Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Variations of Provence stew...variations of Eggs Benedict...but what do these have to do with the 'past'?" The judges looked at the two dishes in front of them and asked doubtfully.

"No, I don't think it's necessary to call them over to explain."

"kindness?"

"I think their current performance is enough to show that their cooking is in line with the theme of the 'past'. Don't forget...the two contestants this time are the long-lost father-daughter relationship."

"'Separated' is not accurate, right? How do I remember that there was news that Nakiriji was suspected of child abuse and was deprived of custody?"

"Okay, these things have nothing to do with the current game...Well, judging from their appearance, they should indeed be two dishes related to the 'past', so let's taste them!"

Apparently, some of the judges have heard some rumors related to the internal grievances of the Yuanyue Department. Although they have different understandings because of their different inclinations in their hearts, since they were selected as the judges of "All? At any time, we can be "honest".

Even if I feel that there is something wrong with Nakiriji's attitude towards her daughter, as long as I really feel that "Provence roasted vegetables" are more delicious when tasting dishes, I will not lose points for Nakikijiji, and vice versa...

"What's going on? Why did you turn the camera? Damn it!" Liu Maoxing slapped the keyboard depressedly in front of the computer.

At the most tense moment of the live broadcast, the camera actually turned in the direction of the judges!

In fact, this is also normal. At this time, it has come to the stage of presenting dishes, and the attention of ordinary people will be on the referee.

As for the result of Nakiri Thistle and Erina tasting each other's dishes, it is not important to others...

Only Liu Maoxing, who knew about the "Dark Cuisine Showdown", paid special attention to Erina.

And from an angle that the camera couldn't see, Erina also began to taste slices of "Provence grilled vegetables" at this time.

It was eggplant first, and Erina couldn't help but change her face after tasting it: "Huh? This smell... when... right! It's the first time I smeared salt water on the kitchen knife!"

That's right, Erina tasted a taste other than eggplant and sauce in the eggplant.

The eggplant itself has a mild taste, the texture is tough and the meat is tender, it is good at absorbing flavors and absorbing oil... Under the influence of smoked peppers, crushed tomatoes and a variety of spices, the light eggplant fragrance of the eggplant itself is faint. During the entanglement, forming a wonderful match.

However, in addition to this, Erina, who has a "super taste sense", also accurately judged that in the taste of eggplant, there is also a "salty" taste that does not belong to eggplant or sauce!

Usually, when cooking eggplant, some people like to soak it in salt water. The main purpose is to separate part of the water from the eggplant, so as not to absorb too much oil, and also to prevent the eggplant from oxidizing and turning black.

But now this smell didn't penetrate too deeply into the eggplant, so Erina decisively judged that it was the nakiri thistle dipped the kitchen knife in some kind of salt water before cutting the eggplant.

This "salty" is not superfluous. After adding a little salt water to the eggplant, which has a mild taste, it is more suitable for the sauce!

In fact, this is also what Erina and Liu Maoxing, who was purely watching the visual effects during the broadcast, suspected...

"Roasting" in this way avoids the mixture of "stew" in terms of image and taste, but there is one biggest problem!

Unlike "stew", which puts all the ingredients and soup together, this "Provence Roast" is equivalent to using one sauce to match five kinds of fruits and vegetables.

Can this really be considered "exquisite"?

You must know that five kinds of fruits and vegetables have different textures and tastes, which is equivalent to using one key to open five different locks. Can it really fit perfectly?

But now the eggplant is equivalent to using a slightly different sauce from other fruits and vegetables...

This made Erina vaguely feel that it seems that Nakiriji's cooking is not as simple as it seems on the surface!

After swallowing the eggplant, Erina did not stop, but went on to taste the tomato.

Because the tin foil was removed halfway, all the ingredients in it were dry, and the tomato with the most moisture obviously showed signs of becoming "dried tomato" at this time, and the taste was completely different from normal tomatoes.

The first reaction after the entrance... sour!

That's right, the tomatoes selected by thistle are obviously sour than normal tomatoes, but this sour taste between ripe and immature fills the gap between the taste of the tomato itself and the sauce...

Erina seemed to realize something, and immediately tasted the pumpkin again.

sweet!

Pumpkin itself is a cucurbit vegetable with a sweet and glutinous taste. It is usually picked and stored reasonably to make the pumpkin more mature and sweeter...

But the pumpkin that cut thistle was obviously just picked!

The same goes for the eggplants and tomatoes before, Erina was able to taste this, and also guessed that it was the function of the "soul storehouse".

Freshly picked pumpkins, yet so sweet... honey pumpkins! Erina reacted immediately.

Honeymoto pumpkin is a large pumpkin species, which is a product of hybridization. Its shape is different from ordinary pumpkins, usually in the shape of a gourd. Previously, Nichiji took out pumpkin pieces instead of whole pumpkins. Erina has not responded yet Come over to this.

The biggest feature of Honeyburn Pumpkin is just like its name...sweet!

It belongs to the first and second sweetness in pumpkins.

It is this kind of sweetness that makes the pumpkin and sauce match perfectly!

Erina also understood at this time...

This sauce is not only as simple as changing from "stewed" to "roasted", but also a rare "five-flavored sauce".

That is to say, only one prominent taste is needed as a primer, and different effects can be exerted, and it can harmonize with different ingredients!

Although Erina has only tasted three kinds now, it can already be inferred that the other two vegetables, namely lettuce and potatoes, must have similar effects...

And these five flavors are not chosen randomly, they all belong to the basic taste of human taste buds!

In ancient Chinese cuisine, the concept of the five flavors used to be "sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty", also collectively referred to as "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty".

(The five flavors are actually a concept in Chinese medicine, and here it refers specifically to the world in the novel.)

But later, with the combination of technology and cooking, along with human research on taste and taste buds, we gradually discovered that the taste of "spicy" is actually a "pseudo-taste" triggered by touch...

Just like chili oil can make people feel "spicy" even if it is dripped on the skin without taste buds. In essence, "spicy" belongs to the sense of touch, which can be said to be a kind of "pain".

Therefore, for a long time, there are only four basic tastes recognized in the world, that is "sour, sweet, bitter, salty".

However, in Eastern cooking schools, it is generally believed that there should be a taste, that is "fresh"...

Including "Yang Fang Tibetan Fish", the first dish of classical Chinese cuisine, many Chinese dishes are based on "freshness"!

It was not until the early and middle period of the era of "Great Fusion of World Cuisines" that finally, through a sufficient number of experiments, it was found that the "umami" taste is indeed an independent basic taste. Therefore, a new concept of five flavors recognized in the culinary world for nearly a century - sweet and sour Bitter and salty.

The five kinds of fruits and vegetables used in thistle are obviously corresponding to the new five flavors "sour, sweet, bitter, salty and fresh"!

The taste of lettuce itself has a slightly bitter taste in the freshness. It is different from the "cucurbitacin" which is poisonous to the human body. Leaf element", "wild cucumber juice enzyme" so aggressive...

Just the right amount of bitterness, just in line with the combination of "five-flavored sauce" and bitterness.

As for potatoes, that is, potatoes, people often ignore its taste, that is, "no taste".

But in fact, potatoes are the representative of "fresh" taste in vegetables!

Unlike meat and fish, which can be eaten directly, it is difficult to feel "fresh" alone, but when stewed with other meat, it can play a "fresh" role... …

That's why potatoes are such perennial companions to stews.

The "freshness" of the baked potatoes bridges the gap between the sauce and the potatoes!

It is similar to but completely different from the "Provence stew" that Erina tasted when I cut thistles.

The "Provence Stew" that cut thistles in the past mixed the five flavors to squeeze out the potential of Erina when she was a child, but the current "Provence Roast" also makes good use of the five flavors, but it pushes the five flavors to the right level. s position.

Suddenly, Erina felt that compared to the five ingredients, the "five-flavored sauce" underneath was the protagonist...

After tasting all the five ingredients, the judges finally realized that this is not using sauce to set off the five ingredients, but using the five ingredients to complement the sauce!

The true meaning of this "Provence baked dish" can only be realized after tasting five flavors...

And Erina, who has a "super taste", already feels that she is going to get lost in the abyss of taste!

The extreme taste enjoyment of the "five flavors" hit Erina intertwined, and finally weaved into a net, which firmly bound Erina's spirit.

Erina did not forget what Linger said before, and she understood that this feeling was not only due to her instinctive closeness to "deliciousness", but also because of the "dark cooking confrontation".

At this time, Erina desperately recalled the taste of her cooking...

It's very difficult, because the cuisine of Nakiri thistle already contains "all" five flavors!

Theoretically, all flavors come from the basic taste, but Nakiri thistle has achieved the ultimate in the basic flavor of the five flavors...

This "extreme" does not mean that the cuisine of Nakiriji is heavy, but refers to the ultimate in taste "enjoyment"!

Dishes derived from the same basic taste, if tasted continuously, the inferior one will lose its color, and the "devil" chef's heart of cutting thistle just aggravates this point.

And now Nakiriji obviously wants to use his five-flavored sauce to completely restrain Erina from playing!

That's right, so far, among the dragon chefs that Erina and Liu Maoxing have fought against, Nagini Jiji is the most serious, and also the one that performs the best and chooses the most suitable recipes for use in the competition.

Liu Maoxing, who was watching the broadcast, also guessed from the expressions of the judges at this time the intention of cutting thistle and the mystery of the dishes...

"Sure enough, being guided by the 'curse' to participate in the competition, the effect is completely different from the competition that really wants to participate and the original intention coincides with the "curse"!" Liu Maoxing couldn't help but slapped his palm.

Whether it was with Liu Maoxing or Erina, all the dragon chefs I met before, in fact, the dishes they cooked in the duel were not at the dragon level, at most they were only close!

Dragon-level cooking requires not only dragon-level skills, but also dragon-level inspiration...

The pride of the dragon chefs made them not use the ready-made recipes even if they were guided by the "curse" to confront Liu Maoxing and Erina, and the ready-made dragon-level recipes may not be suitable.

Therefore, almost all of their dishes are created in a short period of time. Even Chef Long does not always have dragon-level inspiration.

And the current "Grilled Vegetables with Five Flavors Sauce" has not only reached the dragon level, but is also particularly good at using it for competitions!

Coupled with the bewitching effect of the "devil" kitchen heart, it is just enough to stimulate the appetite of diners by overdraft, and the price after overdraft will naturally be borne by the opponent!

At this time, the judges have also started to taste Erina's "Eggs Benedict".

"Huh? This fried egg... the yolk is as smooth as a poached egg?"

The judges couldn't help but marvel at the golden liquid yolk gushing out of the egg white.

"Obviously there is still a slight smell of burnt oil on the outside... Was it fried at an instant high temperature?"

"That's right, this shows that contestant Erina's grasp of the temperature of the fried egg has reached the most incisive level... Obviously, he already has the essence of pyrotechnics." The judges said looking at the golden fluid egg yolk.

Whether it is poached eggs or soft-boiled fried eggs, the moment when the yolk flows out is the most attractive!

The golden fluid flowed onto the Polished ham below, and the tender Parma ham was bent slightly under pressure, and then lifted up slightly after flowing...

Although the grilled vegetables with five-flavored sauce made of chopped thistles gave the judges a feeling that "there is nothing better than this", but after seeing this scene, the judges were visually aroused again.

"In that case, I'll start first!"

The appetite of the judges, who had been covered up because of the enjoyment of taste, was quietly raised...

However, Erina's crisis still hasn't been resolved, and now it's just the subjective wishes of the judges, not to reject it. In fact, after eating it, the biggest possibility is still being covered up.

I saw several judges put the whole sliced ​​fried egg into their mouths together with the sliced ​​Parma ham, duck meat and hard bread underneath.

The hollandaise sauce on the fried egg is made with lemon juice, egg yolk, cream and spicy tarragon. As for the fried egg below, except for "burning outside and flowing inside", it seems to be an enlarged version of " In addition to "poached eggs", there is another "secret" hidden.

That is, when the fried egg was beaten into the bowl, about one-third of the yolk was replaced by Erina with a syringe! It was replaced with a sour mayonnaise similar to hollandaise, but without the spicy taste!

However, when the harmonious hot and sour flavors bloomed in the mouths of the judges, they were immediately overwhelmed by the nostalgia for the hot and sour in the previous "Grilled Vegetables with Five Flavor Sauce"...

Followed by Parma ham, the "egg yolk up version" mayonnaise poured on it further enhances its salty taste. With Erina's knife skills, the tender taste of the thin slices of Parma ham seems to be delicious. The unique salty and delicious taste brings people the double enjoyment of taste and touch!

But unfortunately, before these two kinds of enjoyment bloomed, they were extinguished by the other two kinds of savory flavors that bloomed before...

Finally, there is the German-style farmer's bread, which is made by mixing oats and wheat. In the fragrance of oats, it is mixed with the unique "bitterness" of grains.

Sure enough, Erina, as the owner of the "Super Sense of Taste", was in a duel with thistle, who had given her great fear in the training of her "Super Sense of Taste", and even made her "Super Sense of Taste" once self-enclosed. Rina also chose dishes that blend multiple tastes.

If...it is really possible to follow the plan, make the "hot and sour" and "salty" in the five flavors seem to be invaded by the left and right sides first, and finally the slight bitterness in the thick and heavy will serve as a foil for the Chinese army, which is enough Break down anyone's taste barrier!

However, if there is a slight incompleteness in the cooking of thistle, it may make Erina's cooking "brilliant".

But now...

Erina felt as if she was a marionette, still being controlled by the grinning Jiji, even in her heart, Erina had already been held in the hand by the gigantic "demon" Chu Xin, with the other hand, Seeing that it is about to be gripped from top to bottom...

But at this moment, a soft cry sounded from Erina's heart!

I saw Erina who was dominated by fear again and fell into the demon's palm, as if she was about to fall into the dark abyss again, suddenly a pair of wings grew behind her, and a dazzling light sprinkled on her body, soaring before the "devil"'s hands closed out!

"How, how is it possible? This is..." the devil looked at Erina in shock and murmured.

"That's right! I finally remembered it... It seems that I am superior in terms of taste, and it also proves that you were completely wrong from the beginning! Get out of my heart... I hope to see you next time When you were here, it wasn't this ugly look! It was what my mother said..."

Accompanied by Erina's words, the huge demon projection melted away from Erina's heart!

At the same time, the judges also became "Yan Yi".

At the beginning, when the judges tasted Erina's dishes, they frowned slightly...

Undoubtedly, Erina's cuisine is also very delicious, but every taste is blocked by the impression left in their taste memory before cutting the thistle, which makes the judges think that it is delicious intellectually, but emotionally. However, there is a sense of incongruity of "unwilling to eat".

But when chewing deeply, the sixth flavor appeared!

A taste completely different from the previous five flavors...

Until recent years, the American Development Association discovered the sixth flavor of the basic taste...fat.

It can also be translated as "fat taste" in Chinese, which is similar to the taste produced by directly dripping fat on the tongue, most of which are "fat"...

Also in a few years, "fat" has also been proved that it does not overlap with other basic flavors, it is not a fusion of other basic flavors, but the "sixth flavor".

However, the research on "fat" is still very shallow, and there is no direct condiment like sugar and vinegar, which can directly enhance the taste of "fat", which is also an important capital of the American Development Association.

If the development is carried out step by step, the American Development Association is likely to become the "fourth largest culinary organization" within 20 years, and the credit for discovering "fat" at the level of culinary history is bound to be an important driving force!

However, as the representative of the American Development Association, Nakiri Ji didn't directly use this point, but was used by Erina...

In each "Eggs Benedict", in addition to the ham, Erina also added a few slices of fat and thin duck meat in the center.

Duck itself is an ingredient that tends to make people feel fatty, and Erina did not suppress this fattyness when cooking, and did not fully follow the recipe of Cantonese-style roast duck, but used its own game to further It feels "fattier"!

It can be said that Erina's roast duck is not very delicious if tasted alone, as if someone really asked diners to try the oil-soaked pure fat meat, they might even be beaten...

But if it is in stewed meat or roasted meat, this little bit of "fat" flavor can just give people a higher level of taste enjoyment!

At this last moment, "Fat" is like a "sharp sword", which makes Erina's cooking escape the blockade of Nakiriji!

And the previous blockade was like filling "air" into a rubber tire. The seemingly soft air, as long as it reaches three or four times the atmospheric pressure, can produce an effect like explosives when it explodes!

The same goes for Erina's "Bendinic Eggs"...

Originally, Erina's level was only about the same as that of Liu Maoxing, and in the case of the longest performance, it was only at the peak of Lin level. The same is true for this "Egg Benedict", which brings together the essence of Erina's taste and taste.

But it is precisely because of the blockade of thistle...

At this moment, the judges seemed to see a fat duck inlaid with gems, breaking free from the fishing net and rushing into the sky.

At this moment, the gemstone bloomed with a brilliance that surpassed itself, as if it possessed people's yearning for freedom!

At this moment, Naki cut thistle's previous thoughts completely backfired.

Just after "Fat" broke through the blockade of thistle, the flavor of Erina's "Eggs Benedict" fully blossomed in the taste sense of the judges!

Oppression can only bring about a more intense backlash!

If this recipe is not used, if the "demon" effect of thistle is not like this, if thistle is not the first to deliver the recipe...

But there are not so many ifs, this is indeed accidental, but it also has its inevitability!

"You, you... already knew... my...recipe?" Nakiriji said with his eyes bulging and his voice hoarse after tasting Erina's cooking.

"No, I don't know, I just guessed that you must hope to completely crush the victory, and even hope to control me again? But it is your mentality that can inspire the common will of intelligent creatures." Erina said.

That's right, to a certain extent, Erina's cooking at this moment contains not only her own will, but also the driven will of the diners themselves!

It is the will of the diners that strengthens her cooking spirit, making her cooking reach the dragon level, and because of the participation of the diners' own will, it is easier to have a sense of belonging!

This is what Erina can think of, the only way she can defeat Nakiri Ji now...

Although it is very dangerous, because you have to "cooperate" with him to encircle and block your own cooking after guessing his thoughts, if you are not careful, you may be completely defeated, and then be controlled by the "devil" kitchen heart again, but the final result, Whether it is the "Final Showdown" that determines the fate of human recipes, or "All? Blue"...

"Five to zero! The results of the 'Past Group' are here! Five to zero...Nakiri Erina wins!"