shopping.

The shopping mall has five floors. The first and second floors are for home appliances and department stores, the third and fourth floors are for clothing, and the fifth floor is for entertainment and snacks.

Ignore the first and second floors directly, and focus on the third and fourth floors.

Search stall by stall, never let go of any stall, carpet search.Unfortunately, after two hours of careful investigation, it was not found.

Find a place to sit down and see that it is already twelve o'clock, thinking that she is not here anymore and went to learn cosmetology.It feels a little sad to feel that another friend has disappeared from my life.

Sitting there watching the endless stream of people in the shopping mall, I especially hope that one of them is her. She came out of the crowd, waved to me, ran over to me with a smile and said, "Brother, why are you here?"

Unfortunately not.

Thinking of her saying that there are mornings and afternoons at work here, the morning shift starts at [-]:[-] and the afternoon shift ends at [-]:[-], so could it be that she is the afternoon shift?
There is hope in my heart again, I am ready to wait, and I will search again after an hour. If I still can't find it, I will give up and go back to the restaurant by car.

Why do I have the energy to do it? I don’t know how to swear to never give up. As the old saying goes, I don’t cry until I see the coffin, and I don’t give up until I reach the Yellow River.In my mother's words, don't hit the south wall and don't look back.

After one o'clock, another blanket investigation was conducted, and the result was the same as last time, nothing was found.

To be honest, my heart was occupied by disappointment. When I searched for it more and couldn't find it, my thoughts and misses intensified.Before I came to the shopping mall, I just missed it, but as the yearning for looking for it intensified, Li Yanhua's face kept appearing in front of my eyes.The beautiful face, big eyes, sweet smile, and the way he stomps his feet when he is angry all appear in his mind and eyes.

Especially the last hug and kiss, reluctance and nostalgia——
Heartbroken.

I came out of the shopping mall in disappointment and walked on the bustling street, feeling that I was so out of place with the bustling crowd.

There are many people, but I am lonely, helpless, and lost.

Why do some people walk into life and then walk out of life?
The taste of this loss is very bitter, very astringent, and has a heart-wrenching sadness.

Feeling small.

The sadness of losing a friend deeply stimulated me, and I desperately hoped to become stronger.

(End of this chapter)