Chapter 406 Grilled Pie and Oven Pie

Smelling the aroma of [Fresh Meat Mooncake], Zhao Jinmai took away Liu Yifei's dishonest hand, got up and pushed her to come over curiously.

"Is this the fresh meat mooncake?"

Stretching her neck curiously, she looked at the crispy mooncakes on the tray that had been baked slightly yellow, and exclaimed, "It smells so good!"

Wu Lei couldn't wait any longer, rubbed his hands together and asked Li Yi, "Are you ready to eat, brother Yi? Is it cooked?"

"Don't worry."

While flipping the mooncakes, Li Yi casually said, "Fresh meat mooncakes need to be baked on both sides to be fully baked, so wait a little longer!"

With that said, he returned the turned mooncake back to the oven.

"It's so fragrant."

Wu Lei swallowed hard, and sighed: "It feels like returning to the magic capital. There should be a lot of people queuing up to buy mooncakes at my house right now."

After speaking, he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the [Fresh Meat Mooncake] in the oven, while saying in Modu dialect: "Mom, look, Brother Yi made fresh meat mooncakes for us to eat, they are delicious! "

After a while, Wu Lei's mobile phone heard a reply message prompt tone.

Wu Lei clicked on the reply voice, and his mother's voice came out from the phone: "See, why are they baked in an oven? The fresh meat mooncakes in Guangming Village are all fried in a pan! The skins are baked in the oven. It's not delicious!"

Before Li Yi could answer, Wu Lei responded with a voice message: "I like to eat the ones baked in the oven! I always buy Taikang's at home. The skin in Guangming Village is too oily."

Listening to the conversation between Wu Lei and his mother, Zhao Jinmai asked curiously: "Can mooncakes still be fried?"

"Yes!"

Wu Lei nodded: "The fresh meat mooncakes in Guangming Village are fried in a pan. It's a bit like raw pan-frying. Brother Yi must know, right Brother Yi?"

As he spoke, he turned his face to ask Li Yi for confirmation.

"Um."

Li Yi looked at the mooncakes in the oven and explained: "The fresh meat mooncakes in Shanghai are mainly divided into two schools, the traditional fried oven pie and the current oven pie.

Traditional frying pans are fried and baked in pans. For example, Guangming Village and Lao Dachang's old shops use pans to fry and bake.

This method is more like pan-fried. Its puff pastry is not too thick, and it tastes soft and waxy. The older generation of Modu people prefer to eat this kind of food.

Oven pies are closer to Western-style pastries. Shops like Taikang and Lao Dafang in the West District use ovens to bake.

The meringue baked in the oven will be more crispy, and the residue will fall off when you bite.

And because the inside of the oven is sealed, moisture is not easy to lose, so the fresh meat mooncakes baked in the oven will have more soup.

"Yes, it's more crispy when baked in the oven."

Wu Lei nodded in agreement: "But my mother and the others of that generation prefer to eat fried food, and think fried food is more authentic.

Every year in the first half of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many uncles and aunts of old devils queuing up to buy fried fresh meat mooncakes. Guangming Village and Lao Dachang have a long queue every time.

Especially in Guangming Village, queuing for four to five hours, or even seven or eight hours is very common.

Some grandpas ran to line up at four or five o'clock before dawn. "

Zhao Jinmai was surprised: "Isn't this too exaggerated?"

"It's normal, we're all used to it."

Wu Lei said with a smile: "If I told you, if you go to Guangming Village to buy fresh meat mooncakes, you can still meet scalpers, wouldn't you be more surprised?"

"cattle?"

Now even Huang Xiaoming and Liu Yifei were taken aback: "Is there a scalper for buying moon cakes?"

"Of course there is."

Wu Lei spread his hands: "Not everyone has time to queue for seven or eight hours to buy mooncakes. If you don't want to queue, just go to the scalper to buy them!"

Huang Xiaoming asked curiously: "How much did you buy from scalpers?"

"It may cost two hundred yuan a box during the peak period."

Wu Lei explained: "The normal price in Guangming Village is 6 yuan a fresh meat mooncake, 10 in a box, that is 60 yuan, and each person is limited to four boxes.

Those scalpers would line up to buy four boxes, and resell one hundred and two, or one hundred and fifty one boxes, so that they could earn two to three hundred for one line, and five or six hundred for two trips a day. "

"That's how much money you make!"

Zhao Jinmai exclaimed: "Hearing this makes me want to queue up."

"It's also hard money."

Li Yi said with a smile: "You have to stand in line for several hours. If it's peak season, you have to stand in line for seven or eight hours. Most people can't stand it."

"Yes, it was very hard."

Wu Lei nodded and said: "So during the peak period, I also asked my mother to buy mooncakes sold by scalpers. Although it is a bit more expensive, it can save a lot of time."

Zhao Jinmai was fascinated when he heard it: "How delicious is that? You would rather wait in line for seven or eight hours to buy and eat?"

"Hmm... Wouldn't it be nice to ask Brother Yi to make something for you to taste?"

Wu Lei smiled at Li Yi and asked, "Brother Yi, do you know how to use a grill?"

"What's wrong with that?"

Li Yi said with a smile: "The frying oven doesn't have much technical content, it's just a waste of time. It takes at least 20 to 30 minutes to bake a pot, and the number of pots is relatively limited, so there is such a long queue.

The oven is more trouble-free, you can bake a lot at a time, and you don’t need to stare at the pot, you only need to set the time, and turn it over when the time comes.

If you want to eat fried, then wrap some more and use that pan to fry. "

As he said that, he raised his finger to the baking tray where he just made Baiji buns.

This baking tray is also very useful as a pan to bake 【Fresh Meat Mooncakes】.

"OK!"

Zhao Jinmai nodded happily. After listening to Wu Lei's description, she was full of curiosity about the fried [Fresh Meat Mooncake], and wanted to taste the difference between fried and baked pies.

Ding!

The oven bell rang.

The next moment, Wu Lei rushed out.

"It's ripe!"

He quickly took a plate and stood in front of the oven.

"Stay away, don't burn yourself."

As Li Yi reminded, he put on the heat-insulating gloves and opened the oven door.

A more intense aroma than before gushed out and spread out.

suck!

Wu Lei took a deep breath and spread out his hands in enjoyment: "Heaven!"

Snapped!

His plate sank slightly, and a meringue mooncake landed on the plate.

Hurriedly maintaining his balance, he retracted the plate, and hurriedly lowered his head and blew, trying to lower the temperature quickly.

Master Cai came over with a camera and took close-ups.

In the live broadcast room, the audience looked at the steaming [Fresh Meat Mooncake] and chatted with bullet screens one after another.

"This doesn't look like a mooncake either?"

"In our place, it's called biscuits."

"Meat filling, meringue, nothing wrong with it, it's meringue biscuits."

"Respect the eating habits of different places. Brother Yi said that there are many ways to make mooncakes, and meringue is just one of them."

"It looks delicious! The skin is crispy to the naked eye."

"Such a fluffy meringue, it is said that there is soup in it? Why don't I believe it?"

While blowing, Wu Lei looked at the barrage.

When he found that someone questioned the soup in [Fresh Meat Mooncake], he put the plate on the counter and said to the camera: "This kind of fresh meat mooncake really has soup in it, if you don't believe me, I will open it for you to see. "

As he said, he touched the moon cake with his hands, and after feeling that the temperature was no longer so hot, he pinched the two sides with his hands and broke it hard.

The puff pastry on the outer layer is extremely crispy, like sand that has been dried in the sun after being mixed with water, and it will shatter when touched.

But its inner layer has a relatively flexible oily skin, which wraps the inner meat stuffing.

When the oily skin was broken off, a bright gravy flowed out with a strong aroma.

"See? See?"

Wu Lei yelled excitedly: "Is it okay to be sizzling and oily?"

As he spoke, he couldn't wait to stuff half of it into his mouth, and while breathing out, he began to chew, mumbled in his mouth: "It's so hot! It smells so good!"

Zhao Jinmai watched from the side, swallowed, picked up the plate, and ran behind Li Yi: "Brother Yi, get me one, and Sister Yifei's!"

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