Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

Yuanyue Academy, in the kitchen on the second floor of the manor mansion of the Nakiri family, three young cooks are working hard on their own...

Among them, in front of Feishazi, there are more than ten kinds of ingredients, as well as five or six kinds of Chinese medicinal materials such as wolfberry and angelica, which have light and slow effects. At this time, they are smelling, touching, and tasting one by one.

It is somewhat similar to Liu Maoxing's comprehensive understanding of ingredients that Liu Maoyuan taught him before the finals of the "Autumn Selection Competition".

It's just that the ingredients and types of ingredients that Fei Shazi is familiar with are far less than those of Liu Maoxing back then, and he doesn't have any in-depth perception of kitchen utensils.

As for Liu Maoxing and Erina, they are both already cooking. Among them, what Liu Maoxing is cooking is the pinnacle of his cooking so far, "Giant Panda Dream Magic Trio Mapo Tofu", and the latter is cooking. Cooking Shrimp Dumplings...

What the two have in common is that they are both cooking repeatedly!

Beside Liu Maoxing, seven or eight servings of "Giant Panda Dream Magic Trio Mapo Tofu" have already been placed. Each serving is not much, but it is obviously repeated and many times.

After finishing the cooking, Liu Maoxing picked up the spoon and tasted a few mouthfuls...

With Liu Maoxing's current cooking skills, if he uses "Shi Yu", even if he doesn't have a "one-time recipe", he can perfectly reproduce the peak performance of this dish in the qualifiers!

Because "Giant Panda Dream Magic Trio Mapo Tofu" is composed of a "super two-star" recipe, two "super three-star" recipe excerpts, and a blend of "multiple inequalities of spices"...

Therefore, although the effect rating is close to "Tiger", the standard cooking skills only need "Super Three Stars", coupled with the stunt of "Multiple Inequalities of Spices", you can cook successfully!

Even if there is no "multiple spice inequality", Liu Maoxing estimates that ordinary chefs with "super four-star" cooking skills can cook it.

It can be said that it is a typical level of culinary skills, dishes that are lower than the level of finished products. If Liu Maoxing opens a Chinese restaurant in the future, then this "Giant Panda Dream Magic Trio Mapo Tofu", even if it does not have the level of a "signature dish", it can still be served. Cooking a famous dish in the town...

Because you only need to hire chefs at the "super four-star" level, you can complete the "super five-star" cooking, and even do a period of time to split the preprocessing steps of each step. "Chef, you can master everything!"

Although the price is a lot of time wasted, it may take several years to do it, and it is even more difficult to grow one's cooking skills because of being too proficient in a single dish... But I believe there will be many professional chefs who are hopeless and willing to learn This kind of cuisine.

Even in SHINO'S, which is equivalent to a three-star restaurant, there are no more than 10 dishes with this effect!

Liu Maoxing also asked Erina about this "special effect cooking" before, but Erina didn't say much, and even specifically told Liu Maoxing not to waste time on this kind of thing...

Until now, after Liu Maoxing tasted it again, he found that it was not much different from the previous ones, so he said again: "It's still a bit worse... Sure enough, if you don't enter the state of appetite, you can't complete the preliminaries. to the extent reached."

Erina also didn't enter the state of appetite, and asked in confusion: "Didn't you also not awaken the appetite during the preliminaries?"

"Maybe I played better that time..." Liu Maoxing gave a reason.

In fact, it was because of the use of one-time recipes during the preliminaries!

Fortunately, Liu Maoxing's culinary skills have improved compared to then, and with the addition of "multiple spices and inequalities", so even without "one-off recipes", he can complete it in sevens and eighties, but the rating is only "super four-star" at most.

Erina reluctantly accepted this statement, came to taste the few dishes that Liu Maoxing had prepared, and then frowned...

"Your mastery of spices... is really too stable! It's obviously just barely cooking, and it's not very proficient, but there is almost no difference!"

"You're complimenting me, right?"

"It's indeed a compliment, but now your advantage is counterproductive!" Erina said helplessly.

Indeed, the reason why the two are repeating cooking now is because of what Erina said earlier, the "killing cooking" assault training method...

The premise of the "must kill dish" is that it must be a dish created by oneself, which can be inspired by other dishes, but copying the recipe or just fine-tuning it is not acceptable!

Because no matter how thoroughly you understand other people's recipes, they will not have the same psychological status compared with the recipes you created yourself. Moreover, there are no two people who are exactly the same, and it is impossible for someone to understand. The creator of the recipe is creating The whole mood when cooking...

Therefore, if you want to conduct surprise training, you must first choose a homemade dish. Liu Maoxing believes that "Giant Panda Dream Magic Trio Mapo Tofu" is improved by himself after combining three kinds of mapo tofu, and the degree of originality is high enough. up!

Afterwards, for cooks who have no sense of food, "must kill food" is the ability to selectively awaken the "sense of food", so the way of assault training, just like what Fei Shazi is doing now, is for the food All the ingredients and ingredients used, a detailed and comprehensive understanding...

Liu Maoxing also had a strange expression when he first heard it. He didn't know if the methods of all schools were roughly the same, or there was some connection between the Nakiri clan and the Liu clan.

As for cooks like Liu Maoxing and Erina who have awakened their "food sense", the method is different!

Because the sense of food has been awakened, Fei Shazi's method is ineffective for Liu Maoxing and Erina.

The way the two of them conduct assault training is to repeatedly cook the selected dishes, and then use the advantage of the "God's Tongue" to grasp the "deviation" that occurs every time they cook. In most cases, this deviation is the cause. negative effects, but there may also be slight positive deviations...

The tongues of ordinary people, even the tongues of chefs and gourmets, can hardly grasp such slight deviations, but the tongue of God can do it!

After grasping it, you can push the dish to the advantage deviation little by little...

However, Erina also explained the "taboo" of this method, that is, the time for each cooking assault training should not exceed one week each time, and the total cannot exceed one month!

Otherwise, there may be the effect of "practice makes perfect" for a single dish. Although you can make the dish in your own hands and play a better effect, but at the same time, it will affect the mastery of other dishes due to the solidification of thinking, and even affect creativity and influence. The overall improvement of cooking skills.

Therefore, Yuanyue College has never advocated "practice makes perfect" for a certain dish. It is something that professional cooks who have no hope of progress and exhausted potential will do!

Yuanyue's elite students are willing to degenerate by doing this...

Of course, it is also possible to delve into a dish, but it should not exceed a week at most, so the "field training" is also limited to one week, to avoid the "problems" of professional chefs.

The reason why I don't use "Food Sense" is also because under the effect of "Food Sense", strong concentration will make the deviation too small...

However, because of Liu Maoxing's unique skill of "Multiple Inequality of Spices", even without using "Food Control", the deviation is still too small. If this goes on for three days, there will be no effect at all!

"I think you can talk more about this 'special effect cooking'?" Liu Maoxing asked tentatively.

Judging from the current situation, the surprise training effect of "Killing Cuisine" is not good. Liu Maoxing is also considering changing his strategy. If he can develop a dish, with "super four-star" cooking skills and various special skills, he can achieve The cooking with the effect of "tiger level" can also be regarded as achieving the goal!

However, judging from Erina's previous attitude, it seems that she is not optimistic about special effects cooking, and even a little repulsive.

"I didn't tell you, don't be distracted by that kind of thing! We are still in the best rising period, and that kind of thing will have time to study after graduation, or even when you are at the age of Shinomiya's seniors!" Erina frowned.

"I'm just asking casually. Anyway, it's just these three days... plus the seven days of internship in the last week at most, and I won't care about it after that." Liu Maoxing is not all perfunctory, he is not going to open a shop now, yes I don't really care about special effects cooking.

Erina thought for a while, maybe because she felt that if she didn't explain it clearly to Liu Maoxing, he would waste more time thinking about it later!

"Actually, it's not so miraculous. Isn't it very common in low-level cooking? You can cook dishes that satisfy the tongues of low-level people without any high-level cooking skills..." Erina said still proudly.

Liu Maoxing continued to stare at her, and at the same time nodded slightly. This kind of situation is very common in middle-level and low-level cuisine... such as "Mozu House", which can make ordinary people who only know instant noodles cook in a few hours. After the training, complete the fried chicken with a delicious level of "intermediate five-star"!

Some other most common home-cooked dishes often have a similar effect, so there will be a feeling that the meals made by ordinary housewives are more delicious than the dishes in medium-sized restaurants.

But if you still feel this way compared to professional restaurants, it’s because of the psychological factors of the diners themselves. After all, not everyone is a gourmet. “Delicious” is a subjective feeling, and psychological factors can sometimes have a great impact...

Erina suddenly seemed to care about what it looked like, restrained her arrogance, and continued: "It's just that in high-end cuisine, this kind of situation is extremely rare... To put it simply, a cuisine has been perfected in terms of 'simplification of steps'. A certain height, so there will be situations where the dishes show a level of deliciousness that is obviously higher than their own cooking skills!

It is very difficult to simplify the steps of high-end cuisine, and not all cuisines can be simplified. Naturally, this situation is very rare.

But still the same sentence, we are still in the rising period of culinary skills. If we want to improve the dishes, we should also improve them in the direction of "more delicious", so that we can improve our cooking skills, instead of "simplifying". The direction is perfect, the latter can only save the labor cost of the restaurant, it will not help to improve one's cooking skills, it is just a waste of time! "

At the same time, Erina also thought to herself: Was it a little too arrogant just now? He won't hate it... No! I don't care if he hates it or not? If you hate it, it can only show that his realm is not enough!

"Hmph!" Erina snorted thinking of this, making Liu Maoxing baffled for a while.

However, he understands what Erina said earlier, this kind of "special effect cooking", to put it bluntly, is a high-level chef or chef, who optimizes and simplifies the steps of a dish as much as possible, so that the cooking skills are slightly lower than his own cooks, and he can also do it!

Therefore, it is of no help to myself. It is like a super five-star cook who has spent countless efforts to simplify a "super five-star" dish to a "super four-star" cooking skill. It's like it doesn't help his own cooking skills.

And it’s not just that you can simplify successfully as long as you “take painstaking effort”. For cooks who are on the rise, as Erina said, it is “the loss outweighs the gain”.

As for Liu Maoxing's "special case", it is equivalent to himself under the influence of a one-time recipe, simplifying a dish, and then teaching it to himself in a normal state...

Liu Maoxing sighed, it seems that it is hopeless to count on "special effects cooking"!

Unless there is a cooking master who simplifies the cooking with tiger-level effects to the level that can be completed by super-level four-star cooking skills, and then teach himself...

Of course, this level of simplification is extremely rare in the entire culinary world. Most three-star restaurants do not have it, and no one will easily disclose it or pass it on to strangers.

Wait, could it be that Nakiriji's plan is actually...

Liu Maoxing suddenly thought, could it be that in the original plot, the people of the "Central Gourmet Organization", Nakieji's confidant organization, have mastered a variety of "special effects dishes"?

Also, after they controlled the academy, would it be "special effects cooking" that they passed on to the students?

But where did he get so many rare "special effects cooking" recipes?

If this is the case, then Naginai Jiji is really a shame, after all, according to Erina, this kind of "special effect cooking" is not good for one's own cooking skills!

It seems that the effect is remarkable, but it actually kills all the potential and future possibilities of the cook!

For rising cooks, not only is it a waste of time to study "special effects cuisine", but learning too much "special effects cuisine" is also a waste of time...

"Will that Qiao Ya be someone from the 'Central Gourmet Organization'? Maybe we should find a way to test whether it is as I guessed..." Liu Maoxing muttered to himself.

"Huh? What did you say?" Erina asked suspiciously when she saw Liu Mao Xingkong's mouth moved.

"It's nothing... I mean can I have lunch?"

"Eat what you made yourself for lunch..." Erina paused halfway through her words.

Indeed, you can simply eat shrimp dumplings for lunch, but no one can eat mapo tofu alone, right?