311. Is it a deliberate smear campaign or is there another reason?
After all, the oil for frying things is often used repeatedly, if the oil is used for too long.
It will affect the taste of various foods, make the quality of the oil worse, and also make the fried things taste like other foods.
But Li Xiao knew that this was not the case. The oil used by the other party was quite good, and he could tell at a glance that the oil used in the kitchen was new.
Because the outer skin of the soybeans is golden yellow without a trace of color, and the crispy shell on the skin does not have a trace of odor.
Moreover, the purpose of the oil is only for frying soybeans. The reason why he said this is because he could taste the peculiar smell of soybeans just now, and it did not come from the outside, but from the inside.
On the other side, in the back kitchen.
The Chuancai lady named Xiaolan hurried to the Chuancai manager and reported the problem.
"Odor?"
"Are the soybeans ready to go bad?"
"How can this be?"
The manager of the food delivery department murmured a few words, then turned to look at Xiaolan and asked seriously:
"Are you sure that the person you are talking about is the anchor with 400,000 viewers that I mentioned?"
Xiaolan was a little hesitant, she shook her head and said timidly:
"I'm not sure, but he did have a camera, and..."
Seeing that she was still hesitating at this time, the manager of the food delivery department made a serious face:
"And what time is it now? Tell me quickly. If things get serious, we will be in trouble. There are 400,000 online viewers. Do you know how much impact it will have?"
When Xiaolan heard the manager's reprimand, she quickly said seriously:
"He is indeed holding a camera, and he is very handsome. He is very, very handsome. He is wearing scholar's clothes and has a sapphire blue headband on his long hair."
The department manager thought carefully and nodded immediately. Yes, it was exactly the same as what the dead eunuch in the front office described. The big anchor should be him.
He quickly turned around and walked towards the kitchen. The kitchen was very busy at this time, although many cooking tasks could be prepared in advance.
But after all, having to cater for more than 600 people at the same time, the pressure on the kitchen is still quite high.
He looked around and finally found a job, a relatively leisurely sous chef.
He hurriedly ran to him and said nervously:
"Sous Chef Ke, something went wrong. A customer reported that our soybeans have gone bad and have a slight smell. Why don't you check it out???"
Ke San, who was originally supervising the presentation of dishes, frowned when he heard the manager's words. He repeated:
"You said the soybeans have gone bad and have a peculiar smell? Is this feedback from customers? How many people have had problems eating it?"
Normally, if one or two guests have a problem with their meal, the front office will not report the situation to the chef.
Because every customer's taste is different, it is normal for taste deviations to occur.
If any guest in the front office reports a problem, the manager has to make a special trip, so the food delivery manager doesn't have to do anything else at all, just deal with the guests' feedback.
So when Ke San saw the front office manager walking in in a hurry, it was obvious that the problem was serious.
"How many people? Not many people, just one person."
"Just one person?"
Ke San had a puzzled look on his face. He looked up and down at the manager of the food delivery department, trying to detect the joke on his expression.
However, he found that there was only seriousness and nervousness in the other person's expression, and there was no so-called joking at all, and his brows also frowned.
"Ah Quan, this is no time for joking. You have been here for a long time, and you don't know how busy you are right now."
Hearing Ke San's words, the manager of the food department immediately came to his senses. Knowing that there was a misunderstanding between the two, he quickly explained:
"Although there was only one guest who reported the problem, that one was an anchor, and he was an anchor with 400,000 online viewers in the live broadcast room."
With that said, he took out his mobile phone and unlocked the screen lock. The screen that popped up was Li Xiao's live broadcast.
At this time, Li Xiao was chatting with the audience, talking about what harm would happen if the soybeans expired.
Listening to Li Xiao's talk, I exclaimed line by line in the barrage.
Ke San's brows furrowed even more because he didn't even see Li Xiao's previous compliments on other side dishes.
So when he saw Li Xiao's paper, he even thought that the other party was sent by other competitors to cause trouble.
After all, he had heard that there was a newly opened palace restaurant near the capital. Whether it was scale, form, or the types of dishes, it was very close to the palace restaurant where he worked.
So he had to wonder if it was a competitor who wanted to send people here deliberately to smear him.
Moreover, the other party is a king when he takes action. This is Mao Mao Live Platform, which is known as the live broadcast platform with the fewest robots in the online live broadcast room.
At least 3/4 of the more than 400,000 online viewers on the other side are true, which means that there are nearly 300,000 people listening to this guy in the live broadcast room saying that the palace banquet used soybeans that were about to expire to make side dishes.
Once this matter is confirmed, the negative impact it will cause can be imagined.
300,000 people is a quite terrifying number. If there is proper public opinion building, wouldn't your palace banquet immediately become the next "Huizhou Banquet" that is criticized by thousands of people?
Wait, thinking of the Huizhou Banquet, Ke San felt that the person in front of him looked familiar.
He immediately gathered the available memories in his brain, and soon he took several breaths of cold air.
The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, feeling that this matter was beyond his control. He finally remembered who this familiar anchor was.
Isn't this guy the one who caused the collapse of Huizhou Banquet?
Although the collapse of Huizhou Banquet was largely not because of him, but because of his boss wife’s remarks that people are inferior to dogs.
But the trigger was that too many people knew about this anchor's live broadcast, and public opinion was suddenly ignited.
Thinking of this, he quickly took the manager of the cooking department to find the chef who was on duty today.
There are two chefs in total for the palace banquet, regardless of size.
Harley Puston once worked as the sous chef in Su (Chinese: Sunset), a high-end restaurant with three Michelin stars in the capital of the Free State.
Another one, Zhang Huiyuan's ancestor, had been the chef of several imperial kitchens. Although due to the changes of the times and the inheritance of technology, some of his skills have been lost over the years.
But even so, Zhang Huiyuan is also a well-known master of palace cuisine in the industry.
It was Zhang Huiyuan who was on duty today. When he heard Ke San's report, he didn't hesitate at all.
He immediately came to the workroom where the cold dishes were stored, picked up a fried soybean with his chopsticks, and ate it.
However, there was no problem with this soybean. There was no strange smell or smell, and there was no sense of spoilage.
Is it true that as Lao Ke suspected, the other party was sent by a competitor to cause trouble and came here to deliberately discredit it?
This is indeed a possibility. After all, there are two ways to defeat your competitors. Either do it better than your competitors, or do it worse than your competitors.
Such slander by the other party is likely to cause great damage to the reputation of the store, and the reputation accumulated over the years may be lost in one fell swoop.
The reviews may deteriorate immediately, after all, there are 400,000 viewers.
Quantitative changes can easily lead to qualitative changes. This behavior of the other party may even affect the perception of diners who have eaten the food from your own restaurant and have a good impression of it.
Because people follow the crowd, when people around you and on the Internet are bragging and supporting a restaurant.
Even if some people think that the food they eat is just ordinary, they will follow suit and say it is delicious.
Even if you don't say it's delicious, you will maintain a neutral attitude and say nothing.
And if there are a lot of bad reviews on the Internet, even if the food is delicious, the diners will feel that it is tasteless, and the dishes that originally seemed to be worth 90 points will become substandard.
However, he did not jump to conclusions prematurely, because apart from the fact that the other party was a competitor seeking to sabotage and smear him, there was actually the possibility that there was something really wrong with his own soybeans.
So Zhang Huiyuan didn't stop. The soybeans were picked up one by one and disappeared into his mouth. The sound of constant chewing echoed in the small cold dish.
Soon the small bowl of soybeans disappeared without a trace. Zhang Huiyuan put down the chopsticks in his hand and frowned even more.
Before he scooped up the bowl of fried soybeans, he had deliberately stirred the entire bowl of fried soybeans evenly in order to make the sampling results random.
But when I randomly scooped up a large bowl of soybeans, not a single one had a strange smell.
Seeing his expression, Ke San, who was waiting on the side, immediately shouted:
"Boss, as I said just now, that boy must have come here to deliberately discredit us. How could there be something wrong with our soybeans?"
However, Zhang Huiyuan raised his hand and interrupted Ke San. He frowned and hesitated.
He had briefly learned about the Huizhou Banquet, and he knew exactly what happened.
Would a person who acts out of righteousness really become someone else's accomplice, going to someone else's store to smear someone else's cuisine?
It's not that it's impossible, it's just that the possibility is much less than that of ordinary people.
After all, if there is a flower-picking thief, then the possibility of the criminal thief committing the crime is definitely much greater than the possibility of a brave young hero committing the crime.
His mind was spinning and he hurriedly ran out of the cold dish workshop. Ke San and Ah Quan looked at each other, wondering what their boss was doing.
Is it possible to rush out and have a real-person PK with that Li Xiao? After all, there are only a few gentle-tempered kitchen workers who often get into trouble if they don't agree with each other.
The two of them were so frightened that they quickly followed behind, fearing that things would get out of hand.
However, the two of them thought wrongly. Zhang Huiyuan did not rush to the hall to argue with Li Xiao. He walked around and walked to the material storage room.
After rummaging around, I finally found the box where the soybeans were stored. The lighting in the storage room was quite good.
After he opened the box where the soybeans were stored and examined it carefully, he immediately discovered where the problem was.
There was a moldy hard lump stuck firmly to the bottom of the box where the soybeans were stored.
At this time, the piece of mold had turned black and blue, obviously a long time had passed.
The two people who hurriedly followed him immediately noticed the spot where their boss's fingers touched.
The two people immediately looked at each other with horrified expressions on their faces.
What that anchor said was actually true, and there was actually a problem with his own soybeans.
Anyone with a little common sense will understand that if mold spots appear in the containers where food is stored, these mold spots will accelerate the decay of the food and reduce the storage time of the food.
If the stored food is fresh, these mold spots will immediately spoil the food and make it unedible.
The three of them stared at the black-green mold spot. Since Zhang Huiyuan was wearing food gloves, he directly picked out the black-green mold spot with his hands. The size of the mold spot was not big.
The surface is uneven, black and green, and it's hard to see what it is, but the bottom of the mold is very flat.
He turned the mold over and looked at the dark red color exposed at the bottom of the mold.
He looked around and immediately understood what was causing it.
His eyes locked on the cans of tomato paste on the shelf next to the soybeans, and he sighed softly to determine the identity of the mold.
One can of tomato paste is three liters, which is a very large can.
Although the outer packaging of tomato paste is made of aluminum cans, it is too large and does not have a pull tab for easy opening.
You can only use a kitchen knife or a can opener to open it each time, but the aluminum outer packaging is too thick.
Therefore, the can opener often cannot be opened at once, and it usually needs to be opened three or four times to open the surface of the can.
For the sake of convenience, many chefs will just use a kitchen knife to chop open the mouth of the jar.
However, there is actually a disadvantage in using a knife to chop it open, which may cause the tomato paste inside to sputter out due to shaking and pressure.
The problem this time was immediately reviewed. Apparently, someone used a kitchen knife to open tomato paste in the warehouse some time ago.
The box of soybeans next to it happened to be empty, and tomato paste just happened to splash onto the bottom of the soybean box.
The boy who packed the soybeans was careless and didn't notice the dirt at the bottom of the box, so he poured the new batch of soybeans into the box.
This caused the tomato paste, which originally needed to be refrigerated after opening the can, to quickly deteriorate and become moldy in the air, breeding a large amount of mold and bacteria, causing the storage environment in the boxes where soybeans were stored to become very harsh.
As a result, soybeans, which were basically impossible to spoil in the short term, have become spoiled.
Zhang Huiyuan was frightened and broke into a cold sweat when he saw this scene. Fortunately, there was just a peculiar smell and they were about to go bad. If these soybeans really went bad, then the problem would be big.
As a five-star chef, he clearly understands the properties of each ingredient. Of course, he also knows the properties of each ingredient after they have spoiled.
Once foods such as soybeans and rice are not perishable, the mold produced will have a serious impact on the human body.
Moreover, even if this kind of mold is fried at high temperature, it cannot kill it. Once it enters the body, it will cause diarrhea in mild cases and dysentery in severe cases.
If food poisoning occurs in large quantities, then my reputation and the reputation of this store will be completely wiped out.
