Chapter 324 Ants and Elephants

The main customers of high-end ingredients are actually not the rich.

Because the ingredients are different from those high-end luxury goods, they cannot be delivered directly to customers. They also need to undergo certain processing before they can finally be turned into exquisite food.

So in fact, except for a small number of ingredients that can be eaten directly or have simple cooking methods, the mainstream customers of many other high-end ingredients are actually people who are proficient in cooking skills.

These people are not just chefs, but also housewives from middle-class families, as well as some gourmets who know how to cook!

Because for ordinary people, the most direct reflection of high-end ingredients is probably the price.

The so-called high-end ingredients not only have high nutritional value and good taste, but also come with high prices.

The price of a dish is the income of an ordinary person for a month, a year or even more. This is definitely difficult for ordinary people to accept.

Just like the private meal that Chen Li took his sister to eat in his previous life. The four of them spent almost 8,000 yuan, and Chen Li felt distressed for a whole year afterwards.

It wasn't just the food that made him dissatisfied that time, what made him even more depressed was the price of those dishes!

Therefore, no matter what you say, as long as the word "high-end" is attached to it, it will definitely not be cheap.

The systematically improved yellow-feathered chickens are definitely considered high-end among chicken types.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the price of this yellow-feathered chicken is definitely not cheap.

Another reason why Chen Li is not selling yellow-feathered chickens is that he doesn’t know how much he should price them.

The system is also ignorant and cannot give Chen Li any reference price at all, so the pricing power of this thing is completely in Chen Li's hands.

But Chen Li in his previous life was just a common man. Where had he come into contact with any high-end ingredients?

He had eaten some abalone, lobster and caviar, but these things could not be used as reference targets for yellow-feathered chicken.

My family knows their own business. Although the quality of this yellow-feathered chicken is quite excellent as an ingredient, it does not essentially have much technical content.

The quality of yellow-feathered chickens is so good, which is the result of their system.

Compared with those scientific researchers who worked hard to breed new varieties of chickens, the yellow-feathered chickens that Chen Li obtained from the system were somewhat too easy.

Chen Li only needed to feed the chickens in the system space, shovel chicken poop and so on, and after a while, he got the improved yellow-feathered chicken.

This guy has such a problem! If he hadn't worked so hard to get it, people might not realize how much he cherishes it.

So in Chen Li's opinion, this yellow-feathered chicken is certainly a good thing, but if you compare it with things like abalone, shark fin, and bird's nest, it is definitely incomparable.

Chen Li felt that this yellow-feathered chicken must be better than ordinary native chickens, and naturally it would be more expensive than native chickens.

But how much should it cost? At present, Chen Li has not come up with a specific charter.

In his previous life, Chen Li had read some novels, in which the food grown by the protagonist and the poultry raised could be sold for sky-high prices.

But that's because, in those novels, the things created by the protagonist almost all have some special effects.

For example, it can make people younger, more beautiful, etc.

Some exaggerated ones even have the effect of curing diseases, and even the most outrageous ones mean that terminal diseases are not incurable!

It is for these reasons that although Chen Li thinks it is a bit nonsense, at least there is an explanation. No matter how expensive such things are, it still makes sense.

But yellow-feathered chickens don’t have this effect!

Although Chen Li had seen the nutrition test of yellow-feathered chicken given by the system before, and it was indeed much higher than ordinary chicken, this chicken had absolutely no special effects.

Therefore, the sky-high price of chicken is definitely impossible!

In fact, yellow-feathered chickens from chicken farms are not without price, but the price is not directly set for yellow-feathered chickens.

In the farmhouse restaurant of the chicken farm, most of the dishes are made with white-feathered chickens.

But there is one dish, and it has to be yellow-feathered chicken!

That is. Chicken Soup!

Hmm~ That’s right, the name of this dish is local chicken soup.

In fact, the names of all the dishes at the farmhouse are quite unpretentious!

This local chicken soup is made with yellow-feathered chicken and shiitake mushrooms. The taste is simply amazing.

Deng Weimin of Xuehua loves this dish the most. Every time he takes his subordinates to have dinner at the farmhouse, he must order this dish.

This guy not only eats at the farmhouse, he even packs it for home.

As for the reason, it's probably because the employees had a dinner and the company's accounts were recorded.

If Deng Weimin was asked to pay for it personally, he might not choose this dish.

Because the price of this local chicken soup is as high as 168 yuan!

Some people may say that a big pot of real chicken soup costs less than 200 yuan, and it is not expensive at a farmhouse outside?

Indeed, if it were twenty years later, a local chicken soup of about four kilograms stewed in a restaurant outside would cost 200 yuan. It is really not expensive!

Even if it can be guaranteed that this is real local chicken stewed, Chen Li may feel that he has made a profit.

After all, at that time, native chickens sold for thirty yuan a pound in the vegetable market, and those things were not real native chickens, at most they were just free-range chickens that had been raised for a while.

But the problem is that this is the year 1999!

In these days, the living expenses of a college student are only two to three hundred yuan.

A dish of chicken soup can cost a college student a month's living expenses? This is somewhat of a luxury.

Of course, for Deng Weimin, with his net worth and income, he could certainly afford it.

However, even high-income people like Deng Weimin still feel that Chen Li's price for the local chicken soup is a bit expensive.

The "expensive" he thinks does not simply refer to the price of 168 yuan. It is not like Deng Weimin has never tasted more expensive dishes.

The reason why Deng Weimin came up with the idea of ​​"expensive" was because of the farmhouse environment and the fact that the main ingredient of this dish is chicken!

If it's abalone, sea cucumber, lobster, etc., the price of 168 yuan is nothing.

But when this dish was made from chicken, Deng Weimin had some unworthy thoughts!

You must know that the price level is really not high these days!

Taking Erlong Town as an example, the price of pork has fallen instead of rising, and has dropped to three yuan per pound.

If you go later, you can even buy it for two and a half yuan.

This is because there was an outbreak of swine fever in many places in China some time ago, which directly caused the price of pork, which was originally about to rise and was very likely to increase, to suddenly fall back.

Similarly, there is swine fever, chicken fever, and even various types of bird flu!

Basically, every time something like this happens, the price of the corresponding food ingredients will plummet.

There is also the influence of supply relations. When productivity exceeds consumption, prices will naturally fall.

Anyway, Chen Li vaguely remembered that the price of pork seemed to last for many years between 3 yuan and 5 yuan!

As for how and when the price rose later, Chen Li couldn't remember it.

I say this to reflect the level of consumption at this moment.

Pork that costs three yuan a pound in Erlong Town is definitely more than that in Yanjing, but no matter how expensive it is, it's not much more expensive.

The same principle applies to chickens!

Although the concept of native chicken has been accepted by many people these days, the price of native chicken is not as high as it was later.

As for the local chicken soup at the farmhouse, it is calculated based on the fact that a local chicken is about four pounds, and the average price is forty yuan per pound.

Of course, the price of food will also vary depending on the cooking method and craftsmanship as well as the size, environment, and quality of the restaurant and many other factors.

However, ideal chicken farms are almost always at a very low level in these conditions.

However, the price of this local chicken soup has reached a very high level, which makes people somewhat speechless.

What's even more ridiculous is that the other dishes at the farmhouse are relatively normal.

Even the large plates of chicken, wood-fired turkey and other dishes are higher than those in small restaurants, but they are special dishes after all, so it is not incomprehensible.

But this local chicken soup alone made Deng Weimin quite puzzled.

Because the price of this dish is so conspicuous, it is obviously different from other dishes by more than one level!

Therefore, Deng Weimin reminded Chen Li with good intentions.

But it’s no use at all!

Although Chen Li accepted Deng Weimin's kindness, he ignored his reminder.

Because Chen Li planned to make this local chicken soup the signature dish of the farmhouse from the very beginning.

Whether ideal farmhouses can bloom all over the country in the future depends on this local chicken soup.

Although Deng Weimin now thinks that the 168 local chicken soup is not worth it, Chen Li can guarantee that in the future, Deng Weimin will definitely be "proud" that he can often drink the local chicken soup from the ideal chicken farm!

Of course ~ this is all Chen Li’s imagination!

Before the yellow-feathered chickens from the ideal chicken farm can open up the market, Chen Li needs to sell the yellow-feathered chickens first.

And this Chef Gong happens to be the person who can help Chen Li open up the market.
To be continued...