As a food lover, Fang Tian had read a lot of food novels in his previous life. In these novels, once it comes to the "mountains", such as wild boars, hares, wild vegetables, etc., after cooking, the book will describe "its delicious and incredible".

In fact, as long as you really live in the mountains, or have had experience in eating in the mountains, you know that the description of "looking beautiful" in this kind of novel is not so beautiful.

In the previous life, due to the advent of the great industrial age, all kinds of biological hormones and additives poured into all kinds of food, so that people, especially people in the cities, or to add a modification - people who have reached a certain level of living standards and began to pursue a healthy diet are deeply disgusted by all kinds of harmful processed foods.

In this case, they began to love green and longed for the original.

But this distant longing ......

In the previous life, there was a saying circulating on the Internet called "The ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny." ”

The same is true when it comes to diet.

For example, wild vegetables.

Compared with artificially grown vegetables, wild vegetables have many shortcomings.

For example, some wild vegetables can only eat shoots and seedlings, not stems and leaves, because the fiber is too old; Some wild vegetables can only be picked in the spring, and after the season, they cannot be eaten because they are too bitter; Some wild vegetables must be rinsed in boiling water several times before cooking, otherwise there will be a lot of things that affect the taste or hinder digestion; Some wild vegetables must be paired with suitable meat, otherwise they will be too scraped and uncomfortable to eat......

And so on and so forth.

Just like now, every time he goes out for a picnic and designs a dish, Fang Tian will miss all kinds of vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage.

Compared with all kinds of wild vegetables that are too skinny, Chinese cabbage is so plump!

And the simple chowder, pork vermicelli and Chinese cabbage, plus potato tofu or frozen tofu and the like, do not need any special chefs, just a little cooking skill, cook out, and serve it steamingly, it is immediately a warm and heart-warming food with an attractive aroma that hits people's hearts.

What about game cooking? Especially Fang Tian's, all wild--

There are no kinds of seasonings, no good salt, even refined salt, no edible oil with a variety of flavors, no combination of all kinds of home-cooked vegetables, no ......

There is no need to list too much, just one "edible oil without all kinds of flavors and peace" can knock Chef Fang down.

Peanut oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, etc., there is no edible vegetable oil here. It's nothing, vegetable oil itself doesn't have the scent of animal oil.

In the past life, although many experts analyzed it from various aspects, animal oil was not as healthy as vegetable oil. But many chefs still prefer animal oil, because many foods, cooked with vegetable oil, simply can't make the flavor they should have.

On the other hand, Fang Tian himself is skeptical of the claim that vegetable oil is healthier than animal oil.

The reason is simple, it is an indisputable fact that animals have gone further than plants in the evolutionary process of living things. As a high-level storage zài, animal fat naturally has more and richer elements than vegetable fat.

If you look at the smell alone, animal oil is better than vegetable oil.

And this kind of smell discrimination, Fang Tian has always believed that it is a biological instinct that human beings have evolved in the long process of evolution, instinctively tending to be good and repelling bad.

But what kind of animal oil is used in this world, or this place?

Lard?

...,

Yes, but not much.

Fang Tian didn't know how the pigs in this world were raised, but he was sure that they were not fed with grain.

In the primitive ecology, there is no chemical fertilizer, no compound fertilizer, no pesticides, no excellent seeds, the grain can not be rich, just take wheat as an example, an acre of thousands of catties or something is completely fantastical, and even people dare not even imagine that it is so outrageous.

In this case, feeding pigs with grain, perhaps only nobles or even big nobles can afford to waste it.

As a result, the regular pigs here basically only have lean meat and no fat. At the pork market in Redstone, you want to buy a piece of fatty meat?

In a pound of pork, nine taels of half fine meat and half of fat meat are "extremely good meat", and most of the half and two fat meats are the kind that can't squeeze any oil and water.

All the other fatty meats were carefully selected and sold at a high price for oil extraction. But this oil is not the same thing as the lard in Fang Tian's previous life, although the incense is also fragrant, but there is also a faint but absolutely unignorable smell of the fishy wild, mixed with it.

So that when it is used to cook dishes, the taste is ruined.

This is one of them.

What's more, pure lard, people generally can't afford to eat. Is it true that lard is ridiculously expensive? No, but the output is insufficient, and the supply cannot be quite consumed.

Take the Maple Forest Compound as an example, what kind of oil do you usually eat?

Answer: Mixed oil.

Isn't there fat on the hare? Cut it off and get the oil.

Isn't there fat on the pheasant? Cut it off and get the oil.

Isn't there fat on the duck? Cut it off and get the oil.

So in the end, no one can say how many kinds of animal fats are mixed in the oil they eat, at least Aunt Rowling, who is in charge of cooking, can't tell, in fact, before Fang Tian, no one here paid attention or cared about this matter at all.

Who's going to pay attention to this?

Therefore, Fang Tian has a bitter taste for a long time. If you can really use tea to remove the smell and refine an "essential oil" without a fishy smell, it will definitely be something that can make people feast.

Let's talk about the present.

The charcoal fire is red in several large ovens. Owen and they started firewood, in Fang Tian's opinion, it was definitely a big deal. - Where there is a tree, they will never take a branch; Where there are big trees, they definitely don't take small trees.

So what is now in the grill is the neatly chopped pine wood, of course, more than 100 years old wood is a must.

The crackling sound of burning is accompanied by the rapid oozing and combustion of pine oil in the pine wood, as well as the unique pine fragrance, which is refreshing.

The pine mushrooms carefully selected by Fang Tian are cut into slices, then skewered on thinner pine branches, oiled, sprinkled with salt, and moved to the grill, and then the fragrance and strong fragrance are mixed together and rushed out.

In fact, the better way to cook matsutake mushrooms is to fry them in a pan. But once you think about the oil, the grill wins a lot. A little oil on the top, after the fire is burned, the oil is gone, and only the strong fragrance is fragrant.

This may be the most suitable way to prepare food under the existing conditions.

Of course, this barbecue task was assigned by Fang Tian to the little ones, let them do it themselves, take care of their own profits and losses, oh no, support themselves. In addition, the poria cocos was peeled and crushed into fine powder, and this task was given to Xiao Lali, and then the water was mixed into cakes, which were fried in a pot by Owen and several other big guys.

In fact, this primitive poria cake doesn't taste good, that is, eat a flavor. The really palatable and nourishing Poria cocos cake must be added with some other ingredients, and Fang Tian is of course not thinking about any research and development at present. ...,

The tasks were all assigned, and Fang Tian himself began to cook meat.

After processing the whole pheasant and hare, put it in a pot of boiling water, boil it for some time, and take it out, which is the first step.

Put the tea leaves in boiling water and boil again, which is the second step that is not usually available.

Then put it in boiling water and boil it one last time, which is the necessary third step after the second step.

After three boils, although the meat is not crispy, it is already fully cooked. But just right, cut into small pieces, put them in a pot, stew them with the pine mushroom slices, stew until they are ripe, and then sprinkle in the appropriate amount of salt, and this dish is considered to be done. Of course, before refining fat and taking oil, that is a must.

Sharjah watched carefully from beginning to end.

In fact, not only him, but also Owen and others, as well as a group of little guys, also looked at them from time to time.

However, this dish lived up to their viewing and scrutiny.

As the cooking neared completion, a fragrance they had never smelled before gradually spread domineeringly throughout the pine forest.

They didn't know how to describe it, only Fang Tian knew that this might be the first time it appeared in this world, a pure, meaty aroma without the slightest fishy smell.

And when the cooking was finally finished and put into the bowl, even Fang Tian was drunk.

This is a long-lost taste, and it can even be said that it is a taste that is a step up from the previous life.

Even Fang Tian didn't expect that after removing the fishy smell, this most primitive game stewed together, its fragrance and flavor were so mouth-watering.

The soup is clear, the meat pieces are crispy, the mushroom slices are tender, and there are not many oil flowers floating on the soup noodles, like flowers blooming in spring, which is the feeling. The nose kept sniffing, and then eating, and the little ones were about to go crazy, and they all accelerated rapidly.

And Owen and a few other big guys only cared about eating, and didn't even give a comment.

Only Sharjah, after eating a piece of meat, eating two mushroom slices, and drinking three mouthfuls of clear soup, he took the bowl and said to Fang Tian with a sigh: "There is such a smell in the world!"

And Fang Tian, after taking a gentle sip of the soup, knew or confirmed, that his experiment had succeeded.

In the world of food, raw materials and cooking are good at each other, and it is difficult to show skills without ingredients, and it is not long without seasoning.

It is often the case that in the era of high-quality raw materials, the means of cooking are extremely scarce. And when the cooking methods slowly began to improve, and the progress reached the point where the flowers were blooming, those high-quality, nature-derived raw materials had been excavated and destroyed to the point that there was not much left.

This is a difficult contradiction.

However, what happens when people from the era of great development of cooking come to the era of great development of raw materials?

The dawn of a new era of gastronomy?

Perhaps, but it will be a long time later.

At present, for Fang Tian, these are just reusing old skills and testing the knife. Whether it's good tea or food, it's just an occasional thing, and it's just a casual adjustment, and things are like running water between your fingers, leaving no trace of your heart.

When he came to this world, when he embarked on the path of cultivation, when he saw great power, when he witnessed authority, when he encountered miracles, when he extracted step by step from the experiences and experiences of past and present lives the coordinates of human activities of "establishing the world, traveling the world, and passing through the world", it was all revealed.

In this life, he is no longer the same as in the previous life...... ）