The pot gradually heated up.
Fang Yang picked up a piece of mutton and placed it into the pot.
"The key to mutton hotpot is the word hotpot. It's not boiled.”
"Just rinse it twice and it will be cooked. Then, dip it in the sauce and eat it like this.”
"There's nothing special about this, right?" Li Er was puzzled.”
Li Er also tried one.
Cheng Wu and the others didn't dare to speak before Li Er, so they waited for Li Er to try.
Li Er dipped it in a mixture of sesame sauce and chives.
It entered his mouth.
"Hmm? Yes!"
"Fresh, hot, tender."
Fang Yang chuckled,"If I use the bones of the sheep and fish to make soup first, then I'll boil the mutton. That would be really fragrant."”
Fresh, hot, tender, and fragrant. It was almost the best way to eat mutton.
In history, there were copper pots as early as the Three Kingdoms period, which was the appearance of the tripod pot.
However, it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that hotpot appeared.
Moreover, without the accumulation of time, the standard of the dipping sauce naturally could not compare to the later generations.
It looked simple, but in fact, it was extremely simple. It had already reached the limit of mutton cooking.
After hearing Li Er's evaluation, everyone began to try.
"Let's eat the mutton together."”
The mutton was put into the pot.
The few of them began to eat happily, complementing the wine that they had brewed previously.
This meal could be said to be the most comfortable meal Li Er had ever eaten in his life.
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, pork was widely eaten, but there were still problems with cooking techniques.
Therefore, the pork that everyone made was not very delicious. It was especially fishy.
As for the mutton, it was a little sour and had a slight smell.
However, due to the long history of eating, all the chefs knew how to avoid these bad tastes.
And mutton was one of the main foods of the upper echelons of the Great Tang.
Beef? Killing cows was illegal. Only the people at the top could eat beef.
This was the so-called ranking.
Some things, if done too much, would affect the entire society. Cows were the main livestock for farming, and ordinary people could not eat them.
Making mutton to the limit was the limit that a Tang restaurant could achieve.
"This is the deal you were talking about?”
"Of course." Fang Yang nodded.
Li Er thought for a moment and shook his head." Although we use an iron pot to boil mutton, others can also use a copper pot to boil mutton. Of course, the cost is much higher."”
"But that doesn't mean that others can't copy it.”
"I'll tell you three advantages."”
"First, the iron pot is cheap, so the cost is low and the profit is high.”
"Second, we can use the hotpot mutton as a gimmick to attract a large number of customers to our restaurant. Then, we can expand our reputation by cooking with a variety of ingredients and dishes that look, smell, and taste.”
"Third, stir-frying is not something that can be done with a copper pot. It must be done with an iron pot. With our good wine, it will naturally become the best restaurant in Chang 'an.”
"Moreover, we don't need to open too big of a shop. Instead, we need to open a chain. If we open all the markets where the high officials and wealthy merchants live, how much money will we make in a day? The profit is even greater."
"I understand what you mean." Li Er nodded.”
"You're saying that we should first use the gimmick of making the best mutton to win over the customers, and then use stir-fried vegetables to change their eating habits.”
"It's very difficult to make iron pots, so there won't be a large number of iron pots appearing in a short period of time. This business will last for a long time, and only we can do it.”
"Even if others want to imitate us and really learn how to cook, they can't open a large number of shops. Even if they open a shop, the scale of their business is limited.”
Cheng Wu nodded." How can I open a shop without a metal pot? What kind of shop can I open?"”
Fang Yang nodded.
Is Zhang Qiu Iron Pot famous? How long would it take to wrap up? He had to keep the arc of the pot well and at the same time make it round and round to reach the level of a non-stick pot.
It required a skilled blacksmith to forge it for half a month.
It was a blacksmith who had been forging iron pots for years.
It was already impressive for a newbie to be able to make an iron pot in a month.
"The key is, how many iron pots can you make in a month? It can support us to open shops everywhere."
"A month?" A few hundred pots a day wouldn't be a problem, right?”
Li Er: " The iron furnace is not a problem. I have…connections.”
The iron-making blast furnaces of the Tang Dynasty were not comparable to those of the Song Dynasty. The iron-making blast furnaces of the Song Dynasty were basically similar to those of the later generations.
However, the iron-making blast furnaces of the Tang Dynasty had many flaws and were not large in scale.
Fang Yang: " Didn't you say that selling iron isn't illegal? We can set up an iron-smelting site. If we use my method to smelt iron, the iron production will be guaranteed.”
"As long as the supply of raw materials is sufficient."
Fang Yang's method was to use a crucible to make iron.
This was a technology that only became mature in the Qing Dynasty. The iron yield, efficiency, and safety of ironmaking were much better than the old methods.
During the Qing Dynasty, they could already use all kinds of ironware on a large scale, and they could have as many as they wanted.
Li Er thought for a moment." Cheng Wu, I think this is indeed profitable. Why don't you go and mix it and get the ores over? In addition, open more shops on the prosperous streets of Chang 'an."”
Cheng Wu: " No problem. I've prepared people too, but the investment will definitely be huge.”
A restaurant needed a courtyard that cost at least one or two hundred strings of coins. Opening dozens of restaurants would cost ten thousand strings of coins.
Iron ores also required money, manpower, and various other things.
Fang Yang: " That's true. I've only invested 6,000 strings to open a winery and spent 10,000 strings to open a restaurant. I'm afraid it won't be able to hold on."”
Li Er: " Then you're underestimating me too much. I still have this bit of money."”
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