Xia Yu was cleaning a large wooden barrel.

This wooden barrel, also known as a rice barrel, is commonly referred to as a rice barrel. Traditional cooking utensils of the Han people are popular in the south and are made of tightly wrapped with wooden strips of fir. Now the one that Xia Yu cleans is one person tall, and can barely be surrounded by holding hands.

Use a brush to clean it carefully inside and outside. Strangely, in the nearby Chiyo Aichi, I smelled a faint fragrance of honey, and the water used to clean the wooden bucket seemed to be not pure water.

Xia Yu himself made this thing up.

What, you say carpenter work?

In fact, when thinking about the wood mold used in the recipe of "The Great Magic Panda Tofu" a few months ago, Xia Yu developed his carpenter skills almost completely. This is what the so-called practice makes perfect.

The live camera is in focus, Nakiri Thistle is also watching the boy cleaning around the wooden barrel. Then, he reaches in and pulls out layers of partitions woven with bamboo strips.

The so-called bamboo strips are bamboo skins. When the lenses come, the layers of bamboo strips are all holes like beehives. Just as the audience was talking about it, Xia Yu told them with practical actions—

Scoop up the shiny "star rice" in a small bowl.

"Wow—"

The rice grains poured into the bamboo basket, making a pleasant sound. Then, Xia Yu smiled and stroked his palms. Mishan was immediately flattened, and a scene that made people stare at him appeared.

Grains of rice suddenly penetrated into the small hole between the bamboo skin!

After stroking the palm again, more rice grains were firmly embedded in the holes. When they looked away, each grain of rice was separated and stuck without falling. They were densely distributed on the bamboo strips. The excess rice was carefully picked out by Xia Yu and placed on the next layer of bamboo strips.

With such a cycle, Xia Yu's face was focused and he was serious without distraction.

Off the field, Zhu Qing was shocked and murmured: "No wonder he was carrying me on his back yesterday and was talking in the villa warehouse. It turned out that he was making these weird things!"

His eyes swept to the bamboo strips, and then looked at the traditional cooking utensils - rice steamers.

Zhu Qing couldn't help but put his white palms together, with awesomeness and admiration in his eyes, and said with a low smile: "My nephew, there are so many tricks in his head!"

Who said no?

Even though he didn't know what the "rice steamer" was, Tsaiba Ichiro Tatsuki saw Xia Yu inlaid the rice grains on the bamboo net, he couldn't help but look at each other and get cold air.

The problem of "star rice" needs to be cleaned and steamed and cooked is cleverly resolved by the gadget.

"Damn it, it's amazing!"

In the guest seat, Kimetsuki slapped his thigh without any consciously applauding.

Tulip's eyes flashed violently, and Yu said excitedly: "This is indeed a tool to master the "star rice". If it is bamboo material, it will be tasteless and pollution-free. Even if the "star rice" is fragile and fragile, it will not be defiled during cooking."

That's true,

Bamboo is a magical thing and can be used directly to make bamboo tube rice. Of course, when Xia Yu gets the recipe of "Tofu Trio", he also needs to prepare a special bamboo knife to cut the tofu so that the tofu does not smell like iron.

"This boy..."

"I didn't expect the problem to be solved like this!"

"That kind of cooking utensil has an ancient atmosphere."

Review seats, igo, and review speeches from the Food Association.

The judge in the center, Shinichiro Furukawa also admired it with unspeakable eyes.

Listening to the admiration of the judges next door, Erina Nakiri on the sixth chair quietly clenched her pink fist, and a hint of excitement appeared on her cheeks.

The start is smooth!

"snort!"

Nakiri Thistle finally withdrew her gaze and looked ugly.

"It's just a preliminary control. It depends on how you control the heat after the cooking process-" Sweeping over the stone-bump stove next to Xia Yu's cooking table, then looking at the traditional bellows placed next to it. The expression of Nakiri thistle is indescribable, as if mocking and disdainful.

Being blindly retro? Pursuing these cookware for common people and trying to use such cookware to cook elegant dishes that conform to modern art? Don’t joke with me, stop at the right time!

Nakiri Thistle's face looked faintly ferocious.

“This is not modern culinary art!”

"Let me tell you what essence cooking is and what the art of cooking is!"

Click.

Thinking of it, blue veins appeared on the forehead of Naginki thistle, twisted the stove valve, and the blue flames rose up, burning the pan again.

“Wait…”

The Baccarat onion is heated, and a wisp of alcohol evaporates to form smoke during cooking.

boom!

Suddenly, a whole pot of sauce appeared, and in the burning column of alcohol, the golden sauce in the pan gurgled and bubbled, like boiling golden magma.

Ceasefire.

Close the lid, Nakiri thistle ignored the sauce, but moved to the cutting board and touched the snake meat. At this time, the frozen ice sprayed by the nitrogen liquid slightly dissolved over time, and the hardness was just right. So Nakiri thistle took a sharp Western knife and cut it gently. A piece of pink and tender snake meat that was two fingers wide and one finger long broke out.

After more than ten minutes, I cut two pieces of snake meat into segments, then took a conditioning basin, sprinkled in white wine to marinate, without any unnecessary seasonings to grab the flavor. While gently pinching the pink snake meat with my fingers, the nakiri thistle did not forget to observe the situation of the opponent.

During this period, Xia Yu was also slowly starting his cooking process.

At least a dozen layers of bamboo strips are covered with "star rice".

The bamboo strips were embedded into the rice bucket layer by layer. The lens gave the rice bucket a close-up shot of the internal structure at the right time, which immediately attracted awesomeness.

There are protruding wooden slots at every half finger-width distance on the inner wall of the wooden barrel, which just explains why there is a row of wooden nail rivets arranged from top to bottom outside the wooden barrel.

Another female host, Yuki Watanabe, stepped forward and reached over to the microphone: "Chef Xia, can you introduce the cooking utensils you use?"

"Cookware? No problem."

Xia Yu just finished packing the bamboo strips and was about to close the wooden lid. Hearing this, he patted the wall of the barrel and said calmly: "This thing is an ancient cooking utensil used in China to this day. It is still widely used in many areas of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. It is just like a wooden barrel on the outside, and the actual internal structure is mostly made of bamboo strips..."

As he said that, he took a step forward, easily picked up a heavy wooden barrel that was tall by man, and signaled the camera to follow up.

So the situation at the bottom of the wooden barrel is displayed in the picture.

A layer of hollow bamboo strips is the bottom plate.

"Of course, I have improved this thing myself. It is a cooking utensil made for "Star Rice". It has many differences from traditional rice steamers. Just know what the situation is, don't worry."

He shrugged and moved the wooden barrel with the lid closed to the stone stove.

The stove had already put a large iron pot on it, and the wooden barrel was placed in the iron pot, just like placing a steamer.

Then, add water!

"Because it is steaming rice in water, the water surface must not touch the bottom bamboo strips..." Xia Yu explained while carrying the bucket to fill the iron pot with water.

"But, in this case, won't the rising steam push the rice grains in the bamboo pores open?"

Yuki Watanabe pursed her lips and asked a question keenly.

"This question is good!"

Seeing that the water level was almost the same, Xia Yu put down the barrel, looked back at the camera and said, "This is the variable I want to control!"

"Tools, after all, are just tools."

"Chefs must not fantasize about using tools to solve everything, and tools replace cooking skills to cook dishes."
Chapter completed!