“For this stir-fried loach, small ones are the best. Big ones are okay too. You can cut them up, but the taste will be slightly worse…”
Master Wen said as he conjured up a pot of small loach, “This size is just right!”
Yi Qingqing nodded. The loaches that Hu Wa and the others brought were too big and fat.
Afraid that she would not be able to learn it well, she estimated the appearance of the loaches that Hu Wa and the others had brought and made a basin of the same one.
The good thing about the skill teaching model is that all teaching aids and materials can be changed and used at will, restoring it based on reality, one-to-one.
“Master Wen, my loach is in this shape. How should I deal with it?” Yi Qingqing asked.
Although she really wanted to eat them, she didn’t know how to start when she saw these loaches that looked like little snakes and were twisting and turning.
“Okay, let’s take your basin of loaches as an example.”
“First of all, it’s best to keep the loaches freshly caught in clean water for two days to spat out the mud. However, the dry-frying method requires more care than the stewing method. If the mud is not spit out completely, you can wash it twice more when removing the internal organs and cutting the meat.”
“The basin you chose is a bit shallow. It would be better to use a bucket or a higher basin.” Said Master Wen, turning the basin containing loaches into a bucket, then taking the salt jar, and scooping a few spoonfuls of salt into the bucket.
“After sprinkling salt, the loaches will jump around for a while, but after a few minutes, they will stop moving, so you can deal with them later.”
Yi Qingqing was stunned. How could they do this?
She watched the loaches make their last struggle and then turned into a pool of stagnant water.
The next step is to process the loach.
Following Master Wen’s movements, first, cut open the belly, clean out the internal organs, and cut off the head. For thicker loaches, cut a few more times, manually breaking the thick strip into two thin strips.
This is a delicate job. Once you become proficient at cutting, you don’t have to wait until you have finished processing the entire bucket before moving on to the next step. Once you have learned how to cut, you will be fine.
Yi Qingqing felt it was almost ready, so she told Master Wen. The fresh loaches were turned into processed loaches and started to be fried.
The steps are simple in theory, but problems arise when you really start to try them.
However, Yi Qingqing now has a level 3 cooking foundation, so she adapted quickly.
After spending an afternoon making loaches in the cooking teaching mode, she not only learned how to stir-fry loaches, but also studied with Master Wen how to cook loaches well with less oil or increase the storage time as long as possible.
If less oil is used, the taste will naturally be worse, but it can also be economical and is more in line with the common practice of this era.
However, this step is quite difficult. If you want to fry, you can’t use less oil.
However, there has been a breakthrough in increasing the storage time.
Yiqing calculated the time, made a jar, and sent it home. It should not go bad by the time it arrives.
This is fine. After all, she doesn’t have the problem of storage time. The main purpose is to send it home for her parents to taste.
Only after feeling that she had mastered the skill of stir-fried loach did Yi Qingqing come out of the skill teaching mode and start working on the real bucket of loaches.
This time, she had to deal with them one by one.
Yi Qingqing sat on the doorstep of the backyard and cut them one by one.
Sometimes, most of the time for making a dish is really spent on the preliminary preparations.
Thinking about the taste of the finished product she had just tasted in the cooking skills teaching mode and with the expectation of making the children bow down to her tomorrow, she worked extremely hard.
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