Chapter 42: The Cooking Immortals
Just as the two were talking about it, the master of ceremonies, Rei Kawashima, announced the rules and cooking time, and the gong resounded throughout the sky and moon, and the commander-in-chief, Nagi Kiri Senzaemon, got up and announced in a hearty manner, "Cooking!" Begin!! ”。
In the previous life, there was an old man named Meng Murashima in Japan, who was 86 years old and only did one thing in his life - cooking. Back then, the old man went to Beijing to promote his 'silver rice' when Jiang Yunfeng was also taking the grandmaster exam in Beijing, after learning the news, Jiang Yunfeng came to visit, the old man didn't say anything, just cooked a pot of rice in front of him, after tasting Jiang Yunfeng swore that this was the best meal he had ever eaten in his life so far, the rice was round and soft, snow-white and fragrant, giving people a simple and simple happiness. The old man smiled and said, "Young man, ordinary rice is called 'rice', and the fast food made by merchants who only pay attention to efficiency can only be regarded as 'feed', not the human beings who reign above all things, and the things that should be entered." Jiang Yunfeng was impressed by the master's dedication and lifelong perseverance, and in the future, during the grandmaster examination, he would go to the old man's shop to help whenever he had free time.
The first step in cooking 'silver rice' is to choose rice, Jiang Yunfeng's fingers swiped through the many rices, and finally stopped at the rice produced in the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China, pinched one and sent it to his mouth. It is a rice flower fragrant rice grown in Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province, and has been named 'the best rice in China'. "That's it!" Jiang Yunfeng happily picked up the rice bucket and walked back to his cooking area with the pork tenderloin and eggs he got before, Nagi Alice looked at Jiang Yunfeng who was carrying the rice bucket and sneered, "Jiang Jun, haven't you started yet?" I've already cooked the rice. Jiang Yunfeng replied without looking back, "If you are so obsessed with efficiency, the bento you made can only be regarded as 'feed'." I'm going to make you want to stop with my hands! ”
"Oh!! Is it? I'm looking forward to it. ”
After the rice is selected, enter the second step, wash it, put the Wuchang fragrant rice in a wooden basin and put water to wash it twice, drain it and leave it for 15 minutes, then add water and soak it for 40 minutes. Jiang Yunfeng adjusted the timer, put it on the edge of the wooden basin, and began to hurry up to prepare the side dishes, because once he started cooking, he couldn't leave the stove and had to watch the flames all the time. Cut the pork loin into strips with a knife, beat it with the back of the knife to loosen the tenderloin fibers, wipe the water, remove the fascia, put it in a large bowl and add the barbecued pork sauce, garlic, ginger, light soy sauce, black pepper, salt, cooking wine, wash your hands and start rubbing and massaging. The audience on the field was attracted by Jiang Yunfeng's strange behavior, and in the backstage lounge, Tian Suzumi, who was waiting for the start of the next show, watched the TV broadcast and asked Kohei Chuangzhendao, who came to cheer him on, "Chuangzhenjun, since you want to marinate Jiang Jun, why do you keep rubbing the tenderloin?" Kohei Chuangzhen smiled embarrassedly, "I don't know, I guess this is Ah Feng's new method." Kawashima Li, who couldn't help but be curious, came to Jiang Yunfeng and asked, "Classmate Jiang, why have you been kneading the pickled tenderloin, shouldn't the pickling stand still?" Jiang Yunfeng raised his head and showed a sunny smile to Kawashima Li, which made the little girl's face crimson, and replied, "Every ingredient has emotions, if you want to make it delicious, you have to let it relax and absorb more spices, you see it is like this." As he spoke, he held up a loin with his right hand, and kept patting and massaging with his left hand. Rei Kawashima looked embarrassed. On the judges' seat, Erina Nagikiri slapped her forehead, this guy is starting to be indecent again, really! It's time for the main competition, so it's not okay to be serious! The main seat, Nagi Sen Saemon, with his left hand on his cheek, looked at Jiang Yunfeng's technique, smiled and whispered, "This young man really has to have an idea, it takes at least 12 hours to completely absorb the flavor of pickled barbecued pork, and the game time is only 2 hours, he keeps kneading in the hope of squeezing the tenderloin to shrink and expand and inhale more seasoning, but this method has limited effect." Erina Nagikiri nervously asked, "Grandpa, what should he do?" Nagi Senzaemon looked at his granddaughter's small appearance and laughed, "What? I'm worried about my boyfriend. ”
Erina Nagikiri is like a kitten who has been stepped on by her tail, and she instantly explodes "No~!。。。 Not at all!! Don't talk nonsense about him and grandpa, I'm just out of concern for my classmates!! ”
Senzaemon hurriedly comforted the kitten and said, "Okay, good! Grandpa knows, you young people, why can't you face your true thoughts calmly. ”
"Grandpa also said!! I hate you!! Erina began to be coquettish.
"Grandpa won't say it, don't say it." Senzaemon smoothed Erina's hair, which had begun to curl, and said, "Next, he can only grill the tenderloin to further absorb the flavor." ”
"Roast? Microwave? ”
"No, you have to wear the tenderloin on an iron skewer and grill it over an open fire, so that you can make up the seasoning while grilling."
"Oh~~"
Jiang Yunfeng had just put all the meat on the iron skewer, and the timer sounded, and it was time to soak. It's been an hour since the game, and it seems that I have to cook rice and bake barbecued pork at the same time, which is sad! After smiling bitterly, he took a deep breath, quickly poured out the water soaked in the rice, poured the rice into the heavy aluminum pot he brought, put it on the stove built with fire bricks in advance, added fresh mountain spring water, measured the amount of water with his fingers, lit the gas stove below, and began to cook. The timer is adjusted to ring once every 15 minutes, so you can adjust the firepower according to the timer. Holding a small bench, Jiang Yunfeng sat in front of the stove, grilling the barbecued pork on the stove where the rice was cooking, and observing the rice in the pot through the transparent glass window on the aluminum pot while roasting. The first 15 minutes passed, the water cup in the pot was boiling, and the rice was churning up and down with the boiling water, Jiang Yunfeng hurriedly turned off the small stove and rotated the heavy lid of the pot, so that the steam could overflow in small amounts from the gap between the lid and the aluminum pot, so that the pot lid would not be opened to cause a large amount of steam to be lost, and it would affect the best steamed rice and boil, just the beginning. Steaming is sublimation! After a period of cooking, the color of the rice grains in the pot has begun to turn white, no longer churning with the boiling water, but precipitating at the bottom of the pot and dancing with the bubbles, Jiang Yunfeng smiled at the corner of his mouth, reset the timer, sat down and coated the barbecued pork in his hand with honey and continued to roast. Erina Nagikiri found that after Jiang Yunfeng lit the fire from the rice grain, his temperament was different, without the cynicism, bohemianism, and hippie smile of the past, the whole person was like a clear spring in the mountains, quiet and steady, exuding a fairy spirit. Let her girl's heart beat faster, the blood does not listen to the control of the brain and keeps converging to the capillaries of the face, and she blushes.
The big screen in the center of the roof between the sky and the moon also broadcast Jiang Yunfeng's handsome face under the fire, sweat flowed down his cheeks, gathered on his chin to form sweat droplets, and dripped to the ground, Jiang Yunfeng did not wipe it, but just looked at the aluminum pot and the stove with a resolute gaze, all the girls in the venue looked at the picture and screamed no, but at this moment, Jiang Yunfeng has entered the realm of selflessness, everything around him has been forgotten, and the world is only left with the barbecued pork in his hands and the rice cooked on the stove. Nagi Alice was also attracted by the picture in front of her after completing her lunch, only to find out that Jiang Yunfeng was not hippie and smiling, and it was really handsome to do one thing seriously, and said secretly in her heart: It's decided, if you win this time, you will let you be my second follower, Liangjun's kind of guy who can't wake up for 10,000 years is not fun at all.
The timer sounded again, the rice in the pot had fallen silent, Jiang Yunfeng turned off the stove, and let the aluminum pot complete the last step of the 'silver rice' sublimation, steaming! I got up, grabbed a towel and wiped the sweat on my face, walked to the cutting board and cut the grilled barbecued pork into small pieces, then used a small pot to heat the sauce for marinating the barbecued pork, poured some red wine to boil, and then hooked in the water starch to make a sauce, which was poured on the barbecued pork after a while. In the little time left, Jiang Yunfeng quickly chopped the cucumbers, lettuce, and small radishes into a salad, and in the last 5 minutes of the game, Jiang Yunfeng finally uncovered the lid of the pot for cooking rice. The camera head followed suit, and a pot of soft and delicious rice with clear grains was presented in front of the audience. caused an uproar in the audience. Nagi Alice was also shocked, it turned out that the simple cooking of rice Keyi did this level... (To be continued)