Previously, this magical "Bai Piao" egg tart could be seen from time to time in roadside stalls, cake shops, bakeries, subways, Cantonese tea restaurants and vending machines downstairs in dormitories. As long as the signboard of "egg tart for one yuan" is hung in front of the store, bonus hunter will attract people to line up. So, is this egg tart really edible?

In fact, as long as you have made an egg tart at home, you will know that the egg tart is baked in the oven with egg tart skin and egg tart liquid, which is very easy. Even you can buy it online. 22 yuan can buy 5 1 egg tart skin, only 4 cents (of course not necessarily good).

Zhihu did an experiment, that is, using the egg tart skin and egg tart liquid from the legendary KFC supplier, and only one copy was 1.90 yuan.

Generally speaking, butter has a good crisp feeling, but it will encounter a problem-butter has a low melting point, poor crisp effect and is not beautiful. Palm oil has a good crisp effect, but the taste is slightly inferior. Therefore, if you want to make an authentic egg tart with 32 layers of crispy skin and delicate taste, you have to spend money to buy oil.

As for egg tart liquid, it is also very particular. The formula of egg tart liquid in the market is generally milk, eggs and sugar. This is still better, almost all water will be mixed in, and excellent egg tart liquid will add whipped cream-once whipped cream is added to any dessert, the cost will go up. Some also add cranberries and red beans.

In fact, many cake shops adopt methods similar to homemade ones, using semi-finished egg tart skins and homemade egg tart liquid, and choosing high-quality brands for cream, eggs and milk in the egg tart liquid to ensure the taste.

However, a dollar egg tart is different. Because consumers can buy egg tart skins at 40 cents, wholesale egg tart skins will only be cheaper, and the cost can be lower if the store makes their own egg tart skins.

As for the egg tart liquid, it can be simpler. Eggs, water, sugar and milk are the cheapest. Use cheap custard powder instead of whipped cream. All other condensed milk used for flavor enhancement is castrated, and the cost of an egg tart can be controlled within 50 cents. Earn more than enough money for an egg tart.

Therefore, egg tarts can be as low as one yuan to make money, or they can be sold for more than ten yuan, which is still sought after by many people.

Some people may say that even the net profit of 50 cents is low. But this is the secret of so-called small profits but quick turnover. Even if the single profit is less, as long as there is a surplus, even if it is a big surplus, as long as it sells enough, it will definitely win.

This kind of situation is most common in the mobile booth car that specializes in making one-yuan egg tarts. The stall owner buys equipment and raw materials at home, makes egg tarts and tarts by himself, pulls them out by car after finishing them, and sells them in crowded places such as school gates and pedestrian streets. Almost equivalent to a Taobao seller, it saves all intermediate costs such as store rent, freight and circulation, and you can earn as much as you sell. Isn't it beautiful?

The cost of opening an egg tart shop is not very high. You can open a small facade, and the initial fee can be as low as 1000 yuan, which is a typical small business.

Here you may ask, is there any food safety problem with this one-dollar egg tart? Can you eat on an empty stomach?

According to our previous analysis, egg tart can indeed reduce the cost to below 1 yuan in a legal and safe way, or push the one-yuan egg tart to the top brand among online celebrities with less loss.

In both cases, a dollar egg tart can be safely eaten. But at the same time, there are inevitably some black-hearted businesses in the market. When buying basic ingredients such as flour, eggs and milk, it is not uncommon to buy inferior materials and use materials that have expired overnight, and it is not uncommon to pay attention to hygiene when making them.

After a search, there were indeed many food safety incidents about egg tarts. Some manufacturers have been found to make egg tarts from recycled moon cakes, which are moldy and black and covered with green hairs. Some people have eaten dead flies, hair and glass slag in homemade egg tarts in supermarkets. ...

So, eat what you can, but don't eat too much.