Daddy's Gourmet Shop-Chapter 276 - 267: Rice Cooked to Perfection Smells Extra Fragrant

Chapter 276: Chapter 267: Rice Cooked to Perfection Smells Extra Fragrant

The kitchen equipment at the Delicious Restaurant is complete.

The rice cooker purchased when the restaurant opened has never been used until now!

As a result! 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

A layer of dust has settled on the packaging box.

Fortunately, today!

It finally found its place to shine.

A rice cooker costing over seven hundred yuan is said to make particularly fragrant rice.

Hmm~

This should be the slogan for every rice cooker!

The final result usually fails to live up to the word "particularly."

Huang Tao wanted to see the difference between the rice cooked with max-level steaming skills and his usual rice.

"Suqin, could you wash the inner pot of this rice cooker and wipe the outside as well?"

While rummaging through the kitchen cabinet for the rice cooker, Huang Tao casually instructed Ding Suqin, who was nearby.

Hearing this, Ding Suqin instinctively asked, "Boss, you’re going to steam rice?"

After asking, she felt it was a somewhat silly question.

"Yes, I am."

Huang Tao nodded: "We’re serving rice for lunch today."

The group, not particularly interested in plain rice, did not show the usual hunger and excitement they had for new dishes.

Instead, they had an ’oh, just that’ feeling!

Of course, no one expressed this feeling outwardly and continued doing what they were doing!

"Oh, got it."

Ding Suqin understood: "Boss, what about the price?"

"Two yuan for a single-serving bowl, and ten yuan for a large platter serving eight to ten people."

Huang Tao thought it over: "Suqin, remember to enter the price when you’re done."

"Alright, got it."

Ding Suqin noted this in her mind and washed the rice cooker inside and out several times.

Until Cheng Liang showed up

Huang Tao then taught Li Chengzhan and Lin Qiuyu how much rice to use and how to wash it.

Although the two young men were second-generation wealth who had never done chores, they were quite quick learners.

They grasped things instantly without Huang Tao needing to explain much.

"Good, just do as I taught, wash it twice more, then soak it for twenty minutes after filling it with water to this level."

Huang Tao patted the shoulders of his new employees in encouragement while assigning the task.

"Got it, boss."

The two remembered Huang Tao’s instructions clearly in their minds.

Huang Tao watched them with a bit of unease as they rinsed the rice twice more.

Their techniques and steps were all within his instructions.

Huang Tao was quite satisfied, and then went to see how Xu Hao and the other three assistant chefs were doing.

Xu Hao had become the second-in-command at the restaurant.

He could independently handle tasks like making stews and steaming ribs with lotus leaves.

He also excelled at other preliminary tasks like frying, steaming, and deep-frying!

Given more training time.

He could likely manage on his own.

He might even carry the entire kitchen on his shoulders!

No doubt.

Huang Tao was training Xu Hao to be the head chef!

Thinking about expansion, opening more branches would inevitably be necessary in the future.

If they opened a branch in a neighboring province, he’d really consider having Xu Hao oversee it as the head chef.

After all, Xu Hao and Ding Suqin have been his earliest partners, and they are the most trustworthy.

Such important work should naturally be entrusted to loyal partners.

However, the plan for opening new branches is not yet on his immediate agenda.

After all, the expansion has only just been put on the agenda and has been recently resolved.

Renovation will start this afternoon.

So, there’s no rush.

They should take it one step at a time and move slowly.

Lin Zifeng and Jiang Chao have taken over Xu Hao’s previous job of chopping and prepping dishes.

Both have good knife skills and are equally matched!

Huang Tao also intended to train them as reserve chief chefs.

He hopes that in the near future, they too can become self-reliant and lend him a helping hand.

Opening multiple branches!

After taking a look, Huang Tao felt that the three assistant chefs were doing well and didn’t need his intervention at the moment.

Thinking the rice should be about soaked by now, he returned to Li Chengzhan and Lin Qiuyu, and put the soaked rice into the rice cooker for steaming.

Following the experience provided by the system, he added salt, white vinegar, and lard...

Honestly speaking, rice cooked over a firewood flame is the most fragrant!

Although cooking with firewood is quite old-fashioned, the resulting dishes, whether rice or other foods, are actually tastier than those made with gas or induction cookers.

Of course.

In this environment-focused city, he couldn’t just buy a simple firewood pot to cook.

Time quietly passed by.

The kitchen began to fill with the aroma of rice.

Gradually, the fragrance grew stronger, wafting out through every crack and crevice.

"Hmm, what’s that smell?"

Next door, Jiang Guowei was sorting old cardboard boxes outside his shop.

Suddenly, a tempting rice aroma tickled his nose, and he couldn’t resist taking a deep sniff.

"Yeah, I smell it too, it’s so fragrant! It seems like the smell of rice?"

Li, who was both waiting outside the Delicious Restaurant and playing cards, caught a whiff and couldn’t help but speak up.

Soon, Granny Li, Mr. Cheng, Lao Liu, and countless other voices joined in from behind:

"Is this really rice I’m smelling? Can rice really be this fragrant?"

"Wow! That rice smell is coming from Boss Huang’s place, could this be another of Boss Huang’s new dishes?!"

"A new dish? Plain rice? Why do I feel like this rice aroma is just as captivating as the dishes Boss Huang makes?"

"Whoa, this rice aroma is so intense! It’s making my mouth water!"

"Who isn’t? I’ve been alive for over twenty years, and I’ve never smelled rice this fragrant! It’s making my taste buds restless!"

"Cough, cough, this rice aroma is too fragrant, excessively fragrant! Boss Huang must be using some high-tech trick, right?"

At these words, other customers immediately voiced their dissatisfaction in rebuttal.

"High-tech, my foot! Even if the whole world adopted tech for food, Boss Huang wouldn’t."

"Exactly, exactly, Boss Huang always uses the freshest ingredients and chooses the best, even for seasonings, he sticks to traditional ingredients, nothing high-tech."

"Dude, can you stop babbling nonsense? Do you still want to eat at the Delicious Restaurant later?"

"Damn, you can question my character, but you can never question Boss Huang’s food."

This customer, who had been spouting nonsense, quickly pleaded:

"I’m sorry, everyone! I’m sorry, it was my foolish mouth that ran off, I swear I won’t speak without thinking again..."

...

In the kitchen of the Delicious Restaurant.

Huang Tao saw that the plain rice was ready and went to inspect it.

No surprise, rice cooked by max-level skill!

Each grain distinct, shiny, and blissfully aromatic!

Neither sticky nor hard.

In short!

Everything was just right.

Perfection!