Under the background of the market era when prefabricated dishes are flooding, many people think that prefabricated dishes are really good things. You don't need to buy food or condiments, but you need to make scientific research on how to cook, so you can eat the same food as restaurants. Besides, prefabricated dishes can be stored for a long time, which is cheaper and easier to store than dishes packed from restaurants.

but what most people never expected was that although many restaurants basically use prefabricated dishes, especially those chain restaurants, in order to ensure the same taste of the dishes, there will be a centralized restaurant kitchen to uniformly produce and manufacture the dishes, which will be transported to the back kitchens of restaurants in every place, and then processed twice in the restaurant kitchen to become dishes served.

What you may never expect is that nowadays, not only meat and vegetables are prefabricated dishes, but even egg custard is prefabricated dishes. Some restaurants offer "steamed tea bowls" (in fact, steamed eggs in Japanese style) made of prefabricated dishes. A package of 411ml prefabricated components is used to extract egg liquid, which costs only eight or nine yuan. If you look at the ingredient list again, it contains dozens of seasonings.

this bag of egg liquid extracted from prefabricated components is not the amount of a bowl of egg custard. It is mixed with water according to the regulations, sprinkled on the plate, sprinkled with a little coriander, sliced Pleurotus ostreatus and soaked scallops, and steamed on the stove to steam out 9 bowls of beautiful egg custard. Each bowl is golden, soft and tender, with rich taste, and smells thick and fresh.

If you go to a high-end Japanese food store and serve a bowl of custard like that with high-end equipment, you will think that this bowl of custard contains many essences: scallop, oyster mushroom, bone soup, seafood and so on. But everyone who has seen through this bowl of egg custard is not only heartbroken about using up the money, but also confused about the long string of spices on the ingredient list of egg custard.

isn't this just a bowl of custard? Why are there dozens of seasonings, which can make the custard made of raw eggs better and more nutritious? If all restaurants on the market take this route at present, what's the use of a chef? Novices like us who don't understand cooking technology can make a delicious table with prefabricated dishes.

why can custard be made into a prepared dish?

For restaurants, custard is not a simple home-cooked dish, but often a dish with unusual troubles. You must first hang bone soup, cut the side dishes of hot pot, beat raw eggs carefully, and skim off the foam. Steamed custard can't sell at a high price, and it takes time.

if it was before, the custard was usually handed over to the hot pot side dishes. if the business is busy, you are too busy with the hot pot side dishes, let alone steaming the custard. These pots need to be used to steam dishes that can sell at good prices, and small custard can only be a side dish of hot pot, which is very easy to be discharged.

Prefabricated dishes are convenient, and they can be eaten after unpacking and simple production and processing. Nowadays, prefabricated dishes pay attention to the taste and taste, which can save cost and time, and can also satisfy customers. Of course, they are warmly welcomed by restaurants. But those long and thin ingredient lists, to a large extent, are to increase the shelf life and enhance the taste.

Will the popularity of prefabricated dishes have an impact on the chef industry and catering industry?

That's for sure. Young people don't have time to cook, but we all know that ordering take-out is not feasible. It's better to stock some prepared dishes at home. The price is not too expensive, at least it's more cost-effective than eating in a restaurant.

hotels have to pay rent, water, electricity and staff expenses, so the price of dishes will naturally increase a lot. Although prefabricated dishes are as convenient as restaurants, for example, chefs don't have to hire several chefs and experienced chefs at high prices, on the whole, prefabricated dishes have a great impact on restaurants.

So these prepared dishes, including custard, are actually young people with some money. They may have a large family or only one person, but they are driven by the rapid social development to move forward quickly. They don't have much time to spend on buying food and cooking, and they don't have so much money to often treat people to dinner. Therefore, prepared dishes have become their best choice.