Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Please taste it!" Liu Subaru and Xie Yunlong said to each other.

At this time, Xie Yunlong's dark circles were already red in the darkness...

What Liu Maoxing pushed in front of Xie Yunlong was a plate of pasta with red tomato sauce, and there were chunks of meat in the tomato-based sauce.

And the ones pushed by Xie Yunlong in front of Liu Subaru were white buns that were crystal clear as jade... or buns!

Xie Yunlong picked up a western fork and rolled up a strand of spaghetti, and a piece of meat was poked up on the tip of the fork, and Liu Maoxing also used chopsticks to pick up a white jade steamed bun and put it in his mouth...

At the moment when Liu Subaru was bitten, a hot current blasted into Liu Subaru's mouth, immediately causing Liu Subaru to have the illusion that his mouth was filled with soup!

Immediately afterwards, whether it was the vigorous "white jade noodles" or the delicate fillings inside, Liu Maoxing lingered...

That's right, it is "Fragrant Fragrance"!

Pleiades Liu immediately felt that this white jade soup dumpling was made of vegan fillings, and the fragrance of asparagus and pleurotus ostreatus, as well as the mellow aroma of beans and soy products, launched a charge against Liu Subaru's taste.

Soup dumplings?

Pleiades Liu couldn’t help but froze for a moment. Before, because his opponent was Master Jie, Pleiades Liu did not dare to relax, so he didn’t pay much attention to Master Jie’s cooking process. Instead, he was busy with his "multiple meat pasta"...

Indeed, if you use dead noodles to make steamed buns, only "pouring soup dumplings" are more appropriate.

Usually the bun skins are fermented "raised noodles", and the bun skins are usually very soft after being steamed.

However, the "pouring soup bag" is obviously an exception. If you use the skin of the dough, the result is that the solidified soup will be absorbed by the skin of the steamed bun after being heated and melted. Not only is there no "soup", the skin of the steamed bun becomes moist and has no taste. At all...

Therefore, the "pouring soup bag" usually uses dead noodles, or a mixture of dead noodles, hot noodles, and raised noodles to make skin.

Compared to pure dead noodles, it is more common to mix dead noodles with hair noodles and hot noodles.

However, it is like using pure dead noodles in Kaifeng filling soup bag. Because of the strength of dead noodles, it can make the skin thinner, and there is no need to worry that the bun skin will break due to the soup.

What puzzled Liu Subaru the most was the "soup" of Xie Yunlong's soup bag!

The general soup dumpling is to place the soup to solidify into a "frozen" shape, or cut into small pieces and put a small piece in each bun, and then the soup jelly melts at high temperature , The soup bag will be filled with liquid soup.

But after Master Jie’s "White Jade Pouring Soup Bag", Liu Maoxing knew right away after tasting it, the soup in it would definitely not be the product of aspic or solidified soup...

The fragrant taste is clearly vegan soup!

And in accordance with the provisions of the title, the use of "meat" is obviously not allowed.

The vegan soup, no matter how long it is left, it is impossible to solidify, unless it is frozen under the freezing point...

But using the freezing method will make the soup layered due to different freezing points, and the taste will not be so integrated.

Usually the authentic soup dumplings are usually lamb or beef stuffing. Later, dumplings with pork stuffing and three fresh stuffing were born.

There are also rare soup dumplings with vegetarian stuffing, but they are usually not worthy of the name!

It is not in the vegetable fillings, the coagulation hot head made of animal materials is added, or there is no "soup" effect at all. It is just ordinary vegetable buns with relatively high humidity and sufficient moisture in the filling.

But this is obviously not the case with Xie Yunlong’s "Bai Yu Tang Bao"...

Because he knows that for the "Comforting Spirit" chef, using "fake meat" is not as good as "no meat"!

With Liu Subaru's taste and sensitivity to food, he immediately reacted, and said secretly: That's it!It's Gelidium!

Gelidium is a kind of algae that grows on coral reefs. It is not only used to make pickles and cold dishes, but also rich in colloids. It is one of the raw materials used to make "jelly".

At the same time, the colloidal substances in Gelidium can be dissolved after boiling, and then this liquid is added to the soup to form the colloidal block of the vegetarian soup!

Moreover, the asparagus and fungi used as fillings for Baiyu Tangbao are not completely "filling", but in the form of small "diced". This is also different from ordinary fillings of Tangbao because it is delicate and tough... …

In the traditional soup dumplings, the mark of the premium beef filling is to pinch a piece of the extremely delicate beef filling, which can be stretched in the hand like a dough.

But the filling of Master Jie’s "Bai Yu Tang Bao" can make you feel that you are not eating the Tang Bao, but drinking a bowl of warm asparagus and pleurotus soup!

The fragrant asparagus and soft pleurotus ostreatus were chewed together in the mouth together with the delicious soup, and Liu Subaru's mind was filled with the unique taste of vegetarian food.

That's it!Vegetarian meat...Because "vegetarian meat" is more detrimental to "consoling spirit" than genuine vegan materials, so "vegetarian meat jelly" is used to contrast the "vegetarian meat" in the title, and then in the finished product, "vegetarian meat jelly" "It has become soup...

Liu Maoxing understood Master Jie's thoughts.

At the same time, I guessed that the influence of "vegetarian meat" on Xie Yunlong should be greater than I thought, right?

But now the other party did use the "vegetarian jelly" deduction question, although there is no vegetarian meat in the final product

Enough to play a part of the "soothing" effect of cooking.Frozen, but judging from the fact that the "Dark Cooking Showdown" did not terminate on its own, this is indeed recognized by the rules...

Liu Subaru also felt that the fragrance of the bamboo shoot mushroom soup filled with the white jade pouring soup bag contained a reassuring breath, as if an incense burner was burning in front of him...

The power of the "consoling spirit" kitchen heart can be exerted in vegetarian ingredients, not as good as using meat, but at least better than using vegetarian meat!

Because of the most important sincerity of "Consolation", at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Zhuge Liang returned to the court after Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, it was the resentful spirits of the barbarians who died in the southern expedition that was chasing the river, and "mantou" was replaced by "mantou". It is to prevent further expansion of casualties, so although "mantou" is actually "counterfeiting", it also reflects sincerity...

In contrast, using "vegetarian meat" as a sacrifice is entirely based on personal likes and dislikes in "burning newspapers on the grave", and naturally it is not enough on "sincerity."

And the pure use of vegetarian ingredients, although the effect is not as good as the use of meat, but it does not contain any deceitfulness. Naturally, the effect of "soothing soul" is worse than vegetarian meat.

While Liu Subaru was addicted to "white jade soup dumplings", he also kept thinking about his "multi-play vegetarian pasta" in his heart!

The sauce base of Liu Subaru’s golden pasta is similar to Isami’s performance in the autumn trials, that is, when making the sauce, no extra drop of water is used, but the tomato is completely heated. The oozing juice...

However, unlike Issami, Pleiades Liu did not use direct heat to make the tomatoes in the deep soup pot quickly soften and precipitate out tomato juice. Instead, he slowly heated it with a small fire at a low temperature of 60 degrees.

One is to reduce the sharpness of tomato juice, and the other is lycopene, which is better in scavenging free radicals than carotenoids and vitamin E in tomatoes. It will decompose at high temperatures and is not suitable for long-term high-temperature heating. .

Afterwards, the tomato juice simmered in a slow heat is divided into two parts. One part uses the clarified tomato juice to make meat stock, and the other part is reserved with the soft and rotten tomatoes as the final sauce... …

Xie Yunlong didn't use vegetarian meat directly because of his "comforting spirit" cooking, but Liu Subaru did not have this restriction. His "source cooking" and "sun" cooking skills were originally very universal skills!

Whether it is a plant or animal, it will directly or indirectly gain the power of the sun...

In particular, the tomato juice used as the base was also deliberately chosen by Liu Maoxing.

Tomatoes are a kind of light-loving crop. Although the requirements for sunshine are very flexible, abundant sunshine is the guarantee of quality and yield. Therefore, only California, the Mediterranean region and Xinjiang Inner Mongolia of China are the world's most concentrated tomatoes in the world. Origin!

The tomato base can more fully fill the power of the "sun".

So Liu Maoxing chose the most common way of making "vegetarian meat", which is to use real meat broth to add flavor to the vegetarian meat.

There are five kinds of soups Liu Subaru chooses. If it is not that time is not enough, Liu Subaru would probably choose top soup or clear soup...

One of the five stocks is beef stock, which is made with beef and beef bones, served with onions, raw chives, and star anise; the two are chicken stocks, see Chicken Top Soup; the three are bone soups, with pork bones and chicken Bone as the main material; the four are mutton broth, with mutton, mutton bone and haggis as the main material, with Angelica dahurica, cinnamon, grass fruit, tangerine peel, almond to balance the fishy smell, and at the same time make the fishy smell set off the faint medicinal fragrance ; The five are ham broth, made with Jinhua ham, which is the most suitable for soup, and boiled with Jinhua ham and scallops!

Although Liu Subaru made spaghetti, but in the sauce garnish, he referred to the most orthodox Chinese cooking methods... soup dishes!

From the beginning to the end, in addition to the ingredients, only natural spices were used, and no artificial condiments and ground spice powder were used. Even the salt, only the salt in Jinhua ham was used!

Afterwards, Liu Subaru was prepared to roll the bean curd, bean curd, and bean dregs in different proportions, then wrap it tightly on the outside with sterile gauze, and then put the whole into the broth to boil.

The "vegetarian meat" rolled into five different proportions of soy products simulates the taste of beef, chicken, pork, lamb and ham, and is also dipped in five different stocks!

Then add another portion of tomato juice, add basil, oregano leaves, thyme and other traditional Italian spices to season, and then cook until the juice is collected, and the tomato juice and the soft and rotten tomatoes underneath are stirred together to show the state of sauce.

Finally, mix five kinds of vegetarian meat with tomato sauce and pour it on the cooked golden pasta...

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Subaru chooses Italian noodles instead of traditional Chinese hot noodles. Although the "vegetarian meat" has a taste and taste similar to meat at this time, their taste is foreign after all. If they are cooked with noodle soup If it is, the taste will definitely be dispersed into the soup, and if you use the broth directly, the taste will be heavy!

So what Liu Subaru can choose must be dishes that do not need to be cooked after the "vegetarian meat" is made.

Pasta can be eaten directly with sauce, and Liu Subaru is in the broth, and some tomato juice is added, so the "vegetarian" taste can be harmonious even if it has not been cooked with the tomato-based sauce. The bearer...

If Xie Yunlong's "consolation" is to comfort the dead, then Liu Subaru's "sun" is to nourish the living!

The five kinds of "vegetarian" pasta have countless changes in taste due to different combinations. They have been constructed in Xie Yunlong's heart. Under the sun, the scene of countless creatures living in the world is full of all kinds of frosty competitions. Freedom means...

Life and death, this moment in the hearts of Liu Maoxing and Xie Yunlong, is constantly rotating.

The weakness of "Comforting Spirit" Chef Heart in the cooking confrontation has once again appeared.

Although the recipes of the Bailuo family are very delicious when ordinary people come to taste, the feeling brought by the "consolation" cooking heart is also loved by many emperors...

But in the "Cooking Showdown", if you encounter more energetic and vibrant cooking, the effect of "Soothing Spirit" will be at a disadvantage!

Of course, even if ordinary cooks are vigorous, they can't be Xie Yunlong's opponent...just saying that, it will be easier to dispel the emotions in people's hearts that are inspired by the "consolation" cooking heart.

For example, during the "China First" period, when Xie Lu on the ship Lou Lin faced Logan, Xie Lu's "golden laugh" was to a large extent taking advantage of Logan!

Xie Luna's attribute is biased towards the flourishing heart of the kitchen, suppressing the effect of Logan's "soothing" heart...

This suppression is not because of restraint. In fact, the two cooking attributes are relative, not mutually restrained. The reason for this effect is that the judges are also alive!

If they were to quell their former southern Xinjiang ghosts, it is estimated that a few "golden laughs" would continue, and the whole river would be boiled with the half-ridiculing "guckling" laughter.

And now this "life and death" confrontation is reappearing in the hearts of Liu Subaru and Xie Yunlong...

At the same time, in terms of the legendary kitchen utensils, Liu Maoxing guessed that Xie Yunlong should now also be able to use the magic holy bronze utensils that have become "cursed kitchen utensils"...

However, Liu Maoxing’s cooking room does not have any dry ingredients that need to be soaked, and the "dead noodles" also prohibits the fermentation of the noodles, leaving no room for the "perfect reproduction" and "multiple accumulation" of the magic sacred bronzes!

On the contrary, after the final duel with Paul before Liu Subaru, the effect of the "greed wolf pot" absorbed by the "dragon-patterned jade dragon pot" was still there. After Liu Subaru designed the shape of the soy products that can express the taste of meat, he used "greed" The power of "Wolf Pot" cuts perfectly...

It can be said that after possessing the power of the "wolf-greedy pot", Liu Subaru's sword skills can only be described as unpredictable. Previously, Liu Subaru's sword skills were still slightly inferior compared to Xie Yunlong and Lin Yi, but now they have already surpassed them. !

Even so, Liu Maoxing’s overall cooking skills are undoubtedly inferior to Xie Yunlong, but from the beginning, he abolished the old noodles of Shu Han who knew Yunlong and all the skills of using “famian”. After that, "vegetarian meat" was used to limit the performance of "consoling spirit", which greatly narrowed the gap between the two!

Like a replay of the battle of pastry on the ship Lou Lin, Xie Yunlong’s "White Jade Pouring Soup" seems to have the power to soothe all the dead, while Liu Subaru's "Multiple Pasta with Meat" is a focus on all life in the world. The praise of the...

Finally, when Liu Subaru opened his eyes, he saw that the surrounding environment gradually returned to normal, and Master Xie's sturdy figure slowly shrivelled back.

The blue veins and red eyes that were the sequelae of "xiuxian" have disappeared, but the black eye circles are only dimmed, and his face is pale, and he looks exhausted... No, it looks exhausted.

Yes, just now, both Liu Subaru and Xie Yunlong got their own answers in their hearts!

Under various objective conditions, the praise of the living is beyond the comfort of the dead...

Seeing Master Jie swayed suddenly, as if he was about to fall, Liu Subaru swiftly sprinted over with his hands, and then hugged Master Jie.

"Jie Lao? Are you okay?"

Thinking of the scene where Paul fainted directly after the failure of the "Dark Cooking Showdown", Liu Subaru couldn't help but feel a little worried!

You must know that Pleiades Liu was already doing his best to restrain him. If Pleiades Liu loses instead, it is definitely not as simple as fainting.

But now...Although Paul is not young, he is considered a mature man compared to Master Jie. Besides, he is exhausted...cough cough, exhaustion is a phenomenon that appears in the elderly, which is inherently very dangerous!

Suddenly Liu Subaru saw Xie Yunlong's eyelids move, and said quickly: "Jie Lao? Would you like me to take a pen with you, you write the will first... lest you get confused later!"

"Believe it or not, leave a death message and draw a picture of the stars of the Pleiades?" Xie Yunlong said grimly.

"..."

Facts have proved that although Master Jie is at least one Jiazi older than Paul, Paul may not be as good as Master Jie in terms of physical fitness!

Confirming that Master Jie is okay, Liu Subaru also gave up on recalling more than 800 episodes of Conan that he had watched, and assisting him in forging his alibi.

After all, Liu Subaru doesn’t even know that death in the "Dark Cooking Showdown" is a manslaughter...

"By the way! Jie Lao, if there is nothing to do, can I take a look at your'Devil Saint Bronze'?" Liu Subaru said suddenly.

Because Xie Yunlong didn't have the opportunity to use the ability of "Magic Sacred Bronze Ware" before, Liu Maoxing's "Dragon Pattern Jade Dragon Pot" did not include the function of "Magic Sacred Bronze Ware".

Although Xie Yunlong just lost, he does not seem to have any psychological burden...

After all, he has lived through an era, and his old man has already seen through the victory or defeat. If there is no "curse" influence, he simply doesn't care about it.

This is also the reason why he discovered that he was in Liu Subaru Xing because of the existence of the heart of the "consoling spirit", and he actually felt the "winning spirit", and suddenly felt that it was an incredible thing, and then doubted his own state. one.

Xie Yunlong is also very surprised now that he can actually use the true power of the "Magic Saint Bronze Ware". It seems that these dragon chefs are also a blessing in disguise...

But he still said with some worry: "I have really cleared the curse now, am I?"

"It should be like this, according to Master Xu Ling's statement..."

"Then, can your dragon-patterned jade dragon pot be transferred?" Xie Yunlong asked with a serious face.

"Unfortunately, I can't... and I'm not going to'transfer' this responsibility." Liu Subaru shrugged.

Obviously, Xie Yunlong, like the "two" Liu Maoxing, also has extraordinary self-confidence, and believes that he will have a higher success rate than others if he shoots against other dragon chefs.

Even if he had just lost to Liu Subaru, he did not shake Xie Yunlong's confidence.

Not to mention this victory or defeat, it was originally formed under the bias of many objective conditions. Even without considering the objective conditions, the subjective Jie Yunlong, or the confidence of all top chefs, is not once. The two wins and losses can be shaken.

"Jie Lao... About the situation of other dragon chefs, please explain to me!" Liu Subaru said suddenly.

Paul's mental state was not very good before, and his usual dealings with other dragon chefs were limited to social aspects. They were not good enough to learn from each other's cooking. Although he could become a dragon chef, Paul's "greed" for cooking is beyond doubt. , But after becoming the dragon chef and the president of the Michelin Food Association, he is destined to have fewer opportunities to learn from others.

But Xie Yunlong is different...

This product has been wandering around the world for decades...Liu Subaru believes that while caring for younger women, he will definitely find some famous chefs to learn cooking skills!

Liu Subaru asked Paul a similar question before. Paul’s answer was that he was not clear to others, but he said that Xie Yunlong was his least sure opponent...

Because when he just became Chef Dragon, Xie Yunlong once met him in private anonymously. Although it was not long after Paul became Chef Dragon, he recalls now that he also feels that Xie Yunlong should be very good at that time. Strong!

"Other dragon chefs? Actually I know them, basically before they became dragon chefs... Except for Lin Yi and Seiichiro, after they became dragon chefs, I also learned from them, especially Lin Yi, I often find He learned from each other." Xie Yunlong said.

Seeing Liu Subaru's nervousness, Xie Yunlong couldn't help but say, "Don't be nervous, but don't be too optimistic... In fact, after becoming a chef, everyone has similar strengths, and at most they develop in the breadth of cooking! You can beat Paul And I, theoretically, have the ability to defeat other dragon chefs... and there is also the possibility of losing to any dragon chef!"

"You are always humble, right? I heard President Paul say that he said... he is least sure..."

"Yes! The degree of'unsure' at most differs among any dragon chefs!" Xie Yunlong said.

After that, Xie Yunlong also spent the afternoon to introduce Liu Subaru to the basic characteristics of Lin Yi and Seiichiro’s culinary skills. It can also be seen that Xie Yunlong’s physique is indeed better than Paul’s, and even made a few of them by himself. Eating, drinking, talking...

However, at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Subaru starred again. Xie Yunlong, who knew the reason, didn't urge him, but started to drink and drink by himself.

Until Liu Subaru's cell phone rang...