The strongest gourmet live broadcast [Interstellar]

When Jiang Ruan came out of the bathroom with a special towel for cooking, he saw Mu Zexi leaning on the sofa with his long legs bent, writing and drawing with a floating metal device similar to a "tablet computer" painting.

"Have you got the home satellite network ready?" Jiang Ruan put the towel on the counter, leaned over and took out a large airtight bowl from the built-in refrigerator of the counter. "Is it okay to eat noodles? You can order some beef and vegetables."

"Just finished, I ordered a batch of daily necessities, and it will be delivered in the afternoon." Mu Ze compared the equipment in his hand, watched Jiang Ruan take out the prepared materials, and put down the "What do you want to eat? What do you need?" Can I help?"

"I'll be here, soon." Jiang Ruan smiled, and set out two large bowls, which looked like plain white sea bowls, "Is there enough for you with such a large amount?"

Mu Zexi leaned sideways against the counter, "Noodles?"

"Well, yes. This is noodles. In fact, it is made by fermenting food crops after being ground and watered. At first it was soft dough, and those cut into strips are noodles, and those made into flat sheets are noodle cakes. And noodle cakes It can be used to make a lot of food. This time we are eating noodles, which are the handmade noodles I made last night, sprinkled with flour and put away." Jiang Ruan pointed to the noodle bowl taken out of the refrigerator.

Skillful knife work makes the off-white noodles uniform in thickness, with distinct roots, and neatly curled up in the bowl.

"Will it be difficult to do?" Even though he has eaten at all the restaurants in Capital Star, Mu Zexi still feels that watching the young cook cook for him alone is really a happy and magical thing.

"No, it's very easy. Anyone can learn it." Jiang Ruan paused, then took out small boxes from the storage cabinet under the countertop, and opened the lids to show Mu Zeyi, "This is what I prepared. Later, we will make a sauce for braised beef. This is bay leaf, tangerine peel, star anise and cumin. There are also peppercorns and dried chilies.”

"Yeah." Mu Zexi nodded noncommittally, pointing to the dried chili in Jiang Ruan's hand, "I've seen this in the restaurant of Capital Star before, but it's bigger than this one, and it's not so...dehydrated."

"How did they do it?" He had been in this world for a few days, and he hadn't had any contact with his peers. Now he heard what his new roommate said, and he became curious.

"The cooks have their own source of ingredients, so I didn't think about asking them where it came from. But at that time they just used this ingredient for simple decoration, and it seemed that they didn't need to eat it." Mu Zexi recalled with a frown .

"Don't you want to eat?" Jiang Ruan laughed, twisted off a dried chili and put it in front of Mu Ze's nose, "Smell it, don't take too much breath, it will choke your nose."

"Ahem..." As soon as Mu Zexi leaned over, he was so hot that he quickly turned his head aside and rubbed the tip of his nose with his hands.

"Do you think you don't like this taste?" Jiang Ruan laughed.Before coming here, he saw many customers who couldn't eat spicy food, so he was not sure that Mu Zexi, who had never tried it before, would like it.

"It's okay, let it go." Mu Zexi shook his head lightly.

"Okay, this is the bloody meat that has been preliminarily processed. I'll cut it up and put it in the water to remove the bloody foam. I'll explode it with these seasonings later." Jiang Ruan cut two large strips of meat with a sharp knife Small pieces, put them down when the water in the pot boils, and then take out the onion, ginger and garlic in the storage cabinet.

"What's this?" Mu Zexi supported the tiny robot that had just climbed up the sink with one hand, and when he looked up, he saw Jiang Ruan processing the khaki-colored ingredients.

"What's my last name?" Jiang Ruan raised the corner of her mouth.

"Ginger?" Mu Zexi stared at the three dishes on the table for a moment, being washed by Jiang Ruan, cut into sections and peeled in one go.Following Jiang Ruan's movements, the unique smell of the ingredients permeated the space.

"Yes, this is ginger. You can use it to dispel the cold and remove the fishy smell. Onions are used to enhance fragrance, and garlic is used to detoxify. When cooking many dishes, especially meat dishes, we will use these three." Jiang Ruantou Without lifting, quickly processed the three items and poured them into the spice bowl.

Mu Zexi didn't speak, looking thoughtfully at the ingredients of different colors in the bowl.

After Jiang Ruan processed and returned the ingredients, he scooped up the beef cubes that had been removed from the pot and placed them in an empty bowl. He quickly washed the pot and dried it, then re-ignited the fire and poured oil.When the oil heated up and small bubbles started to appear, he put down the spices, and with a stinging sound, Mu Zexi shrank his neck.

"Why, not used to it?" Jiang Ruan glanced at the tall young man, "Other cooks will do the same, right?"

"Yes, they will add oil, but I have never seen your condiments." Mu Zexi nodded.

Jiang Ruan smiled and didn't say a word, and added rock sugar, salt and other seasonings, and poured in the beef after mixing well.As soon as the flexible meat comes into contact with the fragrant seasoning, it is covered with rock sugar and becomes shiny and red.Mu Zexi couldn't help but took a deep breath, staring at the meat in the pot in a daze.

"It's not ready yet, wait a minute." Jiang Ruan took a bowl of water and added it, letting the beef slowly cook in the sauce over high heat to collect the juice.Turning around and seeing the water in the deep pot boiling, he grabbed a lot of noodles and put them down.Mu Zexi watched the noodles become soft in the water, and Jiang Ruan turned the fire down after tumbling for a long time, and put them aside.

"Is it not cooked yet?"

"Look at the situation on the meat side, um... the juice is collected so quickly." Jiang Ruan smiled, "Call me when it is almost dry, and I will go to blanch the vegetables and boil two eggs."

"Okay." Mu Zexi watched Jiang Ruan walk to the other side of the kitchen counter, "Are vegetables and eggs right?"

"Yes." Jiang Ruan nodded.

When Jiang Ruan was concentrating on processing the ingredients, her neck hung down to reveal her white and slender back neck, and her slightly pursed side face had undulating and graceful lines.Mu Zexi stared at the cook who was still a year away from becoming a real adult, his eyes were fixed.

Soon, there was no white core in the sandwiched noodles, and the beef just finished its juice.The vegetables are blanched in water, the eggs are boiled and peeled off, Jiang Ruan Express scoops the noodles into two large bowls with prepared soup, puts the half-cut eggs in one corner, and piles up the brown-red beef in the pot piece by piece. In the center of the bowl, several green vegetables are placed around.

What Mu Zexi received was a bowl full of steaming hot breakfast.The noodles in the soup are placed in bowls in the same direction, with various and colorful codes coded on them.

"Eat it while it's hot, do you want to put coriander?" Jiang Ruan put the chopped coriander bowl next to the noodle bowls of the two, and turned to wash his hands again.As soon as he turned around, he found that Mu Zexi looked at the coriander bowl with a tangled expression, and silently pushed the coriander bowl to Jiang Ruan's side with the tip of his chopsticks.

"Do you want to eat it?" Jiang Ruan scooped a large spoonful of coriander into the noodle bowl with a spoon, and put the coriander bowl back on the cooking table. "Don't just look at it, eat it."

Mu Zexi picked up a chopstick of noodles and put them into his mouth, staring blankly at the noodle bowl and making no sound.As early as when Jiang Ruan was frying the spices, he was attracted by the strong aroma.Now the addition of meat fragrance is even more confusing.After the braised beef has collected its juice, the taste is locked in.The noodles are very chewy, soft and springy in the mouth, mixed with the mellow soup, delicious and delicious.The eggs are cooked just right, the egg whites are not dry, and the yolks are not scattered.

The steam is steaming, and a mouthful of noodle soup warms my heart.Mu Zexi couldn't care less about etiquette, so he scooped up the noodles in a few gulps, picked up the bowl and drank the soup.

"delicious."

"Really? That's good. The chef likes others to say that the food is delicious." Jiang Ruan, who had only eaten half of it, looked up and smiled, seeing the empty bowl opposite, "Is it not enough? Do you want to eat more? Cook something?"

"Enough is enough, I'm still a little supportive. Charlie? Don't make trouble." Mu Zexi blinked, and bounced the tiny robot that was trying to climb up the edge of the bowl.

"His name is Charlie? Your robot?" Jiang Ruan, who had never been out in the new world, asked curiously.

"Yes, it's a modified miniature intelligent robot. It can be replaced with a larger shape, and the size is just like your robot. When you need help with something, Charlie will be very happy." Mu Zexi nodded and pointed to a corner of the living room. Xiao Qi who is not moving.

"Oh, that's right." Jiang Ruan looked at Charlie who looked like a stickman in novelty.

"Hello! I like you so much. I can smell the aroma, but Ze Xi never allows me to eat." Charlie was ruthlessly bounced to the table by the master, and he was not annoyed. When he found that the cook was looking at him, he immediately Stunned, the thin metal legs leaned towards Jiang Ruan's hand.

"Hello, Charlie. I also have a robot partner named Xiaoqi, over there." Hearing Charlie's black complaints against Mu Zexi, Jiang Ruan smiled unkindly, and nodded Charlie's little head with his fingers. He pointed again.

"Oh? Then I'll go and play with him." Charlie has a childlike heart, and when he heard that he had a friend, he rushed to find Xiaoqi.

"I'm going to broadcast live in the living room later, and then change the collection range of the holographic projection. Change it so that only the console will be photographed, and the sofa will be fine." Jiang Ruan glanced at the eye star network terminal on time.

"Live at noon?" Mu Zexi watched as Jiang Ruan finished eating, and then put away the dishes and prepared to wash them.

"Eh? No need, let me do it." Jiang Ruan touched the young man's arm, only to find that the arm under the clothes was strong and strong, overturning the purely visual perception of gentleness.

"It's okay, I'm used to washing at home. My mother is also a cook, and she can cook by herself when she has time, but it's not as delicious as yours." Mu Ze smiled and boiled water to rinse the bowl extremely skillfully. "She cooks, we wash the dishes."

"That's right." Jiang Ruan nodded.

"Master, there are still two hours before the live broadcast time. The reminder time you set has arrived." Xiao Qi in the corner wondered if he was annoyed by Charlie, and couldn't wait to speak when the time came.

"Huh? Okay, then I'll start preparing the materials." Jiang Ruan clapped her hands and walked to the screen of the home star network terminal.Replying to the audience's offline message, it took a while to turn around and ask the young man who was bending over to clean up the table, "Ze Xi, is it true that only cooks can make dishes?"

"Why do you ask that?" Mu Zexi raised his head and took a deep look at Jiang Ruan.

"I actually did a live broadcast once, the pastry I made last time." Jiang Ruan paused, tilted his head and looked serious, "Actually, making a round is very fast and very simple. Just like the noodles I cooked just now, the ingredients are all If it is prepared in advance, the cooking time is only ten to twenty minutes. Why can only the chef cook?"

"...This is actually related." The smile on Mu Zexi's face also disappeared, and he narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice, "In the beginning, when human beings escaped from the catastrophe, they lost a lot of information, including Cooking skills. But the information is gone, the human instinct is still there, and some common sense can be left by hand, but more tricks have to be learned from scratch.”

"I know this, it's said in the history." Jiang Ruan nodded, he did see this paragraph when he looked up the history on Xingwang.

"This is half of the truth, and there is the other half." Mu Zexi hooked the corners of his mouth, his eyes were filled with coldness, "When a new galaxy begins to thrive, human beings will inevitably struggle. The struggles of various factions and families, Ming It has never stopped on the surface and secretly. The people who preserved some cooking skills at the beginning did not know what method they used to preserve a small number of ingredients. During the political struggle, they claimed that those ingredients were patents to improve their cooking skills. The prestige and status of your own family."

"Then cooking becomes a private skill?" Jiang Ruan frowned.

"It can be said that." Mu Ze paused for a moment, "then there was the Culinary Association."

"I know that, they issued my cook certificate." Jiang Ruan said while replying to the audience's message.

"In the beginning, the Culinary Association was controlled by the culinary family, but any newly promoted and talented cooks would be taken under the command of the culinary family by taking advantage of their positions. This indirectly strengthened the power of the culinary family .Similarly, the voice of the Culinary Association has been improved." Mu Zexi came over after washing the dishes and wiping his hands.

"I really didn't expect it to be so complicated..." Jiang Ruan always thought that cooking was a very common and common job, but he didn't expect that one day it would become a sharp weapon for fame and fortune.

"The key point is that although the culinary family controls the cooks and ingredients, the output rate of new dishes is actually very low every year, and the efficiency is not high. Most citizens still have to rely on the molecular meals provided by the empire to meet their daily needs. needs." Mu Zexi frowned, as if thinking of something bad in the past.

"Are all culinary families bad?" Jiang Ruan felt that StarCraft's culinary family was not a good thing.

"That's not true. There aren't many malicious tricks, at most they just want more power. Although there are a few culinary families who are old-fashioned, they do have the right attitude towards the art of cooking. Later, the empire The management authority of the Culinary Association has been withdrawn, and the situation seems to be much better." Mu Zexi denied Jiang Ruan's guess.

"Then you can't cover the sky with one hand, right? But why can't citizens without documents cook?" Jiang Ruan pursed her lips.

"First of all, a cook needs ingredients to continue cooking. The culinary family controls the ingredients, so it's just a matter of finding a way to control them conveniently." Mu Zexi sneered, suppressing the disgust in his heart.

He wasn't telling the truth, but the real reason was that the culinary family refused to disclose their cooking techniques and united against the Empire's idea of ​​genetically duplicating ingredients.They also deliberately found someone to forge the news that "cooking food by undocumented citizens is poisonous" to intimidate citizens who don't know about it.

Jiang Ruan laughed, shook his head and did not speak.

Cooking cannot be controlled.At home, as long as the dishes are not served out for others to see, who knows if anyone has participated in cooking without a license.As long as the ingredients are okay, the techniques can be acquired through training.What's more, there are still a lot of interested people in Interstellar, and the promotion of cooking is an inevitable thing.

Before coming to StarCraft, he was a cook.It's nothing more than making the dishes more delicate and authentic.But for citizens who can cook and eat vegetables, they can grab a lot of them on the road.Chinese culinary art has a long history, and the yearning for delicious food is rooted in the flesh and blood, so how can it be easily obliterated and covered up?