"Good, everyone. Let's get this pig butchered quickly." Watching the pig being slaughtered in an instant, everyone present widened their eye
"Good, everyone. Let's get this pig butchered quickly."
Watching the pig being slaughtered in an instant, everyone present widened their eyes, some unable to believe what they saw, swallowing their saliva after a long time.
"This... the pig's blood has been completely drained, the meat is in its best condition, this kind of thing... actually happened in a flash!!"
Someone went forward to check, and then discovered that the pork in front of them was processed perfectly, the blood drained very cleanly, without a trace of residue.
And this was all completed in just an instant!
"A pig needs to be bled during the slaughtering process. Normally, it takes at least half an hour, during which someone needs to hold the pig down tightly.
Because the pig struggles most violently before death, three or five strong men are needed to restrain it simultaneously.
If it were in the countryside, to kill a pig, the whole village would have to mobilize, even the children would have to hold down the pig's tail, preventing it from exerting any strength."
The bodyguard who was the first to step forward said in shock. He was a country person and had seen the old men in the village slaughter pigs, so he knew that pigs were quite large livestock, and it wasn't an easy task to slaughter them.
They had all come prepared to wrestle with the pig, and Nakiri Senzaemon was also standing there with his hands clasped, looking like he was about to start a big fight.
Who would have thought it would be resolved so quickly!
"Alright, these are all basic operations, anyone who has slaughtered pigs for a few years can do it, there's no need to make such a fuss.
Now, both sides of the Shokugeki come and choose your ingredients. This native pork's quality is good, and I hope you can create dishes that match its quality."
Looking at the astonished faces before him, Dylan's expression remained unchanged, his heart without a ripple, instead feeling a bit noisy.
"You call this a basic operation?!"
Everyone present was shouting inwardly.
But no one spoke.
From the crowd, Nakiri Erina, Nakiri Azami, and Nakiri Alice, who were participating in the Shokugeki, walked forward after hearing his words, their expressions subtle.
They had just mocked such a top-level chef?!
Fortunately, the head of the family appeared in time, preventing them from continuing. Dylan didn't bother to argue with these juniors, otherwise, it would have resulted in a big disaster.
After completely reacting, Nakiri Erina, Nakiri Azami, and Nakiri Alice looked at each other, and saw the fear and a little relief in each other's eyes.
They suddenly felt that their great-grandfather seemed pretty good.
"We'll take these few pieces."
Looking at the native pork on the pigskin, the three exchanged glances, and then selected the large majority of the five-layered belly from the pig's body, leaving only a small portion.
These were the best cuts of meat from the native pig.
The fat and lean meat were distributed incredibly evenly. Bringing their faces a little closer, they could smell the extremely pure aroma of the meat, making it hard to leave.
"Alice, do you have any ideas? I've thought of a few dishes, do you want to hear them, and then choose one?"
Looking at Alice, who was pinching her chin and pondering, seemingly troubled by the question, Nakiri Erina asked softly.
She had a few dishes in mind, but this was a joint Shokugeki, and she needed to ask for the other party's opinion and get their approval before she could confirm the final dish.
Because of the difference in strength, this time, the joint Shokugeki was mainly led by Alice, with Erina as her assistant.
Erina could give many suggestions, but the final dish would be decided by Nakiri Alice.
"Grandpa, do we have any cultured eels?"
Ignoring Nakiri Erina, walking back and forth, Nakiri Alice suddenly looked up and asked Nakiri Senzaemon beside her.
"Yes, if you need them, they can be delivered to the kitchen within 20 minutes."
Nakiri Senzaemon nodded, then beckoned to his followers behind him, asking them to go to the manor's eel farm and fetch a few plump eels.
"That's good, in that case, I've already decided!"
Hearing Erina's words, Nakiri Alice's eyes lit up, and she immediately trotted over to the processed native pig and picked up its large intestine.
"What are you doing? Stay away from me, it smells terrible!"
Seeing Nakiri Alice carelessly picking up the pig's large intestine, the people gathered around immediately dispersed, their faces showing disgust.
Especially Nakiri Erina, she pinched her nose and retreated several steps.
But because Nakiri Alice was her teammate, she couldn't stay too far away, so she could only stand not far from Alice with a furrowed brow.
"What? You don't like large intestine?
Don't look at this thing, it smells bad, but it tastes delicious! Do you know stinky tofu? It's the same principle!"
Seeing the reactions of the people around her, and Nakiri Erina's slightly disgusted expression, Nakiri Alice shrugged and said with a roll of her eyes.
She couldn't accept pig large intestine at first, but Dylan conquered her taste buds with his exquisite culinary skills, making her fall in love with this taste!
"Do you know that this is the pig's..."
Worried that Nakiri Alice didn't know, Nakiri Erina anxiously wanted to explain, but her voice stopped halfway, becoming hesitant.
Her eyes glanced at Dylan, obviously unwilling to utter that word in front of him.
However, since she had said so much, Nakiri Alice naturally understood what she wanted to say, and silently rolled her eyes.
"Okay, okay, if you don't eat it, others will. Don't say it to disgust me, okay? When I make the dish and put it in front of you, don't eat it faster than anyone else!"
Thinking about what might happen later, Nakiri Alice snorted, then looked at Nakiri Senzaemon, strode forward, and asked him for a few more ingredients before returning to Erina's side.
"At this point, you should be able to guess what I'm going to make, right? This time, let me win using Master's taste!"
Thinking of the dish she ate in her childhood, the extremely luxurious and rich taste, Nakiri Alice's words were full of confidence.
"I'll be looking forward to it. Now that the ingredients are chosen, let's go back to the kitchen and start cooking."
Hearing that Nakiri Alice needed eels and had also picked up the pig's large intestine, Dylan guessed the dish she was going to make: Dragon Passes Through Tiger's Belly.
It was a creative dish he came up with when he was in the Dark Culinary world to compete with others, mainly using pig large intestine and eel.
"The specific method is to use white wine, peppercorns, black pepper, and ginger water to make a juice, and marinate the cleaned pig large intestine.
It can effectively remove the fishy smell, deodorize, and enhance the aroma. After marinating, refrigerate it."
Pulling Nakiri Erina to her side, Nakiri Alice talked incessantly, her eyebrows flying and her eyes full of pride.
"The dish developed by Dylan..."
Thinking about what Nakiri Alice had just said, Nakiri Erina listened especially attentively, nodding from time to time, almost taking out a notebook to take notes.
"These two guys seem to have found a dish suitable for this Shokugeki's theme. However, no matter what, the winner will only be us!"
Looking at the energetic Nakiri Erina and Nakiri Alice, Nakiri Azami and the others who were several steps behind whispered and discussed, their faces also filled with confidence.
They also had the capital for confidence.
After all, they were the current Ten Masters. Each of them had the strength of a top-level chef. Combining forces to create a dish could even reach a special level!
Fighting with all their strength is the greatest respect for the opponent.
Although they offended Dylan and needed to apologize, they didn't plan to hold back in the Shokugeki, otherwise, it might make the other party even angrier.
After all, from a certain perspective, this was a kind of insult to the opponent.
Soon, everyone arrived in the kitchen.
The ingredients needed by Nakiri Alice and Nakiri Azami were also delivered to their respective cooking stations by the attendants under Nakiri Senzaemon's arrangement.
"Little Erina, do you remember what I said earlier?"
Looking at Nakiri Erina, who was ready at the cooking station, Nakiri Alice softly asked. This dish was very important to her.
"Rest assured, I've already memorized it, there's no way I'd forget it!"
Because she knew it was a dish developed by Dylan, Nakiri Erina was also extra excited, showing her best state.
"That's good. According to what I said earlier, let's start cooking!"
Nakiri Alice nodded, her face showing a serious expression, and then turned on the tap, picked up the large intestine, threw it in, and started cleaning it.
On the other side, Nakiri Erina took the Jinhua ham, five-layered pork belly, and soaked fragrant mushrooms that had just been delivered, sliced them into strips, seasoned them, and prepared them as filling.
During this process, Nakiri Alice, using a special technique, cleaned the large intestine thoroughly, then added white wine, peppercorns, black pepper, and ginger water to make a marinade, soaking the cleaned large intestine in it before putting it in the refrigerator.
After about ten minutes, feeling that the excess miscellaneous flavors had been removed, Nakiri Alice took out the processed pig large intestine from the refrigerator.
The live eels were placed on the cutting board.
The eels were cut, the backbones were removed, the large thorns were removed, the back fins were cut off, and flower cuts were made on the surface of the meat.
Nakiri Alice's movements were skilled, her gaze cold, as if she had been killing fish at a large supermarket for ten years.
The processed fish skin was laid inside out, Nakiri Erina's prepared filling was aligned with the edges, then stuffed into the pig large intestine, tied at both ends with straw rope for fixing, and then put into a secret brine for braising.
After braising, hang it to air dry. Normally, air drying requires an entire night,
but Nakiri Alice took out a powerful fan that could speed up air drying. Under the full force of the blowing, it could reach her desired state in an hour.
The convenience of modern technology is shown here.
"What's the name of this dish Alice made? Dylan, do you know?"
On the judges' seat, Nakiri Senzaemon curiously turned his head to ask. He had never seen this method before, combining eel and pig large intestine!
One is pig large intestine, the other is eel, these two things don't seem to be related at all, yet they are so cleverly combined.
Such ingenious creativity doesn't seem like something Nakiri Alice could come up with. There must be a master guiding her behind the scenes.
And that master is Dylan in front of them.
"Dragon Passes Through Tiger's Belly. Using pig large intestine as the casing, and filling it with the filling wrapped in eel skin. It can be understood as a different kind of sausage." Dylan explained to the two elders beside him.
"So that's it. But compared to the large intestine, the small intestine should be more suitable for making sausage casings. Whether it's the texture or taste, it's far superior to the large intestine casing."
Nakiri Senzaemon was puzzled. This really exceeded his understanding.
Logically speaking, making sausages, even improved sausages, should use small intestines. That way, the sausage skin will be thinner, and the taste will be better.
"It's because of the eel. The small intestine can't wrap the eel skin and put it in. At least for Alice, it is so, therefore, the wider and longer large intestine was chosen."
Before Dylan could speak, Nakiri Senzaemon explained first.
As a six-star special chef, his vision was naturally much higher than Nakiri Senzaemon's.
At this moment, there were only eight people left in the kitchen.
Three people on the judges' seat, and five Shokugeki contestants.
As time went by, the rich aroma of the braised meat filled the entire kitchen.
There was no longer the fishy smell from processing the large intestine. Nakiri Erina silently watched the fragrant sausage in front of the powerful fan.
She wanted to know why Dylan went to such great lengths to use the pig's large intestine, which even a beggar wouldn't want, and wrap it with high-quality ingredients like eel and Jinhua ham.
You must know that eel and Jinhua ham are very expensive no matter which country you are in; they are high-end goods, and they are top-level delicacies after a little processing.
However, since Nakiri Alice said that this was a dish developed by Dylan, there must be some special intention behind it.
For now, we can only wait until the tasting to find out.
On the opposite side, Nakiri Azami and the other two placed the five-layered pork belly on the cutting board, with three kinds of spices beside them: black pepper, thyme, and juniper berries.
Nakiri Azami set up the pot, turned on a small fire, and roasted the three spices separately.
The short girl next to him, Nakiri Mana, also took action. During the roasting process, she put the roasted spices into a mortar and ground them into powder.
The spices roasted and ground on the spot would have a richer flavor than those roasted and ground in advance. This is also a secret of making top-level dishes.
Beside them, Nakiri Alice processed the water-containing spices, garlic.
The garlic was peeled and placed in a mortar, ground into garlic paste, then three anchovies and a little oil were added, stirred evenly, and placed in a bowl for later use.
Marjoram, thyme, and sweet basil were washed with hot water for five seconds, their leaves were all peeled off, then cut into fine pieces, and placed in a bowl for later use.
In this way, the preliminary preparation work was basically completed.
"My knife skills are better, so I'll handle the cutting of the five-layered pork belly. Let's try to make them the same thickness."
Looking at the various seasonings in front of him, Nakiri Azami held his chef's knife and stepped forward.
The other two nodded and stepped back after hearing his words, watching him use his knife to slice the lean meat part of the five-layered pork belly in the middle, but without cutting it all the way through.
At this moment, the five-layered pork belly looked like an open book.
Sprinkle a little sugar and salt, and sprinkle the previously prepared spices in turn. This can form layers very well, making the taste even better.
After completing this step, Nakiri Alice took a lemon and gave it to Nakiri Azami: "I've experimented before, rubbing their oily skin will make the meat taste better."
"Okay, let's scrape some of the skin to enhance the flavor, and then add liqueur."
Nakiri Azami nodded and followed Nakiri Alice's instructions.
They each had their own area of expertise, and this dish was a perfect combination of their strengths!
Using a knife, they pierced holes of different sizes on the surface of the meat to allow for better flavor penetration, then used cotton thread to tie the meat in the style of char siu, ensuring the meat wouldn't fall apart.
Small holes were pierced in the processed pork skin, allowing the fat to have an outlet, facilitating faster and more rapid crispy skin formation.
The processed pork roll was placed in the refrigerator to freeze for an hour, allowing the flavors to better integrate into the pork roll, and also helping it to set its shape.
This way, it would be less likely to deform when roasted.
Both sides' dishes needed time to mature.
Fortunately, Nakiri Senzaemon and the other two judges were not impatient people. Seeing that the dishes wouldn't be ready so quickly, they began to exchange culinary insights.
Although Nakiri Senzaemon and Nakiri Senzaemon's culinary skills were weaker than Dylan's, there were also aspects where they were superior to him.
Taking the essence and discarding the dross is the key to progress!
As they chatted enthusiastically, an hour quickly passed, and Nakiri Azami was the first to take out the dish and put it in the oven, at 200 degrees Celsius for two hours.
During this process, Nakiri Azami prepared the side dish.
As a complete Western dish, a main course must be accompanied by a side dish. The side dish and the main course can further enhance the dish's taste.
And the side dish to match the roast meat roll is undoubtedly potatoes!
Peel small potatoes, put them in a pot, add salt, medium heat for 15 minutes, drain the water, and shake them in the pan. The rough surface helps to form a crispy skin.
During this process, the pork roll in the oven began to release oil. This is flavorful oil infused with several spices.
Nakiri Azami poured it onto the bottom of the baking tray, then added olive oil.
Marjoram, a bay leaf, dried chili pepper, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, salt, lemon zest, and finally stir in string beans, and put it in the oven.
After baking at a low temperature for forty minutes, press the surface with a spoon to better expose the starch, which helps to improve the texture.
Then put it back in the oven for half an hour.
At this moment, Nakiri Alice, who had been observing the air-dried braised intestine, turned off the fan.
Because it was relatively large, she spent more time on air drying. This is because the first time she made it, it didn't work. However, Nakiri Alice didn't lose heart, she lit a pot of hot oil, silently put the braised intestine into a colander and poured hot oil over it. First, at 120 degrees Celsius for 120 seconds, then raise the oil temperature to 180 degrees Celsius, pouring until it's browned but not burnt, crispy but not charred.
This step seems simple, but it actually tests the chef's control over the heat. Fortunately, Nakiri Alice grew up beside Dylan, her basic skills were extremely solid, and nothing went wrong.
The hot oil poured on the pig large intestine made a sizzling sound, at the same time dyeing its surface golden yellow, the small holes on the surface of the intestine...
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