I'm the Culinary God

Crispy Bacon?

Lin Xu furrowed his brow, never expecting to draw the soul of big Guizhou province.

The motherland is vast, and each place has the irresistible delicious ingredients for locals, such as Sichuan peppercorns for Sichuan-Chongqing people, sour bamboo shoots for Guangxi people, chopped chili peppers for Xiangxi people, roasted meats for Guangdong people, and so on.

But what Guizhou people uniquely love is a type of ingredient called crispy bacon.

This is a kind of delicacy that many people in the nation haven’t heard of, even if they’ve heard of it, they haven’t tried it.

According to the correct pronunciation, it should actually be called crispy sao, which is a kind of saozi, the "sao" mentioned in Lu Zhishen’s command for Zhen Guanxi to chop ten pounds of tendons finely into saozi.

In Southwest dialect, "S" and "SH" are often confused, so the word sao is often pronounced as shào, thus derived the names crispy shao and crispy bacon.

What is referred to as crispy bacon involves frying meat in a way similar to rendering lard, cooking out the fat to form crispy meat granules.

In the past, crispy bacon was always made from the cheaper slots of meat, but nowadays, as people’s living standards have improved, the production of crispy bacon mostly uses pure fatty meat instead.

Additionally, there have also been derivatives made from pork belly called soft bacon and those made from pure lean meat called fine bacon, as well as lean bacon made with a bit of fat.

The improvement in material life naturally leads to the emergence of different food processing methods, which is the rule of natural development.

Since obtaining the method for making crispy bacon, let’s make it sometime.

With crispy bacon, whether it’s noodles or rice noodles, a spoonful sprinkled will elevate the taste and texture to another level.

"Xu Bao, we’re back!"

Just as he was in a daze, the voice from the Shen Family came from the direction of the stairs.

Lin Xu turned his head, just about to ask how the fishing haul was going when he saw the girl bringing in several large roosters. The feathers of these roosters had not been plucked, but the necks had been cut.

It was evident the blood had been let.

This???????

Didn’t you go fishing? How did you come back with several chickens?

Did you buy them?

Even if you came back empty-handed, you should have bought fish instead.

Moreover, Dundun also went; coming back empty-handed is impossible unless there’s not even a small whitebait in the pond, purely a scam from the pond owner to swindle money.

"Are these chickens today’s fishing haul?"

Lin Xu took them, totaling six large roosters, weighing around forty-five pounds in total, nearly eight pounds each. This physique is considered quite robust among roosters.

"Right, amazing huh?"

Shen Jiayue picked up the teapot from the table beside her and poured herself a cup of tea, then with a gulping motion drank it all down, only then realizing her words were problematic:

"Oh dear, these chickens were exchanged with the catch, what look is that? Doubting my fishing prowess?"

Lin Xu placed the chickens in the kitchen sink, then came to the kitchen door to ask:

"What’s going on? Who were they exchanged with?"

Shen Jiayue giggled and said:

"The fish pond owner, ah. We went, and as soon as we sat down, the fish started biting; neither big nor small fish ceased. Yan Bao and I filled our bags, and in the end, we were so exhausted our arms were aching."

Lin Xu asked:

"Then how did they turn into chickens?"

"Running a business isn’t easy, we couldn’t just clean him out, and that owner is very straightforward. For those who didn’t catch fish in over four hours, they give away a free-range chicken so no one leaves empty-handed..."

"So you softened up and didn’t take those catches?"

"We didn’t not take them; we exchanged them instead. In the afternoon, the owner caught some of their chickens. These big roosters looked the most imposing, so we exchanged our haul for them. Originally, we wanted four, but the owner thought we were too short-changed and gave us two more."

Exhausted and hungry, Shen Jiayue, after drinking water, started eating the snacks on the table and had the car assistant bring her two Silver Threads Buns.

When exhausted and hungry, consuming carbs tends to provide a fuller feeling.

Lin Xu, laughing, asked:

"Were you filming and got recognized there, is that why they were so generous?"

"Seems not; the owner doesn’t much play with phones; busy planting vegetables and raising chickens and fish... But business was good today; shortly after we arrived, it was almost full."

From the market price perspective, Shen Baobao and her sister-in-law’s exchange of the fishing haul for these large roosters didn’t lose out; in fact, they made some profit, as these roosters, even if bought at the market, would cost over a hundred yuan each.

If they’re purely free-range chickens, the price might be even higher.

The taste of farm free-range chicken is completely incomparable with ingredients like Three-yellow Chicken, White Feather Chicken, and other poultry; they are not only fragrant, but the meat is firm and the texture is hearty.

Saving a chicken farm with a fish pond... Lin Xu thought he should check it out later; this practice of giving away chickens to those who didn’t catch fish really touched anglers.

What anglers fear most is coming back empty-handed, so when no fish are caught, everyone might dig some wild vegetables, or pick some wild fruits, trying not to return empty-handed.

But the fish pond’s practice of giving away chickens preserves anglers’ reputation.

In this situation, everyone is bound to like going there.

"Next time when I’m free, I’ll go with you to experience the joy of winter fishing."

Shen Jiayue said joyfully:

"Sure, sure. The owner also said once all the chickens are given away, they’d give ducks next, planning to slaughter their self-raised pigs. If we’re lucky, we might get to taste pork dishes."

Whoa?

This isn’t tiring?

Lin Xu found that fish pond owner quite interesting.

"Lin Xu, how do you plan to cook these chickens?"