Swallowed Star: Food Shocks the Universe

Not long after Xue Xi entered, the wine-making gift package sent by Xu Xin arrived soon after.

Now that she had the strength of a peak apprentice, Xue Xi felt as if she had endless energy in her body. She used her telekinesis to accurately place all the brewing materials into the selected brewery.

Then enter the virtual cooking practice space and practice first. After all, we can't waste ingredients. The plateau winemaking environment is more suitable for brewing authentic highland barley wine. You can also use the sealed winemaking jars you bought outside.

Xue Xi chooses barley with full grains, soaks it in water, washes it quickly and takes it out, then pours the washed barley into the pot, boils it until it is cooked thoroughly, drains the water and then steams it again to remove the remaining moisture in the grain.

During the process, Xue Xi was not idle. She stretched out her little hands from time to time to pinch the barley grains. When they were 80% cooked, she took the pot off the stove and let it cool for half an hour. At this time, the water in the pot had been absorbed by the barley.

The already plump barley becomes even more round and translucent after absorbing water, like tiny grains of jade.

The next important step is to add koji to relieve the problem. In this step, the temperature of the highland barley needs to be controlled. If it is too hot, the koji will be killed, but if it is too cold, the activity of the koji will be low and its decomposition ability will decrease. This requires precise and skilled temperature control techniques.

Xue Xi used her telekinesis to accurately measure the temperature of the barley room, and when the average temperature reached 30 degrees Celsius, she added the wine koji. She then put the barley into a jar, sealed it to keep it warm, and waited for the barley to ferment and saccharify.

Steaming the dregs, fermenting in a ground jar, steaming the liquor. Logically, highland barley wine, a type of fragrant liquor, should not be stored for too long, but can the recipe in the catalogue be wrong? No!

When turning the time wheel in the brewing area, the space where the wine jars were stored in the virtual space did not change, but the wine jars inside began to change rapidly, as if they had been baptized by time, and the paper strips stuck on the surface began to quickly turn yellow and twist.

One minute later, a ding sound like a microwave oven was heard in the space, and time ended at an accelerated speed. Xue Xi couldn't wait to get closer to the wine jar.

Because it was sealed tightly, there was no smell at all. Xue Xi rubbed her hands and unscrewed the sealing lock on the special wine jar with great anticipation.

A "hiss" sound was heard, and a strong aroma of highland barley spread out from it. It smelled pure and elegant, without any adulteration.

Xue Xi scooped up a spoonful with a wine spoon and poured it into the transparent glass in her hand. The clear, transparent, and shiny liquid flowed from the spoon into the glass. The wine flowed, with a thickness visibly visible to the naked eye, and it stuck together when it dripped.

Even though Xue Xi didn't like drinking, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Good wine!" The chef is always the first taster of the dishes, and the same goes for winemaking.

Slowly put the wine in the glass into your mouth, take a sip, and you will feel the soft fragrance, comfort and purity at the tip and root of your tongue. Swallow it into your throat, open your mouth to inhale, close your mouth to exhale, and you will feel the refreshing aftertaste.

After taking a sip of the wine, Xue Xi's face turned an intoxicating red, so bright and beautiful that it was tempting to dazzle. She shook her head vigorously and used her mental power to drive away the alcohol. Then Xue Xi turned her attention to the evaluation given by the big book: barley wine (barren).

The brewing was successful! Although it was the lowest level, it was a success for Xue Xi, who had never touched alcohol before. Besides, for the current environment on Earth where the strongest people can only be at the star level, this effect is enough.

I immediately exited the practice space and followed the same procedure to prepare more than a dozen large jars of fermented highland barley. I covered this area with the time regulator function newly added to the food anchor point. After setting the highest acceleration, I only had to wait for one day to harvest the 10-year-old aged special liquor.

After preparing the drinks, Xue Xi prepared the ingredients for the other dishes, especially the other four new dishes. Xue Xi practiced in the virtual space until the evening before she mastered them all. Finally, she walked out of the kitchen contentedly holding a small plate of pear syrup candy. She turned off the lights on the first floor, leaving only the faint light from the food anchor point illuminating a small area in the middle.

Going upstairs, Xue Xi turned on the TV, which was playing the inspirational success story of a certain god of war.

Putting down the remote control, Xue Xi went into the bathroom to take a bath, then she wrapped herself in a bathrobe and lay on the sofa in front of the TV. She found a cartoon about wolves and watched it with relish.

From time to time, I would pick up a piece of pear paste candy on the plate and put it into my mouth. It tasted as sweet as honey, loose and crispy, not greasy or sticky, and fragrant and delicious. "It's worthy of me!" I gave myself a small thumbs up in my heart.

When she got up the next day, Xue Xi used the All-Seeing Water and the Kitchen Spirit Fire, together with the magical material bag, to think about upgrading the level of the dishes in the virtual space. Cooking skills are like cultivation, you have to row against the current, if you don't advance, you will regress.

It was almost afternoon, and it had been almost a day since the accelerated time for brewing barley wine yesterday. Xue Xi finally exited the virtual space leisurely. A day's hard work had allowed the four new combat dishes to all reach the Hong level. But the strange thing was that no matter what she did now, not a single dish reached the Zhou level, as if something important was missing.

I kept thinking about what the problem was. I walked without stopping until I came to the brewery next to the warehouse. The strange fluctuations of the accelerator suddenly stopped.

Eighteen white metal cans, two meters wide and three meters high, were arranged closely. Xue Xi came to the can in the middle of the row and looked at the tall lid. She couldn't help but pouting. She had filled it in with telekinesis yesterday, but today she wanted to see the first-person perspective of opening the can with her own eyes.

She stepped on an iron plate and with a thought, the iron plate slowly rose up with Xue Xi. Looking down, Xue Xi suddenly felt dizzy. Her calves went weak and she sat on the shaky iron plate. She was seriously afraid of heights!

Trying his best not to look down, he approached the mouth of the jar. The sealing bolt on it turned under the power of thought, and the lid opened upwards. An extremely rich aroma of barley from the huge jar instantly filled the entire brewery. The fragrance also spread out of the room and diffused to the surroundings. Looking into the jar again, the liquor was crystal clear, and it was authentic premium barley wine.

Among liquors, highland barley wine, the 'Pearl of the Plateau', is evaluated as follows: "Tourists get drunk ten miles after opening the jar, and the wine is fragrant all the way when it is carried a thousand miles away."

This was indeed the case. The warriors outside were setting up the market and trading supplies when they were suddenly attracted by the aroma of wine wafting from somewhere. They closed their eyes and sniffed the air.

"Lao Zhang, your wire snake skin is pretty good. How about selling it to me at a lower price? Don't worry... Hmm, (sniffs) Where does this wine come from? It smells so good, Lao Zhang, can you smell it?"

"I smell it, it's really fragrant, but you better put the snake skin down first!"

"Could it be that the new wine at the Cat Ears Restaurant is ready? Looks like I'll have a treat tomorrow. I wonder if my blind left eye can be cured!"

Li Yao, who was far away, opened his eyes wide. "The fragrance came from the restaurant. Did this little girl really brew something?"

Vinina's lips curled up into a smile: "Yes, the little girl is really capable, but after confirming the effect tomorrow, this thing will belong to us!"