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

"You are so polite. Madam asked me to come with you because she wants me to pay the bill. I can ask the finance department to reimburse me when the time comes. Just buy whatever ingredients you need."

Jonah said hurriedly that ever since he knew Bai Yuan was a great top-class chef, his attitude towards him had become a little more respectful than before, because chefs have a very high status in this world, especially top-class chefs, each of whom can be regarded as a national treasure of a country!

Of course, the real reason why he respected Bai Yuan from the bottom of his heart was that piece of baked potato with cheese. The other party did not look down on him just because he was a bodyguard, which made him very happy!

Respect between people is mutual.

"I see. Take me to the nearby market. I have a lot of things I want to buy."

"Okay, come with me."

After hearing Jonah's words, Bai Yuan didn't say anything more. He was not very good at communicating with people. The main reason he said so much was that he had no money.

The two of them headed towards the market together to make pork bone ramen. The most important thing is of course the soup base.

To make a pot of rich-flavored tonkotsu ramen soup, you need to use chicken bones, pork shank bones, pork spine, whole chicken and pig's trotters.

In addition, ingredients such as barbecued pork, seasoning sauce, ramen noodles, flavored oil, soft-boiled eggs, back fat and braised bamboo shoots are all important.

Because it was a test, Bai Yuan decided to polish every detail to the extreme, purchase the basic ingredients for making these elements, and make a qualified tonkotsu ramen from scratch!

This will take at least ten hours.

With the most basic respect for cooking, if you want to make Bai Yuan, you must do your best and strive for perfection until there is no room for improvement!

At this moment, Leonora Nakiri didn't know who she was testing, let alone what level of power the dishes made by Bai Yuan after his careful preparation would have!

After half an hour.

After buying the ingredients, Bai Yuan returned to the Nakiri family's villa. Nakiri Alice had been waiting at the door early. When she heard the noise at the door, she immediately ran up with shining eyes.

"You guys are finally back and bought a lot of ingredients! Mom asked me to come over and help. You can tell me to do anything you need."

Alice Nakiri looked at Bai Yuan with bright eyes and took the ingredients from his hand as she spoke. Ever since she had eaten the cheese baked potatoes he made, she had been looking forward to his cooking!

Not only about the taste of the food, but also about the process of Bai Yuan making the food. I feel like I can learn a lot of useful things!

"Then you will be responsible for the most important pork bone soup stock. I will teach you the specific method. By the way, I am very strict. If you can't make it well, you won't have dinner tonight."

"Of course! I'll do my best!"

Alice Nakiri's voice made Bai Yuan stop what he was doing. He carefully looked at her small figure. Thinking about his next job, he did not refuse her recommendation and directly gave her the most important task of making bone soup.

This is also a small test for Bai Yuan. He wants to see if Alice Nakiri is qualified to be his apprentice and inherit his skills.

Teacher and master, these are two completely different concepts!

Chapter 7: Tonkotsu Ramen, Lucky Pervert

"To make pork bone broth, the weight ratio of meat to water should be 1:3. First, remove the blood by soaking. This needs to last for about two hours, and the water should be changed at least twice."

After soaking for a sufficient amount of time, take out the meat, pour out the blood, add onions, ginger and water, put the meat back into the pot, and then turn on the fire to heat.

Watching the blood foam rising in the marinade pot as the temperature rose, Alice Nakiri stood on a stool almost as tall as herself and patiently scooped out all the blood foam with a strainer to prevent the fishy smell from remaining in the ingredients.

After dealing with the blood foam, you need to take the ingredients out again and wash off all the blood foam on the surface of the ingredients with clean water. This is the detail that Bai Yuan taught.

If she had not been taught by Bai Yuan, the most she would have done was to change the pot of water and then put the ingredients directly in. This would have made it difficult for the blood foam stuck to the meat to float up and would have been assimilated by the broth, thus producing a certain degree of fishy smell.

Of course, the fishy smell is very little at this moment, and even the gourmets in the gourmet world cannot taste it. Only people with special talents like the Divine Tongue can feel it clearly, so most people will subconsciously ignore this detail.

However, as Bai Yuan has a super sense of taste, he can naturally taste the fishy smell as soon as it enters his mouth, so he pays special attention to it during the production process.

By controlling these details, the quality of the food will naturally improve.

"I'll make a marking line for you. With your current eyesight, you can't add water very accurately."

As Alice Nakiri reweighed the cleaned ingredients and put them into the pot, she added water and prepared to turn on the fire to cook the soup.

Bai Yuan's figure suddenly appeared beside her, with a short knife in his hand. He casually drew a precise mark on the water level line. From now on, water could not be added above this line.

"Okay, I see."

Alice Nakiri nodded. Although it was just a tiny detail, high-end cuisine itself was made up of all kinds of details.

If you want to make truly top-notch dishes, you must first be able to endure loneliness, break down each detail, and make each dish in an organized manner.

“There are three important points about this pot of soup. If you follow the steps, you will probably not make any mistakes.

First, keep the heat on medium-high throughout the process, and stir every half an hour to prevent the soup from sticking to the bottom. Second, keep the lid halfway open during the process to slow down the evaporation of the soup. Third, add water every two hours according to the marked line. Do you understand? "

There was a hint of severity in Bai Yuan's voice. After hearing his words, Nakiri Alice nodded seriously, indicating that she understood.

Then came the practical operation. As the bloodline heir of a gourmet family, Alice Nakiri's talent for cooking was quite strong. She completed everything Bai Yuan asked her to do very well, and kept asking for reasons.

Curiosity is the driving force behind a chef’s progress!

Thanks to Alice Nakiri's unremitting efforts, the broth in the marinade pot gradually changed from clear and transparent at the beginning to milky white.

When the bones were becoming soft and rotten, the clever Alice Nakiri told Bai Yuan's request in advance, and took out the bones every half an hour and beat them with kitchen utensils to speed up the emulsification process.

However, because the little girl was not very strong, Bai Yuan completed this part. Under his violence, the bones quickly merged with the broth.

Looking at the rich white bone soup that was visibly thick, Bai Yuan's face showed a satisfied look. Then he took out some ginger from the bag of ingredients, crushed it, cut half a white onion and four dried shiitake mushrooms, cut a carrot into dice, cut the garlic in half, and added a quarter of the cabbage.

Pour all the processed ingredients into the boiled white broth to increase the sweetness of the soup. After this step, immediately turn the stove to the highest fire to let the essence of many ingredients and bones and meat gather in one pot.

"Cuckoo~"

A rich aroma wafted through the kitchen, and Alice Nakiri's saliva began to water. Because they were so obsessed with cooking, the two of them hadn't had lunch yet. When they smelled such a rich aroma, their stomachs immediately growled with hunger.

"I have already prepared the other side dishes. Once the soup is ready, we can put them together. Please be patient until then."

Looking at Alice Nakiri's extremely eager look, Bai Yuan cruelly turned his head away and silently continued to stir the broth with a spoon.

"What a nice smell, such a rich broth, is this made by Alice?"

"Of course, this is all thanks to Alice!"

Looking at Alice Nakiri standing beside her in an apron, Leonora Nakiri, who had just come down from a nap upstairs, was a little surprised.

As she spoke, she had already walked to the braising pot. She couldn't help but sigh as she smelled the rich aroma emanating from it.

“Sister Nora, please wait for a moment, this pot of soup will soon be at its best.

Alice, go cut the tonkotsu ramen garnishes and cook the ramen as normal. All that’s left is to assemble it!”

"clear."

Bai Yuan said without raising his head, his eyes fixed on the soup pot in front of him, stirring it from time to time. After hearing his words, Alice immediately went to prepare the side dishes.

Soon, feeling the changes in the soup in the pot, Bai Yuan turned off the fire, then took out three large bowls from the cupboard and scooped a spoonful of hot water into them.

30 grams of seasoning sauce, 2 grams of flavoring oil, then put the back fat oil in the strainer on the bowl, scald it with pork bone broth, and drip it into the noodle bowl through the net bag.

Looking at the glistening oil, and then adding the boiling hot soup stock, at this moment Nakiri Alice has already cooked the ramen. She scoops it up with a colander and shakes it hard. The water is immediately thrown out, leaving behind the extremely refreshing noodles.

"smell good!"

Smelling the fragrance floating in the air, Alice Nakiri couldn't help but sigh, with an expression of enjoyment written all over her face.

"You can eat it after I put the side dishes in."

Pour the noodles into three bowls one by one, Bai Yuan smiled and unwrapped the plastic wrap that wrapped the honey barbecue pork, took it out of the refrigerator, cut it into slices about 3 mm thick with a knife, and placed them on the steaming ramen one by one, which was a visual impact.

Place braised bamboo shoots, shredded wood ear mushrooms, half a soft-boiled egg, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and insert seaweed slices on the edge of the bowl. This is a bowl of extremely rich tonkotsu ramen!

And as the seaweed sheets were inserted, the whole dish seemed to be suddenly stopped.

The next moment, golden rays of light shot out from the ramen bowl, illuminating the entire kitchen. Leonora Nakiri was caught off guard and her eyes were blinded. She lost her balance and almost fell to the ground.

"ah!"

"Be careful."

Fortunately, Bai Yuan was quick-witted and quick-handed. He held her waist with his other hand and brought her into his arms. Then he felt the extreme softness.

Leonora Nakiri has an excellent figure, especially after she became a wife and gave birth to Alice. No wonder Nakiri Alice became so magnificent when she just entered the advanced department. It turns out that it is all genetic!

"Um..."

Bai Yuan smelled a pleasant scent of shampoo, and the roots of his hair where his fingers touched were slightly moist.

If nothing unexpected happens, Leonora Nakiri should have just finished taking a bath!

It is most appropriate to describe it as a lotus emerging from the water!

Chapter 8: Food Blast! Stage 2: "Teaching"

"Are you okay, Sister Nora?"

Putting the plate on the table beside him, Bai Yuan asked with concern. Due to the lack of relationship, his hands were always very gentlemanly, and he did nothing but hold Leonor Nakiri's waist.

It was just that because Leonora Nakiri fell down, she naturally put her hand on his neck, so the distance between their faces was very small.

"It's okay, I just didn't expect your cooking to have reached this level. Glowing cuisine is a field that only top five-star chefs are qualified to touch."

Watching the pork bone ramen in front of her gradually returning to normal, Leonora Nakiri held onto Shirafuchi's shoulders and stood up. Her cheeks were slightly flushed, but she was a mature woman after all, so she changed the subject naturally.

"Special five-star?"

Looking at Leonora Nakiri who was swallowing saliva madly in front of him, Bai Yuan spoke with some confusion. He really didn't know the classification of chefs in this world.

"Don't you know? According to the World Gourmet Association, chefs are systematically divided into six levels, from bottom to top, they are subdivided into chef apprentices, third-class chefs, second-class chefs, first-class chefs, special chefs 1-9 stars, and dragon chefs.

I won’t talk about how low-level chefs are promoted for now, but making glowing dishes is a prerequisite for promotion to a five-star chef.”

As she was talking, Leonora Nakiri had already arrived at the dining table. Looking at the tonkotsu ramen that exuded an extremely rich aroma, she couldn't help swallowing.

"Try it and see if I have met your requirements."

Bai Yuan handed the chopsticks to Leonora Nakiri, with an inexplicable fighting spirit burning in his eyes. He did not forget that this was a test given to him by the other party.

Speaking of which, ever since he was called Chef Lin and defeated many predecessors in the dark cuisine world, no one dared to test him anymore.

In the first year of learning cooking, he would take a test almost every two days, and those who failed the test would be severely punished!

I remember the first time he flipped the pot, he used too much force and knocked out some of the sand in the pot, for which he got whipped.

In order to avoid being whipped, he had to practice harder than the others until he had honed all the basic skills to perfection. Then he started cooking formally and demonstrated his amazing talent.

After that, no matter what dish he learned, he could master it quickly. His cooking skills improved day by day, and he soon opened up a huge gap with the people who came up with him, becoming the youngest chef in the history of the dark cuisine world.

It took less than two years here!

"Gulp, no! I can't wait even a second..."

Ignoring Bai Yuan's words and just staring at the tonkotsu ramen in front of her, Leonora Nakiri picked up the chopsticks beside her, picked up a handful of noodles, and began to eat it voraciously as if she had been hungry for several days.

The chewy and smooth noodles suddenly burst in your mouth, with the rich wheat aroma intertwined with just the right chewiness.

Then, the broth made from pork bones flowed into your mouth like a trickle, with an indescribable richness and depth.

The soup is a blend of the essence of slow-cooked pork bones, and every drop is full of the taste of time and the craftsman's care. It is not only salty and fresh, but also has an irresistible mellowness and sweetness, like the purest waves in the depths of the sea, and like the warm sunshine in the autumn afternoon, gently enveloping every taste bud of her.

“Ah, well, ahhhh!!!”

Finally, the extremely rich taste made Leonora Nakiri utter an extremely shameful sound. In her sea of ​​consciousness, all the clothes on her body had already burst apart. Taking a bite of ramen was like someone was hitting her with strong noodles, and each hit was just right, giving her a strange feeling of excitement!

“The flavor oil uses canola oil and lard. When the oil is 50% hot, add chopped onions and smashed garlic. Fry until the flavors are fully absorbed, then remove from the oil. Add dried fish, chili powder and white pepper powder and fry slowly at low temperature. The umami flavor of the ingredients gradually melts into the flavor oil at low temperature and spreads on the tip of the tongue, further emphasizing the rich flavor of the pork bone broth. It is an amazing masterpiece!”

After speaking so much in one breath, Leonora Nakiri couldn't help breathing heavily while lying on the chair. The hot noodles caused a thin layer of sweat to appear on her face, which made her look even more radiant and charming.

"The barbecued pork tastes great, too. The marinade is probably made with Japanese broth made from kelp, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried fish, shallots, garlic, ginger and bonito flakes. Add soy sauce, sake and mirin to the mix, and the flavor is extra rich."

With an expression of extreme happiness on her face, Alice Nakiri's little face was flushed, and her cheeks were constantly chewing, just like a little hamster.

“Most of what you said is correct, but the bonito flakes are not cooked in the broth. Instead, after the other ingredients are cooked, the washed bonito flakes are put into the strainer and poured over it to stimulate its flavor.