Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

In a formal meal of Italian cuisine, there are "about" four main courses. The first course is the "staple course", which may be common Italian dishes such as pasta and pizza, or soup; the second course is the "main course". "Dish", which is the highlight of a meal, may be meat dishes, fish dishes or aquatic dishes. The third dish is "salad", usually fruit or ice cream, and the last one is "dessert". It's just pastries or something...

The reason why it is said to be "about" four dishes is that there may not be only one dish for each part. For example, in some more luxurious meals, the "main course" part will have a meat dish and a fish dish respectively.

In addition to the four main courses, there is often an "appetizer" before the meal begins.

For example, the "Buffalo and Fish" tasted by the judges just now belongs to the category of "appetizers".

As an appetizer, the portion of "Beef and Fish" is very small. Each plate has only four slices of beef and four slices of fish...

Although the task of the judges is to "taste", Carlo is confident in his own cooking. If the judges don't control the portion, it will be difficult for the judges to judge normally... You must know that the judges have to taste every hour now" "One meal", although it is just a taste, but it cannot hold a large amount.

After a "Beef and Fish Combination" with a well-balanced flavor that has been carefully considered from the temperature to the cut noodles to the sauce, after whetting the appetite of the judges, Chef Carlo's assistant cook made another The dinner plate with only the cover on it was placed in front of each judge, and then the cover was removed.

Under the cover of the dinner plate, there was a small bowl of golden soup, and in the soup were three golden ravioli...

"Next, please enjoy the first main course 'Italian Lobster Ravioli Soup'!" Chef Carlo said.

"Italian ravioli" is a small ravioli with pasta as the skin. The "pasta" here is not noodles, but the raw material that makes spaghetti...

Pasta is high-gluten flour, which is made by adding oil and egg liquid.

Just use egg liquid to make noodles, how difficult it is to "pull noodles" afterward, I have mentioned it countless times before, but now I use high-gluten flour, add egg liquid...even if I add a small amount of oil, it can't change The fact that the plasticity of this golden dough is extremely poor!

Usually at this time, special tools and an auxiliary rolling equipment are needed to press the dough, or the texture of the dough is slightly sacrificed, and some water is diluted in it...

However, it is clear that the "All? Blue" team is not so considerate to the Italian cooks. Even such small tools are ready, and Carlo can't accept it, sacrificing the taste of some wontons... It's better not to do it!

And Carlo chose to use manual power instead of equipment!

Today, when all kinds of auxiliary equipment "invade" the kitchen, Carlo's basic skills are undoubtedly worthy of his status in the cooking world...

Although it is easier to roll the skin with this kind of noodles... no, it should be said to be "pressed skin", which is much easier than pulling it into noodles, but it also shows its basic skills.

Of course... Originally, Chef Carlo had hoped that this skill of "seeing kung fu" could stop Liu Maoxing's "imitation", because this step was prepared by Liu Maoxing and the others before they entered the arena, so Carlo's first At that time, I was still looking forward to how upset Liu Maoxing would be when he found out that there was no auxiliary equipment for rolling the skin!

Coincidentally, when Carlo presented this dish, Liu Maoxing also reconciled the Italian dough...

Carlo had to admit that Liu Maoxing's movements were more agile than his!

Carlo didn't even have time to talk to the judges, let them taste it for themselves, but looked in the direction of Liu Maoxing...

And at this moment, under the shocked eyes of Chef Carlo and the audience, Liu Maoxing simply flattened the golden Italian dough, and then used three fingers as the axis to make the dough rotate!

Under the action of centrifugation, the dough becomes a dough cake, and then only the thickness of the dough.

It was faster, more even and...more interesting than Carlo's!

After that, Liu Maoxing flicked his wrist and fingers at the same time, causing the huge golden dough to fly up. Because the dough is thin enough, big enough and still rotating, the dough fell very slowly.

And Liu Maoxing was in this gap, holding a narrow-bladed kitchen knife for slicing fish in each hand, facing the huge falling cotton dough. Round dough wrapping wontons.

At this time, the judges also had a feeling that the "Italian Lobster Chaos Soup" they were tasting was as if they were making it right in front of them!

Although the culinary skills of gourmets are definitely not as good as real cooks, but at this moment they instinctively feel that what Liu Maoxing is cooking seems to be the bowl of lobster wonton soup in front of them!

Of course, it will take a while to know whether their intuition is accurate...

Italian lobster ravioli soup, using Boston lobster prepared by the competition, lobster meat as filling, lobster shells to cook the soup, and finally the result of mixing the cooked Italian ravioli with the boiled lobster shell broth!

Shrimp and crab shells contain the umami essence of aquatic dishes, but it is not so easy to make soup.

Because of the strong umami taste, there is also a fishy smell...

It's like "taste sealed crab soup", which draws out all the umami and fishy smells in the crab shells, paralyzing people's sense of taste!

If it is used to make soup, it is usually to ensure that the umami taste overwhelms the fishy smell, do not use too many other ingredients, and at most add a few light-flavored vegetables and fruits to cook together...

And Chef Carlo obviously has far more greed for cooking than ordinary chefs. He chose to use the existing ingredients to completely detonate and reconcile the umami and fishy smell of lobster!

The fresh and pure taste instantly conquered the taste buds of the judges. Although they knew that there was still a heavy "task" ahead, the judges were willful once...drank up the soup!

Of course, the only thing that Carlo felt was "a fly in the ointment" was that while the judges tasted his dishes, although they also had a short-term state of ecstasy, the speed of entering the sage mode was obviously too fast! In the second half, the judges were tasting his dishes while watching Liu Maoxing...

Although Carlo understands that the reason why the judges look at Liu Maoxing is ultimately because they are curious about "his cooking", but this kind of thing that everyone seems to agree that the young man can make exactly the same cooking as him is still Carlo felt awkward.

And the most awkward thing is that Chef Carlo himself has this intuition!

Next, the assistant chefs of the "Italian Royal Cuisine Team" presented the "main dish" to the judges...

It looks like a plate of thinly sliced ​​beef, with this white and yellowish "sauce" on it, which is different from the beef in the first appetizer "Beef and Fish", this time it is cooked beef!

"Sauce" can also be more directly translated as "sauce", but it is slightly different from the common "sauce" in Chinese cuisine...

"Sauce" specifically refers to the "sauce" that has no fermentation process and is liquid. The more common tomato sauce and salad dressing, which can't be seen from the outside, are completely crushed to a semi-liquid level. "Sauce" belongs to "sauce".

"Next is the first 'main course', veal..." Chef Carlo said absent-mindedly.

At this point, the cooking was done, and he had time to think about other things... such as thinking about some bastard who broke his confidence!

Apparently, Liu Maoxing also knew what the sauce on his "veal veal" was, and he was already using a blender to grind part of the tuna meat...

Italian veal, the spices that can be found in the Carloli game, the perfectly proportioned cooked beef, sliced ​​​​and sprinkled with sauce.

At this time, this sauce is made from the most basic egg yolk liquid, adding olive oil, sugar, lemon juice, onion juice and tuna fish paste!

Once again, the beef and tuna meat are combined.

Under the effect of the "cow and fish fight" at the beginning, the appetite of the judges was attenuated after "tasting" the Italian lobster ravioli soup. At this moment, the sweet and sour fish mud sauce , and the mellow beef, while bringing them a completely different taste enjoyment, it also reminded them of their appetite after tasting the "appetizer" just now!

Chef Carlo prepared two "main courses" for this meal. In addition to the meat dish "Italian Veal", there was also a "Tuna in Tomato Sauce".

Under the rich red soup, there is a piece of thornless tuna...

Tomatoes are the life of Italian cuisine. The Aldini brothers often use tomato juice in their cooking, and Chef Carlo has brought the best "stew" of Italian cuisine to the extreme, making the taste of tomato soup infiltrate Into the tuna meat.

And when chewing again, the original deliciousness of the tuna will be exuded from the taste of the tomato sauce, which can be said to have the three flavors of "stewed"...

After that, there is a pulp ice cream, using all the seasonal fruits provided on the field, as well as milk, aseptic egg liquid, nuts... In addition to the moisture in the ingredients, no extra water is added.

In the ice cream, you can also taste chunks of pulp left on purpose.

The last one is the classic Italian dessert... tiramisu!

Among the ingredients provided by the contest party, although there are coffee beans, cheese, eggs... But there is no "gelatin" that is crucial in making tiramisu, that is, a kind of gelatin that is found on animal bones or fish. Extracted gel.

However, Chef Carlo also has his own method, which is to simply extract collagen from tuna gelatin as the raw material of tiramisu... instead of gelatin, mix it with hot cheese.

Carlo also made some adjustments for the extra umami and other ingredients of tiramisu.

"Reconciliation" is originally Carlo's specialty. Under Carlo's conditioning, this isinglass version of tiramisu not only has no sense of disobedience, but also has first-class flavor...

Whether it's the bitter coffee aroma or fish gelatin, they all merge into one at this time.

As the aftertaste of a finished Italian meal, it is just right.

In the end, the judges also gave a score of 38.98 points.

The total score of the team competition is 40 points, 38.98 points have already surpassed Chef Carlo, and the "Hundred Stars Sanying Team" who played on the third day scored 38.92 points, which is the highest score so far!

If it was before, Carlo would definitely be a little proud when he knew the news. He beat his old opponent of the "Hundred Stars Sanying Team"...

Even if it is only 0.06 points, it is already commendable among cooks of their level.

But now Chef Carlo was a little distracted when he heard the news, and he behaved "indifferently" after knowing it.

Of course, the judges laughed wryly at this, and they could see that Carlo was not really "indifferent", but most of the attention is now on the "Germinate team"!

Even though Carlo doesn't admit it himself, half of the reason why his performance in the team competition surpassed his old opponent of the "Hundred Stars Sanying Team" is because of his "deep soup pot" cooking heart blending ability. In the game with limited spices, they played a certain advantage, and the other half was because of Liu Maoxing's encouragement...

What do you do as a cook, and an accomplished cook at that, when you find someone imitating you?

Of course it is to force myself to do better, to see how others imitate...

Because of Liu Maoxing's reason, Chef Carlo didn't leave immediately after the judging, but stood still in the exit of the contestants, watching the "Germinate team"...to be precise, watching Liu Maoxing's movements!

Liu Maoxing breathed a sigh of relief because he didn't know his behavior.

Liu Maoxing was really worried that he would leave immediately after the review!

Because the "Mirror Kitchen Heart" copied by super vision is one-time, if you want to use it all the time, you must copy it from time to time.

After Liu Maoxing awakened the "super-auditory", even if the cook is not in the state of cooking, he can "see" the other party's cooking heart and activate the super-visual copying ability, but after all, the other party must be within the range of his super-visual and super-auditory Only then...

If Chef Carlo leaves, he will be in danger of running out of cooking heart, then it will be embarrassing!

Carlo didn't know that he had unintentionally done Liu Maoxing another favor. At this time, he was standing outside the court, and he felt more intuitively that the young man in front of him exuded the same heart-warming aura as himself!

"Could it be that my 'deep soup pot' has the heart of a chef?"

"No! How could it be such a coincidence..."

"His culinary heart should be... copying?"

Just like Liu Maoxing's awakening of super vision, the guess of the people in the Yuanyue Hotel is the same. At this moment, Carlo also mistakenly thought that Liu Maoxing's kitchen heart was "copying", and did not realize that his sensory ability was a kind of sensory ability at this time.

Watching Liu Maoxing completely reproduce his cooking, Carlo felt as if he was with a canine...

And Andre, the leader of the "Central Gourmet Team" on the side, because at the beginning, like Mizuhara Fuyumi and Kanhiko Koko, he didn't pay attention to the dishes presented by Chef Carlo, and he didn't have the heart to separate the voices in the audience.

Therefore, when looking at Liu Maoxing, Andre only felt that Liu Maoxing's cooking skills were as exquisite as the rumors, but he didn't see anything else...

So in Andre's heart, while lamenting Liu Maoxing's solid foundation and superb cooking skills, he also felt a little disdainful.

On the contrary, he still laughed at Liu Maoxing in his heart for being "arrogant of his talents", and fell out with other team members in an already unfavorable situation.

As for virtuosity?

In Andre's view, the cooks who really stand at the top of the culinary world are very skilled. The difference between "exquisite" and "more exquisite" and "very exquisite" is not big. The "inspiration" that really pulls the gap!

Of course, they don't need inspiration, because they are using the inspiration of nakiri thistle...

If Liu Maoxing pays attention to them, he will find that each of them has a part of "devil" now, just like the four-person group of the central food agency of Yuanyue Academy.

The so-called "inspiration" not only refers to the overall inspiration of the recipe, but also refers to the details, every time you swing a knife, every time you control the fire... the almost intuitive judgment required!

That's right, it's the essence...

However, after Liu Maoxing activates the absolute copy of "Super Vision", he can also temporarily copy the opponent's essence!

The only flaw in the original copy is the strength of the copied Heart of Cooking, which also depends on Liu Maoxing's will. It can be regarded as a "mold" copied from "Super Vision", and it needs to be filled with will by oneself... …

But now it is no longer a problem. Liu Maoxing has not used the "Mirror Kitchen Heart" for a long time. It was only during the experiment a few days ago that he discovered that the "sun"'s ability to absorb solar energy can not only be used by the "Sun Kitchen Heart" itself, but also can play a role. The role of solar panels.

Pour the absorbed energy into the "mold" until it is full!

Therefore, no matter how big the kitchen heart model Liu Maoxing copied, he can fully use its power...

The only problem that may arise is that "the heart of the chef in the mirror" is a mirror image after all, but because Chef Carlo is very cooperative and stays on the sidelines, Liu Maoxing's only worry is gone!

Carlo used to work with five people, but they had time to wait for each other, and then deducted the time for agreeing on recipes and assigning tasks at the beginning... The real use of "120 minutes" is only about 85 to 90 minutes, and there is still a part of it. A small part of the time is spent on the "decoration" step, and Carlo still has some time because he is waiting for the shallow processing results, so he is not always at full speed...

And Liu Maoxing, except for the deduction at the beginning and the division of cooking areas, the use of time reached 100% in the next 110 minutes!

In addition to his own efficiency, Liu Maoxing crushed Carlo and also crushed the four chefs, so Liu Maoxing, who had been "flying around", finally completed all the dishes two minutes before six o'clock...

As the clock struck six o'clock, the master of ceremonies for the team competition rang: "It's time for the 'Germinate Team' to cook! Please, 'Germinate Team', start presenting the dishes..."

She also doesn't know who is the head chef and who is the kitchen worker in the structure of "Germinate Team", so she directly uses "Germinate Team" to refer to all members!

Liu Maoxing turned his head and met the other four people's eyes, then nodded to each other.

Liu Maoxing was the first to go up and personally served five dishes of "Buffalo and Fish" to the five judges...

In order to alleviate the awkward atmosphere, the judges coughed dryly and asked, "Ahem, what is this dish for contestant Liu Maoxing?"

"As you can see... this is a 'cow and fish fight'."

"..."

What the hell is a double fight between cattle and fish? Is it a famous dish? Why do you take it for granted that this is the look of "cow and fish fighting together"! Can't you have a different name?

"Okay, the name doesn't really matter, let's taste it first." Another judge couldn't help but said.

Judging from the appearance, they even felt that even the shape of the sauce on the beef slices was exactly the same as Carlo's "Beef and Fish Combo" before, but the judges still didn't think that Liu Maoxing only needed to look at it, You can imitate Chef Carlo's cooking by only watching half of the cooking process!

You must know that Chef Carlo is one of the chefs who are closest to the bosses of the major culinary organizations...

However, at the next moment after the entrance of "Buffalo and Fish", the judges finally discovered that sometimes emotional intuition is more reliable than rationality!

exactly the same!

As first-class gourmet masters, their recognition of dishes is undoubtedly extremely accurate...

A first-class gourmet can tell the difference even if the exact same recipe is prepared by a different person.

The most basic thing is to ask two cooks you are familiar with to cook with the same recipes. Only by distinguishing them can you have the foundation to become a first-class gourmet!

But now...they even have a feeling that they have gone back in time and tasted Chef Carlo's dishes by themselves!

Temperatures, cut textures, sauces...all the same!

"The following is the first 'staple' of the dinner, Italian lobster ravioli soup..."

As Liu Maoxing said, he brought up five dinner plates covered with lids. After the judges lifted the lids of the dinner plates, they found that there were indeed golden soup and golden ravioli underneath...

Well, before Chef Carlo prepared the smallest portion, and now Liu Maoxing is also the same, the two of them add up and there is no normal portion for one person, so the judges have not tasted enough before, and now they can't help but look forward to it.

After the ravioli and soup were in, the judges realized again... exactly the same!

If this wasn't the "All? Blue" arena, and if they had seen Liu Maoxing's cooking process with their own eyes before, the five judges would even suspect that they were being tricked... Could it be that Carlo did it all?

Italian veal, tuna in tomato sauce, fruit juice ice cream, fish maw tiramis...

The dishes that the judges had just tasted less than an hour ago were repeated again...

Although the judges haven't commented yet, but looking at their expressions, Chef Carlo next to him can guess the effect!

It was just a strong premonition before, but at this moment... it seems to have become a reality!

"Andre! What are you doing?" There were some discordant voices from the central food team.

Andre, who was dumbfounded, accidentally used the egg yolk liquid as egg white liquid!

low level mistake...

Can't help Andre not distracted, although he didn't carefully read the dishes presented by Chef Carlo, but at least he heard the names.

After Liu Maoxing presented two or three dishes, Andre finally understood that the shouts from the audience were not booing...

And in the meeting room on the top floor of the headquarters of the "American Development Association", Nakiriji felt bad when he saw Liu Maoxing's cooking process from the broadcast before, and when he saw the judges' expressions, his face turned cold, until now " The "Central Food Team" had another accident, and it was necessary to re-cook a dish or change the overall menu.

There is no need to think about the latter, the members of the "Central Gourmet Team" have no self-judgment ability, and it is the result of being taught all the possibilities of the exam questions by Nagiji!

Seeing the way Naki cut thistle, even his confidant Ezuya Ruishan did not dare to make a sound while sitting aside.

Nakiri Ji finally couldn't bear it and said: "Okay, let's come here today... let's end the meeting!"

After that, he turned off the TV and was the first to go out...