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

Hearing Bai Yuan's passionate voice, Tansho Kei wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes and began to tidy up the kitchen table.

Throw away the unused items and put the ingredients you need on...

“Today, Mr. Chapelle taught a course called Beef Tongue in Red Wine, which mainly uses onion cubes, celery cubes, carrot cubes and bacon.

Use butter to fry the bacon until it is fragrant, then add the vegetables one by one, fry them until they are fragrant, and then add them to the stew pot...

But now there is no celery and bacon left. If you want to innovate, you can only start from these two aspects..."

While counting the remaining ingredients on the scene and introducing to Bai Yuan what she had learned today, Tansho Kei quickly constructed a new dish in her mind.

Red wine beef tongue is essentially the fruity aroma infused into the beef tongue.

The purpose of using celery and bacon is to increase the vegetable and smoky aromas, and use these two flavors to highlight the fruity aroma of red wine.

Now that these two flavors are lost, we use tomatoes and oranges to replace them. The flavors of these two ingredients are relatively rich and prominent.

At the same time, it can also increase the vegetable and fruity aroma of this red wine beef tongue!

Various flavor elements emerged in Tanomo Megumi's mind, and finally she locked on two ingredients: tomatoes and oranges.

But...is this kind of cooking really possible?

Thinking about the mess she had made not long ago, Tadokoro Megumi's face showed confusion and struggle, which was a sign of extreme lack of confidence.

Bai Yuan, who was standing aside, saw what Tanosuke Hui was thinking the moment she stopped, so he raised his hand and patted her back hard.

"Cheer up, I'll eat whatever you make! So, show your courage and start cooking boldly!"

Looking at Tanosuke Megumi in front of him, Bai Yuan standing beside him felt a little anxious. He wanted to grab her two braids and control her to finish the cooking.

"hiss..."

Feeling the pain in her back, Tansho Kei took a breath.

Although Bai Yuan held back, he did not show any mercy to her. The force in his hands was quite strong, but it also helped to ease some of her anxiety.

At this moment, Bai Yuan was like a tamer wielding a whip, and she was the trained beast, being gradually tamed by him.

This feeling is so subtle...

But she doesn't seem to hate it...

"If you behave well, I can cook a dish of your choice, which will surely satisfy you both physically and mentally!

Besides, this time no one will compete with you for it, so you can enjoy it all by yourself!"

Looking at Tanomo Megumi's relaxed expression, Bai Yuan suddenly put his face close to hers and whispered in her ear. His voice seemed to carry infinite magic.

"Teacher Shirai's cooking?! I'm the only one eating it! All to myself!!"

"thump."

"thump."

As Bai Yuan finished speaking, Tanaka Hui's face turned red, and she could clearly feel her heartbeat speeding up. Her blood was surging all over her body, as if something was about to burst out!

The reason is simple. Bai Yuan's words are too tempting! They are more effective than the previous ten thousand words of encouragement, because they are real benefits!

No one can refuse the food prepared by an eight-star chef. It is food that can make people willingly sell their souls to the devil!

"I understand. I will do my best. Please let me taste your cooking!"

After tying the apron around her waist, a passionate expression appeared on Tanomo Kei's face, and then she began to operate. At this moment, she was extremely focused.

Maybe she can succeed too?

No! She must succeed!

Feeling Bai Yuan's trusting gaze, this idea suddenly appeared in Tansho Kei's mind.

Open the kraft paper wrapped around the beef tongue, and you will see that the beef tongue inside is still in an unprocessed state, which is also one of the contents of the course assessment.

Holding a short-handled kitchen knife, Tansho Kei quickly removed the skin of the beef tongue, leaving only the tender meat inside, and then secured it with a straw rope.

Cut onions, tomatoes, carrots, and oranges into appropriate sizes. Add butter to a hot pan and add the ingredients in one by one to stir-fry until a charred layer appears.

On the other side, heat the pan and add butter to fry the bound beef tongue until a charred layer appears on the surface. In French cuisine, this is called sealing the edges, which is the French's favorite way to cook beef.

The purpose of this step is to effectively prevent the loss of the flavor of the beef tongue and lock all the flavors of the ingredients inside. It is an excellent cooking method!

Pick up the fried beef tongue and put it directly into the stew pot filled with vegetables.

Without washing the pan for frying the beef tongue, pour in a spoonful of beef bone broth prepared in class, heat it at the same time to melt the brown layer, and then pour it all into the stew pot.

Garlic, thyme, beef bone broth.

Add these ingredients to the stew pot one by one, then cover the lid and simmer on low heat for two hours. This step requires time and patience.

"call..."

Looking at the stew pot in front of her, Tansho Kei let out a long breath, then glanced at Bai Yuan out of the corner of her eye and found that apart from looking at him with his arms folded across his chest, his expression did not change at all.

Is it good or bad? Such thoughts emerged in Tadokoro Megumi's mind, until a big hand fell on her back and she woke up.

“When cooking, don’t think too much about other things, it’s useless!

You have to remember that other people’s opinions are just for reference. You are the cook! And the cook needs to have absolute confidence in his or her own cooking! "

Bai Yuan's voice rang clearly in her ears, and the sonorous and powerful words made her couldn't help but believe it, so Tansho Kei nodded.

"I understand!"

I focused my attention back on the cooking table and looked at the many ingredients on it. The rest of the time was spent preparing the red wine sauce for the beef tongue.

For French cuisine, sauce is the key to taste!

Cut the butter into pieces and put it into the pot. Then add the flour and stir evenly with a spoon until it turns dark brown. Then add the cold beef bone broth.

Serve cold soup with hot butter and flour, and hot soup with cold butter and flour. This can prevent the formation of small lumps and affect the taste of the sauce.

Then add appropriate amount of salt for seasoning, a little red wine, lemon, orange, apple and other ingredients with strong fruity aroma, and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes until the sauce can hang on the spoon.

After the sauce is cooked, take a strainer and filter the sauce roughly to prevent small lumps from remaining in it and filter out the fruit residue.

After completing this step, all that’s left is to wait. The beef tongue in the stew pot is not ready so quickly, so you need to keep watching and waiting...

"Don't be too nervous. If you keep the string in your head too tight, it will break sooner or later. If you can't control the time, set an alarm."

Bai Yuan can judge the state of food by the aroma in the air, but others can't. Most of the time they can only lift the lid of the pot and judge based on experience.

How big a piece of meat to use, what fire to use, how long to stew it, these are all lessons learned from experience and can be learned through recipes.

But humans have limits.

There are so many recipes in the world that it is impossible to remember every detail of each one, so personal ability becomes important.

Some rely on their broad knowledge, some rely on their sharp intuition, and some have extraordinary talents. These are the individual advantages of chefs.

The more individual advantages a chef has, the further he can go in the cooking world.

"But wouldn't it be better to just keep an eye on it? You can react to its situation as quickly as possible and deal with it in time. That would be perfect."

It was obvious that Tanomo Kei didn't quite understand what Bai Yuan said.

When he turned his head, his eyes clearly revealed fatigue, which was the tiredness that came from staring at something for too long.

"Bullshit, just listen to me and it will be fine. Cooking requires comprehensiveness. You will never do a good job if you keep focusing on one small point!

Also, don’t think that you have nothing to do after you’ve stewed the food. There are two pieces of beef tongue over there. Go and try some other cooking methods!”

Bai Yuan scolded him bluntly, saying that focusing on one place while cooking is like studying art and focusing on a certain detail. Even if the painting is good, it is meaningless.

The key is the overall taste!

"Another way of cooking?"

“For example, grilling and slow cooking at low temperature, the principles are actually the same.

Cooking can’t be fixed in one method, that would be too boring. We are human beings, and what we need is to control the method, not be controlled by the method. "

Looking at the puzzled look on Tanosuke Hui's face, Bai Yuan simply started talking to her about philosophy, which was also what he had learned from traveling for so long.

As he spoke, Bai Yuan came to the window of the cooking classroom, turned his back and looked out the window, with an unfathomable attitude.

"What is needed is to control the method, not to be controlled by the method..."

Tanosuke Kei repeated Bai Yuan's words with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"I see. Grilling and slow cooking, right? I'll try it now!"

With clenched fists, Tansho Kei looked at Bai Yuan's back and shouted.

"You still don't understand what I'm saying.

If you want, you can use many methods such as steaming, smoking, frying, etc., instead of just doing whatever I tell you to do.

The purpose of cooking is to make the ingredients delicious. Only by trying more can you make progress. If you want to make progress, you can’t be afraid of failure!

What you learn from books is always shallow, you have to practice it yourself to know it. This sentence tells us that only the experience gained from personal experience is the most reliable! "

"Hey...let me try it first."

He said he understood, but he didn't. His purpose in saying this was not to get Tadokoro to cook more dishes, but to expand her thinking.

Compared to a chef's skills, his cognition is the most difficult to improve.

After all, skills can be developed over time, but if you want to improve your cognition, in addition to having a big boss to guide you, you also need to travel.

This is also the real reason why Bai Yuan travels.

Of course, one year is definitely not enough, but everything should be done in a balanced way, stopping and walking along the way, and taking a break when you are tired.

This year he passed through Fujian and Zhejiang and finally arrived in Shanghai, where he found the legendary kitchen utensil, the Dragon-turning Pot, and gained recognition in the Shanghai culinary world.

At the same time, the dark cuisine world was officially established on a high-rise building in downtown Shanghai.

By challenging the masters of various schools and pointing out in detail the shortcomings of their cooking, I tell them that they can make progress in the future by following me.

Such a temptation is something that no chef can refuse.

With the joining of the celebrities, some first- and second-rate chefs also became aware of the dark cuisine world, but it was not so easy for them to join.

Assessments, all kinds of assessments.

Only by proving that you have the potential to become a top-notch chef, will you be eligible to join the dark cuisine world and gain the possibility of further advancement!

Even if you are a top-notch chef, if you want to officially become a member of the dark cuisine world, you must first pass the assessment and finally get Bai Yuan's nod before you can join.

As for the level division of the dark cuisine world, Bai Yuan continued the original dark cuisine world, but appropriately lowered the requirements.

Chef Lin is a general term for chefs with a three-star or higher rank after joining the dark cuisine world. They must have at least one glowing dish that they can show off.

As for those who can't produce glowing dishes, Bai Yuan thinks they are worthless and naturally will not give them the identity of chef.

Those with potential can be trained a little, and those without potential will be relegated to the lower levels, allowing them to earn money for the organization and collect rare ingredients.

This is also the real purpose of Bai Yuan creating this organization, to bring all the precious ingredients in the world into his own treasure house!

At the same time, he established his own network of influence, so that no matter where he was, someone would deliver the ingredients he needed to his door with just one phone call.

Chapter 100: Fighting poison with poison, the suspension bridge effect

Of course, there is another reason.

That is to train opponents for himself. After traveling for so long, Bai Yuan realized one thing, that is, he is very strong in this world.

So strong that there is no rival.

In this situation, he can only put himself in an absolute disadvantage by restricting conditions. Only in this state can he gain some pleasure from competing with others.