Rebirth as a Cooking God

Xia Yu is cleaning a large wooden barrel.

This wooden barrel, also called a rice steamer, is a traditional cooking utensil of the Han nationality, popular in various parts of the south, and is made of fir wooden strips. The one Xia Yu is cleaning now is as tall as a person and can barely be enclosed by his arms.

Clean it carefully inside and out with a brush. Strangely, in nearby Chiyo Aichi, I smelled a faint fragrance of honey, and the water used to clean the barrels did not seem to be pure water.

This thing was created by Xia Yu himself.

What, you mean carpentry?

In fact, Xia Yu had almost developed his carpentry skills when he was thinking about the wooden mold used in the Magic Panda Tofu recipe a few months ago. Practice makes perfect.

The live broadcast camera came into focus, and Nakiri Thistle was also looking at the young man cleaning around the barrel. Then, he reached in and clicked out the layers made of bamboo strips.

The so-called bamboo strips are bamboo skins. Looking at the camera, the layers of bamboo strips are all filled with holes like a honeycomb. Just when the audience was talking about the use of the wooden barrels and bamboo strips, Xia Yu used practical actions to tell them--

Use a small bowl to scoop up the shiny star rice.

Wow——

The rice grains poured into the bamboo basket, making a sweet sound. Then, Xia Yu smiled and stroked away the rice. The rice mountain was immediately spread flat, and a scene that made people's eyes widen appeared.

A grain of rice suddenly got into the small holes between the bamboo skin!

Touching the palm again, more rice grains were firmly embedded in the holes. At a glance, every grain of rice was separated and did not fall or get stuck. It was densely distributed on the bamboo strips, and the excess rice was meticulously picked up by Xia Yu. Pick it out and put it on the next layer of bamboo strips.

After such a cycle, Xia Yu's face was focused, and he was serious and focused.

Off the court, Zhu Qing was stunned and murmured: No wonder he carried me behind his back yesterday and talked about it in the villa warehouse. It turned out that he was making these weird things!

His eyes glanced at the bamboo strips and then at the traditional cooking utensil - the rice steamer.

Zhu Qing couldn't help but clasped her white palms, her eyes filled with wonder and admiration, and she said with a low smile: My nephew has so many clever ideas in his head!

Who says it isn't?

Even though Dojima Gin and Saiba Joichiro didn't know what a 'rice steamer' was, they couldn't help but look at each other and gasp when they saw Xia Yu inlaying the rice grains on the bamboo strips.

The problem of washing and cooking star rice separately was suddenly solved by a small tool.

Damn, that's great!

In the guest seat, Kaneda Shun slapped his thigh and cheered without realizing it.

Tulip's beautiful eyes flashed fiercely, and she said with a hint of excitement: This is indeed a tool for skillfully controlling Star Rice. If it is made of bamboo, it is tasteless and pollution-free. Even if the star rice is fragile and brittle, it will not be stained during cooking.

indeed so,

Bamboo is a magical thing and can be used directly to make bamboo tube rice. Of course, when Xia Yu gets the Tofu Trio recipe in the future, he will also need to prepare a special bamboo knife to cut the tofu so that the tofu does not have the iron smell.

This boy...

“I didn’t expect that the problem would be solved like this!”

That kind of cooking utensil has an ancient feel to it.

Jury seat, IGO and food fair judging speeches.

The chief judge in the middle, Shinichiro Furukawa, also showed unspeakable admiration.

Listening to the admiration of the judges next door, Nakiri Erina, who was sitting on the sixth chair, quietly clenched her pink fists, and her cheeks flushed with a hint of excitement.

Good start!

snort!

Nakiri Thistle finally looked away, his face looking ugly.

It's just a preliminary control. I'll see how you control the heat in the cooking process later - Scanning the stone stove next to Xia Yu's cooking table, and then looking at the traditional bellows placed next to it, Nakiri Thistle said no with an expression. The expression was strange, as if mocking, as if disdainful.

Just retro? Are you pursuing these common people’s cooking utensils and trying to use them to cook elegant dishes that are in line with modern art? Stop making fun of me, stop it!

Nakiri Thistle's face looked slightly ferocious.

“This is not modern culinary art!”

Let me tell you what exquisite cuisine is and what the art of cooking is!

Click.

Thinking about it, veins appeared on Nagi Kiriji's forehead. He turned the stove valve and a faint blue flame jumped up, burning the pan again.

嗗嗗......

Dionysus onions are heated, and wisps of alcohol evaporate during cooking to form smoke.

boom!

Suddenly, a whole pot of sauce burst into flames. In the blazing pillar of burning alcohol, the golden sauce in the pan bubbled like boiling golden magma.

ceasefire.

Closing the lid, Nagiri no longer paid attention to the pot of sauce. Instead, he moved to the chopping board and touched the snake meat. At this time, the ice frozen by the nitrogen liquid spray melted slightly over time, and the hardness was just right. Nagiri took a sharp Western-style knife and cut it gently, and a piece of tender snake meat two fingers wide and one finger long came out.

It took more than ten minutes to cut the two pieces of snake meat into segments, then took out a mixing bowl, sprinkled only white wine to marinate, no need for extra seasonings to compete with the flavor. While his fingers gently grasped the tender snake meat, Nagi Kiriji did not forget to observe the situation of his opponent.

During this period, Xia Yu also started his cooking process in a leisurely manner.

There are at least a dozen layers of bamboo strips, covered with star rice.

Bamboo strips were inserted into the rice bucket layer by layer, and the camera gave a close-up shot of the internal structure of the rice bucket, which immediately attracted exclamations of surprise.

There are protruding wooden slots every half finger width on the inner wall of the barrel, which also explains why there is a row of wooden nails and rivets arranged from top to bottom outside the barrel.

Another female host, Yuki Watanabe, stepped forward and stretched out the microphone: Chef Xia, can you introduce the cooking utensils you use?

Cooking utensils? No problem.

Xia Yu had just finished loading the bamboo strips and was about to close the wooden lid. Hearing this, he patted the wall of the bucket and said calmly: This thing is an ancient cooking utensil that is still in use in China. It is still widely used in many areas of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. Used. It only looks like a wooden barrel on the outside, but the actual internal structure is mostly made of bamboo strips...

As he spoke, he took a step forward, easily picked up a heavy barrel as tall as a person, and motioned for the camera to follow him.

So the situation at the bottom of the barrel is shown in the picture.

A layer of hollow bamboo strips is the bottom board.

Of course, I have improved this thing myself. It is a cooking utensil specially made by me for Xingmi. It is different from the traditional rice cooker in many ways. It is enough for everyone to know what it is. Don't worry about it.

Shrugging his shoulders, he moved the wooden barrel with the lid closed to the stone stove.

A large iron pot has been set up on the stove, and the wooden barrels are placed in the iron pot like a steamer.

Then, add water!

Because rice is steamed across water, the water surface must not touch the bottom layer of bamboo strips... Xia Yu explained while carrying a bucket and filling the iron pot with water.

But, in this case, won't the rising steam push away the rice grains in the holes of the bamboo strips?

Watanabe Yuki pursed her lips and asked a question keenly.

That's a good question!

Seeing that the water level was almost there, Xia Yu put down the barrel, looked back at the camera and said, This is the variable I want to control!

Tools are just tools after all.

Chefs must not imagine that relying on tools can solve everything, and let tools replace cooking skills to prepare dishes.