Chapter 411 Quarrel
When Jiang Feng came out of the kitchen with a spoon, he saw Grandma Jiang sitting at the dining table looking at the crab-stuffed oranges with a pleased expression on her face. The old man was sitting next to Grandma Jiang drinking tea expressionlessly.
The tea had just been brewed, and the scalding hot water was slowly steaming up. The old man seemed to have picked up the teacup and brought it to his mouth without noticing.
As soon as the tea touched his lips, the old man silently put down the cup.
"Grandpa, grandma, try it." Jiang Feng enthusiastically handed the spoon to the old man and Grandma Jiang, not forgetting to open the top of the crab-stuffed orange, and the service was in place.
The old man took the spoon and took a spoonful of crab stuffed with orange.
Entrance.
The old man squinted his eyes slightly and moved his lips invisibly, as if he was savoring the crab-stuffed orange in his mouth.
While the old man was tasting the crab-stuffed orange, Grandma Jiang had already finished the spoonful of crab-stuffed orange and started to eat the second spoonful. Grandma Jiang didn't have much feeling or reaction to the new dish in front of her, which she had never tasted or heard of before.
Ever since Grandma Jiang got married to the old man, she has eaten three meals a day cooked by the old man. When the old man was still the chef of a state-owned hotel, he also cooked some big dishes for the leaders. He used many exotic ingredients, and Grandma Jiang also had a lot of experience and tasted many good dishes.
Grandma Jiang may have traveled out of the province only a handful of times in her life, but she is definitely well-informed when it comes to food.
If Grandma Jiang is forced to comment on the crab-stuffed oranges in front of her, Grandma Jiang can only say that cooking with fruits is quite interesting, but the steamed oranges taste a bit weird and she is not used to eating them.
But this dish was her grandson's wish. Xiaofeng made a special trip to deliver it to her in the evening. It represented that Xiaofeng valued her as a grandma, and she would eat it with a smile even if she was not used to it.
After Grandma Jiang took her second bite of crab-stuffed orange, the old man spoke.
"How long have you had this crab meat outside? Can't you smell the strong fishy smell?"
"You shake the Xiangxue wine and sprinkle it in, right? If you don't have the ability, don't be blind. Can you control the amount you shake in every time?"
"Also, you..." The old man wanted to continue to find trouble, but was interrupted by Grandma Jiang with a dissatisfied look on her face.
"Okay, okay, just say a few words. You're still excited. Xiaofeng made this crab-stuffed orange specially for me, not for you. You just took it by the way. If you don't want to eat it, just give it to yours. Give it to me, don't eat it! This isn't a cooking test, why are you taking it so seriously? You have nothing to do to prepare two dishes and come all the way to honor us two old people, and you still go around finding faults like a master with his disciples. Aren't you deliberately hurting my grandson's heart? "The old man's m416 has just been loaded, and Grandma Jiang's uzi?" The submachine gun was already firing at the old man.
"You old woman is so unreasonable. This is normal for me..."
"What's normal? Normal teaching is during the day in the kitchen when you watch Xiaofeng cooking. After Xiaofeng has finished cooking, he lets you taste it and criticize it. That's Xiaofeng's own scolding. Can it be the same tonight? Tonight Xiaofeng made this dish specially and brought it over to me to eat. It’s for you to eat. Why are you making trouble here? You started talking before I even spoke. You said I was being unreasonable and you were being unreasonable!” Grandma Jiang’s Uzi charge will continue to fire. He even shot ally Jiang Feng by the way.
Old man:......
"Only women and villains are difficult to raise." The old man muttered.
Although Grandma Jiang is old, her ears are very good. She heard the old man's mumbling clearly and replied to him on the spot: "A gentleman stays away from the cook."
Jiang Feng:...
It's exciting, and it's worthy of being a showdown between intellectuals. When you scold people, you use sentences selected from the Analects of Confucius in junior high school textbooks.
In Jiang Feng's memory, when the old man and Grandma Jiang quarreled, the old man never won, and every time it ended in Grandma Jiang's victory. Maybe it's because the old man doesn't know how to quarrel, or maybe it's because the old man doesn't want to quarrel with Grandma Jiang, but Jiang Feng feels that most of the time it's because the core of Grandma Jiang's argument is actually what the old man is thinking.
For so many years, the reason why Grandma Jiang and the old man quarreled was simply because of their children and grandchildren. Grandma Jiang usually never asked how the old man disciplined his son and grandson, but sometimes Grandma Jiang would quarrel with him if she felt that the old man had gone too far.
For example, a few years ago, the old man was angry with Jiang Jianguo and refused to let him in during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Grandma Jiang kicked the old man out of the house and the whole family went out to eat mooncakes, and no one was allowed in.
Most of the time, they quarreled over trivial matters. For example, Grandma Jiang felt that the old man wanted his grandson to practice cooking at night during the Chinese New Year; Grandma Jiang occasionally passed by and heard the old man scolding his son, and felt that the old man scolded him too harshly; Grandma Jiang saw The old man punished his son to clean the pigsty. He felt that if one person could not finish the cleaning, he should punish the two of them to clean the pigsty together and other trivial matters.
This quarrel was just like every other quarrel before. It was over after the quarrel. The two of them continued to eat crab-stuffed oranges in peace. The old man also shut his mouth and stopped finding fault with Jiang Feng's crab-stuffed oranges.
But this time is different from the past. Jiang Feng very much hopes that the old man can find out the most important flaws in his Stuffed Crab Orange. It is best to fix the flaws that will immediately turn the Stuffed Crab Orange into an A-level one.
"Grandpa, what do you think is the biggest problem with my crab-stuffed orange dish?" Jiang Feng asked proactively.
The old man raised his head and glanced at Jiang Feng. He didn't expect that his grandson was not active in learning other dishes. He was quite active in cooking such weird dishes, although he took the initiative to scold him and find problems.
But after all, Grandma Jiang was watching from the side, and the old man knew that he should organize his language and speak more tactfully.
"Didn't I just say that the crab meat has been left out for a long time and the fishy smell is too strong that you can't get rid of with the fragrant snow wine." The old man said, "Next time you make it more quickly. If you add too much fragrant snow wine, the smell will be gone." The change is still a problem with the crab meat itself.”
"What about the others? Are there any particularly outstanding problems?" Jiang Feng asked. He had not been able to achieve the A-level limited range when he was quick and quick before.
"Others?" Jiang Feng's question stumped the old man. He had never eaten crab-stuffed orange before.
Although crab-stuffed orange is a famous dish that has been passed down since the Song Dynasty, it was lost for a long time. The current method was restored by later chefs according to the ancient methods in ancient books. No one knows what the original method was. I know, even the old man doesn’t know what the current practice is.
Ask him to comment on how well a dish he can't remember how to make and has never tasted is done, and it's hard for the old man to speak rashly.
"Do you think there is any problem with the heat?" Jiang Feng began to hint strongly.
"Hot?"
"I don't know why, I tried many steaming times, but I can't find the right feeling. The most suitable time should be more than 5 minutes, but it just doesn't feel right," Jiang Feng said.
The old man fell silent when Jiang Feng said this. He is a chef who believes in feelings. The old man has long insisted that a chef's first feeling is more important than anything else.
"Go to the store early tomorrow morning and cook this dish in front of me." The old man said, "Let me figure out what's going on."
Since his grandson is willing to learn, he, as a grandfather, naturally has to find a way to teach him.
"Okay, thank you grandpa."
After Jiang Feng left, the old man couldn't help but proudly show off to Grandma Jiang when he remembered what had just happened: "You old woman, you still think I talk too much for fear of hurting Xiao Feng's heart. Do you think Xiao Feng is that kind of person? Let me tell you, you just don’t understand. What we cooks are least afraid of is other people finding faults. The more we find faults, the happier we are. It’s the ones who can’t find faults that we should worry about.”
While wiping the table, Grandma Jiang nodded perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, I judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. I, an ordinary housewife, don't understand the faults of chefs like you."
"That must be because our grandson is filial. How can anyone be happy when others find fault? That's what you think." Grandma Jiang was still a little unfinished after wiping the table. She walked to the sofa and continued wiping the coffee table.
The old man knew that Grandma Jiang was a tough talker and stopped talking.
"That's right." Grandma Jiang suddenly straightened up while she was wiping the coffee table, turned around and asked, "I will give you pancakes tomorrow morning. Do you want to eat green onion pancakes or green onion pancakes?"
"Green onions, add more sesame oil, and sprinkle some white sesame seeds." The old man didn't hesitate at all.
……
After Jiang Feng returned, he took the time to finish making the remaining crab-stuffed oranges and deliver them door-to-door. Unfortunately, it took too long and Jiang Weiming had already fallen asleep. Jiang Feng could only make them for Jiang Weiming tomorrow morning.
Although Ji Xia felt a little disgusted with crabs when she opened them, she didn't dislike them at all. She happily ate her two crab-stuffed oranges and went upstairs to sleep.
After a busy night, Jiang Feng was always thinking about why he always felt something was wrong with the heat. Is it possible that he is required to steam every second, or even a few tenths of a second and a few tenths of a second, and use scientific and rigorous methods to find out the steaming time that is truly suitable for crab-stuffed oranges?
But how can Chinese food do this?
Everyone goes by their feelings. Jiang Feng holding a stopwatch to check the time feels like materialism colliding with idealism.
Don't ask Jiang Feng what idealism is. He, Ma Yuan, only scored 66 points in the test and wrote blindly. He only passed the exam because of the kindness of his teacher.
Before going to bed, Jiang Feng watched Cao Guixiang's process of making crab-stuffed oranges again. He didn't see anything too wrong, not to mention that Cao Guixiang's steaming time was wrong. If he could see Master Peng's making process, he would alright.
Wait, Master Peng’s production process.
Jiang Feng quickly turned down the familiarity panel to the rewind function. The cooling time was still zero. In Cao Guixiang's memory, there was the entire process of Master Peng making crab-stuffed oranges.
But you can only watch it once a week. If you don't see anything wrong this time, Jiang Feng will have to wait until the next week.
Silently closing the properties panel, Jiang Feng planned to finish making crab-stuffed oranges in front of the old man tomorrow morning before considering whether to use the backtracking function.
If the old man couldn't figure out what his problem was, he would use the backtracking function to look at Master Peng's practice again, treating a dead horse as a living horse. Maybe after watching the master's production process, he will be enlightened and have an epiphany on the spot.
Jiang Feng comforted himself and closed his eyes to sleep.
Have a good night's sleep. PS:
Life is not easy, just sigh. Thanks for the weekend, no need to move bricks tomorrow~
Asking for a monthly ticket~
(End of chapter)