The old man's hands are very smooth, not full of wrinkles like ordinary old people. If you look closely, you can even find that the fingerprints on his fingers are almost smoothed away.
I quickly moved my hands through the flour plate, and my clean hands were covered with a fine layer of flour.
When I uncovered the flour plate, there was only a fist-sized piece of dough left inside.
The old man pinched it gently with his fingers, and the dough fell onto the flour-covered chopping board.
Li Xiao explained to the audience in the live broadcast room while watching the old man kneading the dough.
"The production of dragon's whisker noodles is actually very similar to the ramen noodles that many people are familiar with. Both are made by repeatedly sliding and stretching the noodles to make the dough longer and thinner, and finally turn into noodles."
"But, as for ramen, there are usually only 7 or 8 noodles."
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"Anchor, what is a buckle!!?"
"To my colleague, could you please explain it in professional terms?"
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"Ahem!" Li Xiao coughed lightly and quickly explained.
"Aren't I afraid of being criticized?"
"To buckle is to pull and pull and fold twice, which is one buckle. 7 buckles is 2 to the 7th power, which is 128 strips."
"As for 8 buckles, it's 2 to the 8th power, so there are 256."
"As for a qualified bowl of Longxu Noodles, the minimum is 11 buckles, usually 12 buckles, and the better ones are 13 buckles."
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Many viewers in the live broadcast room started pressing their calculators
"Wait, let me do the math, 2 to the 11th power, which is 2048?"
"2 raised to the 12th power is 4096"
"I'll go. Is this such an exaggeration?"
"One dough can be stretched into 4096 noodles, which is amazing."
"Of course it's amazing. I've seen a show before where the master was able to pull out the dragon's whiskers and pass them through a pinhole."
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The old man's skills are very skillful. After all, he has been doing this job for his whole life. Just like the story of the oil seller, there is no such thing as so much talent and skills, only familiarity.
The dough after being dipped in flour will form an isolation film to separate the dough from each other. After kneading, the dough will not continue to stick together and turn back into dough.
The old man completed the first four buttons very quickly, and the dough was in his hands like an arm.
lengthen,
Thinning,
Two noodles rotate together,
lengthened again,
Thin again.
After 4 buckles,
The dough has been stretched to arm length,
arm long dough,
was thrown on the chopping board,
The old man pinched flour with his fingers and sprinkled it on the dough on his arm. Not only did the dough become longer, but lines appeared on it, but the lines were not clear.
The flour on the old man's fingers was neither too much nor too little.
With one go back and forth, the flour picked up by the fingers is used up, and the dough on the chopping board and the chopping board are covered with a fine layer of flour.
Li Xiao clicked his tongue.
"The old man's craftsmanship is really good. He is very good at it. He is really very good at it."
"Rayongxu noodles are different from ramen noodles. The dough is different and the techniques are different."
"As long as the ramen noodles are pulled through the dough, you can slide and stretch the noodles directly. After seven or eight times, it can be cooked."
"But Longxu Noodles are different. The dough of Longxu Noodles is made from Fuqiang flour."
"Maybe many people don't know what Fuqiang flour is. Fuqiang flour is special first-class flour. Its full name is special first-class wheat flour, which is the highest grade flour."
"It is flour ground from the core part of wheat seeds. This kind of flour is more expensive and tastes better."
"Fuqiang flour has the highest gluten, the strongest stickiness and the highest protein content among all flours."
“The high gluten and viscosity means that flour-rich dough requires constant addition of flour when stretching.”
"Otherwise, the dough may break or stick together due to repeated pulling."
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The number of barrages today is much less than in the past, and everyone is watching with extra concentration. The few barrages are all of the following type:
"The old man looked quite funny just now. I didn't expect him to be so professional."
"Is this technique the so-called flowing clouds and flowing water?"
"Although I don't know how to ramen, you feel so good?"
"By the way, no one noticed where this store is? I want to give it a try."
"It's so rhythmic, there's a strange rhythm between every breath and every breath."
four buckles,
five buckles,
six buckles,
seven buckles,
In less than 30 seconds, the old man completed seven buckles. At this time, he could already see the basic shape of the noodles. After all, 128 noodles had been pulled out. However, the noodles at this time were still very thick, and there was still a long distance from the so-called dragon's whiskers.
long distance.
After reaching the seventh button, the old man's movements were obviously slower than before, and the movement of the noodles falling on the chopping board was also lighter.
After all, if it breaks at this time, the bowl of noodles will be useless.
Flour fell from the fingers, like fine snow sprinkled on the dough.
Hold the two ends of the dough with your fingers, roll it gently, lift it and shake it, and all the excess flour on the dough will fall back to the chopping board.
The old man stretched his arms again, folded them in half, and completed the buckles one at a time.
Eight buckles, 256 strips. Due to the different properties of the dough, the noodles at this time are already much thinner than ordinary ramen noodles.
This time the dough was not thrown on the chopping board, but rolled gently on the chopping board.
Because of the many times of flouring before, there is already a lot of flour left on the chopping board.
In addition, the dough is already covered with flour, so the dough only needs to be lightly rolled to be covered with flour again.
The old man's index finger shook slightly, and the dough stretched outwards, and the excess flour also bounced onto the chopping board.
Another pull, another tug, another close, and another buckle.
Repeat again.
The breathing of Li Xiao and the audience in the live broadcast room began to slow down, and they did not dare to take a breath, for fear that if their breathing was louder, it would affect the old man's movements.
ten buckles,
eleven buckles,
twelve buckles,
The eyes of Li Xiao and the audience could not blink. There were already 4,096 pieces of dough in the old man's hands.
The old man's movements also changed from casual to cautious. It seemed that he had reached his limit.
Li Xiao was a little nervous, and the old man seemed to be hesitating whether to continue.
In fact, twelve buckles are already twice as thin as normal dragon whisker noodles.
However, the old man seemed to want to challenge his limits because of Li Xiao's appearance.
Li Xiao wanted to stop him. He wanted to say, twelve buckles is actually very good.
But I was afraid that my own obstruction would dampen the old man's enthusiasm and self-confidence.
He was afraid that his well-intentioned reminder would turn into malicious harm.
After all, the elderly are just like children, and they are very fragile inside.
Li Xiao could only clench his fists and encourage the old man in his heart, you can definitely do it, come on! Everyone is watching you, you must succeed!!!
The old man took a deep breath, and Li Xiao could even see that the old man's chest had obviously sunk a bit.
4096 noodles were pulled by two hands and rolled in a circle on the chopping board.
Dip it in flour and flick it with your fingers. The excess flour will fall off and the noodles will not be broken.
Opening his arms again, the noodles as thin as hair bounced off all the flour attached to them under the tension, forming a dense white mist in mid-air. Li Xiao even had the feeling that the noodles were buzzing.
Feel.
The old man closed his arms, and the turbid air accumulated in his chest was exhaled.
The wrinkles and age spots on the old man's face are clustered together. It's not known how many years it has been since he made thirteen buckles of dragon's beard noodles.
Feeling some kind of dragon's whiskers as thin as hair, the old man felt as if he was back to the past again.
At that time, I was in my prime, and at that time, I seemed to be determined to become the best Dragon Beard Noodle Master, until I met her.
