Chapter 110 The Culinary Genius of a Hundred Years
"Ah? Sir, you want to learn to cook? Why...why do you think of learning to cook?"
Sister Wang, who had just walked to the kitchen door, was surprised.
Chen Yu smiled freely and said, "When you are bored, find something to do for yourself, just think of it as cultivating a hobby for yourself! Don't worry, I won't take your job, and I can't cook three meals a day.
,Right?"
Sister Wang laughed when she heard this, "Okay! Since you are interested in this, you can come in first and give me a try. Let's take our time and start with choosing vegetables. How about it?"
Chen Yu didn't care, "Okay! It's okay."
In fact, he can cook some home-cooked dishes.
In the original time and space, after he was 22 years old, his parents died, and his grandmother also passed away. He lived alone for more than ten years. Although he often ate instant noodles and takeaways, and often went out to eat fast food, he would occasionally do a few things by himself.
A simple home-cooked dish.
The taste and appearance are not that good, but I can finally make some.
Moreover, in addition to the cooking experience in the original time and space, every time he experienced a previous time and space, a new "memory" would appear in his mind.
Among the "memories" hidden deep in his mind, there are also some cooking.
For example, when "he" was a civil servant in Tiecheng and married into the director's house, his father-in-law was "his" director of the Mining Department in Tiecheng. After "he" became the director's son-in-law, could he behave well?
Not only do I want to please my wife Fang Yongqing, but I also want to please the director and his wife.
If "he" hadn't performed well after marriage, could the director-in-law's father-in-law have promoted "him" again and again? Finally promoted "him" to the position of deputy director?
In that time and space, for a few years, in order to please his father-in-law, mother-in-law and wife, "he" not only worked hard at work, but also worked hard in life. He could be called a model husband and model son-in-law.
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If nothing else, he just talked about cooking, and "he" used his spare time to study it carefully for several years. His serious research spirit can shame many scientific researchers.
In those few years, "he" understood the classification of the eight major cuisines, the top ten cuisines and other cuisines in the country.
I also learned about halal cuisine, palace cuisine, local cuisine, government cuisine, etc.
"He" has carefully studied Anhui cuisine, as well as Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, and other famous cuisines.
In those years, if my mother-in-law said that her mouth was tasteless recently and she had no appetite for anything to eat, "he" would specially prepare some appetizing and refreshing side dishes for her, such as hot and sour lettuce, chicken feet with pickled peppers, etc., and then cook them for her.
Several dishes with strong flavours.
For example: Maoxuewang, fish head with chopped pepper, spicy boiled pork slices, etc.
If the father-in-law says that he has been feeling uncomfortable with his stomach recently and has suffered from old stomach problems again, "he" will specially stew a pot of pork belly soup to nourish the father-in-law's stomach.
Also, in the early stages of pregnancy, his wife Fang Yongqing couldn't smell the smell of cooking smoke or meat, so "he" racked his brains to figure out how to make delicious vegetarian dishes that would whet her appetite without producing cooking fumes.
During that time, "he" learned many kinds of steamed vegetables.
For example: steamed edamame, steamed baby cabbage, steamed tofu with olives, etc.
I also learned a lot of cold dishes.
For example: mixed shredded vegetables, cold fungus, cold lettuce, cold lotus root slices, cold cabbage, etc.
This is not an exaggeration at all. In that time and space, before becoming an official, the first thing "he" was proficient in was not his professional ability at work, but his cooking skills.
"His" cooking skills at that time and space may have been far inferior to those of excellent professional chefs, but among amateurs, he was definitely considered a master.
To slap down more than 90% of housewives is a modest statement.
However, although Chen Yu has "memories" of cooking in that time and space in his mind, those are not his personal experiences after all. He does not take the initiative to think about the relevant "memories" himself, or passively trigger them by touching the scene.
Will think of it.
Those "memories" are like files stored on your computer's hard drive.
He needs to take the initiative to integrate it before it becomes a skill that he can truly master.
Just like in the last time and space, at the beginning, although he had the "memory" of practicing Baguazhang for 20 years in his mind, for a long time after he first arrived in that time and space, he was not able to skillfully use the Baguazhang in his "memory".
It wasn't until he practiced that set of palm techniques again and again, and continued to integrate the "memory" in his mind while practicing, that he gradually mastered that set of palm techniques, and slowly integrated the "memories" in his mind that he had practiced Baguazhang for 20 years.
Experience" and "knowledge" are all integrated into oneself.
Similarly, in today's time and space, if he wants to learn to cook, and if he wants to turn the cooking "memories" in his mind from another time and space into his own skills, he also needs to learn and actively integrate those "memories".
This takes time and requires patience.
But now, he has no pressure in life at all. He does not need to earn money to support his family, nor does he need to earn money to buy a house for his children in the future, get married, etc., so he has a lot of time.
patience?
What else can an old man of his age lack?
So, starting from this day, at the age of 38, he seemed to suddenly have a passion for life.
Start caring about food and vegetables.
I don’t like working, I like cooking.
He went to the bookstore and bought a bunch of recipes and occasionally used his mobile phone to check the recipe of a certain dish online.
Every morning, he goes to the vegetable market with his nanny, Sister Wang, to select various ingredients.
After coming back, I selected, washed and cooked vegetables together with Sister Wang.
He stayed in the kitchen for several hours every day, which made Sister Wang's eyes look increasingly worried.
She felt that the male head of the family was now so interested in cooking, how long could she keep her job? It was worth worrying about.
Not only that, she also found that the male owner seemed to be a natural cooking wizard, and he was a rare talent.
He progressed too quickly.
Can you believe that a grown man who has never touched a pot can cook well when he picks up a wok for the first time?
Can you believe that a man who just learned how to cook for a few days can suddenly make fish head with chopped peppers and braised pork with pickled vegetables?
Sister Wang feels that her age has opened her eyes to cooking in front of a grown man who didn't know how to cook before.
In just half a month, not only did his cooking skills surpass hers, but his skills in cooking various dishes also put her to shame.
The key is - in such a short period of time, while chopping vegetables, he suddenly learned how to jump with the knife?
Like the professional chefs on TV, he holds the dish with his left hand and holds the knife with his right hand. The right hand holding the knife shakes like a convulsion, and the dish on the chopping board is cut into even slices or shreds of similar thickness...
If she hadn't already known that the male owner was very rich and had a background in computer science, she would have doubted whether he was a professional chef before?
Are you now learning to cook from her just to amuse her?