Chapter 165 The First Bottle of Soy Sauce after Years Kagawa instructed the kitchen AI to heat the squeezed soy sauce in the pot for disinfection, and uploaded the relevant documents on soy sauce heating that he had prepared to the kitchen AI's database, and then swallowed a small bottle of sterilizer at the speed of light. The reason she carries sterilizer with her is that when she first cooked steak, Xiang Weiguo was looking at the recipe and found that the steak was not fully cooked. She was so scared that her face turned pale. She even called out the medical AI at home to check the health of her family members before she felt relieved. However, she was still worried and told her family members to take sterilizer after eating partially cooked food. Xiangchuan, who had experienced many battles in the 21st century, did not dare to show off at this moment, because she did not know the limit of her body's tolerance for these half-cooked or completely raw foods. In order to eat the snail noodles she had been longing for, she could not let her body collapse. So she drank the medicine immediately after tasting the soy sauce. The reason is simple - homemade raw soy sauce is very likely to contain bacteria or even pathogens. She only found out about this when she sorted out the relevant information on heating and sterilization of soy sauce recently. Xiangchuan recalled that every time she went home, her parents used zero-additive soy sauce to make hot pot dipping sauce. This type of soy sauce should be raw soy sauce that completely eliminates these bacteria. And this time, she and the three of them made the soy sauce outdoors. Even though the main ship of the Third Fleet, especially the residential area, will be sterilized regularly, there will be no danger of infection with any fatal bacteria unless there is an accident, but there must be a lot of bacteria. Therefore, for the sake of hygiene and safety, every time the family cooks steak, they have to ask Xiaoxing to prepare sterilization agents, and the same is true for the steaks sold in Yuexiang Restaurant. There were also some people in the Third Fleet who focused on medical health and had some complaints at the beginning, but the deliciousness of the tender steak conquered the vast majority of meat lovers, and the subsequent launch of steak buns eliminated the disadvantage of fried steak being undercooked, which made these people who pay attention to hygiene also fall, and these opposing voices disappeared. After the steak incident, Kagawa became more cautious and prepared disinfectants in the small kitchen of the dormitory and the Tongue Club just in case. And now, it’s being used right away. Ouyang Yating and the other two naturally knew about this, but usually it was only their own president who would bravely display the spirit of "Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs", so most of the time it was not their turn to use the disinfectant in the kitchen. The lack of curiosity and adventurous spirit among modern people is really a problem that needs to be solved urgently. Kagawa thought so as he swallowed the disinfectant that was not too unpalatable. "President, what kind of food do you plan to make with the prepared soy sauce?" Liang Gong asked with blinking eyes, and the other two also looked at her curiously.
"There are actually quite a few options. Soy sauce can have a very good chemical reaction when used on staple foods or meats. Hmm..." Kagawa touched his chin and opened the food menu in the warehouse. "Soy sauce chicken is actually very good, but I'm not very familiar with the cooking method, and there's no rice right now, so it might be a bit salty if eaten directly. The simple version of soy sauce beef is not bad, but it takes some time to marinate and dry. I can make it first, and it will be good to eat with noodles in a few days... It's very simple to use it to improve the current recipes. The taste of meat patties, meat buns, and fried chicken can be greatly improved after adding soy sauce." "Do we need to add more ingredients to the buns? I think those buns are already delicious." Ino asked in surprise. That's because you haven't tasted really good buns. Xiangchuan muttered to himself, and said, "According to the ancient recipes I saw, these buns should have been stuffed with soy sauce, but when I actually made them, I found that the version without soy sauce was also delicious, so I just used it. Now that I have soy sauce, I will restore the recipe completely to see what these buns originally tasted like." “Do I need to put soy sauce in the cake?” "Don't give me advice that just sounds scary." Kagawa twitched his lips. "Ancient people wouldn't dare eat like this. Although there are so many kinds of recipes in ancient times, maybe some of them will be useful in the future. However, in most of the recipes I found so far, soy sauce and desserts are basically unrelated." It's not too extreme, because I remember that some Japanese snacks really need soy sauce. But this is not what she should consider at the moment. The oven wasn't ready yet, and there was no sign of bread, so at least she could have a bite of pineapple buns before thinking about those random regional snacks. "It would be nice to make some soup with beef bones, radish and scallions, and then some noodle soup..." Kagawa muttered, gradually falling into thought. Ouyang Yating and the other two looked at each other and could only watch her talk to herself while drinking drinks or eating snacks. The three of them already had information about soy sauce. After Kagawa sorted out the information for the kitchen AI, he also sent them an identical copy. However, based on the text description from 30,000 years ago, it was still difficult for them to imagine what this daily condiment made from beans, which had been classified as non-ingredient plants for a long time, would taste like. It was also difficult for them to imagine based on the text description alone. If they tasted the finished dishes, they might be able to help, but condiments... They usually didn't even care much about the taste of solid and liquid foods. "Sometimes I really admire the exploratory spirit of ancient people. How did they think of making beans into condiments?" Ino exclaimed. Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong also nodded silently. It was already a very brain-intensive task to figure out whether some organisms and foods were edible based on their experience during the first week of school. It was surprising that the ancients had the energy to explore new types of condiments. "Could it be that in ancient times, there was very little salt or oil, so this soy sauce was needed to fill these gaps?" Liang Gong asked, "I saw in the information that the taste of this seasoning is mainly salty, so doesn't it conflict with salt?" "I'm not too sure about its origin, but soy sauce can indeed replace salt to a certain extent in modern... ancient cooking. However, the flavors of the two are different. Salt has a more intuitive salty taste, while soy sauce has a mellow salty taste. They each have their own characteristics... That's what the information says." Kagawa stopped taking notes on the light screen, thought for a moment, and gave his own understanding. As a 21st century office worker who focuses on enjoying delicious food, Kagawa naturally had no interest in these historical origins at first. However, now she is trapped in the strange situation of "living in a very advanced civilization but not being able to eat even a mouthful of rice", coupled with the strange rules and regulations of modern society, she sometimes really has to explore the ancient cooking methods of these condiments and foods. However, soy sauce is not one of them for the time being, because she remembers that there are condiment shops selling homemade soy sauce in the vegetable market near her rental house. When she lived in the 21st century, everyone was worried about the economic situation after the epidemic, so all kinds of homemade foods for the purpose of saving money emerged one after another. Even Kagawa himself had nothing to do and got a yogurt maker to occasionally make yogurt or sweet wine. This trend has also given the busy working young men and women some hands-on skills, so that they won't wake up like her and find themselves 30,000 years later and starve to death because they can't tell the difference between salt and sugar. Because of her experience with the yogurt machine, Kagawa was in a state of "if" about the soy sauce this time, feeling confident but not quite. She was confident because she knew the principle of fermentation, but not quite because she had never made seasoning before. Because even the homemade soy sauce produced and sold by welfare stores in the 21st century does not require making the soy sauce in public. The four of them did not continue chatting because the kitchen AI sounded a prompt, and then a bottle of black liquid in a glass bottle was brought up by the kitchen AI's robotic arm. Kagawa took the glass bottle with some trembling. Since it had just been sterilized at high temperature, even after being cooled down, the glass bottle still had some residual heat.
The mouth of the glass bottle was plugged with a snap-on glass stopper. After opening the bottle, Kagawa poured the liquid in the bottle into a bowl, then picked up a small spoon and scooped up about the size of a little finger nail and put it into his mouth. Ah, it's a familiar smell, Kagawa thought.