Chapter 3827 Grandmaster
Without the old dean, Xingping Soma would have been eliminated by the eldest lady during the entrance exam, but he still did not doubt the fairness and rationality of the referee.
Of course, even if he had doubts, Yukihira Soma had no better way and could not come up with a more appropriate standard of judgment. "If you don't let the judges judge, the result will be a dictatorial central gastronomic institution, which will establish a rigid standard without any freedom. There is also the knocking down of opponents that you, Duran, admire, but this is not cooking at all. So the judges judge, I think the judges are not the worst choice to have rigid standards and knock down the opponent. I am just a chef and I don’t have that much wisdom. I just choose an option that I can accept.” He said: “Anyway, I can compete with the masters to my heart’s content. , that’s enough, I can learn from both losing and winning. I’m different from you, you just want to win, but I’m not afraid of losing.”
Seeing the boy's sonorous and forceful rebuttal, Du Lan thought that he was going further and further down the wrong path. But that's okay, after all, Duran didn't give a correct path.
There are two paths, one is wrong and the other is wrong, so let’s see which one is more acceptable to island chefs.
Should he accept the judges' evaluation or directly knock out his opponent?
"Interesting, so interesting. If you want to defeat the Demon Chef Army, come to the next test location. As long as you can stand in the ring to the end, I can free all the chefs and no longer control them. If you can't If you endure until the end, you will lose. Of course, even if you can endure until the end, your body and mind will be left with permanent scars, and you may never have the courage to pick up a kitchen knife or spatula again." Du Lan laughed. He said: "As a chef, are you willing to give everything you have for your partner?"
Originally, chefs only had to cook, but now chefs have to protect the weak like samurai.
"Don't underestimate the bond between me and everyone, I will definitely defeat you."
"Very good, then we'll see you in the next exam." Dulan left first.
Kuga Teruki said with a heavy face: "Junior, although your words are nice, the Demon Chef Army is not a joke. Their mental power is very weird. They have mastered abilities that are more powerful than the Nakiri clan. Once they stand in the ring, , their mental power will interfere with the enemy's body and spirit until they are defeated. As far as I know, the Demon Chef Army currently maintains a record of complete victory."
"I know, but I must save my friends." Xingping Soma gritted his teeth and said, "I will never allow the people around me to get hurt."
Ye Shanhuang came over and said, "I'm here to help you, and I can't forgive Du Lan."
"Thank you. You have fought against Duran before. How did it feel?"
"It's scary. I don't know what he did, but my nose bleeds. His ability is very weird. But as long as you have a heart that never gives up, you can persevere." Ye Shanhuang thought of his lord and started again. Ignite fighting spirit.
"I can tell you about spiritual power." Nakiri Munue said: "The spiritual power of our clan is linked to food. The more delicious the food, the more spiritual power will explode, and the form of it is bursting clothes."
"Is there any other form of expression?" the young man asked.
"As of now, there is none. However, the appearance of Duran proves that he has the ability to stimulate spiritual power and use food to give others superpowers. His cooking has touched the way of heaven. It should be a fusion of the power of the five elements. It is A kind of magic." Nakiri Munue said seriously.
Dojima Ginya said: "There has been a theory of the five elements since ancient times. Maybe we can start from this aspect. There are still a few days until the next exam. You can try it. I will also help you look up the information."
"Well, let's get started." The young man had to understand the relationship between cooking and the five elements.
The Five Elements theory has existed since ancient times. It is believed that the body contains the power of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Joy, anger, sorrow, joy, and weeping also correspond to the Five Elements. Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty naturally also correspond to the Five Elements.
Anyway, everything corresponds to the five elements. By using the five elements of all things to strengthen the five elements of the body, you can enhance your mental power. This is the principle of the mental power beef balls and the principle of the Nakiri clan's mental power. But now that we know the principle, how can we mix the five elements of ingredients to the level of stimulating spiritual power?
"The five elements of the Nakiri clan are definitely more active than ordinary people, so eating delicious food can make you burst into clothes. But ordinary people can't do it. How can you improve your spiritual power through delicious food?" The young man checked a lot of information, and it was all mysterious and mysterious. There is no direct way to use it.
"Alchemy seems to be about refining ores, plants and other things to strengthen the body. Maybe Shi Qiang used the technology of alchemy." Jiuga Teruki said: "When I was a child, I traveled around with my parents. I have been to various areas in the Central Plains, and also I have learned about the local history and culture. Alchemy was very popular in ancient times in the Central Plains. It is said that gunpowder was accidentally invented by alchemists when they were making alchemy. In the end, they were poisoned by the metal and died. However, they pursued immortality through alchemy. The records of immortals indeed have a long history. Perhaps Dulan used alchemy techniques."
"There are too many things to check. The literature on the Central Plains is like a vast ocean. There are so many messy things that it is impossible to check them all." The young man had a headache because there were too many documents on the Central Plains, and there was a lot about cooking. There are various food lists such as vegetarian diets and meals, as well as various theories.
Almost every restaurant has its own theory and can create its own food theory.
"The first person to propose the five-flavor theory was Yi Yin of Chengtang. He helped Chengtang end the Xia Dynasty, and proposed that governing a country should be just as good as the five flavors, and should not be excessive. Later, the saying that governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies was derived , maybe we can first understand the theory of five-flavor blending," said Yeshan Huang, rubbing his eyes.
Everyone nodded and immediately traced back to the source. Yiyin’s attitude towards cooking is to first understand the natural properties of the ingredients. Both Soma Yukihira and Teruki Kuga already understood this. If you want to understand an ingredient, the best thing is to understand the ingredient. Origin.
Yi Yin said: "There are three groups of insects: those that live in water have a smelly taste, those that chew meat are smelly, and those that eat grass are smelly. They all have a good stench." That is to say, the three kinds of creatures live in different places, aquatic and terrestrial. The taste is different. Omnivorous animals eat different feeds with different tastes. But as long as you find a way to cook it, it's delicious.
He also said: "The root of all tastes is water." That is to say, among the tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, tasteless water is also a taste, and it is also the beginning of all tastes. No taste is also a taste.
Moreover, he also pays attention to heat and blending... He can be said to be a master of ancient cooking theory. He also innovatively combines cooking and country governance. He can be described as a genius.
It can be said that he is the best at cooking among politicians and the best at governing the country among chefs. Legend has it that Yi Yin was cooking for Xia Jie at first, but when he saw Xia Jie's cruelty, he went to Chengtang to serve as a guide, and finally became a generation of Ming Dynasty ministers, which can be said to be extremely powerful.
"It's amazing. As a chef, you should be like Yi Yin." It was also the first time for Kuga Teruki to get to know Yi Yin in depth, and he realized that the chef's master was so powerful.
"Water is the beginning of taste? I didn't expect that the ancients thousands of years ago would have such an understanding. It's amazing." Huang Yeshan also said: "In order to blend the spices, I searched everywhere for water sources without any taste, and finally used Distilled water has truly become a tasteless solvent. Thousands of years ago, chefs realized that tastelessness is also a taste, which is amazing.”
Xingping Soma also found it incredible that this theory that traveled through thousands of years could still bring inspiration. If he could read these contents earlier, he would be able to understand earlier that food will have different flavors when grown in different environments and on uneatable feed. He can also understand the effect of heat on food. High fire can remove the fishy smell, and low fire can remove the smell. It can remove mutton. Living environment, cooking methods, and taste changes, the ancients three thousand years ago have already noticed the elements of cooking.
And we also know that the blend must be fine-tuned according to each customer, and we cannot fool customers with just one flavor.
At the same time, you have to feel carefully the changes in the ingredients at different stages. The ingredients cannot speak, so you need to pay more attention. If the chef does not care about the changes in the ingredients, he will mess up. To understand the changes of ingredients at different temperatures, seasons, and environments, ingredients cannot speak, so you have to observe them carefully.
In short, Yi Yin's cooking theory is still very practical even today, because this theory is just like "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in an outline. There is no specific operation on which ingredient to cook, but it can be applied to all ingredients.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" does not specifically teach fighting, but if you want to win, you must follow the theories of "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
The same goes for Yi Yin's food theory. If you want to cook delicious food, you have to follow his theory. You should carefully observe any ingredients, handle them carefully, and finally cook a bowl of delicious food.
Although Yi Yin's era still used pottery and bronze tripods for cooking, the utensils were very backward, and the seasoning was very primitive, he still strived for excellence in the pursuit of delicious food, resulting in a set of theories that spanned thousands of years.