Chapter 310 “Live” Ingredients

Someone steps down.

Naturally, someone will take the position.

Generally speaking, the second and third year students in the senior department are often stronger than the first year students and junior high school students through brutal training and competition.

Of course.

For the third year students.

Especially like the current Eiji Sasaki, Ryodan Kobayashi, Momo Akane Kubo, etc.

If they successfully graduate as the top ten, they will be called the top ten of their graduation, for example:

Kojiro Shinomiya, he is the first seat of the 79th Totsuki, and Fuyumi Mizuhara is the second seat.

The qualification of the top ten can be obtained in the autumn selection and the "Red Leaf Hunting Tournament", but they have to wait until the third year students graduate, and the top ten positions will be vacant, and then compete with students of the same grade or higher grades.

However, due to the influence of the Totsuki reform incident of Tsuki Nakiri, the top ten have experienced a wave of "replacement".

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In fact.

After the promotion exam, Alice was confident and a little discouraged.

I had defeated Eizun Eizune and had the ability to compete with the Ten Elites, but Erina actually defeated Kobayashi Ryodo under everyone's expectation!

At that time.

She was the one who least wanted Erina to fail.

But when she learned that Uncle Ji had resigned and gave the position of the commander-in-chief to Erina, Alice was depressed.

Yes!

The gap between me and Erina is still too big.

Her cooking style, needless to say, is absolutely proficient in everything. Alice already knows too much about her abilities.

But even if I have been learning more about her, it is difficult to find out where Erina's peak is?

It can be seen.

Her basic cooking skills are very solid.

Unlike herself, except in the field of molecular cooking, she is a mess in the knowledge of common people's cooking and traditional cooking skills!

It seems that everything comes too easily to her.

In terms of strength.

It is the first time in the history of Totsuki that she can be selected as the top ten as the leader of the elementary department.

In addition, she has the talent of the divine tongue and the halo of "the granddaughter of the commander-in-chief". As long as time permits, she can grow into the "strongest monster"!

In the past, Alice was quite dissatisfied with Erina. Even after Zhang Fan's advice and admonition, she still believed that she only needed to work harder and one day she would be able to surpass Erina.

But from the perspective of cooking, Erina can bring good things into a more outstanding field.

Her comments on food often reveal the secret!

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As the saying goes.

People who know how to eat may not necessarily know how to cook, but people who don't know how to eat will definitely not cook well.

Erina Nakiri can not only taste what is delicious and what is not delicious, but also distinguish the difference between top-level cuisine and high-end cuisine. This is inherently unfair to ordinary chefs.

Let me ask, can a chef from a poor family and a chef from a wealthy family have the same standard for deliciousness?

Some people may say:

Tsk!

I just think Lanzhou ramen tastes better than Italian pasta.

I don't care how many precious ingredients are included in your dishes, I just don't like it!

Hmm!

This view cannot be said to be correct.

After all, everyone has their own preferences, but it is precisely this view that led to the ultimate reason why Nakiri Tsuki rebelled and was determined to change Totsuki.

In short.

This involves a value of food!

Can civilian food be compared with aristocratic food? Are ordinary people qualified to try top-notch food? Should food and diners be divided into different levels?

On these issues.

People in different social statuses have different views on these issues.

Some people think that civilian food is good, and Western food is just pretending to be B and not full... Perhaps it is because of the existence of this group of people that some students in Totsuki have a rebellious mentality in the later period, thinking that civilian food is indeed not worthy of tasting their food!

And some people, like Erina in the early period, think that high-end food is good, and she just looks down on anything from roadside snack stalls and doesn't eat it.

Even, they think fast food is "garbage"

You can say.

This is another kind of "paranoid".

And it is because of this kind of paranoia that Nakiri Tsuchiya has become a food dictator!

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Actually.

Alice has never been so extreme.

She always thinks that civilian cuisine is not so low-end, and high-end restaurants are also very ceremonial and great.

If you are hungry one day, go to the street to eat a bowl of Chinese-style fried rice and feel the exotic flavor, or on a necessary anniversary, take your mother, Erina, Zhang Fan and other "relatives" to a high-end restaurant on the Bund and spend a high price to experience the high-quality dining service!

Well, in the final analysis, people must go up and down, otherwise they are all paranoid, and paranoia will be corrected.

In fact.

This time, the Totsuki change.

In her eyes, the timing is just right.

Because it leads to the biggest question in the modern cooking world, which is:

What should the relationship between food and diners be?

Can people who don't know how to eat comment on food at random?

Should excellent chefs be worshipped?

In the new era of the future, will the chefs be respected or the diners be respected?

It’s just a pity.

In this transformative event, the biggest winner is not her!

"I can't lead the future Totsuki like Erina, but I can work hard to become the top ten. I can use my own way to influence Totsuki and the future cooking era!"

Looking at the newly improved mousse champagne drink in front of her, Alice's mind inevitably started to think very far away.

Behind her, Leonora was always staring at Alice softly.

Under the light.

She is very beautiful and charming.

But her eyes were full of deep motherly love and relief!

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If.

Treating children as an extension of their parents' lives may make it easier to understand the deeper meaning of the word "expectations."

Yes, everyone wants to be successful and stand out.

But if you can’t do it yourself, you will place your hopes on your children. If your children still fail to live up to the expectations, you will continue to place your hopes on your grandchildren, or even more distant generations.

certainly.

Leonora is not such a mother.

Just watching my daughter start to grow up and become more mature, I can't help but feel a little happy!

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The temperature of delicious food is on the tip of your tongue!

The trivialities and difficulties of life will appear vulnerable to the gentle offensive of food. Food has this kind of healing power.

If you want to cook a seafood dish in a tasteful and ritual way, the selection of ingredients is extremely important.

now.

I saw that Si Yingshi chose a deep-sea wild red carp.

The red fruit carp also has other names, called red carp and black throat. This fish has a cheerful red color.

Not only that, its meat is plump and rich in fat and fish oil. Although it looks bright and beautiful on the outside, the inside of the red carp's mouth is dark, hence the name "black throat".

And in the neon country sashimi industry, red carp can be regarded as a high-end ingredient, and the price is naturally not expensive!

The first step to making sashimi:

Naturally, the scales of the fish must be cleaned.

Then use a knife to press the fish body against the pectoral fin of the red fruit carp, cut off the fish head, then hold the fish body with your hand, use a knife to cut open the fish belly, and remove the internal organs together with the head.

Then wash the fish and cut it along the belly towards the tail, then switch sides, cut from the tail towards the back, and finally separate the upper and lower sides.

at last.

This is the most important step of sashimi.

Put down the side with fish bones, then cut a piece of fish carefully, and pick out the middle bone of the fish.

Put the fish meat on a plate and blanch it slightly to make the skin curl up.

At the end, the sliced ​​fish fillets are placed on an exquisite porcelain plate. When placing the plate, Si Yingshi also pays attention to the color matching and shape combination, and deliberately arranges the fish fillets into a petal shape to show the The beauty of sashimi.

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The quality of ingredients may be more important than cooking techniques.

Cooking is nothing more than two things:

1. Make it taste good

2. Make it tasteless

What makes the food smelly is the peculiar smell, and what makes it tasteless is the fact that the ingredients themselves have no taste.

Good ingredients can be very delicious without any cooking method, but bad ingredients can't be delicious no matter how you cook them.

There is a paragraph in Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" that says: Ingredients account for four points, and cooking skills account for six points.

Therefore, cooking skills are slightly more important than ingredients.

If the ingredients are slightly inferior, you can also use cooking methods to change the taste of the ingredients later. For example, if a fish is fresh, steaming is more suitable, which not only highlights the original flavor of the ingredients, but also highlights the tenderness and juiciness of the fish.

If it is not fresh, it is fried and then braised. The addition of rich red sauce can give the fish a different flavor.

All in all.

The difference between ingredients and cooking skills is not difficult to understand.

Give a person without cooking skills a variety of top-notch ingredients, and the other person with cooking skills only give ordinary ingredients.

The result is that shark's fin is not as delicious as vermicelli, matsutake is not as delicious as mushrooms, and bird's nest is worse than eating gnocchi.

Which one is important?

Of course, the importance of ingredients cannot be denied.

Good ingredients must be met by people who know how to cook them, and they will be the icing on the cake. If they are met by people who don't understand, it will be a waste of resources.

There is a saying in "Celestial Dynasty on the Bite of the Tongue" that high-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.

But in Zhang Fan's opinion, the more common the ingredients, the more cooking skills are needed to support them.

Same with tomatoes and scrambled eggs.

Some people are mediocre in speculation, but some people can do amazing things.

Um!

This is cooking!

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As for sashimi cuisine, it definitely pays more attention to the original taste of the ingredients.

The necessary prerequisite for the so-called original taste of ingredients is that the ingredients themselves are of extremely high quality.

However, in most periods of history, high-quality ingredients were not accessible to ordinary working people.

Needless to mention fresh aquatic products.

Without preservation technology, even the emperor had to go to great lengths to eat seasonal fish.

In the absence of scientific guidance, extensive seed selection and breeding, and surplus productivity in planting, breeding, and animal husbandry, it is difficult to produce high-quality agricultural and animal husbandry products.

Not to mention that the largest number of people at the bottom cannot even guarantee their basic energy intake for a long time. Even if they can get animal protein occasionally, it is often offal with a strong smell.

Therefore, under the constraints of this reality, the only question that most cooks have to think about is:

How to turn unpalatable ingredients into edible food?

The question that very few chefs who target the wealthy class have to think about is: How to turn ordinary ingredients into memorable delicacies?

The answer is obvious: add seasoning.

Scallions, ginger, garlic and peppers remove the fishy smell and odor, and the soup and soy sauce enhance the flavor and freshness.

In the final analysis.

In fact, it is to use more stimulating flavors to suppress the fishy smell.

So, from the bird's nest, abalone, shark's fin and sea cucumber tripe for the rich to the stir-fried liver and braised pork in the kitchens of ordinary people, all of them use seasonings to highlight the flavor, and the ingredients only provide taste and energy.

Not to mention the birth of the great Sichuan cuisine, which is famous for its seasoning combination and known as a hundred dishes and a hundred flavors.

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"Hmm?"

"It's true!"

"During this period, when I was making sashimi dishes, I always had a feeling that the ingredients on the chopping board seemed to have vitality, as if they could talk to me."

Afterwards, looking at the red carp sashimi that had just been completed in front of him, Si Yingshi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

At this time, he still didn't know what superpowers were, he only knew that his cooking ability seemed to have made some breakthroughs.

Ding-ling-ling!

Ding-ling-ling!

Just as he fell into silence.

The ringing of the phone suddenly broke this beautiful atmosphere and made him suddenly wake up.

Then he quickly picked up the phone and pressed the call button: "Hello, Longdan, what's the matter? What? Another emergency meeting of the Ten Elites, and this time it's Erina... Ahem, the commander-in-chief personally ordered that all the Ten Elites must be present immediately?"

"Okay, I understand!"

After hanging up the phone, Si Yingshi sighed helplessly.

These days are really eventful. Obviously, the commander-in-chief has been replaced and everything is back on track, but the meeting has to be held again.

But he didn't think much about it, but hurriedly cleaned up the kitchen and rushed to the meeting room.

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Late at night.

The Ten Elites Meeting Room of Totsuki.

The lights are bright here, and all the Ten Elites have arrived. At this time, the atmosphere is a little heavy.

Erina, who came back from the pub, did not have time to rest, but sat at the top and tapped the table, making a "da da da" sound, which shocked the nerves of the other ten heroes below!

Tsukasa Eishi, Kobayashi Ryodan, Akane Kubo Momo, Isshiki Hui, Kinokuni Nene, Kuga Teruki, etc., all kept staring at Erina.

They were also very annoyed.

What happened to Totsuki now?

At this moment, the door was opened, and the secretary Hisako ran in breathlessly, and quickly presented a document to Erina, saying: "Miss, we have investigated all the matters of the late-night cook!"

Nakiri Erina was refreshed, took the document, and read it carefully. (End of this chapter)