Chapter 262: Bacchus Skills, Same Wine and Flavors
As soon as I heard Ji Dong say that the same material can be concocted into hundreds of flavors by technique alone. Du Ming's gaze changed a lot when he looked at Ji Dong, and his expression became a little colder, "I was also a six-star bartender before I left the Bartender Guild, and with only my skills, I could only concoct three or five flavors at most with the same ingredients. With technique alone, even Du Sikang, the god of wine, could not have concocted so many flavors from the same material. Ji Dong, poor ability is not a problem, but if we are too ambitious and self-righteous, we have no need to talk about it. ”
Ji Dong smiled slightly, "How do you know that President Du Sikang, the god of wine, can't concoct hundreds of flavors with the same ingredients?"
Du Ming sneered, "Because, he was the one who drove me out just now." He is my father, and I am the only son. Is that enough to prove my word?"
Ji Dong had already guessed his identity, smiled slightly, and said, "I don't want to justify myself." Facts are the best way to prove everything. What President Du Sikang can't do doesn't mean that others can't do it. Let's try it. How about we make a bet on that?"
Du Ming frowned, "Bet, I'm never a gambler." Also hates gambling. Gambling only degrades. ”
Ji Dong said: "Don't worry, I won't gamble with you." As I said, I can create more than 100 flavors with the same ingredients. Even if I win. If I can't do it. It's you who wins. If you win, I will immediately worship you as a teacher. Vice versa. ”
Ji Dong's expression was indifferent when he spoke, looking into his eyes, Du Ming could obviously feel the pride and confidence in his bones. Could he really be? No, it's absolutely impossible. How old he is. Although his father is stubborn, he has been a wine god for many years, and he will never do what he says.
Du Ming said: "Okay." Since you're going to bet on this. Then I'll bet with you. I have nothing to lose anyway. However, if I win, I don't guarantee that I will accept you as an apprentice. I don't like a person who loves to brag. If you win, then there is no doubt that you have no problem being my teacher in the art of bartending. Where are you going to start?"
Ji Dong pointed to the table in front of him and said, "It's here." The base wine and toppings are yours to choose. ”
"Take my pick?" Du Ming looked at Ji Dong's eyes and became a little colder, as if he was questioning him, you have to be arrogant to a certain extent.
Ji flicked his wrist, and a crystal cocktail jug had already appeared in his hand, "I have most of the base wines on the market." There are also some toppings. This tea house should also be able to provide some fruit juice ingredients. You choose. At this time, Ji Dong was no longer just to learn about what happened in the Bartenders Guild from Du Ming, and after a simple conversation, he had a general understanding of this young man's dedication to bartending and his own character. With the fire of his soul, he can see people very accurately, and Du Ming is not pretentious at all in the process of communicating with him. It completely reveals the true nature.
Du Ming slapped his hand on the table, "Okay, let me see, what ability do you dare to boast of." Use the standard cocktail: the base of the sunrise and the ingredients. ”
Ji Dong nodded and said, "Please ask the waiter for lemon juice and pomegranate juice, I have tequila." ”
Du Ming called the waiter. Tell him not to serve tea yet, but to serve a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice and a glass of freshly squeezed pomegranate juice. The waiters were of course happy to change their drinks, and the two off-season juices were very expensive compared to tea.
After a while, two glasses of freshly squeezed juice were served. Pale yellow lemon juice and ruby-like pomegranate juice are placed on the table.
Ji Dong took out a bottle of ordinary tequila from the Suzaku bracelet, then took out two high-temperature glasses used for standard cocktails, poured out a little tequila in one of the high-temperature glasses, and with a light movement of his fingers, he had already held the wine glass in his hand and handed it to Du Ming.
Everyone is a person who understands, and Du Ming naturally knows that it was Ji Dong who asked him to taste tequila to see if there was anything abnormal.
Taking the wine glass, Du Ming only sniffed it slightly, and then nodded to Ji Dong. means no problem. He used to be a six-star bartender, and if he couldn't even smell the taste of the common base wine like agave, he wouldn't have to mix it up.
Ji Dong didn't start bartending immediately, but stretched out his hands, and with two sounds, two red flames had already risen from his palms. Wrap your palms all in. The simple fire burned around the palm of his hand, but Ji Dong's expression did not change in the slightest. Clean hands. If you don't want to waste time washing with water, the same goes for burning with a sunny fire.
Seeing the flames rising from the palm of Ji's hand, and the gaze in his eyes that gradually became condensed, Du Ming's previously somewhat angry mood gradually calmed down. Sitting there, silently watching Ji Dong's movements.
At this time, there are not many people drinking tea in the teahouse, and there are only two or three tables on the second floor. Although the flames here have attracted attention, it is not too uncommon for mages to appear. The people who can come here to drink tea are all aristocrats with rich families, so it is not surprising that they think it is just young people showing off. It didn't cause any commotion.
The flame went out, Ji Dong shook his hand, and the temperature on his palm quickly dropped, and then he opened the crystal cocktail jug and poured the base wine tequila into it first. Four out of ten agaves, not a single point, no less than one point, and the rarest thing is that not a single drop leaks. When Ji Dong put away the tequila bottle, it was only four-tenths of the wine.
This is followed by five-tenths of lemon juice and one-tenth of pomegranate juice, which make up the standard cocktail: all the ingredients for a sunrise.
After capping the bartender bottle, Ji Dong said to Du Ming, "Do you need to check it again?"
Du Ming shook his head and said, "Begin." ”
Ji Dong bowed slightly, raised his right hand, and pinched the position of the lid of the bartending jug, just when Du Ming didn't know what he was going to do. Suddenly, the flask was flying. In other words, he was thrown up by Ji Dong.
The crystal flask spun rapidly in the air, and even whined, and you could clearly see the tequila base and the two ingredients merge in this instantaneous rapid rotation. The speed at which the shaker spins is breathtaking. It looks like a golden-red disc flying in the air.
Seeing this scene, Du Ming had already put away all his contempt, Ji Dong just shook his wrist just now, pinched the cocktail and shook it up, it was completely the power of his fingers and wrists. This is not to say that power is good, but to be extremely precise in control. He found that the young man named Ji Dong in front of him didn't even look up to look at the bartending bottle, and his face was so calm from beginning to end. It was as if everything was under his control.
The shaker fell from the sky in a rapid rotation, with a soft bang, just the bottom down, and landed smoothly on the table, and in the whole process, Ji Dong did not touch the shaker with his hands again. The shaker was as steady as a nail, and it didn't even shake for half a minute. The control of power can be said to have reached the peak level.
With a flick of a finger, the shaker has been opened. Ji moved his finger and flicked it on the shaker, and a wisp of golden-red juice had flown out and landed steadily in another clean Hypo glass. There is very little liquor flying out, and if you look closely, you can see that it is exactly one percent of the liquor in the shaker.
"Original sunrise, please. Ji Dong pushed the Hypo Cup over.
Surprised, in addition to surprise or surprise, Du Ming was very sure that Ji Dong definitely did not use a trace of magic in the entire process of bartending. He is a mage himself. Nature can feel it. That's all in hand. The cocktail jug in front of him spun rapidly in the air, and he asked himself if he could do it, but in the end, he had never thought of it. Still not half of the spills, and it's exactly one hundredth. With these two points alone, a layer of cold sweat has broken out behind Du Ming's back. Earlier, I also said that I would instruct others to bartend. It's just that you can't do it yourself with this simple hand! Could it be that what he said about the same material and a hundred flavors is really not true?
While thinking, Du Ming had already drunk that small sip of "Sunrise".
The mellow taste, the hotness of the agave, the perfect harmony of the two juices, and the rich aroma all bring out the perfect display of this sunrise. The taste was even more mellow than what he had concocted, and as a six-star bartender and son of Dionysus, he understood that the simpler the cocktail, the more powerful it was. The same ingredient is concocted by different people, and the taste is incomprehensible. Although it was only a small sip, he was sure that there were only a few people in the bartenders' guild who could concoct such a mellow sunrise, including his father, the god of wine, Du Sikang.
At the same time as he drank the first sip of wine, Ji Dong had already re-covered the cocktail, and without saying a word of nonsense, the cocktail was already flying again, Du Ming was still savoring the taste of the sunrise in his mouth, and his eyes were already completely attracted by the flying cocktail.
It was still rotating, but this time the rotation was completely different from just now, the bartender was reversed by Ji Dong, and the position of the lid was on top of his palm, and it became a cone in the rapid rotation. In a dazzling state of mind, the shaker has stopped again.
Flick the bottle, still a wisp of wine, "Please." ”
Du Ming picked up the glass again. This time, his face couldn't help but become even more exciting. The mellow taste before was gone, and in his mouth, it turned out to be a thick sweet aroma, which could be tasted naturally with the sensitivity of his palate, which was completely a mixture between the two juices. But why isn't there a hint of agave?
Cocktails don't have to be alcohol, and among cocktails, there is a unique type of cocktail, which is non-alcoholic cocktails. It is made with a variety of juices and ingredients. Therefore, Du Ming must not say that the second sip that Ji Dong gave him now is not a cocktail.
Before he could think about how Ji Dong did it, the bartender had already flown for the third time.
"Please. ”
"Please. ”
"Please. ”
"Please. ”
"Please. ”
......
Every time the bartender flew up, fell, and popped out the wine, Du Ming subconsciously picked up the wine glass and drank it. As Ji Dong said, it was these three same materials that were concocted by him in a thousand variations. Later, Du Ming had already vaguely understood Ji Dong's train of thought. It is in the process of blending that the three ingredients are combined in different proportions, so that the resulting flavor will naturally be different. But what a delicate skill it takes to get there? You know, all the wine is in this single flask. I want to separate the excess, and some of them will create new combinations, new flavors. There must be no mistakes.
Moreover, no matter how Ji Dong combined these three ingredients, every sip of the cocktail Du Ming drank was so mellow and sweet that he couldn't help himself.
This should only be the amount of a cocktail, and he drank more than 100 sips in total, but just such a glass of wine had already drunk him. It's not that people are drunk, but that the heart is drunk.
Ji Dong's simple and complicated bartending technique is strange, but full of mysteries every swing. All of them made him deeply fall into wonderful enjoyment.
The guests at the next table also focused their eyes on this side at this time, and they all seemed to have been caught in the fixation method, and they were completely speechless. They never imagined that a bartender could do it to such an extent. That's it. The dizzying light emanating from the flask even caused them to hallucinate in their vision.
Ji Dong himself was already completely immersed in the fun of bartending at this time, and he hadn't had such a hearty bartending for a long time. He didn't use half of his magic, he was completely skillful in bartending. When he mixes a toast for the flames, he doesn't have the same exuberance as he does now, because all his emotions will be poured into that glass of wine, and he will use the most skillful skill to make the best wine.
This is the same as the wine Baiwei bartending technique, which belongs to the absolute foundation of Ji Dong's bartending ability. It's like a mathematician reciting a little ninety-nine. Relaxed and freehand, but full of stretch freedom. There is no need to think about it, and there is no need to pay attention to anything. It's just a matter of feeling when you mix wine.
As Ji Dong's speed became faster and faster, Du Ming didn't even have time to hold the wine glass, and whenever Ji Dong said the word "please", the wisp of wine popped directly into his mouth.
Finally, the last moment came, Ji Dong stood up suddenly, the chair behind him was bounced away by his leg muscles, and the whole person took a step back, at this moment, the entire teahouse seemed to be lit up, and no one could see Ji Dong's arm clearly, and in an instant, nine crystals and silver halos wrapped in pale red light bloomed in the air.