Food Wars: Starting with Equipping the Greedy Wolf Pot

"They actually managed to catch lambs raised outside, and even processed them beforehand while they were outside." Mizuhara Fuyumi's gaze fell on Xiang Ji.

Although the topics of the accommodation workshops are led by guest lecturers like Fuyumi Mizuhara, this does not mean that the topics of the accommodation workshops started with only guest lecturers.

For example, in the case of Fuyumi Mizuhara, there were not only dedicated security personnel at the outdoor venue, but also a large amount of monitoring equipment.

This is why Mizuhara Fuyumi just spoke up; if Xiang Ji had used any cheating methods, the security personnel in charge of proctoring the exam would have reported it long ago.

"It seems that the surprises in January this year were not limited to this girl named Kobayashi Ryudou."

"Xiang Ji?" Mizuhara Fuyumi gently bit her finger, softly reciting the name Xiang Ji that she had just heard from the other students.

……

"Xiang Ji, you actually brought back a lamb. What kind of dish are you planning to make?" Kobayashi Ryudai asked as he approached Xiang Ji.

"Mutton in a clay pot," Xiang Ji replied with a smile.

"Clay pot mutton? Mr. Xiang Ji, could you make a few more servings of the dish you're going to make later?" Kobayashi Ryudan looked at Xiang Ji with shining eyes.

Xiang Ji: "..."

As expected, Kobayashi Ryudou's passion for himself was simply about his own cooking.

But never mind.

Since I've already brought back a whole lamb, it would be a waste if I couldn't finish it. I might as well let it go into Kobayashi Ryugen's belly.

After nodding in agreement to Kobayashi Ryudai's request, Xiang Ji carried the lamb to an empty kitchen counter where no one was around and took a kitchen knife from the knife rack.

"Fierce Bull and Azure Dragon Slice" is a unique knife skill in the world of dark cuisine, capable of processing an entire bull in an instant.

Now, handling an eight-month-old lamb is a piece of cake.

When Xiang Ji caught the lamb, he used the Fierce Bull Azure Dragon Cleaver to perform the initial pre-treatment.

As for why not just handle it outside?

How did Xiang Ji manage to bring back a lamb, bones and all, without any tools to carry it?

Bleeding, skinning, beheading, and removing internal organs are about the same.

When they saw Xiang Ji cut up the lamb in the blink of an eye, everyone in the cooking class was stunned and stood there, including Mizuhara Fuyumi.

What kind of knife skills is this?

Mizuhara Fuyumi, who was squatting on the chair, instantly sat up straight, her eyes blazing, her face filled with utter shock.

Kobayashi Ryudai's knife skills were already amazing, but Xiang Ji's knife skills were simply astonishing. Could such exaggerated knife skills really be used by a student of Totsuki Academy?

Net-cutting demon!?

Is this why Xiang Ji is called the Net-Cutting Demon?

Xiang Ji's knife skills were so terrifying that even the guest lecturer, Mizuhara Fuyumi, was horrified, let alone the students of Totsuki Academy, especially those who were seeing Xiang Ji's knife skills for the first time.

While Mizuhara Fuyumi and the others were still in shock, Xiang Ji continued cooking.

Although Fuyumi Mizuhara's task required them to cook using ingredients from the designated training area, it still included seasonings like oil, salt, and sugar, and even some small, unsalted ingredients.

These spices were Xiang Ji's sharpest weapons.

……

"Wild onions, perilla, bulbous leeks... How did he actually find so many wild vegetables in the forest?"

When she saw Xiang Ji take out the wild onion from his pocket, Mizuhara Fuyumi looked at him with a hint of surprise in her eyes once again.

Although the cooking class provides spices and seasonings, common spices such as onions, garlic, and chili peppers are not provided.

Although onions, garlic, and chili peppers have been officially listed as spices, they can also be used as main ingredients in cooking. Mizuhara Fuyumi would not leave such an obvious loophole.

If you want to use onions and garlic in your cooking, you can find similar substitutes in the forest.

This is why Fuyumi Mizuhara was surprised, since not every chef can accurately identify these wild vegetables in the wild.

There are several different types of edible wild onion plants alone.

To accurately identify these ingredients in the wild, one must have sufficient experience or knowledge.

Xiang Ji was able to easily distinguish these spices, mainly thanks to the spice inequality.

For the spice inequality to work, a sufficiently large spice database must be established.

Since acquiring the skill of the culinary inequality, Xiang Ji has tried all sorts of strange and special seasonings, not to mention wild vegetables that are common in the wild and can be substituted for onions, such as wild onions, perilla, and bulb leeks.

Testimonials

It will be available tomorrow, the 1st.

I wasn't originally planning to write a post about the product launch, especially since something happened at home yesterday that's still causing trouble, but I thought I'd write something anyway.

The author is an old pimp, who started from scratch, went to Genesis, and then went back to the starting point.

The habit of constantly using exclamation marks was formed during the creation of the universe, and it's a little hard to break the habit now that I'm back to square one.

Typed entirely by hand, not by AI.

How could AI possibly write such terrible code?

The former editor at Qidian resigned, leaving me with no connections at Qidian.

I wrote several original works and submitted them to internal journals, but they all failed. So I started writing fanfiction, thinking that if the original works couldn't be approved, the fanfiction couldn't be rejected either.

It still didn't pass.

This book was actually picked up by my current editor. Actually, I was originally planning to run away and go back to Genesis. After all, I was so down on my luck that I couldn't even get my fanfiction approved. I might as well go back to Genesis and try writing Douluo fanfiction.

Are Qidian fanfiction superior to Chuangshi fanfiction?

Then I stumbled along the way and finally got it published.

That's the end of the bad sales.

Finally, I wish all the big guys who are still reading good health and happiness in their families. I also wish that I can solve the troubles at home as soon as possible and work hard.

Chapter 91 Vacuum Tumbler: Standards for Project Completion

"So Xiang Ji also found wild onions?" After watching Xiang Ji start cooking, Kobayashi Ryudai blinked and then poured out wild onions still covered in dirt from her school uniform pocket.

Identifying various edible wild vegetables is also an area of ​​expertise for Kobayashi Ringen.

Butter, black pepper, thyme, cumin...

The spices were blended into a special flavor by Xiang Ji, then mixed with diced lamb, chopped wild onions and leeks in an earthenware pot, and finally roasted in the oven.

While Xiang Ji was cooking, Kobayashi Rindou was also cooking.

"Really, I never imagined that my first showdown with you, Xiang Ji-kun, would be under such circumstances." Kobayashi Ryudai took out a hair tie and tied her long, flowing hair into a ponytail.

"But I won't give up so easily!" Kobayashi Rindou quickly started cooking.

"This is... duck oil?" When Fuyumi Mizuhara saw the cooking oil that Rindou Kobayashi had chosen for his dish, she vaguely guessed what dish Rindou Kobayashi wanted to cook.

"Sea salt, black pepper, thyme... and finally, add scallions and wild onions to replace garlic."

“Confit-de-canard”.

"A classic traditional French dish, confit duck." Mizuhara Fuyumi guessed all the spices used in Kobayashi Rintou's cooking correctly.

Although Fuyumi Mizuhara's specialty is Italian cuisine, she is also quite familiar with French cuisine because she has a crush on a certain four-eyed red-haired man.

"Confit duck?"

“But there’s only a little over an hour left before my designated cooking time ends, and that’s not enough time to marinate the duck.” A certain four-eyed red-haired man flashed into Mizuhara Fuyumi’s mind.

At that moment, the door to the research classroom opened again, and several burly men in suits pushed in a high-tech piece of equipment.

"Ms. Kobayashi, this was sent by Ms. Nakiri," the men in suits said respectfully to Ryudou Kobayashi.

"You've come at the perfect time." Kobayashi Ryudou smiled, revealing his fangs.

"A vacuum tumbler? Gentian, you just contacted Alice." While the other students were still wondering who the man in the suit was, Xiang Ji had already recognized what the equipment the man in the suit had brought in a cart was.

"Bingo, you guessed right, Xiang Ji."

"Chef Mizuhara only gave us two hours to cook, which wasn't enough to finish my dish, so I had to ask Alice-chan for help."

"Xiang Ji-kun, you can look forward to my cooking now." After saying that, Kobayashi Ryudai skillfully started the vacuum kneading machine.

After moving to the Polaris Dormitory, Kobayashi Rindou not only drew inspiration from Xiang Ji, but also from Isshiki Satoshi and Nakiri Alice.

Every party held by Polaris Dormitory is actually a summary of the members' cooking and a learning process in which they learn from each other.

Otherwise, Eishi Tsukasa, Momo Akane, and the others wouldn't always be on time for the parties.

Ryudou Kobayashi learned how to use the vacuum tumbler from Alice Nakiri at the Polaris Dormitory party.

Not only the vacuum tumbler, but Ryutou Kobayashi also learned how to operate other molecular gastronomy equipment.

Similarly, Kobayashi Ryudou wasn't the only one who learned how to use molecular gastronomy equipment; everyone else in the Polaris Dormitory also learned a little bit.

Even Xiang Ji seriously studied molecular gastronomy. Although scientific cuisine is just a joke in today's world, Xiang Ji hasn't learned metaphysical cuisine yet, has he?

The Fierce Bull and Azure Dragon Slaying?

The spice inequality?

What's the use of just knowing a few culinary tricks from the dark cooking world? Mystical cooking is supposed to produce dishes that glow!

……

"It doesn't taste good, make it again."

"Unqualified."

"No, no, absolutely not." Mizuhara Fuyumi's voice rang out from time to time while Xiang Ji and Kobayashi Ryudai were cooking.

"Ahhh, I can't take it anymore."

"Chef Mizuhara's requirements are simply beyond our ability to meet," a student said, clutching his head in frustration.

"This is already the umpteenth unqualified person."

"The eighteenth."

"Damn it, what kind of dish do we have to make to satisfy Chef Mizuhara?"

"How awful, how awful!"

"It's no use. With the little time left, we can't even find the ingredients, let alone finish cooking." A student knelt on the ground in despair.

"Am I going to be eliminated on the very first day of the assessment?"

"Kenji, it's not time to give up yet. The evaluation period is not over."

"Chef Mizuhara's assignment isn't over yet. We still have time. Have you forgotten our promise to graduate from Totsuki Academy together?"

"Damn it, damn it, I understand, let's redo it."

……

"Unqualified, unqualified."

"Such a performance is completely unacceptable for a renowned chef."

Seeing the few students who had given up on themselves, as if they had completely abandoned the exam, Fuyumi Mizuhara, squatting on the chair, mentally sentenced them to death.

Fuyumi Mizuhara's lessons tested not only the students' culinary skills, but also their insight, thinking ability, and most importantly, their willpower.

A person who easily gives up when faced with difficulties can never become a qualified chef.

Conversely, for those students who persevere to the very end...

Even if their dishes are the last ones they finish within the allotted time and still don't meet her own standards, Fuyumi Mizuhara will still give them a passing grade.

A chef who doesn't give up even in the face of dire circumstances and isn't afraid of challenges—that's what makes a qualified chef.

Of course, it's just a passing score.

The essence of being a chef still lies in culinary skills and the taste of the food.

Even if one's temperament meets the requirements of the assessment, if one's cooking skills and the taste of the dishes are not good, one still cannot become a qualified chef.

Excellent, qualified, unqualified...