Chapter VIII Substitute Processing of Food Materials
"Hey, what about you? Come here!"
When Huang Youwei was walking to the back kitchen of the hotel with a foam box, he was stopped by someone. A fashionably dressed urban beauty called him over.
"What's in the box?" asked the pretty woman.
Huang Youwei chuckled twice: "Just now, a boy came to sell fish meatballs. He said that they were made by a special process, without any additives, and they were so hyped. No, I asked him to keep the stuff and prepare to try it.
Let’s try it and see if it’s as good as what he said.”
The beautiful woman frowned, snorted, and cursed in a lowered voice: "Fat Huang, you are taking advantage of others again. Since our hotel doesn't want other people's things, why do we keep other people's samples? Isn't this making people laugh at you!"
Being scolded, Huang Youwei didn't dare to talk back. He blinked his little eyes and said, "I took a look and found that the fish and meat balls are indeed well made."
"Not bad?" The beautiful woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled sweetly and said: "It's quite rare for you, the fat man, to give you a good review. Let's go to the kitchen to try it together. I happen to be hungry too!"
"Okay, Miss Zhao, please!" Huang Youwei squinted his little eyes and stretched out his fleshy hand, bending down in a gesture of invitation.
The beautiful woman was not polite and walked directly to the hotel kitchen. She was Zhao Xueying, the general manager of Xingyue Bay Hotel. This fat man named Huang Youwei was the son of the chef of Xingyue Bay. Although he had a sharp face
He has a mean face, but he is actually not that bad.
It was already past meal time, and there were not many people in the kitchen. Huang Youwei cooked the food himself, using fish and meatballs as the main ingredient, and made three dishes.
Vegetable meatball soup, braised fish meatballs, and fried fish meatballs are all home-cooked dishes, but they can’t stand up to Fatty Huang’s skill.
"Not bad, Fatty Huang, your skills have improved again?" Zhao Xueying first took the braised fish meatballs and tasted them, her eyes lit up and she said with a smile.
"Really?" There is no reason why Huang Youwei has grown so fat. He is a good eater himself. As the third daughter of the Zhao family, Zhao Xueying is also in charge of the Xingyue Bay Hotel. Naturally, she has eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and she has an absolute appreciation for them.
It's not weak, and if she can praise her for improving her craftsmanship, it means that this dish is very successful.
Huang Youwei put the fish meatball in his mouth, closed his eyes and chewed it, then stretched out his chopsticks, picked up another one and put it in his mouth, and continued chewing.
"What a fish ball, manager. I think this fish ball is good, at least I can't make it." Huang Youwei ate most of the three dishes by himself, and then wiped his mouth and said.
Zhao Xueying nodded and said: "It's good. Although it is not made of any precious materials, the umami flavor of the fish balls is almost perfectly preserved. If it is made with more expensive ingredients, the taste should be better. Such processed fish balls
, how much does it cost per pound?”
"Six hundred!"
Zhao Xueying frowned and said, "Six hundred? It's a bit expensive. The ingredients are just ordinary fresh fish, so the cost won't be too high."
"Um!"
Zhao Xueying can taste it, not to mention Huang Youwei. One of them is a top food connoisseur and the other is a top chef. They both already have an evaluation of the fish meatballs brought by Li Zhi!
"Do you want to buy something?" Huang Youwei asked, squinting his eyes.
Zhao Xueying thought for a while and said, "Call him and ask if he can do the processing. We will provide the ingredients and let him be responsible for the processing."
"OK!"
When Huang Youwei called Li Zhi, Li Zhi was looking at the freezer in a supermarket. He had to buy this thing tonight, otherwise there would be no place to put the 100 kilograms of fish and meatballs at home.
"Is it Manager Li?"
Li Zhi recognized Huang Youwei's voice and said with a smile: "Yes, I am Li Zhi, chef Huang. How about it? The taste of my fish balls is pretty good, right?"
Huang Youwei glanced at Zhao Xueying, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "The taste is just average, the fish used are not good fish, and the ingredients are only average, but I am very interested in your technique of processing fish balls.
Yes, do you want to sell it?”
Technology for processing fish meatballs?
Li Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Huang, aren't you kidding me? I'm still relying on this little skill to make a living."
"One million!" Huang Youwei directly quoted the price without asking Zhao Xueying. He could afford one million by himself, so there was no need to ask Zhao Xueying.
Both of them knew in their hearts that the fish meatballs sold by Li Zhi were not valuable, but the technology of making fish meatballs was valuable.
"Eighty million, if Brother Huang is really interested, I'll sell you a set of equipment for 80 million." Li Zhi said with a smile. He didn't mention the technology, but the equipment. He used to be a spendthrift, so Zai Qi
People come here with dark hearts. If Huang Youwei really wanted to buy equipment for making fish and meatballs, he would have sold it for 80 million, and he would not have suffered any loss.
"Eighty million?" Huang Youwei's little eyes widened, and he almost didn't curse directly. He thought about Li Zhi's ancestors in his heart. Even people who have just returned from Africa are probably not so dark.
"Yes, 80 million. You are an expert and you should know that you get what you pay for. My technology is worth 80 million!" Li Zhi said with a smile.
Huang Youwei looked at Zhao Xueying, who shook her head slightly, and then said: "Brother, I can't afford eighty million. In this case, I would like to entrust you to process a batch of fish balls and all the ingredients in the name of Xingyue Bay Hotel.
Let’s go out, okay?”
Ingredients are exported and processed by Xingyue Bay Hotel?
The co-author felt that the materials he used were not good enough!
How could Li Zhi extrapolate the business that came to his door? He smiled and said: "Okay, what's wrong? This is relatively simple. I process fish meatballs. I charge 300 yuan per catty for processing. One catty of fresh fish is sold out."
Two hundred grams of fish meatballs cannot be processed less than one hundred kilograms at a time. If you want to ensure the original flavor of the raw materials, there is a loss of 20 kilograms of running-in machine. If it is not so rigorous, there is no need to lose these 20 kilograms. Generally, it will be considered as odor transfer.
Except for top gourmets, ordinary people can’t taste it.”
Li Zhi made this thing up. Even the best gourmets can taste it. In addition to the raw materials, there is also some dregs of other fish meat in a fish ball? Well, maybe there is such a strange person.
, anyway, Li Zhi has never seen it.
Huang Yourou frowned, covered the phone receiver, looked at Zhao Xueying with his small eyes and asked: "Manager, this guy is quite shady. If he processes a pound of fish balls, he will charge a processing fee of 300 yuan. The processing fee cannot be less than
One hundred kilograms, one kilogram of fresh fish produces 200 grams of fish balls, and cleaning the machine requires twenty kilograms of ingredients."
Zhao Xueying thought for a while and said: "No problem, tell him to help us process 200 kilograms first!"
"good!"
Li Zhi didn't expect Fatty Huang to be so happy. After thinking about it for a while, he placed an order for 200 kilograms and told the other party the factory address. The other party said he would bring the ingredients to the factory tomorrow, and then hung up the phone.
The cost of processing 200 kilograms of fish meatballs alone is 60,000 yuan. In addition, for every kilogram of ingredients processed, one-third of the products are left in Li Zhi's factory.
Theoretically, one pound of fresh fish ingredients can produce 375 grams of fish balls, but this is the maximum value. If there is too much wear and tear, no one knows whether the output will drop. For processing, you are not asking the other party to do it.
Li Zhi feels that it is not unfair to take more. Since our factory produces it for you, you should also leave some samples for the factory to taste, right?
Li Zhi didn’t know if there were unspoken rules in the industry before. Anyway, in his factory, he had to set the rules!