Chapter 3: Such a big abalone, used to make fried rice?

Author: round head and round belly

Chapter 3: Such a big abalone, used to make fried rice?

"smell good!"

"So this is Buddha jumping over the wall? No wonder it's so expensive, it looks so delicious."

The audience around them were talking curiously, and everyone looked curiously at the jar in front of Li Yi.

The audience in the live broadcast room could also see the expressions of the onlookers, and several barrages quickly passed by.

"Is this a daycare service?"

"The acting is so fake."

"I don't believe it can be so exaggerated just by smelling it."

"Old Tang said yes, it should still have some technical content, right?"

"Won't Old Tang accept money?"

"It really doesn't happen. If he takes money, it's just to damage his own brand. He has tens of millions of fans online and his IP costs several million a month in advertising fees alone. There's no point in using that little money to damage his own brand."

Li Yi didn't have time to watch the barrage in the live broadcast room. The mouth of the altar should not be opened for too long, otherwise the smell would evaporate a lot.

He quickly picked up a bamboo colander and reached into the jar. After a few fish outs, he fished out a plump abalone that was as big as the mouth of a bowl.

The abalone is covered in brownish red soup.

The soup is thick, as if it has been thickened.

But Old Tang only took one look and knew that it was gelatin that had been boiled for a long time.

“What a big abalone!”

The cameraman and assistant were shocked.

They followed Lao Tang and photographed many restaurants. They also photographed many Michelin-level high-end restaurants, and abalone was served in those restaurants.

But this was their first time seeing such a big abalone.

"Incredible, this is really incredible!"

Old Tang's eyes almost popped out of his head: "The market price of such a big abalone is 10,000 yuan, right?"

Seeing this abalone, the audience in the live broadcast room was also surprised.

"Damn it! Is this abalone real? Is it a model?"

"I've never seen such a big abalone in my life!"

As the big abalone appeared on the scene, the number of people in the live broadcast room also skyrocketed, and soon reached 3,000 people.

Li Yi didn't stop what he was doing. He took down the spoon one after another and soon took out a pile of top-quality ingredients.

Sea cucumbers as long as a Coke bottle and soft and elastic camel's tendons were fished out by him as if they were free of charge.

As he turned it over, the delicious smell became a little stronger, covering the entire alley.

For a moment, the sound of swallowing saliva could be heard everywhere.

A ridiculous idea appeared in everyone's mind.

If so many top-quality ingredients are used to make a portion of fried rice and it costs 10,000 yuan a portion, it seems really not expensive!

After taking out all the top-quality ingredients, Li Yi began to process them.

He took out a kitchen knife, gently pressed the plump abalone with his right hand, cut off its front, rear, left and right skirts, and threw it back into the jar.

It was also cut up and down, leaving only the softest, freshest and sweetest runny heart.

Then, he threw the hem of the skirt back into the jar and discarded it.

Cut the soft-boiled abalone heart into 3 mm wide slices, then cut into strips and dices.

Seeing this scene, Old Tang almost jumped up: "Such a good abalone, you just cut it into cubes?"

Li Yi kept holding his hands and glanced at him: "How can you make fried rice without dicing it?"

"I……"

Old Tang almost spat out his blood with a mouthful: "Such a good abalone is so satisfying to chew on! Use it to make fried rice? Isn't it too wasteful?"

The audience in the live broadcast room also deeply agreed.

"Oh my God! Such a big abalone still needs to be trimmed?"

“Can those scraps that I don’t want to cut off be delivered to me by courier?”

"The abacus was made upstairs, and the whole province of Lu heard it."

"Such scraps can easily be sold for 1,800 yuan, right?"

"Damn it! I can't even afford the scraps?"

"A bowl of fried rice requires dozens of kinds of seafood to go with it. It's a great experience."

Under the watchful eyes of the audience in the live broadcast room, Li Yi cut the sea cucumber and tendon into small dices.

“What a great knife artist!”

Old Tang was still feeling sorry for the abalone, but after seeing Li Yi's knife skills, he couldn't help but admire it.

The assistant echoed from the side: "It cuts so fast."

"The main thing is not to make it fast, but to cut it evenly."

Old Tang explained: "If you look carefully, all the ingredients he cuts are almost the same size.

The most difficult thing is the tendons. This stuff has to be stewed until it is soft and tender. But if it is stewed too soft, it will not be easy to cut into cubes, so it must be stewed just right.

This way you can cut it into cubes while still retaining the taste of the ingredients, which is a real testament to your skill!”

Listening to his explanation, the spectators around him were surprised and praised him repeatedly.

It was a worthwhile trip to see such good knife skills.

Soon, Li Yi cut the seafood into cubes.

He took out four eggs from the refrigerator, and took out a bowl. After breaking them one by one, he separated the egg whites, and then put the egg yolks into the rice drawer.

The four egg yolks are crystal clear and have a gold-like color, which is very beautiful.

It took Li Yi a lot of effort to buy these eggs.

It's not that it's very precious, it's purely because he has higher requirements for freshness.

In a society with such advanced industrialization, eggs available on the market are basically wholesaled in batches from farms.

After logistics and transportation, market distribution and sales, it usually takes at least two or three days before it reaches the customer's hands.

But what Li Yi wants is eggs, which must be from the same day, not overnight.

He went to several farmers' markets but couldn't find any, and finally bought some from a grandmother selling eggs in a wicker basket on the roadside.

During this week, he would go to the grandma every day to buy the freshest eggs.

Of course, the price is also ten yuan a piece.

But compared with other ingredients, these eggs are already very cheap.

Putting on disposable gloves, Li Yi mixed the egg yolk and rice together.

He mixed it very carefully, kneading every grain of rice and leaving no lumps.

Finally, he mixed all the rice grains until they were as golden as egg yolks.

The rice fried in this way will be golden yellow, commonly known as gold wrapped with silver.

When he mixed the rice, everyone watching almost swallowed at the same time.

When evaluating a piece of food, one would often say that it is delicious and tasty.

The reason why color is placed first is because before eating, humans first use vision to judge whether the food is edible.

If the appearance of a food is very attractive, such as freshly picked strawberries with green leaves and dewdrops hanging on them.

Another example is the freshly roasted leg of lamb, the fat on the surface is browned.

So from a psychological point of view, people often subconsciously think that it is delicious.

This freshly mixed rice has a very attractive and delicious color.

The golden egg liquid evenly coats every rice grain, no more and no less.

Dots of orange shrimp roe are dotted in it, like shrimps jumping out of the water in a golden river, making people salivate involuntarily.

But these were just raw materials. Before Li Yi even started to fry the rice, he had already made the surrounding audience and the netizens in the live broadcast room ravenous.

Taking off his disposable gloves, Li Yi put the ingredients in order and then placed the wok on the stove.

He was finally getting angry.
To be continued...