Food: Random stalls, customers chase me all over the country

Chapter 659 - Xiao Wang Hamburger's Dimensionality Attack

"Old Di, you're pretty fast."

"Old Ding, you're still faster."

Di Renjie and Lao Ding gathered again, each holding two bags in their hands.

After exchanging, the two took out two different halves of burgers from different bags.

Half of the burger is made of beef patties, and they look about the same size, and even the thickness of the patties seems to be almost the same.

But when Di Renjie and Lao Ding put the hamburgers together and squeezed them gently, both of their brows raised at the same time.

Di Renjie was holding half of Wang Fan's hamburger, while Lao Ding was holding half of the five strong men's hamburger. After pinching them, the patty in Wang Fan's half of the hamburger clearly oozed juice, while the patties in the five strong men's half showed no sign of juice.

Lao Ding commented, "There's a slight difference in the quality of the patties. Yours is softer and tenderer, while mine is firmer."

Di Renjie nodded: "Both are beef burgers, one is 85 yuan and the other is 100 yuan, which are of the same price. The two textures of the patties have their own strengths. In the end it all comes down to taste. Try them." After saying that, he pinched the burger and brought it to his mouth.

Lao Ding didn't say anything else, just nodded and put the burger to his mouth.

"Click..."

Two tiny sounds were heard at the same time, and two bites of delicious burgers entered the mouth at the same time.

The burger itself is very thick, and even if you flatten it a bit, you still have to open your mouth as wide as possible to take a whole bite.

Di Renjie could clearly feel the layers of resistance his teeth felt.

The top layer is a soft hamburger bun. Even if it is flattened a little, you can still clearly feel its softness. In fact, because it is flattened, you can even feel a slight rebound.

Then there was a slightly spicy and sweet crisp feeling, coupled with a soft, glutinous and sweet taste. This unique combination made Di Renjie's eyes light up.

It was onions, he added onions, and it was a combination of raw and caramelized onions!

The proportion of raw onions is not large, providing only a hint of crispness and a little bit of spiciness, but the soft and juicy cooked onions not only give more taste changes, but also let the unique sweetness cover up the spiciness.

The overall taste is like you can clearly feel the spiciness of onions, but it does not pose any threat to the taste buds, only retaining the refreshing sweetness.

Awesome!
Just an onion of different degrees of ripeness, Di Renjie couldn't help but give a thumbs up in his heart.

A highly skilled chef can really make people feel astonished simply by controlling the heat without using any seasoning.

He knew that he had no way of bringing out the true flavor of an ingredient.

Biting deeper, you’ll find fresh tomato slices and pickles. These two ingredients are old companions to hamburgers and are basically neither good nor bad.

However, he could taste the tomato flavor. It was not the common tomato on the market, but the alkaline iron-skinned tomato produced in Northeast China, which should be called iron-skinned persimmon in Northeast China.

Many people feel that tomatoes are not as delicious now as they were before, but Di Renjie knows that this is not an illusion.

In the past, tomatoes were basically locally produced self-ripening tomatoes. This kind of tomato has a very rich flavor, sour and sweet, and can be regarded as a fruit.

But this type of tomato has one biggest drawback, which is that it is not convenient to store and transport.

In order to solve this problem, some people pick the tomatoes when they are half-ripe. This not only allows more time for transportation, but also allows the tomatoes to gradually turn red when they reach their destination.

This kind of tomato has all the advantages except that it has no tomato taste.

Compared with the iron-skinned persimmon, apart from the ugly color, the taste is simply incomparable, absolutely crushing it.

This is quite an expense. This kind of iron-skinned tomato is more than twice as expensive as ordinary tomatoes!
But it has to be said that you get what you pay for. The unique fragrance and sweet and sour taste of tomatoes are fully displayed in the iron-skinned persimmon, which is far beyond the reach of ordinary tomatoes.

Next up is naturally the most important beef patty.

The taste of the cheese slices and cheese sauce is not too strong. Their biggest function is to provide some moist taste and milky aroma. When you bite into the beef patty, the temperature of the beef patty is just right. When you bite into it, the beef patty only resists symbolically before a large piece is completely cut off by your teeth.

The fragrant gravy flows freely between your teeth, and the thick meat patty makes you feel satisfied with just one bite.

fresh!
A big word "fresh" suddenly appeared in Di Renjie's mind, and the unique flavor of fresh beef was brought to the maximum.

There is only a hint of pepper in the rich meaty flavor, and the rest is just a base flavor provided by salt. However, this simple seasoning, under the extremely hot Maillard reaction, bursts out with an aroma that far exceeds the quality of beef.

He felt that if the beef was fried for even one more second, it would no longer be Maillard, but a mess.

This is a show of skill! It's a slap in the face of this former five-star chef!
I'm telling him clearly that my skills and ability to control the temperature are top-notch!

Di Renjie believed that he was definitely not inferior to Wang Fan in seasoning, but when it came to controlling the heat, this young guy was miles ahead of him. This not only tested his experience, but also his talent.

Even if Wang Fan told him how many seconds it took to fry the meat patty to achieve this effect, he would definitely not be able to imitate it.

Even if the meat patties are made in the same pot, there will definitely be differences. The control of the heat also needs to be adjusted appropriately. If you don’t have absolute talent, you will never dare to challenge this limit.

abnormal!
Fortunately, I changed my career path quickly. It turned out to be the right decision not to stay in the same industry with such people!

"Hmm? You have a backup plan?"

Di Renjie originally thought that the killer feature of Wang Fan’s beef burger was the beef patty, and the taste and texture of the beef patty were indeed worthy of this identity.

But what he never expected was that such an outstanding beef patty was not the most eye-catching feature of this beef burger!
After the teeth broke through the finger-thick beef patty, a strong sweet and sour taste quickly occupied the taste buds. It was a tomato flavor that was even stronger than the previous one.

That unique flavor is something no other condiment can replicate; it's a refreshing seasoning unique to nature. Sour, sweet, spicy, and savory—the simple seasoning enriches the ketchup without destroying its original flavor. And the heated tomatoes are distinct from the raw tomatoes they were cooked with.

Di Renjie felt that his taste buds seemed to be trembling. He knew that his next action would determine his final score for this beef burger.

In his opinion, a beef burger should not only have a soft burger bun, but also reasonable and fresh side dishes, plus a juicy and steaming steak, and a well-proportioned sauce that does not steal the show. After gathering all these things, there is one factor that cannot be ignored, that is, when they are combined together, they must form a whole!
There are many hamburgers that are not made with the right level of skill. When you put the finished product in your mouth, the bread is just bread, the patty is just patty, the sauce is just sauce, the bread is too sweet, the patty is too chewy and firm, and the sauce is too strong to completely overwhelm the freshness of the meat. This kind of hamburger is just a combination of bread, patty and sauce, and he is reluctant to call it a hamburger.

(￣～￣)Chew!
Di Renjie's teeth began to work, and the wheat aroma of the bread began to spread to his taste buds as he chewed. He could feel a faint milky aroma and caramel sweetness on the tip of his tongue, but the sweetness was not strong.

"Crack...knock..."

The crisp pickled cucumber slices and lettuce began to break apart, and the various sauces began to mix. After the meat patty oozed more juice, it eventually merged with the other ingredients and became indistinguishable from each other...

What the hell!

Di Renjie has quite a lot of vocabulary when it comes to food, but today he feels like he has run out of ideas. Apart from using these two words to express his current mood, he really can't think of any particularly good words.

Just right, that's really how it feels.

When everything is mixed together, the aroma of noodles, meat, sauce, sweetness, saltiness, umami, spiciness, and sourness all blend together, each with its own variations but perfectly highlighting the deliciousness of the beef and the freshness of the tomatoes.

Perfect, that's the only comment he could give.

Di Renjie couldn't help but start chewing with big mouthfuls. He just wanted to stuff the whole burger in his hand into his mouth at once so that his taste buds could taste more of the burger flavor he had never tasted before.

Lao Ding's expression was somewhat subtle.

His face originally looked rather fierce, and now with his frown on his face, he looked as if someone had robbed him of millions of dollars.

His fans all know that whenever Lao Ding shows this expression, there is only one reason - the food he is eating is very unpalatable.

Lao Ding took a bite and frowned at the hamburger bun in his hand. The taste of this quality was really no different from that of ordinary hamburger buns.

If the price was the same, he wouldn't say anything, but he absolutely couldn't justify using bread of this quality for a beef burger priced at 85 yuan.

The expression on his face was even more subtle as he chewed the beef below.

If the hamburger bun was still within the tolerable range, then the taste of this beef patty was completely beyond his tolerance limit.

"The quality of the beef is OK, at least it's very fresh, but I can't say enough about the taste. The beef patty felt overcooked on one side and slightly raw on the other. If you ask me if this burger is delicious, I think it's OK. But if you ask me if it's worth 85 yuan, my answer is four words -"

Lao Ding zoomed in with his camera and said word by word with great seriousness, "Absolutely not worth it!"

As soon as he said this, the diners around him who had been paying attention to him and Di Renjie were in an uproar.

"not worth?"

"Isn't the best beef burger in the United States worth 85 dollars?"

"Lao Ding's reputation is quite strong. If he says it's not worth it, doesn't that mean this beef burger is really not worth the price?"

"I think Lao Di is enjoying his meal. Why are the two people's reactions so different?"

The confused diners looked at Old Ding who kept shaking his head, and at Di Renjie who looked like he was enjoying himself, and were completely confused.

Someone with sharp eyes and a good understanding of the whole thing quickly explained, "Didn't you see the burgers they were eating were in different packaging? Lao Ding had the Five Strong Men's beef burger, and Di Renjie had Boss Wang's beef burger. They'd swapped halves."

The diner, who had figured out the truth, gasped. "You mean, Boss Wang's beef burger is already better than five strong men?"

"Although hamburgers originated in Germany, they became popular in the United States after being modified. Are you saying that Boss Wang, a Chinese chef, can make hamburgers that beat the top brand in its birthplace?"

"Old Ding is also eating Boss Wang's food. Whether this is the case depends on how Old Ding reacts!"

Under everyone's expectant gaze, Lao Ding had already taken out the half hamburger that Di Renjie gave him.

When he got the hamburger in his hand and saw the cut surface clearly, Lao Ding raised his thick eyebrows habitually.

interesting!
He put it close to his nose and took a light sniff. The rich aroma of meat mixed with the sauce and the sweet aroma of wheat entered his nasal cavity, which lifted his spirits.

Interesting!
This combination of flavors made Lao Ding's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but look forward to this burger even more.

"Click..."

Lao Ding is already in his fifties and has no idol image. He took a big bite of the hamburger and bit off a piece of it.

While chewing, the various components of the hamburger began to attack his taste buds, and soon defeated Lao Ding's taste buds.

Super interesting!
Feeling the delicious taste deep in his taste buds that shouldn't be on a hamburger at all, Lao Ding now has only one thought left - eat it!

Di Renjie had already finished eating the half palm-sized hamburger and licked the sauce on his lips, looking unsatisfied.

"I'm convinced. I rarely admit defeat, but this burger from Brother Wang completely won me over. I don't think this flavor should even be on a burger. This is simply a dimensionality reduction attack."

Di Renjie's face was filled with admiration. "This is a small burger, but it's all the work of Brother Wang's showmanship. His superb cooking technique has completely surpassed the taste of beef of this quality and price. And the tomato sauce he somehow concocted is even better than the best tomato beef brisket I've ever had."

"The most important thing is that all these elements are perfectly integrated together. Whether it's the bread or the sauce, the ultimate goal is to serve this beef patty. After eating the burger, people will think about the deliciousness of the beef patty. This is not reflected in the beef burger of Five Strong Men at all."

Old Ding's voice was heard at the right moment, full of praise for Wang Fan's burger: "Comparing people will make you die, comparing goods will make you throw them away. These two burgers are completely on different levels."

(End of this chapter)