Chapter 71 The secret to making tofu with brine

Author: round head and round belly

Chapter 71 The secret to making tofu with brine

"real or fake?"

Wu Lei listened to Zhao Jinmai's story with some disbelief: "Are you just eating something tasteless?"

"It's flavorful. If it's fresh enough, it will taste like beans."

Zhao Jinmai said and couldn't help but urge Li Yi: "Brother Yi, do it quickly! I'm a little greedy."

"Right away, soon."

As Li Yi spoke, he opened the glass bottle of salt brine, poured a spoonful out of it, put it into a bowl, added warm water and stirred it evenly.

Then, he used the largest spoon to scoop the soy milk in the pot into the first large wooden barrel.

After scooping out more than half of the bucket, he stopped and placed his palm on top of the soy milk.

Wu Lei and others watched him operate curiously, like students in class.

Seeing him placing his palm on top of the soy milk, Wu Lei asked curiously: "Brother Yi, what are you doing?"

"Feel its temperature."

Li Yi explained: “In the process of making tofu paste, temperature is more important. If the temperature is too high, the texture of the tofu will not be very good, but if the temperature is too low, it will affect the coagulation of the tofu.

Therefore, the temperature of soy milk is best controlled between 76-82°C. In this temperature range, the quality of tofu is the best."

After saying that, he took back his hand and said casually: "78℃, just right."

After hearing what he said, Wu Lei took the thermometer gun from the table nearby and measured the soy milk. The value showed that it was exactly 78°C.

"oh!"

Wu Lei exclaimed: "Brother Yi, you are so awesome!"

"Let me see, let me see."

Zhao Jinmai came over, looked at the number on the thermometer gun, and looked at Li Yi in disbelief, asking: "Brother Yi, how do you know it's 78°C?"

Li Yi didn't take it seriously: "Practice makes perfect."

"so amazing!"

Wu Lei put the temperature measuring gun in front of the camera and gave a close-up.

The audience in the live broadcast room was also shocked when they saw this number.

"Really or not? Is this okay?"

"I can understand it without being afraid of being burned. I have never seen someone who can tell the temperature in one sentence."

"This is a human flesh thermometer!"

"What's this? I've been an electrician for twenty years. I can tell if there's electricity in a wire by just touching it."

In front of the camera, Li Yi has already started to prepare some tofu.

He held the stirred salt brine in one hand and a wooden spoon in the other, and came to the wooden barrel.

"I want some tofu."

Wu Lei was very curious about the step of ordering tofu. He put down the temperature measuring gun and ran over, staring at the barrel curiously.

Seeing his curiosity, Li Yi explained to him: "The principle of making tofu is to add a coagulant to the hot soy milk, so that the soy protein in the soy milk forms a gel, and the water and fat in the soy milk are fully wrapped in it.

The main component of salt brine is magnesium chloride, which is a kind of salt with good water solubility and can react with soy protein quickly, so stir quickly after adding it."

As he spoke, he poured the salt brine in the bowl into the wooden bucket bit by bit, then inserted the wooden spoon into the bucket and started stirring.

After stirring for more than a dozen times, he stopped, inserted the wooden spoon into the bottom of the bucket, and pressed the handle of the spoon with his hand.

Wu Lei asked curiously: "What are you doing?"

"This will stop the flow of water in the bucket quickly."

Li Yi gestured: "Hold it for me."

"oh."

Wu Lei quickly stretched out his hand and held the handle of the spoon for him.

Li Yi turned around and came to the counter, took the salt brine bottle, poured some more into the bowl, then added warm water again and stirred evenly.

Carrying the bowl and returning to the bucket, he glanced at the soy milk that was no longer flowing and nodded: "Okay, pick it up."

Wu Lei heard this and carefully picked up the wooden spoon.

Li Yi poured the salt brine in the bowl into the barrel again.

"Why add it again?" Wu Lei was puzzled.

Li Yi took the wooden spoon from his hand, gently pushed the surface of the soy milk around twice with the back of the spoon, and explained: "The salt brine reacts quickly. If too much is added at once, the tofu will become hard and the taste will be slightly

It’s bitter, so I’ll score three extra points and order three marinades.”

As he said that, he looked back at Wu Lei and said with a smile: "This is the secret of making tofu with brine. If you know this trick, if you travel back to ancient times, you will not die of hunger. You can also support yourself by opening a tofu workshop."

"learned."

Wu Lei was very excited: "Now we are waiting to travel through time."

After hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room also spoke one after another to join in the fun.

"I can make soap, and I will be assigned a time-travel quota."

"I am a senior lover of history and literature. I can purify salt, make soap, glass, and prepare gunpowder. I sincerely invite 108 brothers to travel back to ancient times and make achievements together. Anyone who wants to sign up."

"Boss, please take me!"

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While joking, Li Yi had already ordered the second stew, took the lid and put it on the mouth of the bucket.

Three minutes later, he opened the lid and found that the soy milk in the bucket had begun to separate, with a thin layer of water precipitating on the surface.

At this time, Li Yi added the prepared salt brine into the bucket for the third time.

Then, he picked up a wooden spoon, inserted it into the surface of the soy milk to a depth of about half a spoon, and stirred it gently.

After about twenty or thirty seconds, the soy milk will begin to show signs of solidification.

The lid was closed again. After five minutes, Li Yi opened the lid again. The soy milk in the bucket had turned light yellow, and there were lumps of condensed paste floating in it.

And this is the original form of tofu.

"Bring the mold."

At Li Yi's instruction, Wu Lei brought several square molds made of wooden boards.

A layer of fine gauze was placed on the mold, and Li Yi scooped up the semi-solidified tofu water with a wooden spoon and poured it into the mold.

The light yellow water was filtered out, and the light yellow paste remained on the gauze.

"Don't waste this water."

Li Yi poured the filtered water into a large basin: "This water is acidic and can be reused to make syrup. The tofu you make will be physalis tofu."

The Pearl Jade White Jade Soup made with physalis tofu is the most authentic and the best.

After covering the gauze and the wooden lid of the mold, Li Yi asked Wu Lei to bring half a bucket of water and put it on the mold.

"Brother Yi, how long do you have to wait?"

Wu Lei and the others couldn't wait any longer.

"It takes about half an hour to press and mold!"

Li Yi explained casually: "The more you press the tofu, the harder it becomes, and the more you press it, the drier it becomes."

As he said that, he took another mold and said, "Come on! Continue, make dried tofu in this box."

"Oh, here it comes."

Wu Lei moved his shoulders and walked over.

"You go and rest for a while."

Li Yi raised his finger to the stool and motioned for him to rest.

Wu Lei had been busy all morning, grinding tofu and fetching things. It was indeed quite hard.

Working with large animals requires a combination of work and rest.

So, Li Yi greeted Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai: "Two heroines, come on?"

Liu Yifei, who has filmed a lot of martial arts dramas, took over the conversation smoothly and said, "We are all martial arts comrades. Since Li Shaoxia is asking for help, we two sisters should help each other."

As she said that, she winked at Zhao Jinmai and said, "Junior sister, help."
To be continued...