Gourmet: Midnight Vending

Chapter 541 - 426: Special Methods for Making Large Intestine (Part 2)

Seeing Chen Mo’s awkwardness, Granny broke the silence, "How about this, if you’re not in a hurry, you can wait here, I’ll give the address to the other party, and they can deliver directly."

"Is it convenient?"

Granny Chen nodded, "I’ve prepared all the ingredients for today, I need to catch up on some sleep later, so you’ll have to wait by yourself."

Since that’s the case, Chen Mo nodded, "Thank you very much."

Granny Chen stood up, tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, and then took out a bag of green snacks from the fridge.

"Let me do it!"

Chen Kexin ran over to grab the bag of snacks and... wrote on the packaging with a red marker: TV.

The name of the snacks followed these three characters, "snacks".

She then wrote behind "snacks": operation.

This childish behavior left Chen Mo a bit speechless, thinking if the TV acts up, just smack it a couple of times and that’s it, feeding it snacks, spoiling it!

Chen Kexin chatted with Chen Mo a while longer, then changed clothes to go to work. Before leaving, she asked Chen Mo again, "Are you sure it’s that street today?"

Chen Mo said, "Yes, we’ll meet on that street at seven o’clock tonight."

With a positive response, Chen Kexin went off to work at ease.

Granny also went upstairs to rest, during the day she needs more rest to have the energy to work at the stall at night.

Chen Mo waited boringly in the house, after about an hour, the delivery finally arrived.

The other party delivered the packaged intestines, had Chen Mo sign the receipt, and left.

Chen Mo opened the packaging bag, the intestines looked clean and white, smelled without any odor, seemingly indeed well cleaned.

Even so, Chen Mo took the intestines to the food cart to perform another deep clean using the cabinet’s cleaning function.

The method for Nine-Turned Pork Intestines isn’t unfamiliar, this dish can be said to bring the "braise" in Lu Cuisine to its peak.

And what Chen Mo thought about fusion, first was to integrate the ingredients from two places.

The glutinous rice sausages from the night market are quite good, but the texture of glutinous rice is rather special, plus it absorbs soup easily, using it for braising absorbs too much soup and tastes very greasy.

So what ingredients to pair with the pork intestines became the key problem.

But now isn’t the time to consider this, Chen Mo felt he might as well learn the Nine-Turned Pork Intestines dish first before trying fusion.

To be on the safe side, Chen Mo still pinched a small piece of intestine and dropped it into the input slot, awaiting the recipe for Nine-Turned Pork Intestines from the food cart system.

Although, in his mind he basically already knew the recipe, as a top-ranking dish in Lu Cuisine, there are numerous chefs sharing new ways online.

Most start by thoroughly cleaning the intestines, then begin looping the intestines, repeatedly looping inside and out, before passing it through clear oil then braising it.

When the recipe appeared in his mind, Chen Mo immediately began checking it.

"Oh?"

Just with a slight glance, Chen Mo found parts in the recipe that differed from his previous understanding.

"Without clear oil, no marination, not even adding any seasoning in the cooking process?"

"This..."

Chen Mo suddenly recalled an old acquaintance from a TV show.

"Food cart, are you intentionally trying to mess with me?"

If I eat it, then I fall into the trap.

If I don’t eat it, I’ll never know if this way is right or wrong.

[Not messing with you!!!]

Thinking about it, Chen Mo believed the food cart should be on his side, but there was another point in the recipe he couldn’t understand.

Why is there no looping step?

When queried again, the food cart seemed upset due to Chen Mo’s previous questioning, not responding for a while.

"Forget it forget it."

Chen Mo took out the intestines bought today from the cabinet, checked them, there was still thick fat inside the intestines, while rinsing water, he began removing the fat.

[Please carefully learn the recipe.]

The food cart finally responded.

Curiously, Chen Mo reread the recipe and discovered the second key point was: Do not remove all the fat.

Just now, Chen Mo was fully focused on the cooking process, neglecting the way the ingredients were processed, so didn’t notice this point.

Suddenly feeling somewhat confused.

The fat inside this intestine is so thick, if not removed, eating it would be quite... just thinking about it...

"Hope you’re not messing with me."

The previous dishes didn’t seem as complex as this, Chen Mo still stayed cautious.

Only took out part of the intestines and began handling them separately.

Removed all fat from part of the intestines, kept all for another part, and removed about fifty percent for yet another part.

Then differentiated these three intestines into looped and non-looped.

"This way, I’ll know which one tastes good later."

At this moment, Chen Mo felt like he was performing a cooking experiment.

To ensure he didn’t misread the recipe, Chen Mo even searched the internet several times using his phone, and in the videos shared by some famous Lu Cuisine masters online, the next step was cooking the intestines.

"But at the very least you need to add cooking wine or similar aromatics to neutralize the smell... not adding anything, won’t the flavor be too strong?"

Chen Mo thought it over and decided to still follow the recipe.

Previously, he didn’t question the recipe because even though it differed from common knowledge, upon slight thought the differences could be understood.

But this recipe was a bit strange, it’s beyond what Chen Mo could comprehend through imagination.

No more words, directly using the pressure cooker!

This item looks small, actually quite tough to cook, with the recipe stating to use a regular pot to cook for four hours upward.

"Won’t that make it overly cooked?"

Is that really reasonable?

Four hours, Chen Mo calculated, if using the pressure cooker it’d take at least half an hour to achieve the same effect.

With the pressure cooker starting to hiss and puff, Chen Mo continued pondering what ingredients should be merged with the intestines.

Half an hour later, releasing steam, open the pot!

Chen Mo scooped out the cooked intestines with a black ladle, placing them soft and elastic on the cutting board, tested them slightly with chopsticks, they nearly required no effort to puncture through.

"Tender enough."

In this state, basically just gently pressing it with your mouth is enough, barely needing to use teeth to bite.

Though as the intestines cool down, the tenderness slightly improves.

Following is the next step.

Chen Mo had no intention to taste now, even though the intestines were cleaned very well, eating it without any seasoning or spices...

It’s no different than eating X.

Start the pot, render lard!

Lard slowly melted in the black pot, before the oil temperature rose, Chen Mo added half a spoon of white sugar.

This amount of sugar seemed excessive, almost covering the lard in the pot, but as the temperature gradually rose, the white sugar started to melt.

While waiting for it to melt, Chen Mo cut the just-cooked intestines into seven-centimeter long sections, picked up two pieces for closer inspection.

"At least now they visually seem somewhat different."

The cross-section of the looped intestines seemed very tight, even if not tasted, one could imagine they would have a rather full texture.

The unlooped intestines resembled the cross-section of ordinary braised intestines.

Regarding the fat processing.

During cooking, no other processes were performed, so the fat inside the intestines still clung to the intestine’s skin surface, less noticeable for the looped ones due to compression.

But the unlooped ones appeared quite obvious.

The side of the intestines with untouched fat showed white, slightly transparent fat trembling inside, just at sight, Chen Mo felt hardly appetizing.

"Whatever the result, only the completed dish will tell!"

Uncertain feelings started to brew within Chen Mo.