Maybe it's the benefit of being a time traveler. Yao Yuan obviously feels that his current physical condition is surprisingly good, and even the drowsiness of young people who stay in bed has disappeared.
I only slept for three or four hours last night, and I felt so energetic that I couldn't lie down anymore.
At dawn, Yao Yuan quietly went out and ran along the road towards Zizhu Park.
The sky in the east has just turned rose red, and the few high-rise buildings in the city's low skyline look a bit abrupt, especially the circular revolving restaurant on the twenty-sixth floor of the Xinyuan Hotel, shrouded in the morning light. , looks a bit postmodern, a bit like an alien flying saucer.
There are already pigeons flying in the sky, and pigeon whistles are heard one after another. This is a sound that is difficult to hear in later generations, and it belongs to the special background of this city today.
"If you don't have money, don't have money. If you have nothing, don't get sick!" Yao Yuan ran away in the morning light, muttering as he ran.
I just decided to enjoy life, but my money is gone. It doesn’t matter if I have no money, I can still make money! The first priority is to take good care of your body.
Yao Yuan ran at a fast pace. As his body heated up, his mind gradually began to move.
You still have to make some money!
After all, we have seen it all in our last life. Ordinary luxury cars and villas are not attractive to us, but we should not let down this opportunity of re-employment. In this era, we can live in a third- or fifth-level courtyard house. , lead a free life with family and friends, and live up to this opportunity of rebirth, and it is absolutely impossible to do all this without money.
But, as a cook, how can we make money?
I don’t know anything about finance or trading, so I’m afraid the only thing I can rely on is my own skills.
Gradually, more and more people came and went on the street.
Mo Daojun leaves early, and there are even more early travelers.
Looking at the crowds of people setting up stalls and selling snacks in the morning market on the street, I gradually started to have some concerns.
Don't underestimate the street vendors who buy wontons and fried dough sticks. You can make a lot of money in a month after doing this business. In later generations, some people once bought a car and a house and achieved financial freedom just by relying on a bowl of Shancheng noodles. In this era I'm afraid there will be no exception.
According to the chef's experience, even for this kind of street fast food, the gross profit usually reaches more than 60%. A bowl of wontons costs one yuan, and the direct cost is only two or three cents. The rest is profit. .
As long as you can sell a hundred bowls a day, that's a net income of sixty or seventy yuan. The money you earn after working for a few days is enough to live comfortably for yourself and your sister for a month.
But wait a minute, each bowl of wontons costs only one yuan. Every wonton sold has to be filled and wrapped by hand, and then cooked on site. This thing seems a bit too much work to feed a family. The problem is, it’s a bit difficult to make a fortune from this.
Xie Zhenhua's idea seemed to be a good one last night. Selling noodles with fried bean paste seems to be feasible. The technical content is lower and the operation process is simpler. The fried bean paste is ready in one pot and only needs someone to cook the noodles and cut all the vegetables.
But this is the same as selling wontons. If you can’t sell a bowl of noodles at a high price, as the main product, the profit is a bit low. Now that you are ready to sell it, if you invest the same time and energy, it will not be worth it if you earn too little. .
Besides, everyone calls the catering industry a diligent business. It is impossible to succeed in this business without putting in superhuman physical effort.
But now I am a student, facing the college entrance examination soon, and getting up early and coming home late every day, guarding the food stalls in a smoky manner does not seem to be in line with my purpose of enjoying life.
I was thinking wildly while running, and crossed the street and turned the corner and ran into Zizhu Park. The park was already busy. It seemed that the early risers had gathered in this place with mountains, water and bamboo forests.
A group of young and old gathered together in the empty field. Everyone had their eyes closed, waving their hands and twisting, with serious and intoxicated expressions.
A banner was also hung between the two big trees: "Master Yan Xin's hand-shaking therapy teaches you the method!"
When Yao Yuan saw the content on the banner clearly, he not only laughed out loud, but almost lost his breath: "Ha, Qigong is so popular! How come there are still so many people practicing this?"
Turning around a hillock, there was another scene here. A group of shirtless men wearing daggers were catching a pair of wrestlers.
Yao Yuan slowed down his pace, and found that several pairs among them were going back and forth, and each move was quite orderly. Their footsteps were like butterflies passing through flowers, and with the wheezing sounds in their mouths, they fell wildly between attacks and defenses.
This is a bit interesting.
Most of the people working in the kitchen are men, and they have nowhere to vent their accumulated hormones. On weekdays, the cooks enjoy these confrontational sports together. Sports such as boxing and Sanda are very popular among the cooks. This traditional Yao Yuan has also been exposed to wrestling.
An expert in the doorway, after observing for a while, can tell that a few of the guys have some real skills, and they feel a little bit anxious in their hearts. Maybe they will get some free time in the future, so they have to learn from this group of people and get involved.
There is no pedometer or mobile APP. Based on experience, I estimate that I have run six or seven kilometers in just over forty minutes. My body is sweating, my mood is much better, and my stomach is full of pain. Started gurgling.
I wandered back to the morning market I just passed by and sat down at the wonton stall I just passed. I spent two yuan on a bowl of wontons, a tea egg, and two jujube-red crispy fried dough sticks one foot long. I sighed in my heart. , this era... is so good!
Two yuan for breakfast, not bad!
The number of people in the morning market gradually increased, and people started queuing up at the meat stall next to it. Among the people in the queue, an elder sister complained: "Why has the price of meat gone up again? Last week, pork belly was only 3 yuan, but today it is only 3 yuan." Two pounds?"
The complaint resonated, and the sensible elder brother answered: "Why don't prices increase these days? Just buy it when you see it. It's proper to eat it when you buy it. If you don't believe it, just watch. By next week I’m not sure how high it will go!”
That's right. In this era, the hottest topic on people's lips seems to be price increases. Since the dual-track system was abolished and price breakthroughs were made two or three years ago, domestic production materials, food and non-staple foods seem to be increasing in price, and people have already adapted to it. People in the planned economy have been panicking for a while.
Yao Yuan's attention was attracted by a piece of cardboard standing on the butcher stall:
Pork belly: 3.2 yuan per pound
Tenderloin: 3.5 yuan per pound
Pork leg: 3.1 yuan per pound
Pork ribs: 2.6 yuan per pound
Large intestine: 1.3 yuan per pound
Pork belly: 1.3 yuan per pound
Pork liver: 1.3 yuan per pound
Lung head: 0.8 yuan per pound
this price......
In the eyes of the elder sister in line, the price was ridiculously expensive, but in Yao Yuan's eyes, the price was ridiculously cheap.
Especially those pigs in the water. When have you ever seen such good things as large intestines and pork belly? One piece costs more than one pound. It's like giving them for free.
The tastes of people in this era may still favor more affordable pork, especially fatty meat. Those are serious things and are enjoyable to eat. And all kinds of offal and offal have a fishy smell that cannot be removed, and it is difficult to deal with. I am afraid that in the eyes of most people, they are just like worthless existence, and few people care about it at all.
This is the market determining the price, right?
Yao Yuan's eyes gradually brightened as he looked at the cardboard with the price written on it.
In later generations, offal products such as pig intestines and pork belly have become hot commodities, and the price has long exceeded the price of pork belly and pork loin. In the eyes of a serious chef, these individual Pigs and pigs are all treasures, and they can produce some tempting delicacies.
Take pig intestines as an example. Stir-fried large intestines, nine-turn large intestines, roasted pork intestines with Laba garlic, stinky tofu sausage pot, rotten garlic sausages, and casserole stewed pork intestines are all the favorites of meat lovers.
Especially in this era, people generally do not consume enough protein, and they will definitely have a preference for fat-rich foods. Nowadays, these offal products cannot be sold at a good price, it is just that people are not very good at making them.
If you use these sewers as raw materials, the products you make are guaranteed to be popular.
Yao Yuan blinked his eyes beside the meat stall, and suddenly he had something to worry about.
Pingcheng has a history of thousands of years since it was founded, and naturally has long formed its own unique food style. However, the so-called local specialties of Pingcheng, except for those who do not know the so-called palace banquets, most of the rest come from Considering the daily diet of poor people, this is quite a strange thing.
There is only one snack that originated from the palace, but later took root among the people and was welcomed by the common people. This is "Su Zao Rou", also known as "Braised Pork"!
Ever since Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River and brought Suzhou Zhizao Mansion chef Zhang Dongguan back to the capital, the imperial chef Zhang Dongguan's pot of "Su Zao Pork" stewed with more than a dozen spices has become a delicacy in the imperial cuisine.
Later, after this "Su Zao Meat" was spread among the people, someone opened a restaurant near Xihaizi that mainly featured Su Zao Meat, and it was very popular for a while.
But that price is still out of reach for ordinary people, so some people have replaced the expensive ingredients with cheap ingredients such as pig intestines, pig lungs, pork belly, fried tofu, white flour and so on, still using the same techniques. A pot of "stewed and roasted" was created.
It has a rich aroma, soup, water and staple food, a bowl full of meat flavor, and the key price is still approachable. As soon as this kind of food comes out, it is welcomed by the people.
It is said that the earliest stewed stew stall was placed at the entrance of Tianqiao Tea Garden. Every night after the tea garden was over, diners would crowd the stewed stew stall. In addition to those watching operas, listening to books, and pulling carts, the diners , the hard-working Kuhaha, even the famous actors and actresses in the theater prefer this bite.
It's a pity that after the public-private partnership and market changes in the past few years, such a unique and good food has become a reality because big restaurants are willing to make it and small vendors don't have the skills. In this era, ordinary diners want to eat this food. It has become not easy to cook and cook in one bite.
Looking at the current prices of ingredients and the surging crowds at the morning market, Yao Yuan felt that this braised stew and fire roast must have great success!
First of all, I am a student, and my first priority must be to study. In my previous life, I was very playful. After finishing high school, I went directly to a chef school to learn my craft. This once disappointed my parents, and it is also a permanent regret in my heart.
This time I have the opportunity to live again. If I don't study in a serious university, I really feel sorry for myself for this opportunity to be reborn.
Although making money is quite urgent, it is best done in your spare time.
This determines that no matter which one you choose, it is best not to involve too much energy on yourself, except of course during the summer vacation.
The product Braised and Fired has several features that just meet my requirements.
First, although this thing is a snack, it requires a certain level of technology for production. From the preparation of raw materials to seasoning and fixing, it has a certain technical content. This can give full play to its own expertise, and the product After it is launched, it will not be imitated by others so quickly, which means there is a small technical threshold.
Second, all the operational difficulties of braised cooking and burning are completed in the kitchen. After a large pot is prepared, when it is moved to the street to sell, it only requires simple heating equipment, and then simply cuts everything and puts it into bowls. Well, just find someone to operate it with simple training, and no professional technical requirements are required.
The third point is that even if a bowl of stewed, boiled and roasted is full of water, it is still meat. Meat can be sold at a higher price. Each bowl costs three yuan, and the gross profit is nearly two yuan. If you do it this way That’s a bit interesting.
The last and most important point is that the technical key points of this product are all in the kitchen. As long as the production capacity is sufficient, it can supply multiple selling points at the same time, making it easy to expand operations. After all, I was once a professional cook, so I can’t be too low-key!
