Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Shuzhengzhai Maqin Deji, officially accepts the cooking showdown of the wandering chef Liu Maoxing! The item of the showdown is... yak!

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

Following the announcement of the elders from Zhaizhong, Liu Subaru and Deji also entered the ring from both sides...

That's right, it's the kind of arena where you can directly use the slogan to "compete martial arts".

On both sides of the ring, there are two piles of bonfires, one of which is equipped with a grill, and two tandoors are prepared respectively. On the edges of both sides, there are long brick furnaces and one There are three kinds of carbons piled up next to a small circular furnace.

As for the ingredients, spices, pots and pans, and two jars of water used in the "cooking showdown" between the two people, 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 undergone any other treatment!

Liu Maoxing grinned when he saw this... At the beginning, he just wanted a few pieces of yak meat. The total amount of each part is 20 catties at most. The reason why he opened his mouth to buy one was because he was worried that he didn’t have the yak just slaughtered. You can’t just slaughter one for your own twenty catties...

As a result, for this yak, two yaks were used as ingredients for the confrontation!

You must know that these "staple ingredients" are all funded by Shuzhengzhai, no matter whether you win or lose, you don't need to pay...

This also shows the degree of hospitality of the locals and their respect for the rules of "challenge Ma Chin"!

"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 the rules at first. Look at the supplementary ingredients and spices, they still got them from Uncle Deji."

"Really, I thought there would be a battle."

"But don't be disappointed! Uncle Deji won't let him out in the'challenge Maqin' just because he is young! When he was young, Uncle Deji wandered Western Europe and Southeast Asia for ten years in order to hone his cooking skills. I just came back to become the Maqin in the village in the next year. How will he cook this yak? I really look forward to it..."

Although Erina and others didn't understand very much, and the people onlookers were saying what they were talking about, they could also tell the contempt for Liu Subaru in their looks.

Seeing this, Alice couldn't help but cheered loudly in discomfort: "A Xing! Come on! Let them know how great!"

At this time, most of the onlookers were young people who also had ideals and wanted to become "Machin" in the stockade in the future.

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

The "adults" in some stockades were more calm, and even Erina was slightly away from her cousin, as if to pretend not to know her.

"It's actually a yak that hasn't been treated. Can this kid divide it?"

"After all, claiming to be a cook, it's impossible to even mutilate large livestock, right? It's just time... It is estimated that most of the time will be spent here!"

"Duji is also true, somehow cut the yak meat for others..."

Some of the Tibetans watching in the stockade couldn't help but worry about Liu Subaru.

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

"This, is this a kitchen knife?"

"It's more than a meter? Can it really work?"

"Everyone, be careful, he's going to start to'flick'... don't fly out again!"

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

Deji looked at Liu Subaru, who had put out the biggest "Bull Cutter", and couldn't help being a little surprised, but Liu Subaru's eyes were already focused on the "Yak" in front of him.

Both yaks were just slaughtered, and they were piled up in the half-time confidence of the two sides in the posture of four hooves crawling. Liu Maoxing first turned around the yak with a portable knife, using one hand with the other.

I saw Liu Subaru Ignoring the doubts around him, and slowly raised the huge "cutter knife."

"Slash the fierce bull and blue dragon!"

With a few flashes of cold light flashing, the yak was covered with long-haired cowhide, blooming like petals, but it had been completely removed!

In the part of the "stamen", I saw the body of the yak, also breaking open from the back, neck, shoulder, rib, waist, hip, sirloin, oxtail, limbs, tail...except that the head of the ox did not move. , The other parts have been roughly divided!

In less than half a minute, the people around, including Deji on the opposite side, hadn't seen how Liu Subaru moved!

Not to mention how the knife was released, even how he had no unnecessary upper body movements, appeared in the yak's bottom plate movements in all directions, did not see clearly.

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

After the various parts were severed, the internal organs, stomach and intestines, spleen, liver and kidney... were almost still in place without any damage, and they were shaved clean with a few strokes by Liu Maoxing!

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

Not to mention a young man, even if he is in his 50s or 60s, with experience and stamina, Ma Qin has been able to do this and has been "praised" for many years!

Yes, it was during the "Zhonghua Yifan" period that Rennes mastered the slaughtering and decomposing stunt of large-scale livestock, "Bull and Blue Dragon"...

With this trick, Rennes can instantly decompose the buffalo.

And Liu Subaru first used "super touch" to touch before to understand the body structure of the yak and the difference between it and the water buffalo.

After the show, although it was not as fast as dismembering the buffalo, the dismemberment of the yak was completed in just 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 Subaru more enthusiastically. After all, the second lady, who has lived under the aura of Erina since childhood, is the most hated person who underestimates herself or the people around her. .

And whenever this happens, he will use some "willful" methods to fight back!

For example, there are also some provocations that bear grudges against other people. Unfortunately, the language is not clear, and the provocation effect is reduced by 80%...

Some "adults" who can understand are obviously unwilling to have the same knowledge as Alice who seems to be in the category of "children".

The yaks in Jiuzhaigou are mostly Jiulong yaks. Some large wild yaks can even weigh a meal!

However, the yak that is domesticated and grazing is usually much smaller. For example, the Kowloon yak and the white yak are considered to be relatively small among the yak, and the adult bull is about 270 kg, while the adult bull of the buffalo will weigh three times that. There are also two and a half adult bulls!

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

The slaughter rate of water buffalo and yak, or the meat yield rate, is about half, that is, 270 kg of yak can cut about 140 kg of yak, while the slaughter rate of yellow cattle is slightly higher, and some are cultivated. For beef cattle, the slaughter rate can even reach 60%.

But in terms of meat quality, yak meat is still very different from buffalo and scalpers.

After all, authentic yaks are purely grazing. Grazing cows whose food is mainly grasses are obviously different from those whose food is feed.

Although the meat quality of intensively fed cattle is not necessarily worse than that of grazing cattle, it is generally believed that grazing cattle will have "games" that the cattle farm does not have!

Some people even think that the meat of grazing animals should be semi-raised, semi-wild...

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

Moreover, if other grading methods are used to grade the yak, the grade will not be high.

The reason is simple. Regardless of the classification, the fat content of beef, or the “snowflakes” and “frosting” segments, are important considerations. Generally, while the fat content of snowflake beef is high, the cholesterol content will decrease. , It’s also a symbol of beef

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

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

To some extent, if it’s the same beef, Snowflake beef and yak beef are compared. If you let the meat master Mito Yumei choose, you will definitely choose the former, and if you let the spice master Yashanliang choose, you might have Different answers!

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

Of course, if the skill is not enough, it may be self-defeating.

If Liu Subaru had no "super touch", he would not be able to detect the structural difference between a yak and an ordinary beef cattle in a short time.

Even if it hadn't been for the awakening of "the essence of sword skills", it would not have been so clean!

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

The base camp of the Liu family, or the core of its influence on the cooking industry, is in Guangzhou, but in his hometown of Sichuan, the children of the Liu family also frequent.

It's just that when Deji first recognized Erinai, he originally thought of some of the conflicts between the Yuanyue System and the Liu family, so he did not think of Liu Maoxing and Liu Maoyuan in the Liu family.

The Lei family can use more than one palm. Even Lei Yu may not be able to perform sword skills better than Liu Maoxing, who has awakened the "sword skills". Ji had indeed seen a similar sword technique, and felt familiar.

"Huh? My surname Liu is indeed just a coincidence, but it does have something to do with them..." Liu Maoxing didn't know how to explain it.

"That's the case, it seems that I must go all out!" Deji said that he had already taken out his boning knife, but it was more than one size smaller than Liu Subaru's.

At the beginning, Liu Subaru simply divided the parts of the yak, and then used it for more than ten minutes. Then, he used the yak skin to padded, and used a smaller "scalp" to further divide the major parts of the yak. Piece……

When he was at Deji’s house, Pleiades Liu also saw Maqin’s kitchen. Although all kinds of equipment could not be readily available as in the Yuanyue Hotel and Yangquan Hotel, he also had everything that should be there, and it was even somewhat biased. The equipment of the door is no less modern than an ordinary restaurant, which is completely different from the retro-looking houses outside.

Unexpectedly, in the "Challenge Ma Chin" cooking showdown, it was still so retro, there was not even a cooking table.

The upper brain behind the shoulder meat, the outer ridge at the back ribs, which is the so-called "sirloin", the eye meat between the upper brain and the sirloin, is most suitable for steak fillet, that is, the tenderloin and the hip Sancha meat, forest meat, triangle cattle forest, as well as breast meat, breast meat, three tendons, chili meat, sirloin meat, shellfish meat, flower tendon, money tendon...

Although he was half-kneeling on the stage, he was just padded with yak cowhide for processing, but within ten minutes, Liu Subaru had already done a more detailed cutting process.

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

And in this bright sunshine, on the yak leather cushion in front of Liu Subaru, pieces of yak meat, which have been classified into different categories, look vivid...

"What's the matter? Do you have a feeling... as if... these raw yak meat is placed here, it makes people look appetizing!"

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

"I felt it too, as if he was splitting the roasted yak meat that has been roasted just right and smeared with my favorite sauce!"

As for Erina and others, as well as the other Machins present, they felt even stronger, but they only disappeared when each part of the meat was cut. After Liu Subaru finished the cut, this feeling disappeared immediately. Up.

However, there are only a few people who have guessed what is going on. They have a deeper understanding of Liu Subaru's sword skills...

That's right, it is precisely because of the exquisite skill of the sword that there is a hint of inspiration for the "source".

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

At this time, the performance was different from that of the people off the court. Deji, who was on the same stage as Liu Subaru, seemed to be unaware, still carrying out his own process...

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

Although it is incomparable with Liu Subaru's sword skills, it is still agile.

But what Liu Subaru does not understand is that what Deji is doing now is simply to "compete" with the internal organs of wagyu, and there is no meaning of cutting the yak meat at all. Usually this situation...

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

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

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

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

Therefore, Liu Subaru is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, even while tasting the flavor of spices while preparing 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 quite large...

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

When Liu Subaru had prepared several sauces, sauces, and a packet of spices that seemed to be used for cooking, Deji had also cleaned the whole yak's innards.

At the same time, Liu Subaru also put the flower tendon of the front leg into a jar with sauce, and the money tendon of the hind leg, together with the sauce and water in the sea bowl, put it in a large jar and boiled... …

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

I also specially adjusted the height of the shelf so that the jar was burned by the bonfire at the most suitable distance...

Seeing this action of Liu Subaru, several Ma Qin off the court were also discussing slightly. I wonder if Liu Subaru has really judged the temperature, or is pretending to be momentum?

In addition, the "sirloin" part is sliced ​​and boiled, the rib eye meat is wrapped with minced onion, the sirloin meat is soaked in barley wine and massaged, and the tenderloin, which is the part of the filet, The whole piece is boiled together with the spice bag in water...

At the same time, Liu Subaru did something that other people did not understand, that is, he used the furnace to light the charcoal fire inside, then put the empty iron pot in it, and then sealed the furnace with the earth turning head. , Leaving only some vents.

And Uncle Deji's actions also made many people confused. He actually sutured the yak that had been hollowed out and peeled from the abdomen!

"Huh? Is it to roast the whole cow?"

"I've heard of roasted whole lamb, but roasted whole beef is rare, right?"

"Such a big cow can really be cooked in time?"

"Not only is it a problem of roasting, roasting a whole cow also needs to use sauce to marinate the inside and outside of the beef, and this cow... if it is used directly for roasting, it will not be completely cooked, and even if only the outer layer is As a dish, it’s hard to taste, right?"

The people of Erina were puzzled, and they all expressed puzzlement about Deji's behavior.

And several "Ma Qin" who had a good relationship with Deji, could not help but shine, as if guessing what he was going to do!

"That guy Deji is really... he is so serious about teenagers!"

"Child? You are a teenager... No, at this time, can you split the yak instantly like the other party?"

"This one……"

"It seems that Deji knew some of the opponent's strength before, and he was ready to show off his skills! The last time I saw this seven-fold roasted whole cow, he ended his tour three years ago and returned to the stockade to win it.' Ma Qin's title, right?"

"Yes, thinking about it, I really look forward to it..."

When Erina and others saw the other people who were also Maqin, they showed such a look, and their hearts sank, and they paid more attention to Uncle Deji's movements.

I saw that after he sewed the yak's abdomen, he did put on a posture of "roasting the whole cow". After cutting off the head of the yak, he pierced the yak head and tail into the cross brace and placed it on the grill.

But then, instead of raising fire or applying sauce, some parts of the yak were cut open...or should they be said to be "dug"?

Many places are left with deep-hole-shaped wounds, and pieces of beef from specific parts are dug out, some are put aside, some are mashed and mixed with spices to make sauce. Some are soaked in sauce for later use.

After that, the remaining decapitated yak that had been "wounded with holes" was grilled on a fire-raised rack, and Deji came and turned from time to time to change the surface.

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

Some are marinated whole and half-fisted yak meat directly backfilled, and some are stuffed meat that has been made into sauce and stuffed in.

Of course, there are some meats that are not backfilled, but the holes left are not wasted, or they are filled with sauce, then stitched with thread, or "strange things" are inserted.

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

The most important thing is that everyone saw this kind of thing before it was put into the roasted yak, and Deji filled it with pieces of red-burned charcoal!

Seven such things were put in it. Obviously, the size of the holes on them was deliberately set aside so large, just so that these things covered with charcoal were stuck in them.

After finishing this, Deji breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the distance was over, and it had only been twenty minutes. Liu Subaru's cooking also reached the final stage...

Different from Deji, Liu Subaru uses each part of the yak to make different dishes. One is a "full cow feast" and the other is a "roast whole cow"!

Not to mention the other arrangements of Liu Subaru, the most confusing thing is naturally the "buried pot furnace", and now Liu Subaru has finally walked over, at the same time holding some other confusing things in his hand. thing.

That is the meat slices from the big boiled loin, the braised bracken cut into sections, and the seasoning spices such as green onion and ginger. It looks like the pretreatment before "stir-fry"!

But the tenderloin of yak is not suitable for frying...

When he reached the stone bricks, Liu Subaru directly kicked the bricks away, revealing the original empty pot inside. At this time, I saw the iron pot inside, which had been roasted on a charcoal fire for two or three hours, and it had already burnt red!

"Gosh, what is he going to do?"

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

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

That's right, Liu Maoxing picked up the hot red pot with only a layer of towel at this time!

What other people don’t know is that Liu Subaru’s symbolic matting of towels is mainly to protect their three views, not to protect their hands... (To be continued.)