780. Genetic Cuisine (Ah, Book Shortage)

It all started with that strange dream.

For the last few days, Alice Nagi has had some very strange dreams every night.

In her dreams, she had seen a pig running in the crater of a volcano, a cow in ice armor running wild in the ice field chased by a giant elephant, and she had personally felt the tentacles of an indescribable octopus in the lake

In short, it's a very bizarre and weird dream, and all kinds of strange creatures emerge in the dream.

It's just that every time she wakes up, she always has some doubts, because it's not too clear as a dream.

With the attitude of giving it a try, Alice typed the creatures in her dreams into the Internet and searched for them, and to her surprise, all the creatures in her dreams were real.

The Burning Pig is a lava boar, a specialty of the volcanic region, a strange species that roasts itself when it is angry. The ice armor-clad cow is a specialty of the ice field, the glacier cold beef, a delicious ingredient that can be eaten raw by slicing the meat. As for the giant octopus, it is even more of a legendary ingredient, Cthun, a terrifying ingredient that can make you crazy when eaten.

In fact, this knowledge does not need to be searched on the Internet, Alice already knows, as soon as she sees those creatures in her dream, there will be a voice to introduce her, but for this dream preaching, she did not dare to believe it directly, and now the information on the Internet has confirmed that all those in the dream are true.

This is amazing, Alice's curiosity is aroused at once.

With such a strong curiosity, Alice slept for several days in a row, and almost didn't live directly in her dreams.

And in that absurd and bizarre dream, she gained a lot, at least her horizons were broadened countless times.

Now that she is only a student, she does not have much access to high-end ingredients, and she has always grown up in a safe human city, and she is unlikely to have many opportunities to meet those living and ferocious beasts, and her only impression of high-end ingredients is those book descriptions and patterns.

It's better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, where can the dead knowledge in books compare to the living ingredients you see with your own eyes?

And in the process of broadening her horizons, Alice's three views have actually been reshaped several times by the way.

After all, a rabbit grows out of the soil, and its flesh is still potato-flavored, a fish is caught in the sand sea, and the blood of the fish is a sweet wine, and a fruit falls from a towering giant tree, and from the crumbling husk, a young bird spreads its wings, and the meat tastes like a mango

In short, now Alice understands why the biology textbooks she studied before have to add a prefix to the area of human activity, these monsters living in wild areas that ordinary people can't enter at all don't look like earth species at all, the ghost knows how they evolved, Darwin's coffin board can't be suppressed for a long time.

However, as a chef, biology is not something that Alice should be concerned about, she just needs to think about how to make the ingredients delicious.

And those strange high-end ingredients also opened the door to a new world of Alice's cooking.

She is good at molecular cooking, and what is the so-called molecular cuisine to put it bluntly, it is just the use of scientific means to make one ingredient take on another shape and create another taste.

Take a classic case in molecular cuisine, someone throws you an egg, you naively think it's really an egg, and start eating it, but when you start eating, you are pleasantly surprised to find that the egg yolk is actually chocolate, the egg white is also some kind of white jelly, and even the eggshell is edible, and it tastes like potato chips.

Well, that's the effect of the molecular material ideal, and the sense of surprise and novelty that goes against common sense will make everyone who tries molecular cuisine for the first time cry out for the magic. And the sense of uncertainty that even if you put food in front of your eyes, you can't guess what it is, and what it tastes like is like gambling or a gacha lottery, which can be addictive.

Unknown surprises, this is the biggest difference between molecular cuisine and other cuisines.

Alice Nagiri, a prodigy in the field of molecular cuisine, an absolute genius who has had her own independent laboratory since she was a teenager, was once extremely proud and proud of her talent, but at this moment she felt a deep frustration because she had met an opponent who was absolutely invincible.

Mango-flavored birds popping out of fruits, potato-flavored rabbits growing out of the soil, fish with natural wine swimming in the water?

Isn't this what molecular cuisine is called from a certain point of view?

What a wonderful combination, what a devil's creativity, it turns out that nature is the greatest molecular chef, no, such a great existence that is far beyond the reach of human beings, it should be the god of molecular cuisine.

Hmm~ Maybe from a natural point of view, the name molecular cuisine is not appropriate, and a new name should be taken.

How about genetic cooking? or fabrication?

At that moment, Alice seemed to have found a new direction in her life, and she was already seeing the end of the field of molecular cuisine, as if she was guided by God, and a new door opened in front of her.

If I can use scientific methods to make molecular cooking of dead ingredients, why can't I also try to learn from nature and try genetic cooking, if an ingredient is modified from the genetic level before it is born, can I make the ingredient taste as soon as it is born?

Well, not only that, but even as a ripe ingredient, it should even learn to cook itself like a lava boar, or like a candy tree in a candy forest, the fruit is naturally a delicious candy.

Ah, the inspiration is coming up one by one, and the brain is trembling

Alice was so excited about her idea.

But now the question is, how can she, who has not studied much biology at all, change her career to engage in genetic cooking? She knows a lot about the physics and chemistry involved in molecular cooking, but she is completely blindsided by biological knowledge.

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"Wow, you're the devil, aren't you? How could you have such a terrible thought, you let those poor ingredients go. ”

In her dream, the voice of a man who sounded a little familiar sounded in her ears.

"But it sounds like it's quite funny, well, for the sake of you being my sister-in-law, I'll be merciful enough to help you." ”

On the field, seeing that Alice, who could no longer win with molecular cuisine due to the huge disparity in equipment, put her hand into her arms, and she took out a small bottle from between the two majestic peaks, and in the bottle was a small seed.

It seemed to be the seed she had brought out of her dreams.