Chapter 170: The Tenth Attempt
Generally, it is called flower chicken, and at most it is marinated with seasonings and ingredients such as light soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, sesame oil, salt, chicken essence, green onion, ginger, garlic, onion, and shiitake mushrooms.
Then wrap it firmly with fresh tender lotus leaves, then seal the outside with yellow mud and rice wine, and put it in the fire to simmer.
But compared to the volcanic ash sealed dragon meat that Jiang Ember is making now, it is really a small thing.
The main ingredient used in this dish is dragon meat and some regular seasonings.
The most important thing is to use all the inner and outer parts of the "Dragon Heather".
After taking out the heather seeds, drying them and grinding them, they make a spice with a peculiar fragrance.
The leaves and epidermis of the heather are dried to remove the strange smell and then used as lotus leaves.
This peculiar plant itself is extremely resistant to high temperatures, and the volcanic marl coats the outside.
This also allows this large piece of Hualong meat to be thrown directly into the boiling molten slurry and cooked directly at a high temperature of several thousand degrees.
Of course, it's easy to throw this thing in, but it's not so easy to get it out.
Such a high temperature of molten slurry is enough to melt all ordinary kitchen utensils, so some special auxiliary props are needed.
At this time, the special gloves that Jiang Ember was wearing on his hands and the silk threads he tied to the outside of the dragon meat were used for this purpose.
Those slender silk threads that are barely visible to the naked eye are the "Thousand Spider Blades", a weapon used by Yumi.
The silk threads of the Thousand Spider Blades are all made of dragon steel imported from the Azure Empire.
Not only is it very sharp, it can blow hair and break hair, and it can even withstand thousands of degrees of heat.
Wrap the dragon meat in the silk thread of the Thousand Spider Blades and throw it into the molten pool, and wear special gloves to salvage it.
This is also the last process Jiang Ember did to create this "Molten Cannon Flame Dragon".
From these points of view, Jiang Yan has gone to great lengths to make this dish.
But even if all his wisdom is exhausted, there is still one more *** trouble to solve.
That's ...... Heat.
For chefs in the Chinese food system, heat is one of the most important basic technologies.
Many foods are very sensitive to ripeness, with less than one raw and one more old.
Especially for such a special ingredient as dragon meat, if the heat is not enough, the holy energy in it will remain residual poison and cannot be absorbed at all.
But if the heat is too much, then the result is that all the holy energy is lost, and eating is the same as not eating.
However, the biggest trouble now is, how should Jiang Ember judge the heat of this dish?
Ultra-high temperature cooking of more than 3,000 degrees, coupled with the volcanic mud wrapped outside, dragon family heather skin and other objects are all high-temperature resistant things.
With the combination of the two, it is difficult to judge the maturity of the dragon meat inside.
Even as a top chef who has been tested by flames for a long time, Jiang Ember has no similar experience at all.
So, what should you do at such a time?
...... Cold.
After throwing the dragon meat into the molten slurry, Jiang Ember just stood in place, looking intently at the "pot".
The huge pool of molten lava is churning with thousands of degrees of red heat, making it almost impossible to open your eyes.
But Jiang Ember still stared at the depths seriously, as if he could see something.
Sensing this, Catherine couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Brother Jiang Yan, what are you looking at?"
"Look at the degree of change in the food."
Hey? Hearing this, Catherine couldn't help but laugh.
"But didn't the dragon meat sink to the bottom of the pool? How can you see from above?"
"Not on a practical level, but on a spiritual level."
"Spiritual? What do you mean?"
"It's your own instinct to make judgments."
As he spoke, Jiang Ember couldn't help but think back to the training he had received as a child.
When it comes to judging the ripeness of food, "steamed fish" is used as the standard.
Steamed fish is known to be a dish that requires a high level of steaming.
Because the steamed fish itself is not difficult to make, the heat is particularly important.
Insufficient heat or too much heat can be devastating for the dish.
Although modern cooking can often use a timer as a precise aid.
However, each fish has different weights, fat-to-meat ratios, and bone sizes.
Even a good chef can't guarantee that a good fish will be perfect every time.
However, for the Jiang clan, who have inherited food and medicine skills, all of their members have undergone rigorous training since childhood.
The control of the heat has long reached the point of carving into the bone marrow.
This is also what Jiang Ember just said, being able to judge the heat by instinct without using any tools.
This kind of thing may sound like nonsense at first glance...... Actually, it's kind of nonsense when you think about it.
This is especially true for ingredients that are cooking for the first time and are cooked in such strange conditions.
It's almost impossible to grasp the heat with your senses.
So, when Jiang Ember felt like the fire had arrived.
He quickly pulled the thread and pulled out a large blackened ball that had been soaked at the bottom of the molten pool.
Looking at the sphere, which had been roasted to the point of black charcoal, and even emitted a strange smell of burning, I had a bad premonition in my heart.
Sure enough, as Jiang Yan casually smashed the round big black charcoal.
Then the almost completely carbonized heather skin and leaves are all removed.
What leaked out of it was a pile of charred black jerky that had been completely roasted and completely dehydrated.
...... Fail.
Is it too long to soak in it for ten minutes?
Jiang Yan pulled the jerky chop with a somewhat speechless expression, and barely picked out a few pieces that could be eaten.
How to say it, although this jerky tastes hard, the taste is actually okay.
After being marinated in spices such as heather seeds, the flavor of the jerky is very peculiar.
But the problem is that after such a move, the holy energy in it has naturally disappeared a long time ago.
Forget it, save these jerky for Anjie to drink and eat...... Anyway, she has good teeth.
After putting the edible dried meat in a bag, Jiang Ember immediately started the second trial without stopping.
Again, except this time he reduced the firing time to eight minutes.
The dragon meat made this time is much better than the last time, at least it can be eaten.
After the chop was pulled apart, what appeared in front of Jiang Shen and Catherine was some black and pressed pieces of meat.
"Yes, this time, at least I can eat it...... It's just a little dry."
Catherine said happily as she picked up meat from the clods of earth and ate them.
"No." But Jiang Ember shook his head and said, "It's far away, it can't be used at all."
Although it was barely edible this time, the holy energy in it still did not remain.
If there is no holy energy in the cooking of the Holy Energy, it is the same as the fish-flavored shredded meat without shredded meat, which is simply a thing that is not worthy of virtue.
With this in mind, Ember continued to adjust the firing time.
From eight minutes to six minutes, from six minutes to four minutes.
After four minutes, I found that it was not cooked enough, the meat was still too raw, and it was still oozing blood, so I couldn't eat it at all, so I had to adjust it forward.
......
Just like that, back and forth, one plus and one subtract, add more water to the surface, and add more water to the surface.
After almost an hour, Jiang Ember set the firing time at five minutes and twenty-five seconds.
Call....
.. Call...... Call.
After the huge ball was fished out of the molten pool for the ninth time.
Jiang Ember gasped a little as he prayed that this cooking would be a success.
After all, in order to quantify regularly, the amount of meat must be maintained at the same standard for each attempt, that is, one catty.
That is to say, every time the cooking fails, Jiang Ember has to pay a full pound of dragon meat as a price.
Looking at the big bag of dragon jerky for An Jie's wine and snacks, Jiang Ember really felt like crying without tears.
Originally, the dragon meat in the safe house added up to about forty catties, and it was all non-renewable resources.
I used some of it before to eat it and do experiments, but now I have used up another nine catties, and the remaining dragon meat is only half at most.
Please...... It must be successful.
When smashing that blackened dragon egg for the tenth time.
Jiang Yan's forehead couldn't help but leave a drop of cold sweat.
Fortunately, the firing time of 5 minutes and 25 seconds was summed up after many attempts.
When Jiang Ember knocked open the dragon egg, a strange hot air flow also gushed out of it, spurting directly on the two of them.
This...... This is!
At that moment, the hot air that emerged from it was like a giant dragon flapping the wings of fire, carrying a strong fragrance like that of an ancient king!
Suddenly, Jiang Ember and Catherine only felt their bodies tremble at first, and then unconsciously softened.
Good...... It's so fragrant, what kind of aroma is this?
It took a few seconds for Jiang Ember to react and quickly shook his head, trying to clear his mind.
But even so, the strong aroma that permeated the surroundings still made him saliva secrete a lot, and he couldn't help but feel extremely hungry in his stomach.
How should this aroma be described? Chicken fragrant? Pork fragrant? Lamb fragrant? Beef fragrant? Grassy? Woody? Honey sweet fragrance? Wax scent? Amber? Bean-scented? Fruity? Neither.
Even if it is very sensitive to fragrance, it can distinguish almost all flavors of ginger embers.
I didn't know how to describe the smell at this time.
It was only after being shocked by this strange fragrance that Jiang Ember saw the golden light emanating from the few burnt leaves and skin.
The golden light, yes, is the luster of gold!
The dragon meat, which has been simmered to the right level, exudes a perfect pale golden sheen.
This is not some kind of exaggeration, but a real physical situation.
A large piece of dragon meat, simmered to the right point, looks full of texture, crystal clear, and juicy.
Although I haven't actually tasted it yet, just asking about the strange aroma and seeing the wonderful shape is enough to make people saliva secret.
Of course, the most important thing is that this piece of dragon meat is cooked just right.
That is, all the holy energy on it has been perfectly preserved!