The story of Shokugeki begins when Alice picks him up and brings him home

Bai Yuan picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of pork chop with the perfect color, dipped it in some sauce and took a bite.

The sauce on the outside has a slight caramel aroma, which combines with the crispy surface of the pork chop to create an indescribable deliciousness. The meat inside maintains just the right tenderness, and every bite can feel the gravy overflowing in the mouth, full of rich meaty aroma.

Then, the deeper flavor of the sauce begins to spread in your mouth.

It combines the rich aroma of onions and shallots, the sweetness of apples, the elegance of pears, and the slight acidity of oranges, forming a layered, full-bodied flavor.

The addition of brown sugar adds a touch of warm sweetness to the sauce, and interweaves with the unique spice flavor of cinnamon powder, making the sauce more rich and complex. The rich taste of Western-style barbecue sauce, as well as the aroma of brandy and rice wine, elevate the taste of the sauce to a new level, making people unable to help but indulge in it.

This feeling...this feeling is like being in an orchard with a row of strong wild boars under your butt.

It rushed around recklessly in the orchard, venting its anger, tasting the fruits in the orchard and enjoying the strong wind brought by its running.

It is, without a doubt, very aggressively delicious!

“The sweetness and juiciness of the pear counteracts the fatty taste of the pork, making the overall taste lighter. The sweet and sour taste of the orange stimulates the taste buds and adds a lively and fresh taste to the pork dish. The sweetness of the apple complements the salty flavor of the pork, making the taste of this dish more balanced.

From the soft and juicy pears to the crispness of apples, to the tenderness of pork, a variety of tastes intertwine in the mouth, forming an extremely rich taste layer.

To be honest, it's pretty good. Compared with your previous dishes, it adds a lot of innovative elements."

Coming back to his senses from the hallucination, Bai Yuan looked at Erina Nakiri who had an expectant expression in front of him and made his comments.

From this dish, it can be seen that she has been studying hard during this period.

When it comes to cooking, we have gone from just copying it in the beginning to adding our own elements and making innovations now.

There is no doubt that this is a good thing.

"After all, after such a long period of training, there must be some progress. Standing still is not my style!"

Erina Nakiri's face flushed, but she was very happy inside.

She didn't care about other people's compliments, but this one was Teacher Bai Yuan! He was special in her heart!

“Let me have a taste too!”

At the same time, Alice Nakiri ran over at some point, looking at the triple fruit-flavored pork chop in front of her, an expression of excitement and anticipation appeared on her face.

Erina Nakiri was really able to surprise her. She thought she was going to make ordinary pork chops stewed with apples, but it turned out to be an advanced version combining multiple fruits. Smelling the rich fragrance in the air, the girl couldn't help but reveal a look of enjoyment on her face.

"promise."

"Thank you~"

Looking at Alice Nakiri's appearance, Bai Yuan naturally picked up a piece of pork chop and put it to her mouth.

Alice Nakiri called out sweetly, then took a bite and an expression of enjoyment appeared on her face.

"Just now...did these two kiss indirectly?!"

Erina Nakiri saw all of this and her face turned red as this thought emerged in her mind.

"Not bad, your cooking skills are much more mature than last time. I should say you have made great progress!"

Closing her eyes and savoring Erina Nakiri's food, Alice Nakiri showed an expression of approval on her face and then gave her a thumbs up.

However, Erina Nakiri did not feel happy, but instead her face sank.

Your opponent doesn't care about his own cooking, but comes to you with a relaxed look to praise your cooking skills for improvement? Isn't this a kind of contempt!!

Moreover, this unintentional contempt is more annoying than intentional one!

"Humph."

As Alice Nakiri was praising her, Erina Nakiri didn't know what to say and could only snort with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"How's your cooking going? Haven't you started yet?"

As if she had thought of something, Erina Nakiri looked towards Alice Nakiri's cooking table, thinking about her words and preparing to turn the tables later.

"No rush. Since we've given you two hours, you have to cook for two hours to make the food taste its best."

Hearing Erina Nakiri's question, Alice Nakiri smiled mysteriously, then looked at Bai Yuan with gentle eyes. This sentence was also told to her by her master.

Try to make the food as perfect as possible within a limited time. This is a competition and there is no such thing as submitting the paper early!

"Tsk tsk, then I want to see what kind of dish you will serve in the end."

After saying this, Erina Nakiri took a pair of chopsticks from the cooking table not far away. She hadn't had dinner and needed something to fill her stomach.

If it were any other judge, she would definitely not dare to be so presumptuous.

But this is Bai Yuan, who has an easy-going personality. They have done this kind of thing many times in private, so naturally they don't have any psychological pressure.

Ever since she knew that Shirabuchi was living in Alice Nakiri's house, Erina Nakiri would bring Hisako to visit her every now and then.

The reason was that Hisako had some questions to ask Teacher Shirabuchi, so she took the opportunity of Hisako asking questions to stay, and then cooked food at Alice Nakiri's house, asked Shirabuchi to taste it and analyze the shortcomings, and had dinner together.

This has become a kind of habit for her.

However, she sat down to eat out of habit, but the people around her were dumbfounded, looking in their direction with shocked faces.

Isn't this a cooking competition? How did they end up sitting down to eat together while playing?!

They are all still hungry!

Fortunately, time passed quickly and Alice Nakiri did not keep them waiting too long.

As the alarm clock rang, she immediately stood up from Bai Yuan's side and strode to the molecular food processor.

First, take out the slow-cooked pork belly and cut open the vacuum-packed bag with scissors. A rich, complex aroma will immediately emerge from it.

Alice Nakiri took a deep breath, feeling the aroma, and an intoxicated expression appeared on her face. Then she put the processed meat on the grill, placed a metal tray underneath, and put it into the middle of the oven and baked it at 160 degrees for 25 minutes.

The time in between is used to prepare the honey juice.

While the pork belly was being slow-cooked at low temperature, she was not idle either. She prepared maltose in advance, which is the key to making honey juice.

The so-called honey barbecue pork does not mean adding honey, but making the barbecue pork as sweet as honey!

Dilute the maltose with hot water, then put it into a pot to heat. At the same time, add the barbecued pork sauce that has been emulsified with an emulsifier, and stir quickly in the pot with a spoon to allow the flavors of the two to blend perfectly with the help of heat.

After completing this step, the oven also makes a "ding" sound. After the barbecued pork is taken out and cooled for a few minutes, it is added into the maltose syrup mixed with emulsified barbecued pork sauce and rolled in all directions to allow every corner of the barbecued pork to be coated with the flavor of the syrup.

When the barbecued pork is covered with the mixed syrup, put it on the grill again, pour the remaining syrup in the pot on it, and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for eight minutes.

As time passed, the rich fragrance suddenly lingered in the scene and drifted through the nostrils of the audience. At the same time, Erina Nakiri, who was sitting with Shirabuchi, couldn't help swallowing and a look of desire appeared on her face.

"What? What? What did Alice make?! Why does it smell so good! Such a rich sweet smell makes me so hungry!"

Sitting next to Bai Yuan, with her fingers on her thighs, Erina Nakiri suppressed the desire in her heart and pretended to be calm, but a huge wave of emotion was surging in her heart.

Although I didn’t taste it, the rich aroma made me think that this dish couldn’t be simple.

In other words, there is a lot of suspense in this competition.

Now it all depends on how Alice Nakiri performs in the end...

Chapter 123 Alice, come to my room tonight to be punished

"Finish!"

Looking at the molecular honey-glazed barbecued pork in the oven that was gradually reaching its peak state, Alice Nakiri clenched her fists slightly, with an excited look on her face.

Opening the oven and feeling the raging heat, Alice Nakiri picked up a pair of tongs and pulled the grill out of the oven.

The next moment, the barbecued pork was completely exposed to the outside world, and the aroma reached its peak at this moment, rushing in all directions the moment it left the oven.

“What an intoxicating scent.”

Looking at the freshly-baked molecular honey barbecued pork, Alice Nakiri took a deep breath with enjoyment on her face, feeling the wonderful aroma.

Ignoring the scorching heat, she placed the grill on the counter, removed the meat, picked up a kitchen knife and quickly cut it into slices of equal length and width and placed them on a plate.

And that's not all. She picked up the pot where she had previously made the syrup and used a spoon to pour the emulsified barbecue pork honey sauce that she had previously prepared onto the barbecue pork.

"Try it, Master. This is the best performance I've had in a while.

The molecular honey barbecue pork is made by combining the emulsification technology of molecular cuisine and the traditional cooking method of barbecued pork.

After wiping off the thin layer of sweat on her forehead caused by the heat, Alice Nakiri placed the food in front of Shirafumi as if she was offering a treasure, her eyes full of anticipation.

"You've made a fatal mistake."

Without tasting it yet, just looking at the color of the molecular honey barbecue pork, Bai Yuan suddenly spoke.

"Ah? What's wrong..."

Hearing Bai Yuan's words, the excitement on Alice Nakiri's face suddenly froze, and then she swallowed. All her previous expectations turned into nervousness, and her heart began to beat faster.

“I should have told you before that the temperatures of different ovens are different, and there are many factors that affect them. The specific temperature needs to be determined through repeated experiments by the chef.

Under the same temperature conditions, the temperature of the oven at home is lower, while the temperature of the large oven in the hotel is higher.

Because of the hotel's large oven, the heating element is more powerful, and because of the larger size, the temperature control is also greater.

As a chef, I don’t want you to make this kind of stupid mistake.”

Bai Yuan's tone was serious.

Although most of the training in this midterm exam was about Chinese cooking techniques, the oven was rarely used from beginning to end. It was understandable that Alice Nakiri did not notice this.

However, he did not accept this reason.

Because he had asked similar questions to Alice Nakiri when she was eight years old.

At that time, Alice Nakiri patted her not-so-full chest and promised him solemnly that she would always remember it.

Furthermore, such a low-level mistake should not happen to a top chef.

Even if he didn't say it, it shouldn't have happened.

"sorry..."

Alice Nakiri lowered her head like a defeated rooster, her voice was full of frustration, and her back felt slightly cold.

After Bai Yuan pointed it out, she realized how low-level the mistake she had made was.

"Don't apologize. If you made a mistake this time, just correct it next time. But I still need to punish you, otherwise I'm afraid you won't learn your lesson in the future.

Come to my room tonight. I think you have been getting a little carried away lately!"

Looking at the depressed Erina Nakiri in front of him, Bai Yuan spoke further.

"okay, I get it."

But his words made the girl blush, but she still nodded and replied quietly.

"Eh..."

On the other hand, Nakiri Erina was already shocked by this scene. Why did the usually kind Mr. Shirabuchi suddenly become so angry? !

Thinking of this, Erina Nakiri turned her head to look at Alice Nakiri again and found that the girl had her head down, looking dejected.

"If that's the case, then I have a great chance of winning this battle, right?!"

Thinking of this, Erina Nakiri couldn't help but feel a little excited. If Bai Yuan and Nakiri Alice hadn't been right next to her, she would probably have laughed out loud.

It seems that this time she can not only take the first place in the standings, but also get rid of the name of Sister Alice, which makes her feel ashamed!

Long live!

"In fact, the problem of over-temperature is not unsolvable. As long as you keep an eye on the oven and observe the color changes of the maltose syrup on the surface of the barbecued pork, you can still find the problem.

Cooking requires a balance between relaxation and tension. During the cooking process, you come here to rest for a while, which is relaxation. I won’t blame you.

But you have to open it when it’s time. From the time the barbecued pork goes into the oven to the time the final product comes out of the oven, it only takes a few minutes.

It's not hard for you to keep an eye on the oven."

While educating Alice Nakiri, Bai Yuan picked up a piece of barbecued pork with chopsticks and raised his hand to the light to observe it carefully.

Looking at the barbecued pork surface and the barbecued pork honey sauce of different shades, I couldn't help but shake my head slightly. This was a sign of improper control of the heat.

This girl has always been ranked first and has never had any rivals in Totsuki, so it is inevitable that her mentality has become inflated, which is why such a problem has arisen.

It must be given a good beating, otherwise if it continues like this, things may develop out of control. Pride and arrogance are the sharp knife that kills the chef!

"I'm sorry...

I understand! I will never make such a stupid mistake again next time."

She was about to apologize, but thinking of what Bai Yuan had just said, Nakiri Alice clenched her fists and swallowed the words back. The next moment, she raised her head and looked straight at him, speaking with a firm expression.