Chapter 34 Chapter 34 The Years on the Steamer

When I was in the geological team, it was a time when my sense of taste was poor. When the tentacles of my memory accidentally touched that era, I still couldn’t help but feel angry. It is a fiction, and the geological team members who climbed mountains and waded, their stomachs always muttered rhythmically: We want to eat!we want to eat!We're going to eat...meat!Meat was a gourmet dish in that era, even if it was eaten every meal, there was never a time to get bored. I maintain the drilling rig in the geological team. One person is responsible for the normal operation of one drilling rig and one mud pump. I always have time to stay at the station to study, learn radio knowledge and research food. The rest of the time is used to observe the cooking team and give to the cooking team People tell some love stories they read from foreign novels, and any bad adultery stories are put on the chief purser's head.I have learned a lot from observing the cooking class. These bird people always come up with some ways to eat. They are used to the same diet as us, and they also get a lot.I remember that cigarettes were very tense at that time. The non-staple food store in a small town in the mountains sold a pack of cigarettes, but they had to buy red dates that could not be sold for half a catty. At that time, there were too many red dates. There are piles of red dates everywhere.Only the monitor in the cooking class does not smoke, and the rest are smokers. There are a lot of red dates, so they came up with a way to eliminate them, put red dates, vermicelli, lean meat slices or ribs together in a clay bowl and steam them in a steamer. Solved the problem of excess red dates, this soup is also good, a bit sweet, the red dates are steamed, and the small pieces of lean meat are steamed to produce large pieces of lean meat, which is much better than stir-frying, which takes more oil, this one; fried pork slices shrink , this two; frying takes a lot of work, this three.Steaming is easy, there is steamed rice on the bottom, and steamed red dates and sliced ​​meat soup on the top, people are so smart.

Starting from steaming soup with red dates and pork slices, we have entered a steamer era. We steam almost all dishes, such as kelp, dried vegetables, pig's feet, silver carp, vermicelli, and tofu—in short, there is a word for steaming.The people in the cooking class were almost liberated from heavy labor, and everything was steamed.My observations have been further expanded. Steaming is still fair, and there is no need for someone to handle the spoon, and cooking with the spoon often causes disputes. The chef who is called "Prince Binnu" who loves to shake his wrist is often criticized.The steamed dishes are prepared in advance, and each bowl has the same amount of meat slices, which saves everyone from using words such as "dog's eyes see people" to present to the master of the spoon.However, there is still a mystery here. When you are the cooks, each of you gets a bowl of sliced ​​meat soup, and the soup you get is the same. It seems very selfless. Is it really selfless?I finally saw the flaw. When the cooks put sliced ​​meat into the clay bowls, they had to pack a few bowls according to the head of the cooking team. Adding the head of the team, the number of slices of meat in the special pack was doubled, so as not to mess up when serving the soup. Wrong, they put a piece of shallot in the bowl of the special sliced ​​meat, and they eat the sliced ​​meat soup with a piece of shallot.I am not a noble person. After discovering this secret, I would always serve the sliced ​​meat soup with shallots when I opened the steamer. Pretending to be very greedy, he stretched out his spoon to scoop up a spoonful of soup to drink, and the drinking squad leader said, you have to buy the bowl you drank.

Appetite tends to humble people, I think so.If I didn't have an appetite, how could I be happy to do those boring observations and go to great lengths to get more slices of meat?Here's what happens when I take away the extra fillet soup: One of the cooks loses the special fillet soup.In this way, they will study countermeasures and never allow outsiders to enter the kitchen, so as to prevent someone from infringing on their rights.This can't last long, and the people in the cooking class must not be completely selfish. They also have to leave a special sliced ​​meat soup for the captain and secretary, and they can still enjoy the captain or secretary's portion.

After a period of time like this, the absolutely fair mythical steaming bowl was unsustainable, so I changed to cooking later on. Cooking vegetables is also a fuel-saving and labor-saving operation. The pig intestines they bought were boiled in a large iron pot, and the ammonia smelled, There is always a layer of bran floating on top of the soup. Of course, it is the new bran that the pig has not digested yet, and it has not deteriorated at all.Cooking resumed the process of holding the spoon. Under the unanimous opposition of everyone, the masters who had developed the habit of shaking spoons switched to cooking fires. Prince Nabinu retired soon and opened a small restaurant by himself. It is said that the problem of shaking spoons was completely cured.From then on, I stopped paying attention to the operation of the cooking class and started the process of making food by myself. I bought air guns, firecrackers, fishing nets, kerosene stoves, electric stoves, pots and pans, and went into the mountains to hunt pheasants, hares, and turtledoves, or Fishing and shrimping in the river has entered the substantive era of fishing and hunting. The study of Gu’s cuisine has gradually become famous in the geological team, so that they don’t pay attention to the cooks who have the title of cooks. Private teachers exchange food experiences, and now thinking about those years, it is true that there are no more in life, and the days of full thinking have passed.