Chapter 196: Technical Level is Controlled by the Atmosphere
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the endless online and dine-in orders gradually subsided, and the workload in the kitchen gradually eased.
Zhao Xiaojing served the last portion of stir-fried pork liver and stood aside, leaving the rest of the cooking work to Yun Yongyuan.
Yun Yongyuan subconsciously straightened his back, and his expression became serious while cooking.
Although he was very busy today, Zhao Xiaojing paid attention to every dish before it came out of the pot because the quality of his food was unstable. If any dish was not up to standard, she would ask for it to be re-cooked immediately. In total, 16 dishes were ruined that night.
Yun Yongyuan was quite nervous about this. Every time he waited for Zhao Xiaojing to see if the dishes were good, he would break out in sweat on the back of his sweater.
Fortunately, Yun Yongyuan is the type of person whose potential is stimulated more when under greater pressure. He became busier and busier throughout the night, and Zhao Xiaojing's expression became more and more serious unconsciously. On the contrary, his potential increased as the work went on. By the last hour, his failure rate was close to zero.
"Good, the heat is just right this time." Zhao Xiaojing watched Yun Yongyuan stir-fry the three fresh vegetables and nodded with satisfaction.
"Huh, junior sister, you finally smiled. You are so serious when you are serious, just like the master." Yun Yongyuan served the dishes on the plate and breathed a sigh of relief after Ouyang Yidan took it away.
"Really? Maybe he's too busy, so he speaks concisely." Zhao Xiaojing laughed in surprise, recalling the scene in the evening when she was too busy to talk, and asked Yun Yongyuan to re-fry the food as soon as she saw the pot.
This thought suddenly gave me the feeling of being a master chef giving orders, and it actually seemed pretty good.
"Yes, you told me to re-cook it with a deadpan expression, your chef's aura fully on display, a presence two meters tall and eighty meters high." Yun Yongyuan smiled sheepishly as he washed the pot. "But it really works. When you're serious, I get nervous. I keep thinking I've wasted so much food, and if you don't cook it well again, you'll fire me, and I'll immediately pick up the pieces."
Zhao Xiaojing chuckled, not expecting that Yun Yongyuan's technical level was controlled by the atmosphere. After thinking about it, she swallowed the words, "Don't worry, the salary you voluntarily reduced is a thousand yuan, more than enough to buy the few wasted dishes." She was afraid that if she said it out loud, Yun Yongyuan would no longer be nervous and his performance would start to deteriorate again.
As he was talking, Lu Hongwen walked in from the hall, rubbing his temples. As soon as he entered, he washed his hands, read the menu, and then walked to the side to start serving the pork trotter rice.
Zhao Xiaojing watched Yun Yongyuan blanch the potatoes, reminded him it was time to take them out, and then turned to look at Lu Hongwen for a moment. "Are you too tired? Are you okay?"
"I overestimated myself. Building 8, the boys' dormitory! Six floors with a corner! No elevator!" Lu Hongwen shook his head with a look of despair. "The students we invited from the girls' dormitory must be exhausted. They just asked me if I have to run like this every day.
Several orders were not delivered on time today. Although they were regular customers and didn't complain, it's not good if they take too long."
As Lu Hongwen spoke, he served a portion of pork trotter rice, beef brisket with potatoes, and braised chicken with mushrooms. After packing them up, he stood over and waited for Yun Yongyuan to finish frying the spicy and sour potato shreds.
“Seasoning, then overcooking.
You can't keep going like this, you can't handle it all by yourself, and the orders will only increase in the future." Zhao Xiaojing glanced back at Yun Yongyuan's pot and reminded him, then turned back to talk to Lu Hongwen.
"Yes, I'm thinking of a way." Lu Hongwen sighed, watched Yun Yongyuan fry the shredded potatoes, and hurriedly packed the lunch box and turned around to continue delivering the meal.
Zhao Xiaojing thought about it, lowered her head to look at the takeout orders, and counted them and found that there were about 87 orders in total, 51 for boys' dormitories and 36 for girls' dormitories.
Lu Hongwen ran back and forth about five times to deliver these 87 orders. During the peak dinner time, there were more than 40 orders. Lu Hongwen waited for a while and delivered about 35 orders at a time.
Thinking about it this way, it is indeed a bit too much for him. First, running back and forth and delivering the food to the dormitory door will waste some time. Second, he is the only one delivering the food. When he comes back, the orders will be piled up again, and the waiting time for the first order will be a bit long.
Zhao Xiaojing shook her head. It was true that practice makes perfect. No matter how careful a person was, it was difficult to anticipate all the problems before actually doing something.
However, there is always a solution to any problem. We can discuss it after Lu Hongwen comes back.
When Lu Hongwen came back, it was already 9:30 in the evening. Zhao Xiaojing and Yun Yongyuan had just finished preparing their own work meals and took them to the hall together.
At dinner, Zhao Xiaojing originally thought that Yun Yongyuan wanted to continue practicing and was going to let him cook. Unexpectedly, Ouyang Yidan came running and pestered her to make stir-fried pork with chili peppers and stir-fried beef. Yun Yongyuan also nodded frantically in agreement.
After smelling the fragrance all night, the two of them had already been thinking about these two new dishes they had never eaten before, and asked Zhao Xiaojing to make them again in the evening.
Zhao Xiaojing agreed with a helpless smile, and lowered her head to look around. There was a lot of chili peppers and some pork, but no beef.
In the end, he had to make a large bowl of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, and cut up the remaining half pig's trotter in the pot of stewed soup, as well as a large plate of vegetarian stewed dishes. Yun Yongyuan also made stir-fried yam slices and a seaweed and egg soup.
"You're back just in time. No need to wait for you. Let's eat!" Su Yuchen had just brought the rice when he looked up and saw Lu Hongwen coming in, and hurriedly greeted him.
The five of them were extremely tired. They sat around a square table for six. Without time to chat, they each held a bowl of rice and simultaneously stretched out their chopsticks to the stir-fried pork with peppers, and couldn't wait to put them into their mouths to chew.
Except for Zhao Xiaojing, the other four were all alert and completely conquered by the smell.
The stir-fried pork with peppers is freshly out of the wok, emitting hot steam and giving off a strong wok aroma when you put it in your mouth.
The peppers are slightly burnt, which is when the spiciness is the most stimulating. They are then cut into dice to maximize the area exposed to the soup. Each piece is oily and emits a domineering spicy flavor, which strongly stimulates the taste buds. One bite makes people feel that their tongue is activated.
The texture of the meat, which is made up of three parts fat and seven parts lean, is just right after stir-frying. The fat is not greasy, but has a slightly crispy and fragrant aroma. The lean meat is tender and slightly chewy when put in the mouth. After being soaked in the rich soup oil, it is quite spicy, and the spiciness is accompanied by the rich aroma of oil after the fat is stir-fried.
Take a piece of chili and a piece of meat and chew them together. After taking a bite, you will be quickly invaded by the stimulating spicy aroma and then surrounded by the rich aroma of meat, oil, and fermented black beans. All of a sudden, various mixed aromas bloom in your mouth one after another, which is so fresh and fragrant.
Especially after taking a few bites and then scooping up a few chopsticks of fragrant, glutinous and soft rice, you will feel that the taste buds dominated by the strong aroma are instantly soothed, gently relieved and neutralized.
For a moment, everyone felt that the fatigue from a day's work was gently driven away, and their bodies were involuntarily activated, woke up, and healed.
After comfortably eating a few mouthfuls of food, Su Yuchen finally breathed a sigh of satisfaction and glared at Zhao Xiaojing. "This chili fried pork smells so good, why didn't you make it for me earlier?"
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