Surgery Godfather

Chapter 2247: Chapter 1461: Professor Yang Makes Breakfast (Part 3)

"Do you plan to do ’data analysis’ and ’process optimization’ every time you cook?" Xiao Su asked.

Yang Ping said seriously, "Yes, the essence of scientific research is constant iteration and optimization. Without records, nothing has happened, and without review, there’s no progress."

Xiao Su opened his mouth, but finally just sighed, "Alright then, Professor Yang, you continue optimizing."

Yang Ping placed the cooked steak on the chopping board, letting it "rest" at room temperature. This was a technique he learned from a paper on the effect of resting post-cooking meat on juice retention. During this time, the meat fibers would reabsorb the juices squeezed to the surface during heating, reducing water loss when cut. He set a stopwatch, preparing to let it rest for five minutes, not a second more.

In the gap while the steak was resting, he began making tomato scrambled eggs. After washing the pan, he reheated it, added oil, and this time carefully monitored the oil temperature, feeling the heat radiation with his hand ten centimeters above the pan. Once he confirmed it was at the right temperature, he poured the egg mixture into the pan.

The pan temperature was controlled quite well. The moment the egg mixture contacted the pan, gentle bubbles formed at the edges, making a soft, reassuring "sizzle" rather than the fierce warning sound from before. Yang Ping’s reaction speed was top-notch as he immediately used the spatula to quickly stir the egg mixture. Under his hands, the egg mixture was continuously folded, broken up, and reformed, each action precise to a millimeter, like performing delicate suturing surgery under a microscope.

The final result was virtually perfect: golden, fluffy, with just the right moisture, uni-size egg chunks, surface slightly moist but not watery. Every bite offered that subtle texture between "tenderness" and "structure."

"Not bad!" Xiao Su objectively evaluated, with a hint of genuine appreciation in his voice.

"Scientific research requires precise control of variables," Yang Ping dished out the scrambled eggs, his expression calm, but with a minuscule smile at the corner of his mouth that gave away his inner pride, "As long as every step is strictly according to..."

"Your beef is cold." Xiao Su pointed at the steak on the chopping board that had already lost its warmth.

Yang Ping looked down at the meat. It indeed was cold. In the time between slicing, plating, and waiting for the tomato scrambled eggs to be finished, its temperature had fallen from the optimal 65 degrees to room temperature, around 22 degrees. A steak meticulously calculated for thickness, precisely controlled in heat, using the most optimized flipping strategy, ultimately lost to the seemingly insignificant yet crucial issue of task scheduling.

His gaze swept back and forth between the steak and scrambled eggs, his mind racing. Years of surgical experience told him that the most important thing at this time was calmly analyzing the problem’s causes, not panic-induced remedial actions, as panic only makes things worse—a truth equally applicable on the operating table and in the kitchen.

"This is a process management issue," he finally spoke, his tone calm as ever, "The process design has a deficiency in concurrent capability. The resting phase of the steak after cooking and the cooking phase of the tomato scrambled eggs should have been handled in parallel, but I serialized them. The next version needs to enhance parallel processing capability; after the steak is cooked, it should go directly into a heat retention phase, like placing it on a preheated plate covered with aluminum foil, while proceeding with the scrambled egg process. That way, the completion times of both tasks can overlap, maintaining temperature without increasing the total time."

"Next version," Xiao Su repeated, finally unable to hold back laughter, the sound clear, echoing in the morning kitchen, "Professor Yang, how long is your iteration cycle for making breakfast?"

"Depending on complexity, one to three days. Usually, at least two trial rounds are needed to narrow key parameters to an optimal range, with over three rounds to achieve a relatively stable standardized process." Yang Ping answered earnestly, as if reporting the progress of a research project, "But today is the first time doing this combination, achieving this result is already beyond my expectations. After all, the process parameters for tomato scrambled eggs were verified practically for the first time; previously, it was just theoretical deduction."

"So for this meal, we’ll have cold beef first?" Xiao Su asked, with a rising intonation, carrying a kind of calm as if he had already accepted the setup.

"Reheat the beef for ten seconds," Yang Ping said, "the surface temperature can return to over fifty degrees, with the core temperature around forty-five degrees. Although not the optimal serving temperature, it won’t affect nutritional value or increase food safety risk. During reheating, be sure to quickly turn it to prevent moisture loss and protein over-crosslinking due to excessive reheating, simply put, don’t let the meat become tough."

"Alright, alright," Xiao Su laughed and waved his hand, turning towards the bedroom, "You go serve the rice, and I’ll go scoop Dabao out of bed. Remember your scientific achievement from this morning: a plate of steak needing ’secondary thermal repair’, paired with a tomato scrambled egg that needs further process optimization, and a forty-seven-step operation flowchart. But I quite like it, such a breakfast is very Professor Yang."

"Scientific progress is realized through continuous trial and error." Yang Ping walked towards the dining table with the plate, his back straight, his steps steady, like a scientist who had just completed an imperfect experiment but obtained all the data and found the direction of optimization.

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