Only friends who deeply love baking and are "stubborn" on the baking road can realize the true meaning of this sentence.
First of all, let's look at the basic materials needed for baking: oven, hand-held mixer, eggbeater, copper basin, stainless steel plate, thermometer, electronic scale and so on. , excluding pots, stirring spoons, oiled paper, trays and so on. Used for cooking butter;
Secondly, let's look at the basic materials: high and low gluten flour, sugar, eggs, butter, cheese, whipped cream, chocolate, edible gelatin, wine, fresh fruit and so on;
Again, manually. Take cranberry cookies as an example, it takes at least 2 hours from preparation to completion. Therefore, for a person who needs a minute's rest, baking is definitely a "uneconomical" leisure and entertainment way, which not only costs a lot of money, but also consumes valuable time.
However, why are there still so many people willing to jump into this pit? Shiina Machiko, a Japanese French pastry baker, said in the preface of Dim Sum Class: A French Dim Sum Book for You: Recently, recipes with light and simple selling points can be seen everywhere, but in my opinion, really delicious and warm dishes and snacks need our painstaking management and time-consuming and laborious preparation.
The products made by a machine in one minute are completely different from those made by a person in two hours. In my family, my father has always cooked well, fast and delicious, so I always thought that all the families in the world were cooked by my father, and everyone's meals were equally delicious. When I grow up, I have eaten hundreds of meals and met hundreds of people before I know that there are terrible meals and my father who never goes into the kitchen.
My dad said: love, dedication can make fine products.
Making snacks is the same as cooking. You said you would cook a lot of snacks, but few people really like them. They are delicious. Of course, amateur level is impossible to reach the level of shiina and Mako.
Dim Sum Class: A French Dim Sum Book for You. This book collects 47 representative French dim sum practices. In these steps, almost every snack has to go through: making pastry. Domestic bakers used to call it: beating milk bubbles. In fact, after the egg white is separated, sugar is added to the egg white, and then it is stirred into cream with a blender. The quality of the pastry directly determines whether the cake can be baked into a fluffy and soft shape.
This step is the most difficult for me. Affected by the sugar content of egg white and whether the dish is water-free and salt-free, the stirring time is different every time. The stirring time is short, nothing happens, just keep stirring, and the stirring time is long, and the meringue has been stirred too much. Sorry, I can't use it any more. I have to beat the egg again to separate the protein, and then beat it again ... If I accidentally beat it again, then I will continue to start over ... In fact, this wasteful and frustrating process is something that every novice baker must go through. Before practice makes perfect, we must waste, practice, waste and practice again. ...
After preparation, put the cake in the oven, turn on the fire, and slowly, the whole room will be filled with delicious cake fragrance. When sharing handmade cakes with friends and family, there is nothing to change that kind of happiness and satisfaction.
Shiina Machiko naturally knows how to make snacks and how to be perfect in details. When making cream puffs, she made a detailed reminder: "Don't mix whipped cream and cheese sauce too evenly, so that you can feel two different flavors when you taste it"; "The expansion of the shell and opening to bake deep gold. Never turn on the oven before the heating time is over, which makes people feel warm and considerate.
Dim sum class in Machiko, Shiina: A French dim sum book for you is a "magic book", which makes people get deeper and deeper in the pit of "baking as deep as the sea, and losing their family is beyond discussion". In this "deep pit", I not only cultivated my patience, learned to concentrate, learned to be alone, but more importantly, learned how to love and feel love.