Then there is the crust of the cake, which is actually the chocolate cake. Unlike lava cakes, which have a liquid filling, the crust needs to be made solid, so the crust takes less time to cool than the filling.

Wipe the container, add 80 grams of chocolate and 85 grams of salted butter, heat on the stove and melt until puree.

Since other ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter, and eggs are also needed to make chocolate cakes, Li Xiang chose dark chocolate with a cocoa butter content of 65%, and after experiments, the chocolate flavor of the chocolate cake produced by this is the best. If the cocoa butter content is higher, the cake will taste a little sour and bitter; And if it is lower, the chocolate will not be strong enough.

It takes some time to melt, so I took advantage of this time to clean up my workbench.

One of the chef's jobs is to keep the kitchen clean and tidy, on the one hand, to maintain a good hygienic environment to avoid food contamination and food spoilage; On the other hand, it's also for efficiency.

If you want to cook a dish, the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients add up to at least five kinds, and some dishes with a complicated production process need to add more than a dozen or even dozens of flavors. If a chef's workbench is a mess and not properly organized and cleaned regularly, it will eventually lead to a chef working in a hurry.

I put away the kitchen utensils and cleaned up the mess I left behind. Li Xiang looked at the melting of the chocolate and butter in the pot.

"Hmm—it's going to take about 3 minutes......"

Li Xiang took out a few cake molds from the cupboard, evenly coated the inner wall of the cake mold with butter, and then firmly glued a layer of cocoa powder to the inner wall.

Butter has a certain stickiness that is able to stick to cocoa powder. Applying a layer of butter and a layer of cocoa powder to the cake mold will keep the cake intact when it is finally demolded, and the skin will be smooth and not pitted.

After washing off the cocoa powder on his hands, Li Xiang took out another container and poured 170 grams of brown sugar and 85 grams of flour into it.

Pour in the butter and chocolate that have completely melted into the chocolate sauce, crack in six more eggs and stir well with a whisk. After that, pour in the cake mold that has been prepared before and coat the inside with a layer of cocoa powder.

At this point, the partial preparation of the crust of the chocolate cake is complete. They would have had to be cooled in the refrigerator for an additional hour before they could be baked into cakes. However, Li wanted to have another way.

"Sit on a frosty day, Ice Wheel Pill!"

The cold air drifted by, and in just a few seconds, the cooling step of the cake was directly completed.

"Hah, it's so easy to use."

The principle of refrigeration is to keep the temperature in the refrigerator constant at a low temperature, and the food in the refrigerator is cooled from the inside out. The cooling of food through the ice slashing knife, the Ice Wheel Pill, is a homogeneous cooling that is uniform inside and out. It only takes a few moments to complete the cooling step that can be completed in 1 hour in the refrigerator.

Li Xiang whistled briskly, and the voice of the system Lori sounded coldly in his head:

"The way in which the host wastes his magic is really 'colorful'."

"Iriel, don't be so serious." Li Xiang whispered: "The chefs in this world are all open-minded guys, how can I confront them head-on if I don't have any plug-ins in my hands?" ”

On the other side, inside the lobby.

"Yo, good afternoon, two guests!"

Erina Nagikiri looked up, and a middle-aged uncle who was a little fat walked into the store.

The uncle was a little short and stocky, with a mustache on his lips. I always had a warm smile on my face, and because I was fatter, the wrinkles didn't look so deep, but I could still see the traces of time. He had thick arms and several large baskets filled with fresh vegetables and meat.

When Nagi Senzaemon heard his words, he asked in French, "Are you the owner of this shop?" ”

The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this, "Sir, you speak French really well." Yes, I'm the owner of this shop, and my name is Lyon. It looks like the two are from the Oriental, are they visiting Paris? ”

Many French people speak English, but they love their mother tongue very much, and although they are very welcoming to foreign tourists who communicate with them in English, they are naturally more friendly to foreign friends who can speak French.

"No, no, no, I came here because of work. But since you're in Paris, the famous 'capital of gastronomy', it's important to enjoy the food, right? ”

"Huo,"

Uncle Leon is hospitable and warm, and Nagi Senzaemon is also an eager person, and the two men who are not too old quickly chat.

Under the guidance of Nagi Senzaemon, the topic quickly came to Li Xiang.

"Mr. Leon, your waiter here doesn't look like a Frenchman."

Leon expressed Li Xiang's "experience":

"The young man's name is Emiya, and he has fled from Damascus in the Middle East."

"Damascus? If I'm not mistaken, there's war going on there, right? ”

"Yes, a lot of people from the Middle East have been fleeing to us recently. It just so happened that he came to our shop and asked if we needed someone to do it......"

"So you took him in, didn't you?"

"Yes, he is a very diligent young man, he learns things quickly, and he is serious and responsible for his work. But at the time, I didn't expect him to have a talent for cooking. ”

Uncle Leon smiled helplessly and continued:

"In just two months, he mastered how to prepare all the dishes in the restaurant."

Erina Nagikiri was surprised, "It only took two months to master French cuisine? ”

Uncle Leon turned his head in the direction of Erina Nagikiri, "It's not like he's mastered French cuisine, but now he's able to take charge of our restaurant on his own." ”

"Huo ......" Nagi Senzaemon rubbed his gray beard, "Mr. Leon, I wonder if you would like to let him come to our school to study for a few years?" ”

"Your school? Learn? I beg your pardon, old sir, you are ......" Leon was confused.

Nagi Senzaemon touched his head: "Oh, I almost forgot, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Nagi Senzaemon, and this is my granddaughter Erina." I myself am the head coach of the Enzuki Charyo Cuisine Garden in Japan, and you can also understand it as the principal of the school.

After my observation, I think that Emiya has very good culinary talents, and it is very happy for our school to find excellent students and cultivate them, so I hope that he will come to our school for a while. ”

Uncle Leon opened his mouth widely: "You are the headmaster of that world-famous Far Moon School?" Fortunately, I will be honored. ”

Uncle Leon stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Nagi Senzaemon.

"Still." Uncle Leon looked embarrassed, "Although I like Emiya very much, but after all, he is only an employee of our restaurant, and I can't interfere with his choice, so you should ask him about his wishes." ”

Nagi Senzaemon smiled nonchalantly, "Of course, we are just a school that trains chefs, and we have no power or motive to force young students to come to our school to study." ”

As the saying goes, it's better to come sooner rather than later, just as Nagi Senzaemon and Uncle Leon were talking about this, Li Xiang walked out of the back kitchen with two dessert plates with "small black round tables" and came to the front hall.

"Mr. Leon, why are you back?"

Li Xiang was a little surprised, usually Uncle Lyon would not come to the store until another half an hour to an hour, but today he was so much ahead of schedule, which made him feel a little surprised.

"Emiya, this is the principal of the Yuanyue Chaliao Cuisine Academy, he thinks you are very talented in cooking, would you like to go to their school system to learn culinary knowledge?"