"I asked why the painting style of this fork is so different from the dishes on the table. It turns out that it was not made by Lin Chou at all. Vertex 23S. The fastest update."
Qin Wuyong felt that he had been insulted,
"What is a fork? Do you have any discernment? This is a large clam skewer created by our chef under the wise guidance of Boss Lin. You can eat one skewer and think twice, it is more filling than a big kidney."
"..."
Everyone looked at the gadget Qin Wuyong kept waving in his hand in silence:
It was a Y-shaped wooden fork that was at least half a meter long. A round spherical object in the middle of the two pieces of wood was tied tightly with rattan. Although everyone was well-informed, they did not notice this spherical object that seemed to be food.
What is the main body? But if the rattans were tied looser, it would be a slingshot.
"Ahem" Qin Wuyong himself was a little embarrassed, pointing to the ball and said, "Look at this... Well, the surface of this ball has a slightly burnt texture, crisp but not mushy, and look at the meaty texture inside, it is rich in juice.
, although this shape is very unique, it is actually made up of large pieces of black butterfly clam meat and thin slices of smoked flying fish. I seasoned each piece of meat separately and used lemon leaves.
Maidenhair powder, oh by the way, I also borrowed some American devil pepper from Boss Lin.”
Everyone continued to remain silent, as if in mourning.
The long face makes you look so anxious,
"So how do you eat this thing?"
Qin Wuyong was very satisfied with the long-faced compliment. He took out a large, shiny knife from nowhere and swiped it a few times. It was like peeling an apple, and the snow-white meat slices fell into the bowl one after another. It looked strange.
pleasing.
A big bowl full of shellfish was slammed in front of the long face,
"Come on, come on, have a taste, have your fill~"
The long face looked at the big bowl that was longer than his own face, "Well, well... I'm just asking... Isn't that right..."
Qin Wuyong grinned, his smile was quite ferocious.
Chang Lian coughed and carefully put a piece in his mouth.
"Huh? It tastes like... I'll try it again..."
After Long Face "tasted" the entire bowl of meat slices,
"Hiccup~ It would be nice if there was a bowl of white rice. Brother Wuyong, I didn't tell you that you should set up a stall in front of the martial arts school. It's going to be much more popular than 'Aunt Zhang's BBQ Bibimbap'. Well, there's just no sesame oil.
It’s almost meaningless.”
Qin Wuyong was quite happy at first, but when he finished what he said, his face turned dark.
Seeing the fans' barrages and boos flying up, he wittily explained,
"Well, actually, the main reason is that the fish is a bit stale. Didn't I catch any fish? I used the same flying fish from a few days ago. This was a complete accident. An accident."
Long Face burped, "I'm still more concerned about where Boss Lin did that duck."
Lin Chou slapped his forehead,
"Don't tell me I forgot, the duck is still in the stove!"
"?"
Lin Chou faced everyone's puzzled expressions and said, "Come here and shovel the fire away. There's an oven buried underneath!"
"!"
A group of helpless people put out the temporary kitchen fire, dug up the ground, and dug out a giant stone ball that was as tall as two people.
This stone ball is made of two hemispheres that are closed and tied together, and the gap in the middle is sealed with yellow mud. The originally moist mud has long been baked and is very hard.
Lin Chou wielded a wooden stick to smash the yellow mud seal and cut off the binding vines. Then he stretched out his hand and lifted up the upper part of the stone ball.
"boom!"
The steam inside burst out like a mushroom cloud, immediately covering several square meters of space nearby. The huge amount of steam was also mixed with strands of light cyan smoke. These cyan smoke was higher in temperature and full of meat flavor.
.
Fortunately, everyone was an evolutionist with thick health and high defense, so they were not burned.
"Hey, it smells so good."
The pleasant sound of "Zi la la" came from inside, and everyone looked intently, only to see a red and shiny duck lying on its back in the pot.
"Wow~roast duck!"
"Hey, I don't know. Don't call it roast duck when you see a whole duck. Roast duck has to be charred on the outside and tender on the inside. Look at the duck in the pot, the skin is still tender."
Lin Chou held out his hands to Qin Wuyong and said, "Leave it to you. I think you're pretty skilled at the rough moves just now..."
Qin Wuyong said enthusiastically,
"Look, just do it!"
Soon, a large plate of delicious duck meat was served.
I have to say that Qin Wuyong's skill in slicing the meat is really good. Each piece of duck meat is made with a standard one centimeter thickness and the skin is slanted. The duck meat is neatly placed on the plate with the skin facing up, steaming hot.
Qin Wuyong said cheerfully,
"Boss Lin, just now everyone was guessing what you were doing, please tell me."
Lin Chou scratched his head,
"Actually, this should be regarded as braised duck... There are fuel blocks brought by the scientific expedition team under each fire. At that time, they dug very deep. The fire made the pit hot and then put the duck in the spherical stew oven.
Put it down, continue to burn the fire above, and roast it with the residual heat below. The duck's belly and skin are filled with brine. In fact, when the duck first enters the furnace, it is almost completely spherical. It hangs in the center of the spherical furnace without direct contact with the inner wall.
The temperature of such a simple floor oven is much lower than that of an oven. During the heating process, as the brine from the duck's body seeps out and drips into the oven, it turns into hot steam, which is used to fumigate the duck."
"Because the yellow mud has sealed the gaps and buried it underground, the speed of steam coming out is actually very slow. At the beginning, the temperature will be around 170 degrees. This period can be called 'roasting', duck
The moisture on the surface will be evaporated, and the cortex will shrink tightly and become slightly brown. As the steam increases, the temperature will gradually drop, but due to the air pressure, it will not drop to 110 in the end.
Below ten degrees, this becomes a long-lasting fumigation method. If the time and temperature are controlled just right, the brine in the duck's belly will flow cleanly, and when the steam in the furnace dissipates, the duck will be just cooked. After all, the yellow mud seal is very powerful.
limited."
Bai Xiaomao said,
"So it is a duck that is steamed after the brine in the duck's belly drips out and falls on the surface of this big ball to turn into steam?"
"Well... Generally speaking, it is a little different from steaming..."
"How perverted!"
"..."
Damn it, where is the abnormality?
Lin Chou rolled his eyes crazily, "Can you swallow the duck in your mouth when you say this? Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
Bai Xiaomao looked at him inexplicably,
"What does this have to do with my conscience?"
Lei Heng coughed slightly, interrupting the strange confrontation between the two,
"Let the old man taste the taste of this strange braised duck..."
When Lei Heng's chopsticks came into contact with the duck meat, he was stunned because the texture of the duck meat released traces of light red gravy under the squeeze of the chopsticks.
As an academician of the Academy of Sciences, he can certainly tell what "myoglobin" is and what "blood water" is. He is not stupid enough to think that this duck is not yet cooked, but the tenderness of this duck has far exceeded his imagination.
.
The muscle fibers of the duck are very distinct, and you can almost see the tiny marks that break after being cut with a knife. The whole piece of duck meat is tightly connected to the duck skin through a thin layer of light yellow subcutaneous fat. If you don't consider the texture,
Just by looking at the color, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between this layer of fat and duck skin.
Lin Chou said,
"The fat layer of duck is thicker than that of chicken and goose. Many people don't like duck that is too fat. Of course, the original flavor of duck fat does have a slight fishy smell. This kind of braised duck is heated from the outside.
, the skin and subcutaneous fat will release duck fat when roasted by heat. Some of the duck fat drips directly onto the furnace wall, and some slowly soaks into the gaps between the duck meat fibers, waiting for the duck as a whole to heat up.
, the brine in their stomachs and under the skin is at a temperature close to boiling. As the brine circulates and seeps out, more than half of the duck fat will be excreted from the body, and the rest is just enough to tenderize the meat.
."
Lei Heng nodded repeatedly,
"This is the first time I've heard of this. I must try it."
When Lei Heng put this piece of tender duck meat into his mouth, the tip of his tongue had not yet touched the meat, and the strong braised aroma had already occupied the entire mouth. Lei Heng was very keen to "taste" including pepper, green onion and so on.
, garlic, thyme, pepper, tangerine peel (perhaps lemon peel?) and other mellow compound aromas, extremely strong but also extremely fresh. The combination makes this smell somewhat similar to fresh grass and trees. It can be said that the show has not yet begun.
, he first experienced a "cultural" invasion.
"How fat is this... a very strange fragrance..."
The mouth full of meat juice made Academician Lei's voice sound a little off track.
Lin Chou explained,
"Well, actually the main spices are blended with lemon peel, branches and leaves and wood sorrel. They all have a sharp taste. Even if there are other dry aromas, what people immediately feel is the taste of fresh spices."
Lei Heng felt the duck meat in his mouth carefully, and the surprises brought to him by the duck meat were far more than that. The tender and yet tough duck skin took the lead in launching an offensive, and the light and spicy marinade was like thousands of troops passing by.
The river bursts out from the duck skin. Every time you chew, the juice splashes out like miniature drumsticks hitting the tip of your tongue and mouth.
"Hmm... this duck skin... is wonderful. It feels like there is no fat at all in the duck skin. It seems that it has all been replaced by brine... The brine is also extraordinary. It is so light? That red sauce on the duck skin.
How was it formed?"
Lin Chou said lightly,
"This is one of the benefits of filling duck with marinade. The marinade is actually very light. It is used to remove oil and relieve greasiness. However, it has penetrated the duck meat to a saturated level. As for the color, it is mainly roasted.
When the water vapor in the spherical furnace evaporates completely, only the duck's fat will be left at the bottom of the furnace. The fat will continue to be heated at high temperatures to form smoke, smoked and roasted. The main color of the red sauce is
That’s how it came about.”
Everyone recalled Lin Chou's words before, and then carefully tasted the braised duck in their mouths, and found that all these steps were not as simple as he said. It could not be done by filling the duck with brine, throwing it in the stove and roasting it.
, the duck cannot be seen or wiped in the spherical furnace. To make the duck the way it is now, it actually requires very high precision. It requires precise combination of the changes in furnace temperature, time control, seasoning arrangement and other details.
Together, one cannot exist without the other.
Lei Heng suddenly said,
"Lin Chou, are you interested in coming to the Research Institute to play with the big one? My sixth sense tells me that you are definitely the best candidate to play with the Source Energy Ark Reactor! The principles are not much different!"
"..."
Not just Lin Chou, everyone had a bunch of black lines on their faces.
Lin Chou reluctantly twitched the corner of her mouth,
"If you're talking about that thing with a long boiler-like explosion that can lift half of the base city into the sky... I think I'd better just keep guarding the tavern until the end of time."
"Hahaha~"
Lei Heng was not upset and laughed with everyone.
"Speaking of which, this is the first decent New Year's Eve I've had since I entered the Research Institute."
"Who says it isn't?"
"Last year, my friend was in the laboratory. The year before that, I was in Zushan. The year before that, I was really good. I squatted in a zombie nest for a month, and when I came out, it was a different year."
Bai Xiaomao mumbled and said,
"I think there's nothing wrong with celebrating the New Year in the laboratory. It's very annoying and nerve-wracking to have so many people together."
Jin San whispered, "This girl is an orphan. She grew up in a scientific research institute. Well... she doesn't like the outside world very much."
Everyone nodded.
Bai Xiaomao didn't care what Jin San said, he just stared at Lin Chou and said,
"Wai, let me ask you, can you let me draw a test tube of blood? It's just a blood draw. You are so stingy."
While talking, he stabbed Qin Wuyong's slingshot hard with a knife. After a while, it was full of small holes.
Lin Chou shuddered, mad, why don't you just obey, it looks really dangerous...
As they ate and ate, everyone's enthusiasm became more and more intense. Everyone's face was as red as if they had drunk a lot of wine, and the deserted and deserted island became a little more popular.
However, the sky always goes against people's wishes. A huge roar suddenly erupted from the depths of the island, and the ground trembled violently. The entire island seemed to be teetering on the edge and might sink to the bottom of the sea again at any time.
"what happened?"
"Where's the seismograph?"
"Quick, take care of the equipment..."
"boom!"
An even more violent roar sounded, and a ray of fire that reached all over the sky illuminated the entire island, and the fire gushed out from the top of the strange crater.
"I smell gas..."
"Is there oil under my island?"
"It's over, the equipment we left in the cave..."
The island trembled a few times at last, and the tremors subsided.
But the blazing fire on the top of the mountain showed no signs of weakening at all. It had turned into a huge torch, and the entire island was as bright as day.
After a while, the temperature around the island obviously started to rise, and clusters of sparks began to slide down from the top of the mountain.
"Damn it, this fire has such a high temperature? Can it burn the stone red so quickly?"
Lei Heng stared at the blazing fire for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said,
"Pack up our things and we will retreat. The situation on the island is unknown now. To avoid unnecessary danger, we will return to the ship for observation first."