Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Shuzhengzhai Machen Deji officially accepts the culinary duel of wandering chef Liu Maoxing! The duel item is... yak!

The duel will last for four hours, please invite Deji Maqin and friends from afar to come on stage! "

With the announcement of the elders in the village, Liu Maoxing and Deji also entered the ring from both sides...

That's right, it's the ring, the kind that can be directly used to "competition to recruit relatives" by changing the slogan.

On both sides of the arena, there are two piles of bonfires, one of which is equipped with a grill, and two mud stoves are prepared respectively. On the edges of both sides, there are long brick hearths and a A small circular hearth, with three kinds of carbons piled up next to it.

As for the ingredients, spices, pots and pans, and two tanks of water used for the two people's "cooking confrontation", they have all been piled up in the middle of the two halves...

The most conspicuous are the two yaks that have just been slaughtered and have not been treated in any other way!

Seeing this, Liu Maoxing also grinned endlessly... At the beginning, he just wanted a few pieces of yak meat, and each part would be enough to add up to twenty catties. The reason why he opened his mouth to buy one was because he was worried that there would be no yak that had just been slaughtered. You can't just slaughter one for the twenty catties of yourself...

It turned out that for this one yak, two yaks were used as the ingredients for the duel!

You must know that this "main ingredient" is all invested by Shuzhengzhai, no matter whether you win or lose, you don't have to pay for it...

This also shows how hospitable the locals are and how much they respect the rules of "Challenge Machin"!

"Huh? Why is the other party so young?"

"Uncle Deji is not a bully..."

"I seem to have heard that the other party didn't know this rule at all at first. Look at those auxiliary ingredients and spices, they were taken from Uncle Deji."

"Really, I thought there was going to be a fight between dragons and tigers."

"But don't be disappointed! Uncle Deji will not put water in the 'Challenge Machin' just because the other party is young! When Uncle Deji was young, he wandered around Western Europe and Southeast Asia for ten years in order to hone his cooking skills. How will he take care of this yak when he came back to become Maqin in the village? I really look forward to it..."

Although Erina and the others couldn't quite understand what the onlookers were saying, they could also see their contempt for Liu Maoxing from their expressions.

Seeing this, Alice couldn't help cheering up loudly: "Ah Xing! Come on! Let them know how awesome they are!"

At this time, most of the onlookers are young people who also have ideals and want to become the "Maqin" in the village in the future.

Although I also didn't know what Alice was shouting, but I knew it was cheering, so they all sang and danced to cheer for Dejiga!

But some "adults" in the village are much calmer, even Erina is slightly away from his cousin, as if to pretend not to know her.

"It's still an untreated yak, can this kid divide it?"

"After all, if you call yourself a cook, it's impossible that you can't even dismember a large livestock, right? It's just a matter of time... I guess most of the time will be spent here!"

"Deji is really good, at least I gave the yak meat to others..."

Some of the Tibetans watching in the village couldn't help feeling anxious for Liu Maoxing.

But at this moment, after Liu Maoxing took out a "kitchen knife" wrapped in oilcloth from the package, everyone's tone changed again!

"This, is this a kitchen knife?"

"It's more than one meter? Can it really be used?"

"Everyone, be careful, he's about to 'throw'... don't let go and fly out!"

That's right, it's the biggest kitchen knife that seems to be "swastika" in the next second!

Deji looked at Liu Maoxing, who took out the largest "ox-cutting knife", and couldn't help being a little surprised, but Liu Maoxing's eyes were already focused on the "yak" in front of him.

The two yaks had just been slaughtered, and they were piled up in the half-court confidence of both sides in a posture of crawling on all fours. At first, Liu Maoxing swung around the yaks with a hand-held knife, while using the other hand to constantly slash at the yaks. He groped for what it looked like, and after groping around, he stood in the direction facing the bull's head...

I saw Liu Maoxing ignored the doubts around him, and slowly raised the huge "Bull Slaying Knife".

"The bull and the green dragon slash!"

With a few flashes of cold light, the long-haired cowhide on the yak's body bloomed like petals, and it has been completely removed!

And in the "stamen" part, the body of the yak is also broken from the back, the neck meat, shoulder meat, ribs, waist eyes, hips, sirloin, ox tail, limbs, tail... except the head of the yak is not moving. , the other parts have been roughly divided!

In less than half a minute, the people around, including Deji on the opposite side, hadn't clearly seen how Liu Maoxing was moving!

Not to mention how he made the saber, he didn't even see clearly how his lower body appeared in all directions of the yak without unnecessary upper body movements.

I only know that there is no hesitation between each cut, and every cut will definitely break down a part of the yak...

And after each part was cut off in large pieces, the internal organs, stomach, intestines, spleen, liver and kidneys... were still intact, and they were shaved clean by Liu Maoxing with just a few knives!

In less than half a minute, the whole yak was dismembered...

Not to mention a young man, even Maqin, who is in his fifties and sixties, who is still physically strong and experienced, has been "praise" for many years for being able to do this!

That's right, it was during the "Zhonghua Yiyi" period that Renn mastered the special skill of slaughtering and disassembling large-scale livestock, "Brave Bull and Green Dragon Slash"...

With this trick, Ren can instantly decompose the buffalo.

And Liu Maoxing first used the "super-tactile sense" to touch the body structure of the yak and the difference between it and the buffalo.

Afterwards, although it was not as fast as dismembering the buffalo, it completed the dismemberment of the yak in just over 20 seconds, which was enough to shock the audience!

In the end, in the silence, Alice was the first to react, and began to cheer Liu Maoxing even more enthusiastically. After all, the second lady who lived under the aura of Erina since childhood, hates people who underestimate her or the people around her the most. .

And whenever this time, they will fight back in some "willful" way!

For example, there are some vengeful provocations against other people, but unfortunately the language barrier has weakened the provocation effect by 80%...

The "adults" who can understand some of them are obviously unwilling to have the same knowledge as Alice, who seems to be still in the category of "children".

Most of the yaks in Jiuzhaigou belong to Jiulong yaks, and some large wild yaks can even weigh a meal!

However, domesticated yaks are usually much smaller, such as Jiulong yaks and white yaks, which are relatively small among yaks. An adult bull is only about 270 kg, while an adult bull of a buffalo will weigh three times that. An adult bull also has its two halves!

However, the weight of the yak is relatively "supportive", and it looks very majestic, and it will not have the "round" feeling of beef cattle...

The slaughter rate, or meat output rate, of buffalo and yak is about half, that is, a 270 kg yak can produce about 140 kg of yak meat, while the slaughter rate of yellow cattle is slightly higher. For beef cattle, the slaughter rate can even reach 60%.

However, in terms of meat quality, there is still a big difference between yak meat and buffalo and cattle.

After all, authentic yaks are purely raised on grazing. The grazing cattle whose food is mainly herbaceous plants are obviously different from the farmed cattle whose food is their main feed.

Although the meat quality and nutrition of intensively fed cattle is not necessarily worse than that of grazing cattle, it is generally believed that grazing cattle will have "game" that rearing cattle do not have!

Some people even think that the meat quality of grazing livestock should be half-farmed and half-wild...

Yak is generally considered to be more "cow-flavored" than ordinary beef cattle, although in terms of commercial value, it is not as good as those in the front row of Australian beef grading, island beef grading or American beef grading.

And if you use other grading methods to grade yaks, the grades will not be high.

The reason is simple. No matter what kind of classification, the fat content of beef, or the "snowflake" and "frost" divisions, are important considerations. Generally, when the fat content of snowflake beef is high, the cholesterol content will decrease. , is also generally considered a symbol of high-grade beef

For example, fake Kobe beef will inject fat into ordinary beef, resulting in a seemingly beautiful "snowflake" on the surface of the beef...

But the characteristic of yak is that its calories and fat are smaller than that of ordinary beef, and the cooking methods are also very different. Using it to evaluate yak with the grading method of ordinary beef is like evaluating duck meat with the standard of chicken, which is not objective... …

To a certain extent, if it is beef, if you compare snowflake beef with yak meat, if you ask the meat master Mito Yumei to choose, you will definitely choose the former, and if you ask the spice master Ryo Hayama to choose, maybe there will be Different answers!

The "cow flavor" that is stronger than ordinary beef, if cooked properly, will create a different taste from ordinary beef.

Of course, if the skills are not enough, it may be self-defeating.

If Liu Maoxing did not have "super-tactile sense", he would not be able to detect the structural difference between yaks and ordinary beef cattle in a short period of time.

Even if it wasn't for the awakening of the "Sword Skill Essence", it would not be so clean and neat!

"I seem to have seen this kind of sword technique somewhere. You are from the Lei family... No! Liu... Pleiades? Wait, you are not from the 'Liu family', are you? I heard that the 'Liu family' and Yuanyue's relationship...cough cough, I thought it was just a coincidence!" Deji said with bright eyes.

The Liu family's headquarters, or the core of its influence on the culinary world, is in Guangzhou, but in their hometown of Sichuan, the Liu family's children often haunt.

It's just that after Deji first recognized Erina, he originally thought of some quarrels between the Yuanyue family and the Liu family, so he didn't think of Liu Maoxing and Liu Maoyuan on the Liu family.

There are more than a handful of people in the Lei family who can perform "Brave Bull and Green Dragon Slash". Even Lei Yu may not be able to do better in sword skills than Liu Maoxing who has awakened the "essence of sword skills". Ji has indeed seen a similar knife technique, and it feels familiar.

"Eh? It's just a coincidence that my surname is Liu, but it does have something to do with them..." Liu Maoxing didn't know how to explain it.

"So that's the case, it seems that I have to go all out!" Deji said and had already taken out his own boning knife, but the size was more than one size smaller than Liu Maoxing's.

Liu Maoxing simply divided the parts of the yak at the beginning, and then spent more than ten minutes, using the yak leather as a pad, and using a smaller "knife" to further divide most of the yak meat. piece……

When he was at Deji’s house, Liu Maoxing had also seen this Maqin’s kitchen. Although all kinds of equipment were not as complete as those in Yuanyue Hotel and Yangquan Hotel, they had everything they should have, and there were even some deviations. The door equipment is as modern as an ordinary restaurant, and it is completely different from the style of the retro-looking house on the outside.

I didn't expect that in the cooking showdown of "Challenge Maqin", it was still so old-fashioned, and there was not even a cooking table.

The upper brain behind the shoulder meat, the outer spine at the back of the loin, the so-called "sirloin", the eye meat between the upper brain and the sirloin, is most suitable for steak filet, that is, the tenderloin, and the hip Sancha meat, forest meat, triangular beef forest, as well as front brisket, back brisket, three ribs, chili meat, sirloin meat, shellfish, flower tendon meat, money tendon meat...

Although he half-kneeled on the stage and used yak leather as a pad for processing, Liu Maoxing had already done a more detailed cutting process in just ten minutes.

Perhaps because of the fresh air, although the weather is very cold, the afternoon sun in Jiuzhaigou is very bright.

And under the bright sunshine, on the yak leather mat in front of Liu Maoxing, pieces of yak meat that had been sorted into different categories looked vivid...

"What's going on? Do you have a feeling...as if...these raw yak meat is placed here, it looks very appetizing!"

"It's really strange, especially when he just finished cutting..."

“I felt it too, as if he was slicing up grilled yak meat that was grilled to perfection and smeared with my favorite sauce!”

But Erina and the others, as well as the other Maqins present, felt even stronger, but it just disappeared when each part of the meat was cut, and the feeling dissipated immediately after Liu Maoxing finished cutting. up.

However, there were only a few people who guessed what was going on, and had a deeper understanding of Liu Maoxing's sword skills...

That's right, it is precisely because of the superb sword skills that there is a hint of a hint of "source".

Of course, it's just a sign, and it's still far from "Original Cuisine"!

But at this time, the behavior of the people off the field was different. Deji, who was on the same stage with Liu Maoxing, seemed to be unaware of it, and was still carrying out his own process...

Liu Maoxing also looked up and found that Deji was cleaning the internal organs of the yak.

Although it is incomparable with Liu Maoxing's sword skills, it can be regarded as agile.

But what Liu Maoxing doesn't understand is that what Deji is doing now is simply "competing" with the internal organs of the cow, and has no intention of cutting up the yak meat at all. Usually, this is the case...

"Do you want to cook the whole yak together?" Liu Maoxing was puzzled.

But I didn't think too much about it, but turned around and prepared the sauces and sauces I used...

Although Uncle Deji lent all his spices to Liu Maoxing selflessly, it was still not complete.

There are all the basic spices, but some more exotic spices, only French and Thai spices, are relatively complete.

Therefore, Liu Maoxing is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, even tasting the flavor of the spices while making sauces and sauces!

After all, the quality of the spices brought by Uncle Deji's home can only be said to be average, and the individual differences are relatively large...

I saw Liu Maoxing sitting on the ground, holding a steel rod in three jars and a sea bowl, pounding large pieces of rhizome spices.

By the time Liu Maoxing prepared several kinds of sauces, sauces, and a packet of spices that seemed to be used for cooking, Deji had already cleaned up the internal organs of the entire yak.

At the same time, Liu Maoxing also put the flower tendon meat of the front legs into a jar filled with sauce, and the money tendon meat of the hind legs, together with the sauce and water in the sea bowl, put them into a large jar to cook... …

It is worth noting that the cooking is done on a bonfire, because the temperature is not as easy to control as a stove fire, and it is difficult for ordinary cooks to control it, but Liu Maoxing easily lit the bonfire, and then hung the jar with a handle on the bonfire superior.

He also specially adjusted the height of the shelf, so that the jar is at the most suitable distance, and it is roasted by the bonfire...

Seeing Liu Maoxing's action, several Maqins off the field were also discussing slightly, wondering if Liu Maoxing had really judged the temperature, or was he just pretending to be loud?

In addition, the "sirloin" is sliced ​​and boiled, the eye meat at the end of the ribs is wrapped with minced onions, the beef brisket is soaked in highland barley wine and massaged, the tenderloin, which is the part of the filet, It is the whole piece and the spice package put into the water and boiled...

At the same time, Liu Maoxing also did something that other people didn't understand, that is to use the ground stove, after igniting the charcoal fire inside, put the iron pot that had been empty all the time, and then use the soil to turn the head to seal the ground stove , leaving only some ventilation holes.

Uncle Deji's actions also confuse many people. He actually sewed up the yak that had been gutted and skinned from the abdomen!

"Eh? Are you going to roast a whole cow?"

"I've heard of roasting a whole lamb, but roasting a whole cow is rare, right?"

"Such a big cow, can it really be roasted in a short time?"

"Not only is it a matter of roasting, but roasting a whole cow also needs to use sauce to marinate the inside and outside of the beef, and this cow...is not only difficult to fully roast if it is directly roasted, and even if only the outer layer As a dish, it is also difficult to taste, right?"

Several people in Erina were puzzled, and they all expressed their incomprehension at Deji's behavior.

As for the "Maqin" who had a good relationship with Deji, their eyes lit up, as if they had guessed what he was going to do!

"That guy Deji is really...so serious about teenage children!"

"Child? You are in your teens... Ah no, at this moment, can you split the yak in an instant like the other party?"

"this……"

"It seems that Deji knew some of the opponent's strength before, and he is ready to show his skills! The last time I saw this seven-fold roasted whole cow, it was three years ago that he returned to the village after his travels and won it." Machin' title?"

"That's right, thinking about it, I'm really looking forward to it..."

When Erina and the others saw the expressions of several other people who were also Maqin, their hearts sank and they paid more attention to Uncle Deji's movements.

I saw that after he sewed the yak's belly, he did put on a posture of "roasting the whole cow". After cutting off the head of the yak, he stabbed the yak's head and tail into the horizontal spit and put it on the grill.

But after that, instead of raising the fire or applying sauce, some parts of the yak were cut...or should I say "digging"?

In many places, deep hole-shaped wounds were left, and some of the excavated pieces of specific parts of beef were put aside, some were mashed and mixed with spices to make sauces, Some are soaked in sauce for later use.

Afterwards, the remaining headless yaks, which were "ridden with holes", were roasted on the grill that was lit up, and Deji came over from time to time to turn them and change their sides.

Seeing that nearly half of the time had passed, Deji began to gradually put back most of the "taken out" yak meat!

Some are marinated whole pieces of yak meat that are half the size of a fist, and some are stuffed meat that has been made into sauce.

Of course, some meat was not backfilled, but the holes left were not wasted, either filled with sauce, then stitched with thread, or put in "weird things".

This thing is half the size of a palm. It looks like there are multiple iron nets on the outside, and it is hollow inside. The opening on the top and the part on the lid are in the shape of a long tube...

The most important thing is that before putting this kind of thing into the roast yak, everyone has seen that Deji put pieces of red-hot charcoal in it!

Seven of these things were put into it. Obviously, the size of the hole on the top was deliberately left so large, just to fit these charcoal-wrapped things inside.

After finishing all this, Deji breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, it was only about 20 minutes before the end, and Liu Maoxing's cooking had also reached the final stage...

Different from Deji, Liu Maoxing uses different parts of the yak to make different dishes. One of the two parties is "whole cow banquet" and the other is "roasted whole cow"!

Leaving aside Liu Maoxing's other arrangements, the most puzzling one is naturally the "buried pot and ground furnace", and now Liu Maoxing has finally walked over, and at the same time, he is holding some other puzzling things in his hands. thing.

That is the boiled large tenderloin sliced ​​meat, sliced ​​blanched bracken, and seasoning spices such as onion and ginger. It looks like the pre-processing before "stir-frying"!

But yak tenderloin is not suitable for frying...

When he got to the stone brick, Liu Maoxing directly kicked the brick away, exposing the empty pot inside. At this time, he saw the iron pot inside, which had been baked in a sealed charcoal fire for two or three hours, and it was already burning red!

"My God, what is he going to do?"

"Can such a pot be used to cook ingredients?"

"He, he picked it up! It's just a layer of towel... Wait, that's not a towel, right? It's a special new technology insulation material, right?"

That's right, Liu Maoxing only put a layer of towel on it at this time, and picked up the red-hot pot!

What others don't know is that the reason why Liu Maoxing placed the towel symbolically was mainly to protect their three views, not to protect his own hands...