Chapter 138: Cultivate her towards high-tech
This was the first time in Zhao Xiaojing's two lives that she had witnessed the working methods of a hotel kitchen.
It is as fast and tense as a war, yet as busy and orderly as a huge assembly line.
It's heart-pounding and amazing.
Zhao Xiaojing's blood couldn't help but boil.
Although she has not been on the culinary path for a long time, cooking has become the most relaxing and happiest time for her since her previous life.
In this life, she encountered the system and was reborn, leaving behind all her cowardice and fear. With the right time, place, and people, she had no reason not to fight to the end.
One day she will have a proper chef team of her own!
[Ding~ Main quest begins]
[Main Mission: Build your own professional chef team]
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【whether】
Her blood was boiling when she heard the mechanical voice of the system. Zhao Xiaojing took a look and accepted the task with a helpless smile.
The main storyline of the last store opening wasn't even finished, and now there's another one, and they're building a professional team of chefs. The system thinks too highly of her. She's still just a lousy stall owner! They're training her to be a high-end professional.
"Master, Junior Sister," a weak voice spoke. Zhao Xiaojing turned and saw the only girl among the eight disciples Gu Shanfeng had just pointed out, looking at her nervously. "Master asked me to invite you to the frying area. We've already prepared the ingredients."
"Okay, okay, let's go over there!" Zhao Xiaojing quickly turned around and followed the female apprentice back to the hot food area.
"Hello, junior sister!" In front of the constant temperature frying pan, another male apprentice who was waiting for the ingredients saw Zhao Xiaojing coming over and hurriedly straightened his back to greet her.
"Hello, senior brother." Zhao Xiaojing was not used to this title, but she followed the local customs and started to call out.
While frying the fan ribs, the two demonstrated how to operate the constant temperature deep fryer. After watching it, Zhao Xiaojing became more determined to buy one.
This type of pot is indeed much more convenient. It has a timer and oil temperature setting, and there are two mesh stainless steel frames in the middle. You can just put the ingredients in the frames and forget about them.
When the oil temperature reaches a certain level, the frame will automatically lower and the food will be placed in the oil pan for frying. When the time is up, the frame will automatically rise, raising the food and removing it from the oil pan to automatically control the oil.
After the two cooks demonstrated once, they handed over the operation to Zhao Xiaojing and stood aside, watching Zhao Xiaojing's movements with wide eyes.
Zhao Xiaojing used to control the oil temperature by herself based on experience. She would drop a small amount of batter into the oil when the bubbles were about to form, because she didn't know the approximate temperature that the machine should be set to.
Zhao Xiaojing saw that the fan bones were a little darker in color after the two people fried them according to their original method. When it was her turn, she lowered the temperature slightly, poured some oil to cool them down quickly, and then started frying again.
The two apprentices next to her looked at each other in confusion when they saw Zhao Xiaojing's actions. They wanted to say something but then closed their mouths. They pursed their lips and stared at the oil pan.
Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and saw the expressions of the two men.
"Why are you so nervous? You look so anxious?" Zhao Xiaojing asked curiously. She had seen these eight people looking tense since she came in, and they were still tense now.
Is this line of work so stressful?
"No no, that won't happen!"
“It’s really quite stressful.”
Two voices spoke at the same time. The one who waved his hands and said no was the male disciple, and the one who nodded and said honestly that he was nervous was the female disciple.
After saying that, the two looked at each other awkwardly, and Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help laughing.
"Junior sister, you don't know that we have a standard temperature and schedule for each type of frying, and we are required to memorize it and strictly follow it. We usually follow the schedule. If the food doesn't turn out right, we will be scolded again." The female apprentice saw that the two people's words did not match, looked at Zhao Xiaojing, touched her nose and said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Wait a minute."
When Zhao Xiaojing heard this, she immediately checked the degree of frying of the ingredients in the pot, raised the frame, and then continued to increase the temperature and adjusted the re-frying time to 30 seconds.
After a while, the ingredient frame dropped, and 30 seconds later, it rose again as the two apprentices looked nervous.
The two of them came over to take a look. Although the frying process was different, the quality of the product was exactly the same as the required standards. At least there was no difference to the naked eye.
"You're amazing, Junior Sister! No wonder we've been scolded for so many days. You're so unyielding!" The female disciple looked incredulous.
The male apprentice lightly touched her arm, trying to stop her from talking, but his eyes could not stop looking at the oil frame, his expression full of amazement.
"Being scolded? Because of me?" Zhao Xiaojing blinked, not knowing whether to laugh or not.
"Yes! You don't know what we've been through these past few days. Master has always been strict, but we haven't even seen a smile from him these past two days. Every day he keeps saying 'Junior Sister Zhao, who entered the sect much later than you did', saying we're hopeless and useless. He scolds us so much that we get scared just by hearing your name!
When I was little, my family let me do whatever I wanted. They didn't scold me much and they never compared me with others. Now I feel my childhood is complete. When I open my eyes or close my eyes, I am always haunted by the shadows of other people's children!"
The female apprentice opened up all at once and talked to Zhao Xiaojing with a bitter face.
"So that's how it is. No wonder I felt all your muscles were tense when I came in. Haha." Zhao Xiaojing widened her eyes slightly and couldn't help laughing.
"In fact, the chef didn't allow us to fry in this wok for the past two days. He said we were lazy and that we were nothing without the machine. He asked us to take turns practicing with the big iron wok! He even led us in practice on the first day, but you wouldn't know it, he even burnt his own frying!"
I dream about frying pans every day now. If this continues, I can even estimate how many minutes it will take for me to be fried into a golden brown!
It was only because you came today that we were allowed to use this pot again. We are so sad!" The male apprentice saw that Zhao Xiaojing was easy to get along with, so he stopped stopping the female apprentice and joined in the complaints.
This time Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help herself at all and laughed for a long time while holding her waist.
She didn't expect that Master Sun and Master Gu were so persistent in their rivalry. She thought they were just sending messages to mock each other, but it seems that innocent people have started to suffer.
The three of them were about the same age and quickly became familiar with each other. The two apprentices were no longer tense, and the three of them chatted and laughed while frying the fan bones. The atmosphere became very harmonious.
During the conversation, Zhao Xiaojing learned that the female apprentice was Wan Yuyue, who had been learning cooking for three and a half years, and the male apprentice was Yun Yongyuan, who had been learning cooking for four years. Both of them had followed Gu Shanfeng since they became his apprentices and had been with him all the way until now.
The two are considered to be more talented. They are now proficient in frying and cold dishes, and are also learning hot dishes from Gu Shanfeng. It is estimated that they can be promoted to chefs in two to three years.
After all the fan bones were fried, the two of them each held a large steel basin and returned to the hot food area to season and reheat.
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