Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

On the first day of the race, Soshin Kohei played against Alice Nakiri in the morning, and Megumin Tasho played against Ryo Kurokiba in the afternoon.

Just like what the head coach said before the autumn trials, the main match will be held "between the moon and the sky", and the head coach Nakiri Senzaemon is also in the middle of the judging panel for the first round of preliminaries.

The other four judges are also college veterans or representatives of partners. In addition to ordinary students and lecturers, there are also invited important partners of Yuanyue and leading figures in the culinary industry...

The autumn trials are not only a grand event of the college, but also an opportunity to show their strengths to partners and competitors!

It can be said that the performance of the contestants not only represents themselves, but also affects the confidence of Yuanyue's partners in Yuanyue, as well as the positioning of Yuanyue in the culinary world.

"The first round of the autumn trials, the first match, let's start! The first to appear is Soma Xinghei, who was shortlisted for the main match with a tie for third place in Area A!"

Accompanied by the words of the emcee Rei Kawashima, Chuangzhen took his own kitchen box and walked onto the field...

"Chuangzhen! Come on!"

"It must be advanced!"

In the area of ​​Jixingliao, apart from Tian Suohui who was preparing in the players' lounge, and Isshi Hui who was a member of the competition committee, everyone was there including Liu Maoxing who had no competition today.

Wen Xu also specially customized an exaggerated cheering banner, which was pulled by Dawu and Zhaoji, looking like an ace cheerleader.

"Then, the player he's fighting against is... Alice Nakiri, who advanced to the first place in the B area!"

At the entrance on the other side, Alice in a pure white chef uniform came up.

Of course, her cooking tools are already on the field, otherwise it would be difficult for her to push up so many large equipment by herself!

It can be seen from the cheers that Alice's popularity is obviously higher than Chuangzhen...

Not only because Alice's performance in the qualifiers was better than that of Chuangzhen, but also Alice's life experience is also a bonus item.

The granddaughter of "The Demon King of Food" Nakiri Senzaemon, and the cousin of God Tongue Nakiri Erina, and befitting of her status, Alice has also participated in countless international cooking competitions since she was a child, and has won many awards. Awards, especially in the field of new cuisine, have truly been at the forefront of the academy.

Even in the ageless international competition of molecular gastronomy, she won the championship, eclipsing countless adult molecular gastronomy researchers, and is called "the proud daughter of molecular gastronomy"!

Although in childhood, Alice, who was also the blood relative of the Demon King of Eater with Erina, was completely overshadowed by Erina. When it comes to the new generation of the Nakiri family, people first think of Erina, the tongue of God.

But this also prompted Alice to embark on a path different from Erina and most cooks, turning the emerging molecular cuisine into the sharpest sword in her hands...

With the sound of the horn, Rei Kawashima announced again: "The title of the competition is 'Bento', the competition time is two hours, and the cooking begins!"

Both sides started cooking intensively. Although the chuangzhen cooking process is not as gorgeous as Liu Maoxing, it can be seen that the ten-year proficiency in cooking, knife skills, heat, and the number of ingredients can be seen. The grasp, all at the same time, exudes a comfortable sense of harmony.

At the same time, the behavior of Nakiri Alice on the other side is incomprehensible.

In addition to simple sea bream slices, fresh beef slices, and rice cooking, the other is to operate various modern large-scale equipment...

However, from several basic slices, it can be seen that her knife skills are very solid, and she does not reject all traditional cooking skills as she said.

Completely different from many other researchers who can cut vegetables to their fingers after leaving modern equipment, Alice is better at absorbing the strengths of traditional cuisine to better utilize the advantages of molecular cuisine.

"Zenji, explain quickly, what is she doing?" Yuuhime was in a hurry as she couldn't understand in the auditorium.

Most of the audience are also like her...

Not to mention Yuanyue's students, even those invited culinary masters, most of them have never been exposed to new culinary science, so they can only guess based on experience.

Shanji pushed his glasses in embarrassment: "This... is obviously beyond my comprehension!"

"Eh? Are you a 'Doctor of Taste World' like this?" Yuuki complained dissatisfiedly about Marui Zenji's nickname after the autumn selection competition.

But Liu Maoxing said at this time: "The one on the right that put the test tube in before is a centrifuge, and the red liquid in the test tube is tomato juice, it should be used to separate the clear tomato juice.

There is also a siphon extruder that needs to fill the 'bullet' first, and the filled 'bullet' is a 'compressed air bomb', which can highly fuse gas and liquid to form an extremely sparse foam mousse.

The one with a glass dropper arm sticking out is a liquid concentrator, which further compresses the soup into an edible gel.

And there is something like a large Petri dish over there, which is used to make cooked rice into vinegar rice..."

Liu Maoxing had spent a month at the Nordic Research Institute, so he naturally knew all about these devices.

"It's so complicated, but since there is equipment for making vinegared rice, and the sea bream and beef are cut, it should be for making sushi?" Yuuji asked suspiciously.

"Eh? I don't know if it's box oshishi or nigiri sushi?" Dawu asked suspiciously.

Zhaoji speculated and said: "It should be box-pressed sushi, right? Alice's main focus is on molecular cuisine. Holding sushi in hand is not something that can be mastered by a 'part-time job', let alone a girl, rather than..."

"No, I can't say what kind of sushi it is. Have you seen the device on the far left? It can be easily operated by a joystick. The mini robot arm inside can simulate the human body temperature that is most suitable for holding sushi. The wrapping on the outside is also similar. The bionic skin of the skin, and dozens of strength models collected from sushi masters have been entered, as long as they learn to judge the most suitable way to knead sushi, anyone can 'handle' high-quality sushi." Liu Maoxing interrupted.

"What? How, how can it be like this? I absolutely don't recognize this kind of sushi!" Zhao Er protested weakly.

However, Zhaoji's protest obviously had no effect, and in the end Alice finished the cooking first.

In front of each judge is a transparent plate cover filled with misty white "fog"...

On the right side of the judge Nakasenzaemon, a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking like an idiot couldn't help sighing: "It's really a gorgeous dish that arouses people's interest! It goes well with this food festival!"

"The appearance really attracts diners, let's try it." The short and thin old man on the left hand side of Senzaemon said, he couldn't wait to open the cover of the dinner plate, and then his skin clearly felt the coldness of the white mist It feels like it's a refrigerated liquid nitrogen spray!

"Bachangluofu, you are still so impatient! The commander-in-chief hasn't moved yet. Really, nothing has changed at such an age!" Said the fat old man on the left of Dachangluofu.

"Anxi, a person who can restrain his curiosity about food is not worthy of being a gourmet!" Ma Changluo frowned.

And the commander-in-chief said: "Okay, in front of the delicious food, don't worry about those empty etiquette!"

Speaking of which, the five judges all opened the cover of the transparent dinner plate in front of them. After the fog inside dissipated, what appeared was a wooden lunch box with three rows and four verticals and twelve grids. Each grid placed a piece of delicate hand-held sushi. ...

"So, the white mist is liquid nitrogen used for refrigeration? Is it to keep the sushi fresh?" said the middle-aged bald judge on the far right.

At this time, besides the commander-in-chief Senzaemon, the two old men on his left are both college veterans who also have a certain influence in the culinary world. The thin and small one is Baba Luofu, who looks fat and kind. The old man in the middle is Anzai Koyoshi, and the two middle-aged men on the right are representatives of the partners. The one wearing glasses is Hirasaka Ryuji, and the bald head is Saitama.

"If possible, please start from the upper left corner and taste my sushi in turn!" Alice suggested.

Alice's cooking looks like sushi, but it actually uses molecular cooking methods to extract useful parts of vegetables, fruits, even seafood and meat, so you can't just judge from the appearance, what ingredients are contained in it!

For example, the four pieces in the first row symbolize "seafood". In addition to the fish roe and kelp mousse that can be seen, there are also various ingredients that can react with them. There are four pieces of sushi, which gives people the feeling of having a rich western-style seafood appetizer...

The four pieces of sushi in the second row after that represent vegetable dishes, using a variety of thinly sliced ​​vegetables to wrap the vinegared rice with the same extract.

The first three pieces in the last column are beef sushi made with the latest low-temperature aging base beef.

These respectively symbolize seafood dishes, vegetable dishes, and meat dishes, and they also take into account the reactions between molecules that can stimulate the taste. Eat in order to maximize the deliciousness!

As for the last one, it is sea bream sushi with concentrated broth colloid. After the mouth, the power of the concentrated broth is released, giving people a feeling of fullness like a real soup!

Yes, it is a piece of sushi that shows the common Japanese staple food of sea bream rice, to end my answer...

Just after the five judges chewed the last piece of sushi, the other four judges all showed happy smiles. Not to mention, Senzaemon unleashed the shackles of his outer robe in an instant, revealing a solid body. Don't have the muscles of the elderly!

Whether it is other students who are the audience, partners, college veterans, or even other experts in the culinary world, they are not surprised by this, or they are surprised that the commander-in-chief would actually be "disgusted" for Alice's sushi. "crack", not "clothes rip" itself!

"It has appeared! The commander-in-chief's clothes are torn!"

"Yes, is the clothes torn? It can be done at a first-year age..."

"Didn't it mean that the commander-in-chief's 'clothes are torn', at least it will appear when he tastes the dishes of the 'quasi-ten outstanding' level?"

"Damn! Is this monster really the same age as me? I..."

That's right, "clothes splitting" is Nakiri Senzaemon's "stunt", an instinctive physical reaction when he tastes enough delicious food... that is, to take off his robe in an instant!

This has already shown Alice's strength. When Senzaemon's approval was received, while everyone was envious and jealous, many people were also frustrated in their self-confidence.

However, Chuangzhen, who was worrying everyone in Pole Star Room, was not affected, and continued with his own cooking...

Xing Ping's concentration in Chuangzhen's cooking has reached the level enough to condense the "chef heart prototype", but there is still a lack of opportunity. As for the real heart of cooking, it is still far away.

Soon after, Chuangzhen also presented his dishes. Unlike Alice's transparent plate cover with white mist, Chuangzhen's dishes were five new stainless steel layered insulated lunch boxes!

Judging from the containers for the dishes, Soma is obviously more problematic than Alice.

"Oh? Is it completely simulated except for the use of bento?" Baba Luofu said with interest.

"Xinghei Soma, what is your cuisine?" Senzaemon asked.

"It's a seaweed bento!" Somari said naturally.

"Seaweed bento?" Saitama frowned.

The usual seaweed bento refers to the most basic bento with a few sheets of seaweed on top of the rice and a few side dishes on the side!

"Of course, it's not an ordinary seaweed bento, just try it and you'll know!"

On the top layer of the layered lunch box, there are "side dishes" as food. There are three kinds of side dishes: seaweed fried bamboo wheel, fried cod, and Jinping burdock.

The "bamboo wheel" of the fried bamboo wheel has nothing to do with bamboo, but fish paste, flour, egg yolk, and various spices are mixed into a puree, and a stick is passed through the baked product, because after being removed from the bamboo stick, It is in the shape of a hollow cylinder and looks like bamboo, so it is called "bamboo wheel".

Liu Maoxing tasted this seaweed fried bamboo wheel before at Xingping Dingshiya. A few days ago, Chuangzhen also made various improvements. Starting from the fish, he used the exclusive formula of bamboo wheel, which is easy to refine, and cooperated with Chuangzhen to adjust the frying temperature The certainty, although it is only a very simple dish, but it is indeed very tempting.

Chuangzhen's "Fried Cod" is also specially processed. The cod is first boiled in seafood broth and then fried. It has a unique soft and waxy texture and a unique umami taste!

Although there are no researchers who are not new cuisines and do not know the names of the specific molecules that react, Chuangzhen, who has experienced many battles, also knows how to use "ingredient matching" to stimulate the deliciousness of cuisine!

As for "Jinping Burdock", it is a kind of dish that soaks burdock in vinegar until softened, and then fry it. The reason why it is called "Jinping" is to imply that after eating it, it will be like the legendary strongman "Sakata Jinping". strong……

Speaking of the legendary figure "Sakata Jinpei", Liu Maoxing is more familiar with his father "Sakata Kintoki", who is also the legendary prototype of Sakata Gintoki...

Although the three small dishes look simple, they reflect Chuangzhen's spirit of refinement for simple dishes. According to the results of Liu Maoxing's previous tasting, all of them have a level of between one and two stars!

Of course, for the sake of fairness, Liu Maoxing did not give any suggestions for improvement before the game.

Since it is called "seaweed bento", Chuangzhen will naturally not be a headline party. The real highlight is still on the second floor, which is the rice covered with a layer of concentrated seaweed particles!

It is a method similar to Alice's molecular gastronomy, but Chuangzhen did not use those large-scale equipment, but used the most earthy method to manually squeeze the seaweed extract, and then processed it into colloidal particles in the way of "puzzle thick snacks" ...

This is what Liu Maoxing has tasted before. It is difficult to even reach the advanced four or five stars with pure seaweed bibimbap, but the most important function is that it can integrate the three previous side dishes into one. It should work!

As for Chuangzhen's hole card, it is the thickening sauce in the bottom layer. The tongue has been properly stimulated by three kinds of side dishes, and then baptized with bibimbap made of thickening sauce with the same origin as them. It can completely reach the super three-star level. The level of sophistication, that is, the level of being able to compete 50-50 with the next few seats...

"If Alice's hand-held sushi bento is a 'jewelry box' full of treasures, then Kohei Chuangzhen's seaweed bento is a treasure chest full of fun to discover!"

"Yes, it reminds me of the feeling of opening my mother's bento when I was hiking as a child..."

"It seems that there is something missing in Alice's bento..."

Even so, Alice doesn't think that this kind of cooking can defeat her, and she even regards the theory that Chuangzhen's cooking needs to be "spiritual"...

Until some time later, the commander-in-chief who had already opened the clothes torn opened his mouth and reprimanded: "No, Alice, although your bento uses various advanced cooking theories, you are the one who loses when you start thinking about it! Xingping Chuangzhen thought The most important thing is how to use bento to bring the greatest enjoyment to the people who eat bento, and you just stuff what you know into the work with all your brains!"

"But the most important thing about cooking should be 'delicious', right?" Alice retorted.

At this time, Chuangzhen interjected: "I don't object to this truth, so you should also try my bento!" He said and handed the seaweed rice mixed with the thickening sauce to Alice.

In the end, the commander-in-chief picked up a huge writing brush as tall as a person, and wrote the winner's name "Xingping Chuangzhen" on the huge scroll!

At this time, Alice was already crying like a big child, rolling all over the floor, and the previous cold image disappeared.

"Aren't you going to comfort me?" Liu Maoxing suddenly made a sound, which startled Erina who was on the sidelines to jump.

"Ah! You, when did you come here?"

"It's a pity, the cooking of the two people is actually almost the same in terms of 'deliciousness', but from the perspective of bento, Chuangzhen really won." Liu Maoxing sighed.

"Hmph, crying when you lose, it's embarrassing for the Nakiri family, why should I comfort her?" Erina said proudly.

"Relax, next time you need me, I can lend you my shoulder to cry on. Now it's time for you, my sister, to come on stage!" Liu Maoxing couldn't help but push her to the field amidst Erina's protest...