Chapter 121 "State Banquet" is a rotating hot pot
"Brother Gou, for such a serious occasion, why don't we arrange a 'rotating hot pot'? Is that appropriate?"
The Jade Emperor was carrying a large bucket of chopped green onions and pouring them into small plates one by one while speaking with a worried look on his face.
It's not that he has any problem with the rotating hotpot. The 30-yuan self-service rotating hotpot at the school gate is his must-have happy weekend delicacy every week. But now this is a sect ceremony. It seems a bit impolite to do this at a sect ceremony!
"Emperor, you still need to study more,"
Wang Ergou pretended to be profound and said, "Do you know what the wealthy people in ancient times called 'bells and tripods'? What is 'tripods'? It's a small hot pot for one person! Let's set up a revolving buffet. Wouldn't that be more advanced and more shocking to them!?"
The Jade Emperor looked doubtful: "Although it sounds reasonable, but... Zundu is fake?"
Zhao Qing, who was putting the ingredients on a plate, couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Don't listen to him. The "dingshi" in "zhongming dingshi" means eating in a row of tripods, which emphasizes the luxury and pomp. It has nothing to do with hot pot! Besides, it seems that the prototype of hot pot only appeared in the Han Dynasty, and it was not popularized until the Ming and Qing Dynasties."
"You can't calculate it that way. Look, didn't the pre-Qin dynasty use ding to cook food? Is a ding a pot? Isn't hot pot also cooked in a pot? If you round it off, cooking in a ding is cooking in a pot, so that's hot pot!"
Wang Ergou said, even clapping his hands confidently, "Besides, this thing is simple and has excellent palatability! We have even developed sesame paste! Shouldn't we promote this to pave the way for future food exports?"
Not far away, a player who was still pounding peppers raised a soul-searching question: "But isn't this too uncool?"
"The so-called class is supported by packaging! Even if you pick up a stone on the roadside and put it in a golden box, it can pretend to be a rare treasure! So! As long as we make the dishes well and create a good atmosphere, the rotating hot pot can also be a state banquet!"
At this point, Wang Ergou became more confident. He stretched out his fingers and tapped the glass plate in his hand, which shone with dazzling colors in the sun. With a crisp sound, he boasted proudly: "See? This is the glass that we just developed from our improved high-temperature furnace. We originally wanted to attack it with dimensionality reduction, but we don't know how to purify it. The technical team said they don't have time to help us with this and have to postpone the processing, so we can only make some handicrafts!"
The transparency of the glass plate is not very high, but it radiates colorful light. Even though there are not too many delicate patterns and decorations, it does look a bit luxurious.
"We tried several kinds of ores to come up with the formula for this thing. Previously, there were too many impurities in the burned product, so it was ugly. But after adding a kind of ore called five-color water stone, it looks much better. In addition, we specially asked the Guangcheng Sect's weapon refiner to improve the high-temperature furnace. The fire we use is now the lower-grade yellow-level ground vein fire. The impurities are burned away during the high-temperature melting of the quartz ore. It's amazing!" The Jade Emperor also touched the glass plate and smacked his lips, "No wonder the world of immortal cultivation can't come up with our kind of technology. When they are in doubt, they rely on metaphysics. Who would be willing to study other methods?"
"That's not true," Wang Ergou stroked his chin and exclaimed, "The 'rotating table' of our 'rotating hot pot' was developed by an alchemist from the research institute. She suddenly got the idea after attending a few classes at the school next door. At that time, I just mentioned that it would be great if the food tray could move automatically, and she actually did it! Amazing!"
The Jade Emperor, who was temporarily pulled in to help, was not aware of Wang Ergou's specific plan for the "rotating hot pot". When he heard that the so-called "rotation" was not only really possible, but also done by a native, he was immediately surprised and asked: "What the hell? How did she do it?"
Zhao Qing is very familiar with these things: "I've seen them. The principle is actually very simple. Just engrave directional tracking talismans and various talismans such as light body and flight on the food plate, and control the tracking speed of the food plate while letting it track the food plate in front at a constant speed, and then a cycle can be formed... However, this method also has great disadvantages. For example, as long as one of them is taken down, the whole cycle will be disrupted and it will be useless. In addition, this method is very expensive. It takes at least half a day to make a food plate. In short, it is not very practical and can only be used to fill the appearance temporarily..."
Wang Ergou continued, "Anyway, at least a big problem has been solved. There is also a solution to the problem of disrupted tracking. For example, we later specially made several very long curved food trays, which are large and heavy. Unless someone is crazy, no one will be so idle as to take the trays away. In this way, although the continuity of the movement of the food trays is a little worse, at least it guarantees that there will be no accidents!"
As Wang Ergou, who received the task of [preparing a banquet for the sect's grand ceremony], he racked his brains on how to properly receive the monks from various sects and forces.
The idea of the "rotating hot pot" was not to create something fancy, but was due to a shortage of manpower.
The monks in Guixu Realm do not need to eat to sustain life. In this case, the food part of the banquet becomes a point of curiosity and comparison. It is not important whether they are full or not. What is important is that the food must be new and strange, unheard of and unseen, and exquisite and luxurious to highlight the "superior" status of the monks.
So, when there are not enough staff, limited ingredients, and even the utensils and tables are not as exquisite as the Guangchengzong next door which is known for its low-key and simple style, if we insist on holding a traditional "palace banquet", it would be like showing off our skills in front of Guan Gong.
Hot pot is a different way of eating. First of all, it is convenient. A large amount of ingredients only need to be simply processed and arranged on the plate, which greatly reduces the preparation work and labor required for cooking.
The second is palatability. Blue Star’s hotpot has been sold in various countries and regions around the world and has never hit a snag. Maybe some people with unusual tastes don’t like it, but they will never think it’s “unpalatable.” The former is a matter of personal taste, and the latter is the universality of taste.
Finally, its novelty was also one of the factors that made Wang Ergou make the decision. Luxury and refinement cannot be compared in a short time, but novelty is too easy to achieve. The so-called "high-end" is to complicate simple things in most cases. For example, hot pot, just the ingredients in the pot, even if they are locally available, players can come up with dozens or hundreds of different ones, and the dipping sauce can be made into a set of more than a dozen plates and bowls of various sizes!
If a person who has never eaten hotpot or has never heard of it, upon sitting down, finds that there are more than a dozen plates and bowls filled with different condiments in front of him, he will feel inferior psychologically - he has never seen such a complicated and "profound" way of eating it!
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