Food starts from cooking

Chapter 65 High-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods!
"Sheep and goats are fundamentally different. In terms of meat quality and taste, sheep are easy to grow meat, grow fast, and have less activity. Therefore, it has more fat, softer meat, and less smell. It is suitable for daily use. People who don’t eat mutton very much and are sensitive to the smell of mutton!”

"But goats are different. Goats are active by nature, even if they eat grass, they are not honest, so goats generally don't like to be raised in captivity. If you have been to a grazing area, you can always see goats jumping over the fence and running out!"

"Well, there is a game I played since I was a child that actually explains the problem, it's called Goat Jumping! This is probably the origin of the Goat Jumping activity played by children!"

"Because of the large amount of activity, the fat in the meat is relatively low, and the meat tastes relatively chewy, but the meat of goats has a stronger smell. Some powerful chefs may have means to remove the smell, but it is generally impossible to do it to nothing at all!"

"However... for those who often eat mutton, the mutton with a bit of smell is the best, because they think that the smell of mutton is the soul of mutton!"

"The sheep I'm going to decompose is a goat!"

"Well, I really want to say the biggest difference between them... They are reproductively isolated, because they are not an animal at all!"

Zhou You said a lot, and told Zhou Hao that even the same ingredients can be processed in different ways.

At this time, the processing has already begun.

The knife slipped through, and the sheep's tail had been cut off, and then the two hind legs.

"Sheep are no better than pigs, especially goats, you must pay attention to the joints when dividing!"

The old man was smoking a pipe, he didn't know what Zhou You said, and he didn't want to, but...

When Zhou You began to unload the leg of lamb, his eyes lit up instantly.

Good guy, I don't know how long I have been practicing this skillful technique!

After the two hind legs are removed, there are the front legs, the chest cavity, and then the lamb chops that everyone likes to eat!
When the ribs are removed, there are two very tender lamb tenderloins!

And the last thing left is the sheep's spine, which is the sheep scorpion!
With a knife, a whole lamb is divided into four legs, chest cavity, lamb chops, tenderloin, lamb scorpion...

I didn’t borrow any other tools. You know, sheep are different from pigs. They have more small joints on their bodies, and the bones are more dense, so you don’t think some people in the slaughterhouse are very good at unloading pigs and cattle, but when it comes to sheep, it’s just A little stumbling.

But it took less than 2 minutes to disassemble the whole sheep, and the eyes of the old man Xu, who was holding a pipe in his mouth, stared straight.

"Young students, amazing!"

Until all the parts of the sheep were put down separately, the old man Xu took a sip of the thick smoke, gave Zhou You a thumbs up, then pinned the cigarette stick around his waist, turned around and walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Brother Zhou, if I can learn your skill of unloading meat, that's enough!"

The last time he slaughtered a pig in Dayu Village, Zhou Youlu surprised him with his hand, but seeing him again now, he was still so smooth and pleasing to the eye.

"Okay, study hard and you will achieve it one day!"

After simply washing his hands, Zhou Hao has already started to light the fire!

This is a big pot with a simple stove made of gasoline barrels underneath. The hot charcoal fire is thrown into it, and then the small hole on the other side is blown with a blower to ensure that the temperature is not low.

Zhou You likes to use this kind of big pot for cooking.

When the fire was about the same temperature, Zhou You poured cold water into the cauldron, and then directly threw the mutton that had been divided into it one by one.

"Put cold water in the pot, this is the first thing to pay attention to when cooking mutton!"

Zhou You operated while explaining to Zhou Hao.

As the water temperature gradually rises, a layer of white froth begins to slowly float on the surface. Zhou You scoops out the froth little by little with a spoon, and then puts scallions and ginger as usual!
"Brother Zhou, do you only put scallions and ginger? Also, did you not skim off the froth!"

Zhou You said with a smile: "Cooking needs to be flexible. You do it like a restaurant. Restaurants pay attention to people who come from south to north, and they are all guests. But what we are doing now is a rural banquet!"

"The seats in the village are usually eaten by local people, even people from the village. When you entered the village before, didn't you notice that there was sheep droppings on the road?"

After all, this is Guanzhong, and it can be regarded as a big province that eats sheep.

Why did he chat with Li Gensheng for so long before, just to find out.

According to Li Gensheng, although not every family in Wangjiagou raises sheep, one or two of the ten families must have sheep.

And people who often raise sheep must also often eat sheep. How can people who often eat sheep, like those who go to restaurants to try new things, demand that there is no smell of sheep?

"Also, do you think this sheep has a strong smell?"

Zhou Hao was taken aback, sniffed it, then shook his head.

"That's it. The smell of mutton is related to the digestive system, and it is also related to the food. The local sheep in Liangcheng are actually not that smelly, and this is a freshly killed sheep, so there is no need for too much. spices!"

"There are two things in the meat world that taste delicious without any seasoning, that is, fish and sheep, so the combination of them is a word of freshness!"

"These two kinds of meat are delicious without any spices, and a pinch of salt adds to the style, so many people praise that mutton and fish are delicious with only salt."

"You know, high-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods!"

Zhou Hao suddenly realized, and secretly thought that there are so many skills in cooking!

Although his grandfather has been running weddings and weddings for so many years, and his craftsmanship is quite good, the problem is that Ye Luzi was born, and the old man knows many things by himself, but he just doesn't know how to express and teach, so that Zhou Hao basically can only rely on understanding!
As the water temperature continues to rise, the color of the meat is slowly changing, and as the protein is cooked, the aroma of the mutton spreads rapidly.

As the second domesticated animal of human beings, sheep has never been off since it was put on the dining table, especially its unique taste.

When cooking pork and beef, everyone can smell the smell and can only tell whether you are cooking meat, but when cooking mutton, even people who don’t eat it often can smell it right away!

"smell good!"

"That's right, Lao Li's family directly killed three of these mutton!"

"Happy mourning, 91 years old, and there are many sons in his family, all the elderly people around should come!"

The smell of mutton wafted away, and the girls, daughter-in-law and old aunt who helped wash the vegetables in the backyard looked at Zhou You from time to time, and some even wiped the corners of their mouths.

I don't know if I am greedy for mutton or greedy for traveling!

Seeing that it was almost done, he lifted the lid of the pot, and the white mutton soup was tumbling, exuding a burst of delicious fragrance. Zhou You quickly sprinkled salt and white pepper into it, then covered the pot, and continued to cook!

After a while, the more delicious and attractive smell of mutton soup spread out.

Li Gensheng smelled it, and said with a smile: "Master Zhou, this mutton is almost ready!"

"almost!"

"Okay, everyone is hungry too, I'll let them rest and eat!"

There is no meal or no meal, the smell of mutton from the backyard has wafted to the front yard, and everyone has long lost the mood to work.

(End of this chapter)