Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Some people stepped down.

Naturally, someone will come to power.

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 third graders.

Especially people like Eiji Satoshi, Ryodan Kobayashi, Momo Akane Kubo, etc.

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

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

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

However, due to the influence of Nakiri Aki's Totsuki reform incident, the Ten Greatest Talents experienced a wave of "replacements".

……

In fact.

After the promotion exam, Alice felt confident but also a little discouraged.

I had originally defeated Eishan Ezuya and began to possess the ability to compete with the Ten Elites, but Erina actually successfully defeated Kobayashi Ryudou under everyone's expectations!

At that time.

She least wanted Erina to fail.

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

Yes!

The gap between myself and Erina is still too big.

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

But even if you keep digging deeper, it’s still hard to find out where Erina’s peak is.

You can tell.

She has a solid foundation in cooking basics.

Unlike herself, except in the field of molecular cooking, she has no knowledge of common cooking and traditional cooking skills!

It seemed like everything came too easy for her.

In terms of strength.

It was the first time in Totsuki's history that he was selected as one of the top ten students in the elementary department.

In addition, she possesses the talent of the Divine Tongue and the halo of "the Marshal's granddaughter". Indeed, 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 persuasion, she still believed that as long as she worked harder, she would be able to surpass Erina one day.

But from a culinary perspective, Erina is able to bring good things into a more outstanding realm.

Her comments on food are often very insightful!

……

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 be able to cook well.

Erina Nakiri can not only taste what is delicious and what is not, but also tell the difference between top-notch cuisine and haute cuisine, which is inherently unfair to ordinary chefs.

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

Some people may say:

cut!

I think Lanzhou ramen is better than Italian pasta.

I don’t care how many precious ingredients are contained in your dishes. If I don’t like it, I just don’t like it!

Ah!

This view cannot be said to be correct.

After all, everyone has different preferences, but it is precisely this point of view that is the ultimate reason why Nakiri Tsuki launched a rebellion and was determined to change Totsuki.

all in all.

This involves the value of food!

Can the food of the common people be compared with the food of the nobility? Are ordinary people qualified to try the top food? Should food and diners be divided into different levels?

On these issues.

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

Some people think that common food is good, and Western food is just pretentious and not filling... Perhaps it is because of the existence of this group of people that some students of Totsuki developed a rebellious mentality in the later period, and felt that common cuisine is indeed not worthy of tasting their food!

But there are some people, like Erina in the early stage, who thinks that high-end cuisine is better, and she just looks down on anything from roadside stalls and refuses to eat it.

Some even think that fast food is "junk"

It can be said.

This is another kind of "paranoia".

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

……

in fact.

Alice has never been that extreme.

She always felt that common food was not that low-end, and that high-end restaurants were also very ceremonial and great.

When 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 necessary anniversaries, 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 be able to go up as well as come down, otherwise they will be paranoid, and paranoia will be corrected.

Actually.

This time's Totsuki transformation.

In her eyes, the timing was just right.

Because it brings up one of the biggest questions in modern cooking:

What should the relationship between food and diners be like?

Can people who don’t know how to eat make random comments on food?

Should excellent chefs be worshipped?

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

It's just a shame.

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

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

Looking at the newly improved mousse champagne drink in front of her, Alice's thoughts inevitably went very far.

Leonora behind her kept looking at Alice tenderly.

Under the light.

She is very beautiful and charming.

But her eyes were full of deep maternal love and satisfaction!

……

If.

If we think of children as an extension of their parents' lives, it may be easier to understand the deeper meaning of the word "expectation."

Yes, everyone wants to be successful and stand out.

But if they cannot do it themselves, they place their hopes on their children. If their children still fail to live up to their expectations, they continue to place their hopes on their grandchildren, or even an even more distant generation.

of course.

Leonora is not such a mother.

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

……

The warmth of delicious food lies on the tip of your tongue!

The trivialities and difficulties of life will seem vulnerable to the gentle offensive of delicious food. It is this kind of healing power that delicious food has.

If you want to prepare a seafood dish tastefully and with ceremony, the selection of ingredients is extremely important.

now.

It seems that Si Yingshi chose a deep-sea wild red carp.

Red carp has other names, including 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 shiny and bright, the inside of the mouth of the red fruit carp is dark, hence the name black throat.

In the sashimi world of Japan, red carp is considered a high-end ingredient, so its price is naturally very expensive!

The first step to make sashimi:

Of course, the fish scales must be cleaned.

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

Wash the fish and cut it open along the belly towards the tail. Then change to the other side and cut it from the tail towards the back. Finally, separate the upper and lower sides.

At last.

This is the most important step in making sashimi.

Put the bone side down, cut another piece of fish meat carefully, and remove the middle bone of the fish.

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

Finally, the sliced ​​fish fillets are placed on an exquisite porcelain plate. When arranging the dish, Si Yingshi also pays attention to the matching of colors and the combination of shapes. He deliberately arranges the fish fillets into the shape of petals to show the beauty of the sashimi.

……

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

Cooking is nothing more than two points:

1. Flavor makes it come out

2. Tasteless to make it taste good

The flavor that makes it come out is said to be a foreign smell, and the tastelessness that makes it go in is said to be that the food itself has no taste.

Good ingredients can be very delicious without any cooking methods, but bad ingredients will never taste delicious no matter how you cook them.

There is a passage 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 it is of course more appropriate, which can highlight the original flavor of the ingredients and show the tenderness and juiciness of the fish.

If the fish is not fresh, it can be fried and then braised. The addition of thick 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 who has no cooking skills all kinds of top-quality ingredients, and give another person who has cooking skills only ordinary ingredients.

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

Which is important?

Of course, the importance of ingredients cannot be denied.

Good ingredients can become even better if they meet someone who knows how to cook them. If they meet someone who doesn't know how to cook them, it would be a waste of good food.

There is a saying in "A Bite of China" that high-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.

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

It’s also scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Some people’s cooking is just mediocre, while others can do something amazing.

Ah!

This is cooking!

……

As a sashimi dish, it definitely pays more attention to the original flavor of the ingredients.

The so-called original flavor of ingredients requires that the ingredients themselves be of extremely high quality.

But for most of history, high-quality food ingredients were not accessible to ordinary working people.

Not to mention fresh seafood.

Without preservation technology, even the emperor would have to go through a lot of trouble to eat seasonal seafood.

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

Not to mention the largest number of people at the bottom of society, who have long been unable to guarantee even basic energy intake. Even if they can occasionally get animal protein, it is often offal with a very strong fishy smell.

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

How to turn unpalatable ingredients into edible food?

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

The answer is obvious: add seasoning.

Onion, ginger, garlic and pepper remove fishy smell, while broth and soy sauce enhance flavor and freshness.

After all.

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

Therefore, from the bird's nest, abalone, shark's fin, and sea cucumber at the wealthy's banquets to the fried liver and braised pork in ordinary people's kitchens, all of them rely on condiments 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 condiments and is known as "a hundred dishes and a hundred flavors."

……

"Ok?"

"As expected!"

"During this period, when I was making sashimi dishes, I always had a feeling that the ingredients on the cutting board seemed to have life and seemed to be able to talk to me."

Afterwards, looking at the red carp sashimi that had just been made 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 skills seemed to have made some breakthroughs.

Jingle Bell!

Jingle Bell!

Just as he fell silent.

The ringing of his cell phone suddenly broke this wonderful atmosphere and made him suddenly wake up.

Then he quickly picked up the phone and pressed the call button: "Hello, Longdan, what's going on? 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.

It has been a turbulent period recently. The commander-in-chief has been replaced and everything is back on track, but the council has to be convened again.

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

……

late at night.

The meeting room of the Ten Elites of Totsuki.

The lights here are bright, and all the ten heroes have arrived. The atmosphere is a bit solemn.

Erina, who had just returned from the pub, did not have time to rest. Instead, she sat at the head of the table and tapped lightly on it, making a "da da da" sound, which shocked the nerves of the other ten heroes below again and again!

The ten best people including Eiji Tsukasa, Ryudou Kobayashi, Momo Akane Kubo, Satoshi Isshiki, Nene Kinokunokuni, Teruki Kuga and others were all staring at Erina.

They are also very bored.

What on earth is happening in Totsuki now?

At this moment, the door was opened, and the secretary Hisako ran in breathlessly. She quickly handed Erina a document and said, "Miss, we have already investigated everything about the late-night cook!"

Erina Nakiri perked up, took the document and read it carefully.