Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Huh? The color and size, and the habit of not moving... Is it a sleeping crab?" You Ji said suddenly.

Including You Ji, many students recognized Liu Maoxing's big red crab.

"It's indeed a sleeping crab... but that shouldn't be..." Ryoko agreed with Yuuhime's judgment, and looked in Shinomiya Kojiro's direction.

Sleeping crab, one of the top crab ingredients, also known as "bread crab", got its name because it sleeps on its claws all the year round.

Because of its slow-moving characteristics, although it is very big, it does not need crabs tied with ropes at all!

People who will be caught by the five war crabs will say goodbye to the crabs in this life...

It is worth noting that the place of origin of the sleeping crab is the Atlantic coast of France, so it can be said that the place of origin is France.

Liu Maoxing actually chose an ingredient that Kojiro Shinomiya must be very familiar with!

At the same time, Dawu looked at the aquarium beside Liu Maoxing, squeezed his chin and said, "Sleeping crabs... are really similar, but in my impression, the red color of 'sleeping crabs' should be deeper, right?"

"It's a sleeping crab that just moulted." Marui Zenji put on his glasses.

"shell?"

"Crabs, as arthropods, often need to shed their shells more than ten times or even dozens of times before they become adults, that is, to shed the shell that restricts their growth, and some even shed their shells several times after they reach adulthood..."

"That is to say... soft shell crabs?" Zhao Er said, obviously they didn't know this.

"Soft-shell crab" is not the name of a certain crab, but refers to a crab that has just shed its shell, has not yet finished tanning, and has a hard shell.

"That's right, when a crab molts, it can often shed its whole body, including the shell on its claws, and the new shell will grow and gradually harden, so the whole body will appear lighter than usual. " said Marui Zenji.

"Crabs in the molting stage... have any advantages? It seems that they are rarely used." Dawu said.

At least the crabs they usually use for cooking are adult crabs, not freshly shed crabs.

Speaking of "advantages", Marui frowned for a while: "Crabs that have just molted and have not been tanned to harden their shells are also called 'soft-shell crabs'. It is much softer, and may even be sunken due to pressing. As long as it is properly cooked or marinated, it can be eaten together with the shell, and the molting of the crab is to shed the entire ectoderm, that is to say, with the previous gills and stomach, and partial excretion. The organs will also fade away, so regardless of the internal organs, it can be eaten whole from a cleansing point of view..."

"So convenient? Then we usually..."

"But the soft shell also means that the crab has not reached the 'peak', and the meat quality is much worse than that of a fully mature crab, without the firmness of adult crab meat." Marui explained.

It is for this reason that these "soft shell crabs" are rarely used in cooking.

Just to save some processing procedures, but double the payback in terms of meat quality... In the eyes of most cooks and diners, the gain outweighs the gain.

And to use "soft-shell crabs", you have to pick the right time, and it is not convenient in breeding, because after a while, the crabs will undergo tanning, and the newly exposed soft shells will also turn into hard shells!

Usually it is the breeder who calculates the time directly, and after catching it, makes it into marinated, vacuum-frozen instant food.

As for fresh soft-shell crab dishes?

Unless it's the right season, and you go to the breeding ground, otherwise...they are too difficult!

After all, after a crab molts, it doesn't look at whether humans eat it, and then decides at what speed to harden it. As long as the time is missed, the soft-shell crab will become an ordinary crab...

However, with the ability of the Yuanyue Group, even the soft-shell crabs of the sleeping crabs can naturally be obtained easily, and many of them have been obtained. Obviously, they are all close to adulthood, and they should have completed the last molt before adulthood. sleeping crab.

But it was also because many people recognized that it was a sleeping crab that had just moulted, so they didn't quite understand Liu Maoxing's purpose...

Because sleeping crabs often lie still on their stomachs and move very slowly, they have the advantage of being thick and thick.

But do the juvenile sleeping crabs of "soft shell crabs" still have these advantages?

On the other side, compared to the laziness of the sleeping crabs, the "crabs" on the Sigong side seem to be much more active, climbing up and down...

That's right, the crabs in Sigong are not in the water, but majestically lying on the tree trunk in the mimicry box!

In the mimicry box of Sigong, it is not sea water, but sand and "trunks"...

The "crab" inside is also quite imposing, with a purple-blue shell, and large and small crab claws, but they are all very thick. The whole body is afraid that it can block people's heads!

Moreover, its size does not rely on its legs to show its size. The crab legs of this crab are very short and thick, which makes it very flexible when climbing.

"What kind of crab is Chef Sigong's?" You Ji asked suspiciously.

Zenji Marui continues to follow his own "settings", that is, he will explain when he understands, and when he doesn't understand... hold a pair of glasses and say nothing!

Ibuzaki, who has always been taciturn, said at this time: "It's a coconut crab."

"Coconut crabs? Didn't you see these tree trunks as if they were cut from coconut trees, so you named them coconut crabs?" You Ji questioned.

After all, Ryo Kurokiba, who was born in a port city and is best at seafood dishes, and Alice, who also lived in a port city before entering school, did not recognize this kind of crab at this time...

"This is a tropical hermit crab." Ibuzaki pointed out why Kurokiba and Alice didn't know this.

Indeed, expecting coconut crabs to live in northern Europe is a bit "difficult for strong crabs"!

"Hermit crab? What do you live in?" You Ji looked at those big-faced hermit crabs in shock, wondering if she wanted to live in the washbasin?

"It's too big to live in, but it's still a hermit crab." Ibuzaki said solemnly.

Indeed, the hermit crab is the name of the species, not the name of the behavior!

People don't "live", and they can't deny its status as a hermit crab...

According to species, coconut crabs are hermit crabs, and they are the largest hermit crabs.

In detail, hermit crabs do not belong to "crabs", but it seems that "king crabs" that do not belong to crabs can appear in crab dishes, and no one will criticize them. The definition of ingredients in the cooking industry is, It is naturally different from the definition of species in the biological world.

"What a coincidence." Shinomiya Kojiro muttered after seeing Liu Maoxing's "Sleeping Crab".

Not only does Liu Maoxing use French ingredients he is familiar with, but also because his coconut crab is the "Hainan coconut crab" that Liu Maoxing should be familiar with...

At the same time, after the two announced the crabs they were going to use, they did not immediately attack the sleeping crabs and coconut crabs. Instead, they both prepared other sauces, sauces... and "noodles" first!

It can be seen that Shinomiya Kojiro used wheat flour and yeast powder to knead the dough, while Liu Maoxing... did not knead the dough.

Just use the seasoning powder prepared before and mix it with the flour...

Liu Maoxing and Shinomiya Kojiro have one thing in common, that is, they both started to "catch" the crab they like when the moon has reached the edge of the "end" end of the skylight.

The rule of eating halberd is that it ends when the moon completely disappears, which means that it has reached the final stage of "eating halberd".

The actions of both parties were clean and neat, so it goes without saying that Liu Maoxing, no one would doubt his knife skills. Even with soft-shell crabs, Liu Maoxing took the trouble to remove the internal organs of the sleeping crab first.

On the other hand, Shinomiya Kojiro also ignored the ferocity of the coconut crab and the threat of the crab claws... Although facing the crab claws that can cut the coconut skin, he was still dealing with it without protection. Became Coconut Crabmeat…

Shinomiya Kojiro's pure "cooking skills" seem to have improved again!

When the full moon completely disappeared from the skylight, both parties also finished their works at the same time as Rei Kawashima announced "the cooking is over", and they are only waiting for the final presentation of the cooking.

You can already see the final appearance of the "crab pasta" on both sides...

Shinomiya Kojiro’s work is made of the coconut crab’s “lid” as the bottom of the small cake, while Liu Maoxing’s plate is filled with “noodle cakes” that are deep-fried until golden yellow!

Well, it has the same "bad taste" as Ye Shanliang in the qualifiers for the Ten Elites. At the beginning, Ye Shanliang was outside the pie, and he was short of two pigeon wings... Although it was fried, but the feathers were also fried. It's so bad, those who didn't know thought they put the whole pigeon in the pie.

Now on both sides of the front of Liu Maoxing's golden pancake, there are also two sleeping crab claws sticking out...

Of course, the audience and judges who saw what Liu Maoxing did before naturally knew that Liu Maoxing didn't just fry the sleeping crabs into crab pancakes.

"How? Who won?" Erina asked Ling'er in her heart.

If she asked out loud at this time, I am afraid that everyone would think she was stupid. The two sides have not presented the dishes at this time, so how can there be "who wins"?

But Erina felt that Linger's words...

"I don't know, unless you try it!" Ling'er said angrily, obviously complaining that Erina's expectations of her were too high.

"..."

While Erina was speechless, she had no other choice. At this time, she was not one of the Halberd eaters at all. Her face was still far behind that of the previous Kobayashi Gendan, and she went up to taste the two sides as an audience Cooking...Erina can't do this kind of thing.

"However, I can confirm that this 'Fighting Duel' will definitely be effective. Liu Maoxing's opponent...is well chosen!" Linger said.

It has an effect, it can be a positive effect, or it may be... a negative effect.

What Ling'er meant was that the Fourth Palace did have strength, which made Liu Maoxing's "command duel" take effect!

"What exactly is Shinomiya-senpai's cooking heart? I think I feel it... but I don't feel it..." Erina said tangled.

In fact, not only Erina, but Liu Maoxing also felt this way, that is, he could clearly feel the effect of Sigong's kitchen heart, but he couldn't feel what the effect was...

Even with super vision, he didn't see through its function, but Liu Maoxing still used the effect of "super vision" to print a copy of the mirrored kitchen heart as a backup!

His instinct told him that this thing is useful...

"It's not surprising, because what he possesses is the 'heart of cooking'." Ling'er said.

"The heart of cooking? Could it be that the heart of cooking is so powerful that it uses the name 'cooking' directly?" Erina asked doubtfully.

"Chu Xin, who used to be as famous as 'Yuan Cuisine', but... I don't know if it's powerful or not." Linger's tone was a little lonely.

Because she was worried about Liu Maoxing, who had started the "Ming Duo", Erina didn't have the extra energy to consider Ling'er's emotions, and hurriedly asked: "As famous as 'Yuan Cuisine'? Isn't that amazing?"

"I don't know, I mean it's as famous as 'once'."

Erina obviously didn't understand.

Linger went on to explain: "When Atlantis civilization and Lemuria civilization were still there, although the culinary art systems of the two races were too different, they did not integrate much, but both sides also felt that The material and spiritual cooking of the other party may be the key to one's further progress. Did I say it before? 'Source cooking' can be regarded as spiritual cooking..."

"Indeed." Erina remembered that Liu Maoxing asked this question when Ling'er confessed.

"The reason why it is called 'temporarily' is because its effect is 'spiritual cuisine', but the technology comes from 'material cuisine'... Yes, 'source cuisine' is from the Lemurian civilization that was once good at material cuisine. , a technology created before the curse came that allows them to have the effect of 'spiritual cooking' under the system of 'material cooking'."

Erina nodded when she heard the words. It is true that "source cuisine" is different from the heart of the chef in principle. It is the chef's in-depth understanding of the ingredients that inspires the "source", rather than using his own will...

It looks...it really looks like the work of the Lemurian civilization based on "material cuisine"!

Seeing this, Linger went on to say: "The birth time and reason of 'Cooking Kitchen Heart' are similar to 'Yuan Cuisine', but the opposite."

Almost, on the contrary, two words that looked completely different, but Erina understood it.

"The civilization of Atlantis also created the 'heart of cooking'? Use the heart of cooking... to feed back the cooking skills?"

Erina secretly said: It seems that this is the effort made by the two major civilizations that were born without the "Dragon Class" to the "Dragon Class"!

"That's right... That's why I said that they were once equally famous, but with the curse, the two civilizations were reduced to ruins. Three thousand years later, I became a dragon chef, and I also relied on the fusion of the two systems instead of 'source cuisine' and 'cuisine' Heart', so I once thought that these two attempts were wrong, the two systems themselves could no longer be extended, and the right way was to integrate the two systems...

It wasn't until a hundred years ago that I met the chef who reached the dragon level with 'Original Cuisine' that I knew that 'Original Cuisine' could really break through the limit! I don't know if the 'heart of cooking' is possible, but although there is no example, I guess it may be possible. "

This is also the reason why Ling'er's tone was so lonely when she mentioned this matter - the original "Atlantis" and "Lemuria" were just a little bit short!

Otherwise, with the number of cooks second only to dragons, hundreds of dragon chefs would appear, and the "curse" would not be able to cause that much harm...

Erina didn't have the time to think about Linger's sadness, but looked nervously at Kojiro Shinomiya, and presented the dishes first.

Although the two finished it at the same time, Sigong obviously had a shadow in his heart, and proposed to Liu Maoxing to present the dishes first, and Liu Maoxing also agreed...