Chapter 17 Cooking Comparison Experiment

But seeing the phone rang and cut, cut and rang, rang and cut, and then waited for the third ring, Zhang Lao, who had just had enough time to make a cup of tea, picked up the phone, but it was not delivered. In my ear, I heard a violent roar from the phone: "Damn, old man Zhang, how dare you hang up on me!"

   After listening to this with a smile, Zhang Lao put the phone on the base again, beeping beeping...

   He hung up the phone again.

   hung up again...

The   bell rang again, two or three times, and Mr. Zhang picked it up. This time he put the call directly to his ear.

   "Hey, old man Zhang, what you said just now is true?" A breathless voice came from the other end of the phone.

  Sample, if you don't believe it, it won't cure you! Zhang Lao grinned, and the old man made a face in the room by himself, and then said lightly into the microphone: "I think back then, the old man was also a man who was arrogant and arrogant, how could he lie to you as a mere idiot. If you don't believe it, come over and see for yourself. That little guy will probably be around recently, and it's hard to say after a long time."

   "You don't think I dare to go there? Wait for me!" The other end of the phone seemed to be accumulating anger again.

   "Come here. I'm going to teach that little guy a lesson from tomorrow. When you come over, let him hang and beat you." Zhang Laoyun said calmly.

   The other end said hey hey, and then hung up.

This kind of interaction is naturally unknown to Xu Guangling. After parting with Zhang Lao, after returning to the rented place, Xu Guangling first took a routine hot shower, then put on his pajamas, and fought again in the room. Tai Chi.

   This time, his movements were very slow, and he did it one by one.

   In other words, after finishing a move, he will stop, and then disassemble and analyze the move himself, imagining why there is such an action and what it does. In this way, after thinking over and over again, the next formula begins.

   After dismantling the thirty-six forms one by one, Xu Guangling closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then opened his eyes, and then played the thirty-six forms from beginning to end.

   One morning just passed by like that.

   It was the grumbling stomach reminding Xu Guangling of the passage of time, and then he went to the bed to pick up the phone. He was a little surprised, but not too surprised to find that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. Well, it's time to treat his stomach.

what to eat?

  Xu Guangling thought about it and decided it was potatoes.

   After going through Baidu yesterday, after knowing that potatoes contain 18 kinds of amino acids, that is, "umami substances", Xu Guangling really wanted to cook potatoes alone to see what it tastes like. Today is just right, it's a test.

Taking out the half of the three potatoes left over from yesterday, Xu Guangling pondered for a while, and did three treatments to the three potatoes: one was to cut into filaments. The filaments from yesterday are also the ones in the dream. Thin shreds; the second is to cut thick shreds, which is actually not that thick, just the way he used to fry shredded potatoes in the past; the third is to just cut the potatoes in half.

   Then put the pot.

  The two halves of the potatoes are placed on the steaming rack and cooked by steaming.

  The two kinds of shredded potatoes are boiled separately.

Soon after, this sumptuous "one dish and two soups" was ready. When Xu Guangling was sitting at the dining table, there were three bowls in a row in front of him. From left to right were steamed potato cubes and thick shredded potatoes. Soup, shredded potato soup.

   And Xu Guangling also tasted it in this order from left to right, and of course, he also ate.

  Steamed potato cubes.

   Soft and slightly rusty. It's delicious, and it's a great food to fill up on an empty stomach. But it doesn't stop there. Because of his foresight, Xu Guangling deliberately tasted its "fresh" taste when eating it, but found that it was rare, but it was not obvious.

   Or it can be said that if it is not deliberate, it is easy to ignore it.

   What is going on here?

   Next, thick shredded potato soup.

   After eating the steamed potato cubes, Xu Guangling deliberately got up and moved around, and then even rinsed his mouth and cleaned his mouth before he began to taste this thick potato soup. This time the result was obvious, Xu Guangling felt a very fresh taste before the soup was in his mouth.

   Xu Guangling seems to have cooked potato soup before, but did the potato soup have any umami flavor at that time? Xu Guangling could not remember.

   And this does not remember is actually the answer itself. - If you don't remember it means that there should be no special, deep impression at the time.

It's not difficult to understand why this is so. First, Xu Guangling's cooking skills at that time were ordinary. The potatoes you bought are probably not very good.

  Actually, judging from the observations at those potato stalls in the vegetable market yesterday, the potatoes he bought in the past might not be very good.

   This "maybe" needs to be removed.

   is not very good.

The probability of    buying good potatoes is extremely small. From the actual situation, it is estimated that the probability of winning the lottery is smaller than that of winning the lottery, which is basically negligible.

   And then again, it is hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.

   He was neither a "smart woman" nor "good rice" at that time, so how could he make good rice?

   After thinking about the reason for a while, Xu Guangling slowly finished the bowl of potato soup, and then proceeded to the last bowl, shredded potato soup.

   He made the transition directly, without gargling, but even under such circumstances, Xu Guangling still felt that the umami taste was at least two steps higher and filled his mouth. Why two levels? Because Xu Guangling felt that one was not enough.

   To put it simply, the difference between the two is more than one grade!

   Well, the result is already obvious. From the perspective of umami, the steamed potato cubes are completely defeated by the thick shredded potato soup, and the thick shredded potato soup is completely defeated by the thin shredded potato soup. ——Does that mean that the potatoes are ground into powder, and the shredded potato soup will be completely defeated by the potato flour soup?

   Xu Guangling felt that he might try it in the future, but the result is hard to say.

   There is a possibility that the shredded potato is so thin that it is probably not much different from potato flour in terms of umami release. Or even if there is still a difference, the subtlety is no longer something that a human tongue can easily taste.

   Whether this is the case is temporarily doubtful.

   After this comparison, Xu Guangling also came to a preliminary conclusion: if cooking ingredients want to fully present their "taste", they should be cut as thinly and thinly as possible. Or at the same time, we should also take into account the taste problem, and obtain an optimal comprehensive value between the two. Then, on the basis of this knife workmanship, consider the control of the heat during cooking.

   I am afraid that I will forget it in the future. Of course, forgetting is impossible in fact, but negligence is very possible. Xu Guangling also specially created a section in his notebook to memorize this sentence.

   At this time, he did not realize what this sentence meant to him.

   (end of this chapter)