Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"I'm back."

When Liu Maoxing returned to Jixing Liao, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Because of the consecutive holidays, Jixing Liao was rarely very lively at night. In fact, it occupied the kitchen on the first floor...

Although he didn't make it to the finals, he has always demanded himself as a finalist. Even when he was in class, he would go to the fish market in the morning, earlier than Liu Maoxing!

Hearing Liu Maoxing's return, Chuangzhen also came out of the kitchen.

"A Xing, why are you back so late? You Ji found your fresh-keeping box in the academy before, and there was no signal on the phone, so I thought something happened!" Chuangzhen said with some complaints.

"Meeting a few friends... Anyway, it's very complicated! It's estimated that I will come back very late tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and I may not return overnight. You don't have to worry about it." Liu Maoxing said.

Seeing that Liu Maoxing didn't say much, Chuangzhen didn't ask too much, but said: "Come and taste my cooking! Cooked rice with rice bran saury...Of course, Granny Wenxu is also there."

As he spoke, Chuangzhen took out the dishes he had cooked in the simulated finals. Although he didn't have the chance to participate in the finals, he has been practicing.

This is also unknowingly, so that he will not be pulled down too much by Ha Shanliang and Kurokiba because he did not enter the final.

At least in Liu Maoxing's taste, it was slightly stronger than the dishes of Kurokiba Ryo and Ha Shanliang in the semifinals.

That night Liu Maoxing went to bed very early, and after eating Chuangzhen's cooking, he returned to his room to rest not long after.

After all, I have to get up early tomorrow, and the energy consumed today is not small!

In the beginning, in the old school building, there was not much tension in the culinary confrontation with the three people of the Wei family. "Heart prototype", that is, the state of being able to enter the "sense of food", but in this state, there is only the strength of a super-level one or two star.

As for the absence of "food taste", it is at best a high-end five-star...

Subaru Yuan explained to Liu Maoxing that "sense of food" is the ability for cooks to display their "true" culinary skills.

That's right, Subaru's definition of cooking skills for "sense of food" is to display one's own "true" cooking skills, not "beyond"!

According to Subaru Yuan, a cook who can't even comprehend the "sense of food" is not worthy of being called a chef in the Liu family. He is not allowed to cook outside, and can only practice at home...

At that time, Liu Maoxing really wanted to say, even if you have a "sense of food", you are just a bunch of weak chickens!

Subaru Yuan seemed to see what Liu Maoxing meant, and came up with another conclusion, that is, there is a limit to the culinary skills that a cook without a "sense of food" can display, that is, "it is impossible to become a star chef" , Liu Maoxing speculates that this limit is the "super five-star" in the system!

Different from the illusory "cooking heart", the "cooking heart prototype" enables cooks to achieve a state of "eat sense", because they have no other distractions, so they display higher culinary skills.

Therefore, the cooking of the three previous generations was indeed a super one-star according to Liu Maoxing's system judgment...

And Cheng Yilang's cuisine even made Liu Maoxing subjectively feel that it is not weaker than the top tiger-level cuisine, and the signature dishes of the three-star restaurant are no more than that, but the system's rating is still only "super five-star"!

Chuxin's belief bonus will not be recognized by the system, and it will not help Liu Maoxing's improvement.

And now that Liu Maoxing thinks about it, the reason why Cheng Yilang's cooking at that time did not exceed the super five-star level in terms of pure culinary skills is also very likely because he was not serious and did not enter the state of "eating sense"!

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Maoxing came out of Jixing Liao again. This time, he did not bring a fresh-keeping box or go to the fish market. Instead, he took a set of knives he ordered in Denmark to the old school building.

Liu Maoxing also invited them to stay in Jixing Liao for a while. If there are only three days in a row, Wen Xu should be able to accommodate them. Even if they cannot be accommodated, they can be bribed with cooking...

However, the four people in Subaru Garden seemed to be unimpressed with Yuanyue Academy, and they were unwilling to enter the academy, preferring to live in the old school building.

"Here you come? Bring the knives... um? These are not your kitchen knives, are they?" Subaru said helplessly.

At this time, besides the largest "Zhanyue" (heavy fog) on ​​his back, Liu Maoxing is also wearing clothes with various knife covers on his body. It seems that he has no fewer than ten knives!

Moreover, it has both Chinese and Western ingredients, and even an Italian half-moon kitchen knife is prepared...

"Hey, if the knife skills are really superb, you can complete all skills with only the most ordinary kitchen knife! Haven't you heard of 'Into the world with nothing'?" Wei Ling said disdainfully.

"Oh? So how far are you from being 'supernatural'?" Liu Maoxing asked with a smile.

"You!" Wei Ling looked like he was poked in the foot.

Before he and Liu Maoxing competed with "persimmon sauce and green pepper shredded pork", which is a dish that requires knife skills. Although it doesn't need to be as thin as "water milled shreds", but green pepper shreds, pork shreds, and bamboo shoots are all of the same thickness. The length can bring out the best taste.

At that time, Wei Ling was completely defeated by Liu Maoxing in sword skills...

Subaru Yuan sighed and said, "I told you yesterday, right? The reason why we stick to the family recipes and refuse to accept other messy cuisines is not because our ideas are conservative and stubborn..."

"Not 'only'." Liu Maoxing corrected.

Subaru Yuan gave him a blank look, and then said: "Well, it's not just because our ideas are conservative and stubborn, but also because the more skills we accept, the more difficult it is to master the 'sense of food'! Like Yuanyue's students, don't look The current scenery, which claims to be a fusion of hundreds of schools, will actually be able to master the 'sense of food' in the future, and very few will be able to become a star chef in the end..."

Liu Maoxing frowned and said, "Among Yuanyue's graduates, star chefs already have triple figures? I wonder how many Liu's have now?"

Although everyone's surname is Liu, maybe they belonged to the same family five hundred years ago, but Liu Maoxing still prefers Yuanyue. Hearing such unreasonable accusations from Maoyuan, he couldn't help but retort...

Liu Maoxing admits that their research on "sense of food" is indeed more in-depth than that of Yuanyue, but Yuanyue's achievements and status in the culinary world are here. A few chefs who have "sense of food" are only super-level chefs. Four's courage?

Weiling and Weilin were furious when they heard the words, while the bald Weilin burst into tears again... What a sentimental bald man!

Subaru Yuan was also very angry, but he couldn't find a reason to refute, so he could only say angrily: "...I don't want to argue with you, you chose this path yourself, and it's your own business to ask for trouble! Let's train!"

Subaru Yuan told him yesterday that the premise of "sense of food" is "concentration", and the best way to improve concentration is not only to make cooks addicted to cooking, but also a "shortcut" which is to improve oneself An understanding of every ingredient, every kitchen utensil, and every skill!

That's why Subaruyuan said that too much adoption of other cuisine techniques will make it difficult for cooks to understand the "most important" "sense of food".

Liu Maoxing does not agree with this. "Food sense" is "the most" important for cooks? For the chefs who are going to be star chefs, maybe it is true, but you little guys who are struggling in the advanced and super class, do you need to take the "sense of food" so seriously?

In contrast, Yuanyue College does not restrict students' access to new technologies, new skills, and new cuisines because of the problem of "food taste", let alone be afraid of innovation...

From Subaru Yuan's reaction, it can be seen that the number of "star chefs" educated by Yuanyue probably surpassed the Liu family's in proportion!

Liu Maoyuan is already the first member of the youngest Subaru generation. He has mastered the "sense of food", but he can only display the "super three-star" cooking skill.

In contrast, Kadozaki Taki and Kikuchi Sonoka, who are the same age as her, are already preparing for star-rated restaurant audits, and the top five of the current Yuanyue Top Ten are also much better than her...

But Liu Maoxing didn't say much, he already felt that these members of the Liu family were not very friendly to Yuanyue College, subjectively biased, and he didn't know if it was because of disagreement or other reasons!

At noon, Liu Maoxing was still doing "Sword Zen" according to the method Subaruyuan taught him.

It is an extreme way to make cooks understand their own kitchen knives. Weiling, Weilin, and Weiyi are also reviewing "Knife Zen", which is also their daily compulsory course. The way of the three is to use Two kitchen knives with a thick back and a thin back. Hold the blade side in the palm of your hand, and stand upside down with the back of the knife facing down. It seems to be performing acrobatics. If you are not careful, half of your palm may be cut off!

And because Liu Maoxing has customized twelve distinctive knives for each cuisine, ranging from the largest pig-killing knife to the smallest carving knife that looks like a scalpel, Liu Maoxing sometimes uses two of them to stand upside down, and sometimes uses a knife Self-mutilation...Of course, it doesn't mean actually cutting the body, but to experience the thrill of being about to hurt the skin, but not hurt yet!

There were even more perverted ones before, who even asked Liu Maoxing to lick and smell these knives, saying that feeling their smell was part of understanding them...

At twelve noon, Subaru Court stopped Liu Maoxing's practice.

"I prepared fried rice with eggs. I ate first, and then I started to practice the ingredients. In the evening, I tempered the various stunts you have mastered. As for the complicated cooking equipment, you have to go back and figure out how to cook it yourself...Damn it, why do you have so many Stuff? With so many distractions, no wonder you can't comprehend the 'sense of food'!"

Subaruyuan never forgets to attack Yuanyue's teaching philosophy, but Liu Maoxing is too lazy to argue with her...

Although the opponent has flaws in the dialectical logic of "eating sense" and improving cooking skills, these methods to improve "concentration" are indeed very effective.

At most, when Wei Lingxiu was annoyed by Wei Lingxiu in the afternoon, Liu Maoxing said, "Then, in the era of great fusion of world cuisines, is the culinary industry as a whole developing rapidly? How much effort have you contributed to this development?" They shut up lazily.