But seeing the phone ringing and cutting off, cutting off and ringing, ringing and cutting off again, and then waiting for the third ring, Mr. Zhang, who had just had time to make a cup of tea, picked up the phone, but did not deliver it.
In my ears, I heard a violent roar coming from the phone: "Damn it, Mr. Zhang, how dare you hang up on me!"
After listening to this with a smile, Mr. Zhang put the phone on the base again, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
He hung up the phone again.
Hanged up again
The bell rang again, two or three times, and Mr. Zhang picked up. This time he put the phone directly to his ear.
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, is what you said just now true?" A voice came from the other end of the phone.
Dude, if you still don’t believe me, I can’t cure you! Mr. Zhang grinned, and the old man made a face alone in the room, and then said calmly into the microphone: “I think back then, I was also a powerful man, a man who could swallow up thousands of miles.
How can I lie to you, just a mean old man? If you don’t believe it, just come over and see for yourself. That little guy will probably be around for a while, and it will be hard to say as time goes by."
"You think I don't dare to come over? Wait for me!" The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be gathering some anger again.
"Come here. From tomorrow on, I'm going to teach that little guy a lesson. When you come over, I'll let him beat you up." Zhang Laoyun said calmly.
The other end responded with a hey, and then hung up the phone.
This kind of interaction was naturally unknown to Xu Guangling. After parting ways with Mr. Zhang and returning to the rented place, Xu Guangling first took a hot bath as usual, then put on his pajamas and started fighting again in the room.
Tai Chi.
This time his movements were very slow and one after another.
That is to say, after completing a move, he will stop, and then dissect and analyze the move himself, imagining why there is such an action and what effect it has. In this way, after repeated inferences, he starts to perform the next move.
One formula.
After dismantling the thirty-six postures one by one, Xu Guangling closed his eyes and meditated for a while, then opened his eyes, and then performed the thirty-six postures completely from beginning to end.
The whole morning passed like this.
It was Xu Guangling's growling stomach that reminded Xu Guangling of the passage of time. Then he walked to the bed and picked up his phone. He was a little surprised, but not very surprised to find that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. Well, it was time to reward his stomach.
What to eat?
Xu Guangling thought about it and decided on potatoes.
Yesterday, I went through Baidu and learned that potatoes contain 18 kinds of amino acids, which are "umami substances". Xu Guangling wanted to cook potatoes alone to see what kind of taste they had. Today was just the day, so it was a test.
Taking out the remaining half of the three potatoes from yesterday, Xu Guangling thought about it for a moment and made three treatments for the three potatoes: first, cut them into thin strips. The kind of thin strips from yesterday were also the kind in the dream.
The second one is to cut into thick shreds, which actually aren’t that thick anymore. It’s the way he used to cut the potatoes when frying shredded potatoes. The third one is to just cut the potatoes in half.
Then put it in the pot.
Place the two halves of potatoes on the steaming rack and steam until cooked.
The two kinds of shredded potatoes are cooked separately.
Soon after, this hearty "one dish and two soups" was ready. When Xu Guangling sat at the dinner table, there were three bowls in a row in front of him. From left to right, they were steamed potato cubes and thick shredded potatoes.
Soup, shredded potato soup.
Xu Guangling also tasted the food in this order from left to right, and of course, ate it.
Steamed potato cubes.
It is soft and has a slightly gritty feeling. It is very delicious and is a good food to fill the stomach on an empty stomach. But it doesn’t stop there. Because of his foresight, Xu Guangling tastes it carefully when eating it.
Looking at its "fresh" taste, I found that the freshness was there, but it was not obvious.
Or it can be said that if it is not intentional, it is easy to ignore it.
What's going on?
Next comes the thick shredded potato soup.
After eating the steamed potato cubes, Xu Guangling deliberately stood up and moved around. Then he even rinsed his mouth and cleared his mouth before he began to taste the thick potato soup. The result this time was obvious.
I felt a very fresh taste.
Xu Guangling actually seemed to have cooked potato soup before, but did the potato soup at that time have an umami flavor? Xu Guangling didn't remember.
And not remembering is actually the answer. Not remembering means that there should be no special or deep impression at that time.
It is not difficult to understand why this is the case. Firstly, Xu Guangling’s cooking skills at that time were mediocre, or to put it more bluntly, he only cooked but had no skills. It is not surprising that he could not control the heat properly and could not produce delicious food. Secondly, at that time,
The potatoes you bought were probably not that good.
In fact, based on what he observed at the potato stalls in the vegetable market yesterday, the potatoes he bought in the past were probably not very good.
This "maybe" needs to be removed.
Just not very good.
The chance of buying good potatoes is extremely small. From a practical point of view, it is probably even more negligible than the chance of winning the lottery.
Then again, as the saying goes, it’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
He was neither a "smart woman" nor "good rice" at that time, so how could he make good rice?
After briefly thinking about the reason, Xu Guangling slowly finished the bowl of potato soup, and then moved on to the last bowl, thinly sliced potato soup.
It was a direct transition without gargling or anything else, but even under such circumstances, Xu Guangling still felt that the umami taste had at least increased by two levels, filling his mouth. Why two levels? Because Xu Guangling
I feel like one is not enough.
To put it simply, there is more than one grade difference between the two!
Well, the results are already obvious. From the perspective of umami taste, steamed potato cubes are completely defeated by thick potato soup, and thick potato soup is completely defeated by thin potato soup. Is it necessary to grind potatoes into powder and thin potatoes?
Soup will be completely defeated by potato flour soup?
Xu Guangling thought that he might try it in the future, but it was hard to say what the result would be.
There is a possibility, that is, if the potato shreds are so thin, there may not be much difference from potato flour in terms of umami release. Or even if there is still a difference, the subtlety is no longer human.
You can easily taste it on your tongue.
Whether this is actually the case is doubtful for the time being.
After this comparison, Xu Guangling also came to a preliminary conclusion: if you want to fully demonstrate the "taste" of ingredients when cooking, you should cut them as finely and thinly as possible. Or at the same time, you should also consider the taste.
The problem is to obtain the best comprehensive value between the two. Then based on this knife skills, consider the control of heat during cooking.
Afraid of forgetting in the future. Of course, forgetting is unlikely, but negligence is very possible. Xu Guangling also specially created a section in his notebook to write down this sentence.
At this time, he did not realize what this sentence meant to him.