Cooking is a respected profession in the kingdom of Atlas, which may also have something to do with the kingdom's good food culture, due to the kingdom's location in a rich region, the abundance of ingredients gives the chefs of the kingdom of Atlas more inspiration, and the chefs here are more willing to spend energy on cooking food than the pragmatic Midland Federation.

Reiner was wearing a chef's hat and apron at the moment, like a skilled chef, but what he was holding in his hand made Claire feel a little uneasy.

The two pincers were fangs and claws, and the eight legs were constantly struggling, trying to escape, the blue-gray shell was angular and the mouth was constantly spitting out white bubbles.

This is a crab.

However, this is not the sea crab that Claire is familiar with, although she has never seen a crab run, but Tolena's blessing, she has also eaten crabs several times, the kingdom of Atlas has abundant aquatic resources, so seafood is almost a must-have on the table of middle-class nobles, the crabs in the sea are very large, fat and fragrant, usually used to cook soup or steam, reflecting the original deliciousness of the food.

Reiner was a crab from the river, smaller than a sea crab, with unmanageable black fluff on its pincers, and generally little meat, and was not usually used as an ingredient on the tables of nobles.

Claire sat in her chair with her hands on her knees and watched Reiner's movements with her eyes wide open.

I saw Reiner pick up a crab from a small half-barrel of wine, and then use a rope made of straw that he didn't know where to get it, and tie the crab so tightly that the crab could only shake its two little eyes and plead weakly.

With six crabs in a row, Reiner quickly arranged them clearly.

The stove was already boiling with water, so Reiner cut a few slices of ginger, put them on the crab's stomach, and then put them into the steamer, which came from the eastern countries, and because the people of the Atlas kingdom liked to eat steamed seafood, the kitchen usually always had a steamer.

After putting the crab in the steamer, Reiner brought another bucket.

Claire was furious with the sound of something hard scraping against the walls of the bucket, and she poked her head out to look into the bucket.

In the clear water, countless black creatures were trying to climb out of the bucket, and they gathered together, which was terrifying.

"W-What is this?"

Claire asked with an ugly face, and she didn't see it until Reiner grabbed one of the barrels with her mage's hand.

This is the lobster.

To be precise, it was a very small lobster, about the length of a finger, much smaller than the huge lobsters at the banquet, these lobsters had a blue-black shell, and they were all vibrant, waving small tongs, and they looked majestic.

"This creature comes from a moist half-plane, is an invasive species, is a relative of the lobster in the sea, and there are many of them in some lakes, and because they are too small and too cumbersome to handle, no one will eat them."

Reiner explained that the first time he learned of river crabs and crayfish in the kingdom of Atlas was in the thick book of creatures, two species that invaded from the half-plane in the rivers and lakes of the kingdom of Atlas, and in the past, they were basically recorded as a hazard to fisheries.

When he went to buy the crabs and lobsters, the fisherman who sold them to him seemed extremely confused, and did not know what the noble young master was going to do with these things that could be found everywhere.

Crayfish have a strong ability to survive, almost like cockroaches in the water, and because of this, most of the crayfish shells are extremely dirty, Reiner is only glad that the industry in this world is not too developed, and there is no need to worry about excessive heavy metals when eating crayfish.

Turning on the faucet above the sink, Reiner grabbed the crayfish with the mage's hand, and used the brush to quickly scrub the crayfish in mid-air.

But before the crayfish could enjoy the feeling of cleanliness, the blade of the mage's hand had already cut through the bodies of the lobsters, removing the shrimp thread and inedible internal organs, and throwing them into a basin on the side.

After processing, Reiner uses a spell to cut the vegetables while the other side starts to heat the pot.

The convenience of magic allows him to process all the ingredients in a short period of time without getting his hands dirty, and unlike the soulless ingredients cut by the machine, they are all handmade!

When the pot was about 50% hot, Reiner added a large amount of canola oil, which almost submerged a third of the pan, and the thick oil formed a small lake in the pan, and Reiner shook the bottom of the pan slightly so that the oil spread evenly over the rim of the pan.

When the temperature of the oil rises, Reiner pours the oil away, in the words of the big foodie, this is called a wide oil slide pan, the purpose is to keep the oil at a relatively low temperature while the pot is hot, and the ingredients are not easy to overheat and burn.

Next, Reiner poured in a little fresh oil, sautéed the chopped garlic and ginger until fragrant, then put the lobster in and stir-fried, adding several different peppers, then adding a generous amount of malt beer and covering the pot.

On the other side, Reiner cut the remaining ginger into minced ginger and made a sauce with a hard-to-find, balsamic vinegar-like seasoning, and put it in a bowl.

Claire watched Reiner's operation in a daze, these cooking techniques Claire had never heard of, and they were completely different from the common methods in the Atlas Kingdom, and there was a delicacy in the opening and closing.

Soon, Claire smelled a fragrance that was different from the usual smell of stewed meat, more pungent, more spicy, but also more tempting, causing Claire to swallow.

After a while, when the food finally came out of the pan, Reiner brought it to the small table in front of Claire with a large plate of crayfish and six crabs on another plate.

"Is this really edible?"

Claire asked, she had never eaten either before, but the smell of her nose made her index finger flutter and she couldn't wait to try it.

"Of course, you see, if you want crabs, you can eat them like this......"

Reiner picked up a ripe crab from among the mages, untied the rope wrapped around the crab, and lifted the crab's shell, revealing a plump roe.

This season coincides with the time when the female crab is at its fattest and the male crab is gradually growing, Claire looked at the golden crab roe, her eyes widened, and watched Reiner dip it in the vinegar and put it on the plate in front of her.

"Taste it."

Reiner said, motioning for Claire to enjoy.

Claire looked at the large piece of crab roe on the plate, she picked up the fork, and immediately put the crab roe in her mouth.

The delicious and fragrant taste soaked into the mouth, with crab vinegar, with a hint of sweetness, Claire had never eaten this kind of thing, she couldn't stop chewing, the whole person was like a cat eating delicious small dried fish, in a state of extreme excitement.

"It's—it's so delicious, why haven't I ever eaten this thing when I eat other crabs, is it secretly hidden by the chefs? What the hell is this thing? ”

There is no crab roe and crab paste for sea crabs, and most of the time they are discarded when they are handled, or boiled into soup, and Claire's only few experiences of eating crabs are not enough to meet this kind of crab roe.

"This one is called crab roe."

Reiner thought for a moment before replying in lingua franca.

"It's the crab's ovaries, it's the crab's organ that gives birth to its children."

Hearing Reiner's answer, Claire suddenly stopped eating crab roe.