Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

In the TV studio, the recording of the program continues.

Xie Baomin was shaping the little apple, and when he saw that Lin Xu had finished wrapping the apple filling, he said:

"Junior brother, go cut some carrot sticks and insert a small piece of chopstick in the middle. After the apple is formed, you can't put it on the chopping board. You have to use chopsticks to pick it up. This way, when steamed, the apple will become more round and beautiful."

Can it still be like this?

Lin Xu felt like he had learned another trick.

I didn’t expect that carrots could be used in this way, and I didn’t expect that steaming round snacks would be so easy.

When steaming similar things in the future, you can do it in a simple way using carrots and chopsticks.

But if you make it frequently in the store in the future, it would be better to buy a special steamer.

Lin Xu had seen a special steamer before, with non-slip stainless steel sticks welded to it. Desserts that need to be steamed can be inserted into it for steaming, and even steamed buns can be steamed.

The high-stack steamed buns that were once famous in the Central Plains were steamed in this kind of cage.

Lin Xu took a few carrots and cut them about five centimeters apart.

This thickness allows the chopsticks to be stuck firmly enough, and it also has a certain weight to prevent the dough from tipping over during steaming.

After cutting, take a disposable bamboo chopstick and cut off ten centimeters from the head of the chopstick.

Then slightly sharpen the broken part a few times to make a sharp point, and then insert it into the carrot, leaving the chopstick head on top.

To make this kind of temporary buttress, you need to turn the complete chopstick head upward, so as to effectively prevent the burrs at the chopstick break from being left in the fruit and causing damage to the mouth.

Of course, it is best to use a professional steaming support, otherwise you will lose several carrots and a handful of disposable chopsticks in one steaming, which is really wasteful.

As soon as Lin Xu was done, Xie Baomin inserted a white pastry apple with the big end upwards on the chopsticks.

The apple is pinched so vividly that even the wrinkles on the pedicle of the apple are made.

This is a test of Bai An's skills, because the wrinkles not only need to be similar, but most importantly, they must have similar traces after the dough is steamed.

Otherwise, the finished noodles will be similar in appearance but different in spirit, which will affect the final presentation.

"How did you do this part, senior brother?"

"Punch it out with the tip of a bamboo skewer. Apples usually have five ridges, so just press them five times."

Xie Baomin talked about the techniques of this step while doing it.

After he pinched the handle of the big end of the apple, he turned the apple over, with the small end facing up. He first pressed it with the tip of the rolling pin to create a deeper, straight pit.

Then pick up a bamboo skewer, the kind used to pierce sausages, and lay it flat so that the bamboo skewer and the straight hole formed by the rolling pin form a 90-degree right angle.

Use the tip of a bamboo skewer to press it flatly along the straight pit, press down the surface around the pit, then gently turn it a few dozen degrees, and press it again.

Turn it in this way and press it five times in total, and the edges and corners of the apple flower pedicle will come out.

Hold the dough in your hands and pinch it a few times to shape the apple. The upper and lower pits should be more obvious, and the waist in the middle of the apple should be pinched slightly thinner.

After steaming in this way, it will expand and the shape of the apple will be perfectly displayed.

The difficulty in shaping the steamed pastry is not in pinching, but in accurately predicting how it will look after steaming and swelling.

Only those who can do this are called masters.

After Xie Baomin pinched it carefully, he inserted the noodle fruit into the head of his chopsticks again.

The whole process is simple and quick, giving people a feeling of "just that", but Lin Xu knows very well that every step of this thing is not simple, and it takes a lot of experience.

If you start it rashly, you will definitely overturn it.

If you are practicing in private, just roll over. We are recording a show at the moment. If the guy naughtily cuts the scene of the car over in the later stage, it will be a lot of fun.

"Boss Lin, don't you try one?"

Zeng Xiaoqi asked curiously when she saw Lin Xu standing aside with his hands behind his back as a spectator.

Wouldn't it save more time if two people did it?

Why didn't Boss Lin take action?

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Today my senior brother is the chef, and I'll start with him."

After hearing what his junior brother said, Xie Baomin was not polite. He handed Lin Xu the piece of noodles he had just left specially:

"Isn't there cocoa powder? Knead it into the dough to make it dark brown."

oh?

What does this step do?

Lin Xu took the dough and pinched it a few times. After relaxing just now, the dough expanded a little again. After adding sugar, the yeast was really active.

Just as he was about to ask, Xie Baomin took the initiative to say:

"The apple alone is not complete, it must have a stem, and the flower pedicle must also be tucked in a little, so that it looks dark and closer to a real apple."

Tsk tsk tsk, senior brother is really going to go big this time.

You even thought of the stem and flower stem. The apples made in this way are completely indistinguishable from real apples, right?

He took the dough pot, squeezed some cocoa powder with his hands, mixed it in, and kneaded it repeatedly.

The cocoa powder is a little dry and not easy to knead into the dough. You have to add it little by little and knead the dough until it turns brown.

This kind of cocoa powder is also called chocolate noodles. Although it is a Western-style ingredient, it is widely used in Chinese food. For example, the common Hanamaki, unless otherwise specified, uses cocoa powder instead of traditional sorghum noodles.

The reason is that cocoa powder is more beautiful in color. Just add a little bit into the dough to get the perfect color, while sorghum flour needs to be mixed in a lot to achieve the same effect.

In addition, sorghum noodles are rough and children do not like to eat them, and the price is also high.

Although the price of cocoa powder is also high, the dosage is small and the taste is delicate, which children like.

In today's family, everything really revolves around the child... Lin Xu sighed inwardly, suddenly thinking that his own baby Shen was like a child.

Then take the time to steam some flower rolls for her to try.

If other people have it, our good baby must have it too.

Shen Baobao, who was sitting in front of the computer in the office browsing autumn couple clothes, didn't know yet that her Xu Bao was secretly planning to make delicious food for her again.

After adding cocoa powder three times, Lin Xu finally achieved the effect his senior brother wanted.

Xie Baomin finished shaping all the noodles, brought the basket over, put the noodles in one by one, then covered the basket with a layer of plastic wrap and let it rest for ten minutes before steaming.

Regardless of whether you are making steamed buns or steamed buns, do not steam them in the pot immediately after they are formed.

After relaxing, the dough will rise more thoroughly and become softer.

Taking advantage of this time, Xie Baomin started making apple stems.

Take a little brown dough from the dough, place it on the chopping board and rub it with your thumbs, until it becomes a long strip with one end larger and the other smaller, about two or three centimeters.

"Hey, this is thinner than a toothpick."

Lin Xu sighed in admiration. In the past, his senior brother always said that he was not proficient in white cases. At that time, he thought he was completely incompetent. Now it seems that this so-called lack of proficiency is compared to the level of red cases, right?

Cameramen from two TV stations came over, holding up their cameras and shooting with telephoto lenses.

The handle of this fruit is too thin, so it can’t be captured clearly with the camera that usually shoots videos in Taiwan. Relatively speaking, it is clearer to use a camera + telephoto.

Make enough fruit stems according to the amount of noodles, then set up the steamer and start boiling water.

After the water boils, don't rush to remove the fruit. Instead, place the rolled fruit stems on baking paper, then place them on the grate of the steamer and start steaming.

The fruit stalks have been steamed in advance and can be left outside to dry for a while to harden the surface of the fruit stalks, making it easier to insert them into the fruit.

Moreover, it is slightly hardened by air-drying, and is closer to the appearance of the real fruit stem.

Steaming fruit stems is very simple and only takes about three minutes.

After taking it out of the pot, the fruit handle has obviously become thicker and is now about the size of a toothpick.

Take it out and set it aside to dry, then put the steamer filled with noodles over the steamer and start steaming.

"How many minutes will it take to steam?"

"Eight minutes, steam it for eight minutes and it's ready."

Xie Baomin was not idle during the steaming. He took the beetroot he brought over, quickly peeled off the skin, then cut it into thin strips and put it in the basin.

As soon as I put it in, red juice gradually oozed out from the bottom of the pelvic floor.

"Senior brother, what is this used for? Is it colored?"

"Yes, it is used to color the noodles. It is forbidden to use artificial pigments in high-end pastries. Natural pigments must be used. This way the color will be more beautiful."

At this point, everyone can finally take a breather.

Zhen Wensheng brought over two cups of tea:

"We watched Boss Lin cooking too much before, which gave us the illusion that we were also masters of cooking. Who knew that when Chef Xie came today, he directly brought us back to our original form."

The videos shot by Lin Xu are more focused on homely things, and considering the audience's acceptance, the methods are relatively simple.

At this moment, as soon as Xie Baomin did his job, the gap was immediately highlighted.

In fact, it looked okay at first, just like making dumplings at home.

But starting from the filling step, when he saw Xie Baomin using the tiger's mouth to wrap 20 grams of dough bit by bit with 20 grams of filling, he felt that this was not a delicacy he could challenge.

Moreover, while doing this step, Geng Lishan, who had been watching with interest, also gave Zhen Wensheng some knowledge about Xie Baomin's stuffing techniques.

This technique is called "peach pinching". It uses the tiger's mouth to pull up the dough bit by bit and tighten it just enough to make the dough into a sharp point.

It looks just like a peach.

Xie Baomin took the tea and took a sip:

"I actually want to make home-cooked meals, but the leader has spoken and asked the first few videos to show the professionalism and high-end nature of Diaoyutai, and also asked me to make noodles by name, so I can only do my best."

Lin Xu and Zeng Xiaoqi were delighted to hear this.

If we hadn't attended the meeting, we would have believed you.

Director Liao did call his name, but the name he called was Chef Qiu's name. Why are you making fun of him here?

Lin Xu shed tears of sympathy in his heart for Qiu Zhenhua.

I wonder how he would react if his senior brother cut off the dishes.

Originally, Chef Qiu was as elegant and easy-going as a university professor wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, but he met his senior brother, the messenger of the bandits and the embodiment of a gangster.

What a pair of enemies!

No, not a couple... Thinking of Guo Weidong, Song Dahai and others, the senior brother has quite a lot of enemies.

Fortunately, they are all of the same sex. If the other head chefs were women, Senior Brother, a playboy and a scumbag, would definitely be hammered to death by someone writing a short essay.

Eight minutes passed quickly.

Shooting continues.

Xie Baomin did not directly open the lid of the pot, but turned off the fire on the stove first to prevent the surface of the noodle fruit from shrinking due to the sudden cooling when the lid was suddenly opened.

Turn off the heat and wait a moment before opening the lid.

A stream of steam mixed with the aroma of noodles floated out of the pot.

The small apple on the chopsticks has doubled in size and is slightly yellow in color, like the white apples that can be seen everywhere in the market.

If you look closely, you can see that the surface of the apple is shiny and slightly shiny under the light.

This is because lard is added when making noodles.

"beautiful!"

Zeng Xiaoqi couldn't help but admire.

Originally, she had already eaten her lunch of Demoly Stewed Fish and Ground Sanxian, and she was not going to eat noodles right now, but seeing this look, Miss Zeng suddenly felt that her stomach could still bear a little more burden.

Well, such a cute little apple, it would be a shame not to eat one.

Looking at the shape of this little apple, Geng Lishan couldn't sit still:

"This technique is really beautiful and professional. When pinching it, it seemed that you used too much force in several places, but after steaming it, you found that everything was just right."

He stood up and stood in the distance, looking at the little apple here expectantly.

If it weren't for the fact that we were still filming right now, I would have really wanted to walk over and get a closer look.

Xie Baomin took the steamed dough fruits off the chopsticks one by one and placed them on the baking paper. Then he picked up a piece of brown dough left over from making the fruit handle and stuffed it into the flower stem.

It's dark when stuffed inside, so it looks more like an apple.

Moreover, the small holes poked by the chopsticks affect the appearance, so if you plug them with dough, they will look more beautiful and complete.

You don't need to stuff too much dough, just a little bit. When stuffing, use a toothpick to push it in little by little. It shouldn't be too deep, otherwise it won't look like an apple.

After stuffing them in, put baking paper on the basket, put these white and yellow apples on top, put them on the stove and steam them for another two minutes to steam the little bit of dough at the pedicle.

After two minutes, take it out of the pan again and let it dry.

Xie Baomin poured the juice from the beetroot in the basin into a bowl, put on disposable gloves, then picked up a small brush and began to color the apples.

This is a very important step in making noodles.

Dip in a little red beetroot juice and shake the brush gently to let the excess juice drip into the bowl.

Then use the brush to lightly brush the top of the apple.

When brushing, brush from top to bottom. The brushed areas cannot be repeated because it cannot be done in one pass, so there is no need to worry about the color depth.

Xie Baomin explained the key points to Lin Xu while he was busy:

"You can't use a hair brush, you have to use a plastic brush. This way you can create the subtle feeling of a red Fuji apple, which looks more real than pure red."

Senior brother must teach me a lesson.

Lin Xu kept it in mind seriously.

If you haven’t learned it with the cooking study cards today, then go back and try based on these points. After accumulating so much experience, it’s time to try to create new products.

Xie Baomin brushed it two or three times, leaving some blank space when he reached the pedicle.

Against the surrounding red, the empty space has a slightly bluish feel, exactly like a real apple, or even more real than a real apple.

After the juice from the beetroot was brushed, the only sound left was the sound of breathing.

Even several photographers were completely stunned. They didn't expect it to look so much like an apple, especially the vertical stripes on the surface, which were exactly the same as a real red Fuji.

Finally, insert the slightly dried fruit stem into the top pit of the apple.

A fruit with no flaws at all was officially completed.

"Wow, today was an eye-opener for me."

When she first started making it, Zeng Xiaoqi specially put a beautiful-looking red Fuji apple in the cabinet.

Take it out now and put it together with the noodle fruit made by Xie Baomin. Except that the noodle fruit is smaller, the other details are exactly the same.

Even the pattern is no different, and even the pattern of the fruit is clearer.

Lin Xu was also shocked by this appearance.

I'll hide two of them and take them back later. If Baby Shen doesn't get to eat such cute noodle fruits, he'll probably be able to talk about them all night.

The pasta is hot when coloring, so the juice from those beetroots dries out quickly.

After Xie Baomin finished coloring everything and arranged the shape on the plate, this excellent-looking noodle fruit was finally completed.

"Senior brother, your craftsmanship is truly amazing."

"In the production of noodle fruits, this kind of smooth fruit is considered entry-level. High-end noodle fruits such as walnuts and kiwis really test your skills."

Xie Baomin waved his hand modestly, and then said to Zeng Xiaoqi:

"Try it and see how it tastes."

Zeng Xiaoqi held the little apple in her hand and squeezed it. It still had the softness and elasticity of a yeasted steamed bun.

"How can I bear to eat it? I really want to find a transparent box to put it in on my desk. This is simply art."

Xie Baomin said while cleaning the stove:

"This is just a bean bag, why wouldn't you want to eat it?"

"Then I'll try it for the audience."

Zeng Xiaoqi looked at the camera that was taking a close-up and slowly opened the small apple in her hand. There was a layer of soft dough on the outside and a brown semi-liquid filling on the inside.

When you take a bite, the crust tastes very similar to a butter bun. The aroma of lard and the milky flavor of custard powder mix well.

As for the filling inside, it has a strong apple flavor, with a little sour and sweet taste. It tastes both delicious and amazing.

It's shaped like an apple and tastes like an apple, but it's just a snack.

This simply makes people admire the magic of Chinese pastry. This is not pastry, but magic.

She took two bites, complimented a few words to the camera, and then ended the filming.

Just after it was over, the surrounding staff, such as director Xiao Wei, operation Xiao Sui, Geng Lishan, Zhen Wensheng and others, all gathered around.

Everyone admired the little apple and felt like they were dreaming.

Lin Xu was holding a disposable lunch box and had just packed up two small apples when the door to the filming room was pushed open and Qiu Zhenhua, dressed in casual clothes, walked in.

Seeing the small apples in everyone's hands, the veins on Qiu Zhenhua's forehead stood up.

Sure enough, I guessed it right. This bitch really made noodles. It was the apple I planned to make this time. If it wasn't for murder and breaking the law, I would have...

"Qiu Qiu, are you here?"

Just as he was getting angry, Xie Baomin came over with a small apple:

"It's just finished. Please comment on it. Director Liao said, didn't we, the chefs of Diaoyutai, need to be united outside and maintain the reputation of Diaoyutai? We can't do things that make outsiders laugh."

Qiu Zhenhua:? ? ? ? ?

You little bitch, did you educate me?

Diaoyutai's reputation must be maintained. He glared at Xie Baomin and looked down at the little apple in his hand.

I have to say that Apple has done a really good job.

Not only is it lifelike, but it also fully demonstrates the characteristics of Apple.

After breaking it open, the soft outer skin and the filling inside made Qiu Zhenhua feel as if he had broken open the noodle fruit he made.

He glanced blankly, then raised his head to look at Xie Baomin:

"Remember the last time I did it, you were still asking questions, but now it's done exactly right? When did you idiot do the job so well?"

Xie Baomin had a helpless expression on his face:

"Isn't this a cute little snack that my wife likes, so I practiced it a few more times..."

several times?

Not only do you show off your talents, but you also show off your talents like a naughty girl, right?

Qiu Zhenhua suddenly had the idea of ​​​​how to be bright when he was good.

He took a bite of the noodle fruit, looked at Xie Baomin and muttered helplessly:

"You show your face, bitch. What do you want me to do when I do it? Repeat it again, little apple?"

Xie Baomin watched the excitement and said without thinking it was a big deal:

"Don't, don't, don't. This is a joke. You have such a high level of pastry skills and rich experience. Let me give you a sincere suggestion. You might as well make Lion-awakening Cake."

Qiu Zhenhua: "..."

Awakening lion cake?

Is it ten times more difficult than Little Apple?

Your suggestions are very good. Don’t give me special suggestions next time!

Even if I boil water next time, I won't do it in front of you again. It's so infuriating that people can't detect what they're stealing.

Recalling that Lin Xu's talent in learning was also very outstanding, Qiu Zhenhua couldn't help but sigh:

"What the hell are these monsters like?"

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