Chapter 1570 – [What Is the Best Dish]

Chef Sorban, who was the first person to come out of the dark cooking world, was quite talented in my opinion. The burn marks and calluses on his arms, and even the smell of oil on his body that can be felt if you focus on your sense of smell. I didn’t come out as a representative of the underworld cooking world for nothing.

The topic of the competition was decided to be decided by the dark cooking world, but if you listen to what he says, the first thing is that it is clear what kind of dish the competition will be made of.

“Is it a meat dish?”

“It feels like a climax from the beginning. I’m curious what you’re going to cook.”

Eventually, as the two stood on stage, Darkon, the head of the dark cooking world, announced the start of the match.

“The chefs on both sides are in their places. Cooking time is 2 hours!!! If you don’t make it within the time, you will be disqualified!!! The theme is meat cooking!!! You can use any meat, so show the best taste!” Now, let’s start the competition! Let’s begin!!!!”

As the confrontation begins, the two begin to move quickly. Since both exceeded the specifications of ordinary humans, the speed was so fast that the average person could only see afterimages.

On the other hand, meat dishes are so important that they can be considered the flower of cooking. Unless it is a vegan course meal, the main course usually includes meat. As it is a dish of such importance, there are so many different types that I had to worry about what to make.

But since you decided on the topic and thought of it in advance, all that’s left is to create it. In comparison, for Eden, it was a problem in terms of time to hear the topic and create it.

But despite this, Eden moves quickly and supplies materials. He probably thought about what kind of dish to make.

“Sorban… There are many types of meat. What are you trying to make?”

“Are you planning on using up all that meat?”

Sorban, who was dealing with Eden, had dozens of types of meat piled up. There are a lot of ingredients that are famous even in dimensional civilization, and I wonder how they will use so many types of meat, even if it’s just one.

“There’s also Emurus meat from Dark Lord Castle. It’s delicious, but it’s so rich that it’s hard to use with anything else.”

“Was that a creature similar to a cow?”

“It’s like a cowking, about three times bigger than an ox.”

Sorban quickly started cooking. The first thing he did was to slice the meat he had piled up, not thinly so that it would be easy to grill like brisket or thinly sliced ​​pork belly, but rather thinly sliced, like pork cutlet meat.

Afterward, the meat is pounded to make it thin and soft. If you look at it up to that point, you’ll wonder if they’re making real pork cutlets.

But what he took out afterward was… A circular cake mold.

“Oh, no way…”

“I didn’t mention meat for no reason. It’s going to be a really meaty dish.”

Thinly pounded various types of meat, and layered on top of each other as if making a crepe cake.

Cheese and other auxiliary ingredients were added between the layers, and the top part was covered with meat in a beautifully finished shape, like a curled flower bud. If it was cooked that way, it would probably be a meaty dish that would make you feel like your blood vessels were clogging, but it would be a dish you would want to try at least once.

But there are two problems. First, since various types of meat are used, the cooking temperature is subtly different, so some may be undercooked and others may be overcooked. In addition, meat shrinks as it cooks and may lose its shape, so even though the performance is good, it is difficult to complete properly.

… But if the name Dark Cooking World wasn’t just that, they wouldn’t be making such clumsy dishes.

Soon Sorban put the meat cake in the oven. And in front of the oven, a hologram in the rough shape of a meat cake appeared, through which the temperature to be applied to the outside as well as the inside could be set in great detail.

In short, it means that you can cook food at a relatively low temperature on the outside and at a high temperature on the inside. In addition, it is possible to cook in more detail by setting it separately.

“Handling that thing is tough, but it looks like you have skills.”

“Even if you gave that to a decent chef, he wouldn’t be able to use it properly.”

Being able to cook with very precise settings also meant that there were a lot of things to do. If you make a mistake, you may end up with a dish that is not good, and if you touch just one setting incorrectly, the dish will be ruined.

He looks like a pot-bellied, obese orc, but his skills are amazing. The taste of the finished dish is also quite promising.

The opponent is, but what kind of dish does our Eden plan to use to compete? It will be difficult to cook with just a few dishes.

“The taste of Sorban’s cuisine will be so strong that it can be said to be violent. It will be influenced by whether Eden’s cuisine is served first or later. Furthermore, it is difficult to compete with any ordinary cuisine.”

“It is said that softness beats hardness, but since the subject is meat cooking, it will be difficult to overcome it with a light or soft taste. In the end, it will have to taste better than that.”

If the opponent is greasy and violent and rushes at you like a large truck, you have to hit it with that much mass to win.

If you have to compete with another dish, you can use it in reverse to make a simple or simple taste stand out, but as long as the subject is a meat dish, it is difficult to avoid it. Because light, non-greasy meat dishes are nothing but mediocre in the face of that violent taste.

Eden, wondering how to beat such an opponent, was quickly cooking. However, what was a little surprising was that Eden also cooks using various types of meat.

However, some are cooked by steaming, while others are cooked by boiling or baking. However, looking at that, it seems that cooking meat is not the purpose itself, but there is another reason.

“What are you trying to do?”

“I don’t know right now, so let’s keep looking.”

Soon, Eden put the cooked meat into a press and squeezed out the juice from it. It extracts only the juices from several types of deliciously well-cooked special meat.

Eden tasted the gravy little by little and nodded as if something had gone well. He soon began to combine the various extracts.

“Mixing the meat juices?”

“Normally, it would taste strange. If you mix something delicious with something delicious, you won’t get something delicious. But it’s not like Eden doesn’t know about it, and I think she blends it because she’s confident she can make it delicious.”

“If you think about it, Eden’s specialty was something like that.”

Creating better tastes through new combinations is Eden’s specialty. No matter how many combinations there are, go straight without hesitation.

Moreover, even though it may not have been possible before, it now has sensory abilities. The process of reaching the correct answer is much shorter.

Eden, who seemed to have found the best combination after several trials and errors, soon created a potful of thick broth. Those of us who have an excellent sense of smell were able to smell what it was like, and the scent alone made it an excellent broth.

“It would be awesome to make Sorongpo with that.”

“That’s right. Let’s eat later after the competition. But… That won’t be enough.”

As Phantom said, that broth can be said to be the ultimate broth that combines the strengths of various meats. If you make it into a soup on its own and refine it a little, you can serve it as a full dish at a high-end restaurant in a dimensional civilization, but it is a soup dish after all.

Meat dishes not only have the taste of meat, but they also have the texture. No matter how soft the meat is that melts in your mouth, you feel pleasure from chewing and swallowing the protein and fat.

The meat must have a unique flavor, just as elderly people who are unable to chew meat due to old age sometimes lose their appetite. By itself, it could be called a meat dish, but it would be lacking 10%, not 2%.

“You must have thought about it up to that point. What is important is what you do.”

And Eden prepared another dish to make up for the shortcomings of his own dish.

What Eden brought this time was food from the dimensional civilization, and it was meat of a light brown color. However, if there was something unusual, it would be that there was almost no flavor that should normally be felt.

“That’s the meat of an animal called Norst. It’s a rather unusual creature, living only by drinking water.”

“The characteristic is… I can see it when I look at it. Like sunfish or shark fin, the meat has no taste, right?”

“That’s right, the texture itself is meat, but the taste is just plain spicy. Eden made a good choice.”

Since it doesn’t have any flavor, it’s easy to add different flavors without them clashing with each other. Eden started grilling Norst meat with blended broth as oil. The technique of grilling meat itself is not unique, but it is grilled perfectly because it focuses on the senses.

At the same time, I prepared something else. I put the blended broth into a syringe and injected it into the meat by poking it here and there. So, you will be able to feel the taste of the broth even inside the meat.

Resting after baking. Wait until the temperature inside the meat is evenly distributed. If you are not confident in your skills, you can use a thermometer to measure the temperature inside the meat, but since Eden has sensory abilities, there is no need.

Afterward, Eden’s dish was completed. Eden prepared to serve a well-made Norst steak on a plate.

Likewise, the Sorban side completed the dish. The meat cake that was taken out of the oven revealed its grandeur the moment the cake mold was removed. When it was cut into pieces and the cross-section was revealed, the cross-section of the meat and fillings piled up in layers was beautiful.

Since we both finished our dishes, we plated the rest. Both were served with some garnish and finished cooking almost at the same time. However, almost simultaneously does not mean that someone finished it first, and that was Sorban.

Haha!!!! It’s late!!! I’m the one who finished it first!!!!”

“Tsk.”

Since the dish of the person who finished it first got to be eaten first, it was Sorban’s dish that was judged first. Of course, eating it later won’t make Eden’s dish cool, but having the judges taste the violent taste of that meat cake first was quite a blow.

Unless it is quite delicious, it will be difficult to convey the original taste beyond the initial shock. I believed in Eden, but the reality was that the conditions were unfavorable.

Soon the judges appeared on the podium. There are only ten people from various races, and they are researchers related to young children who were kidnapped by the dark cooking world. They looked clearly nervous, but at the same time, their noses were looking for the source of the fragrant smell of cooking wafting through the venue.

Waitresses dressed in revealing clothes, similar to the racing girls seen before, serve and serve the food to them.

“Now!!! Eat it!!!! And declare my victory!!!”

It was a tense situation, and the other person was cooking a dish prepared by a chef from the dark cooking world who had kidnapped them. If you think rationally, like Eden said, it was natural to criticize his cooking.

However, the sight of various types of meat piled up in layers with cheese, sauce, and vegetables mixed in between the layers was eye candy and even appetizing. There were people whose instincts were so faithful that they lifted the utensils without even realizing it, so what they would do was obvious.

They held a knife and fork and cut the meat cake. It is not a cake made of bread and cream, but a cake made of meat, so if you cut it with force, it would lose its shape, but the soft meat did not do that at all and was easily cut with a knife.

“The meat is soft…!!!”

“Even though it’s completely different meat, it’s all cooked just right!!!! Amazingly detailed cooking skills!!!!”

“I used different meat for each layer, but the texture is slightly different, which is fun, and the cream on top is sour cream that goes well with the dish. Since it’s a cake-like dish, did you use sour cream made from fermented fresh cream instead of fresh cream? Thanks to that, it’s not too greasy. Delicious!!!!”

The response is too good to say that he ate the food of the organization that kidnapped him. And it can be said that it is a dish that is as violent and highly perfected as it is. If the balance was off even a little, it would have ended up being just greasy, but because the dish was well-balanced and harmonized, it actually became like a work of art.

“You two should try it too.”

“Oh, I gave it to you. Thank you.”

Although we were on the hostile side, we were VIPs, so even though we were not judges, we brought out separate dishes. Once I tried it, the meat was soft and chewy, showing off each flavor. Some had a savory flavor like pork, and some had a rich meaty flavor like beef, but the pieces of meat were all mixed together instead of separately.

And it’s not just a mountain of greasy meat, but the ingredients added in the middle takeaway the greasiness that might be too much. There were vegetables similar to spinach that had been boiled and blanched, and some that looked like chopped pickles, and the sour cream spread on the surface was in perfect balance with the fatty taste of the meat.

How much effort must it have taken to find this combination and the optimal cooking method? The opponent was a chef from the underworld cooking world who kidnapped and committed crimes, but at least his cooking skills were great enough to be admired.

The judges enjoyed the meat cake. And since it’s Eden’s turn next, we take a moment to wash our mouths.

“It’s my turn next!!! Everyone enjoy your meal!!!”

Instead of leaving it to waitresses from the underworld cooking world, Eden served the food himself. When he said hello with a light smile, the judges’ mouths seemed to soften.

… Is it a beauty world? No, I don’t think Eden is aware of that. She’s a smart kid, so she’ll use the beauty pageant if she needs to, but for now, I’m doing it purely for the sake of enjoying it.

Anyway, Eden’s cooking was also on the judging panel. Meanwhile, Eden takes care of ours too and gives us a plate, so we can taste it.

“Dad and uncle enjoyed it too!!!”

“Oh, eat well.”

“Let’s see how much my daughter’s skills have improved.”

Since the portion wasn’t that large, I had to share it with Phantom, but it didn’t matter since I was trying it out. Phantom and I cut the meat in half and taste Eden’s cooking.

First, the meat itself was well cooked. It is cut so smoothly that it does not require much effort, and the meat juices ooze out from the cut cross-section. Since they are all broths blended by Eden, I take a bite of them with the broth flowing down without any sauce.

The first thing you feel on your tongue is the extreme umami flavor, and the rich taste of the broth, which combines all the goodness of all kinds of meat, is like well-brewed beef bone broth. However, the flavor itself is completely different, and in the broth, you can taste the natural taste of the meat, not the bones.

To exaggerate a bit, every time you chew the meat, the juices gush out to the point where it touches the roof of your mouth. Every time I chewed, it felt like a bomb called gravy exploded.

“What gravy…!!!”

“This is the best steak I’ve ever had!!!!”

“This rich and juicy taste that combines the best parts of all kinds of meat is like eating a rich soup!!!”

“Mmmm!!!!”

The judges’ reaction was no different from Sorban’s meat cake. The taste itself is not inferior to his meat cake and clearly reveals its presence.

At least one side could avoid an overwhelming outcome, and on the other hand, we learned who the winner of this match would be. The taste itself may be similar, but there was a crucial difference between the two dishes.

“I… I will take some time to discuss.”

The judges gathered together and talked about various things. There were ten people who highly valued Sorban’s meat cakes, but the majority took Eden’s side.

Soon after, they announced the results of the screening.

“As a result of the judging, it was 3 to 7, and this match was won by Ms. Eden Choi.”

“What?!”

Sorvan shouted in shock at his defeat. And he questioned why he lost.

“Why!!!! My cooking was perfect!!!! I guess they didn’t intentionally make biased decisions for the sake of freedom?!”

“We are also in the position of being kidnapped, but we have no intention of being tied down in making decisions in front of a dish that the chef put his effort and talent into.”

“Then why!!! Tell me a convincing reason!!!!”

In response to Sorban’s shout, one of the judges, one of the seven who took Eden’s side, came out and explained the reason.

“In fact, the two people’s cooking was so amazing that it’s hard to say who was better. They both combined the strengths of various types of meat into one place to achieve the ultimate, and the taste was better than any meat I’ve ever eaten in my life. But…”

“But?”

“There was no competition in taste, but there was a difference elsewhere: touch and texture.”

“…”

Sorban’s expression hardened as if he had been greatly shocked.

So Phantom and I guessed that the winner of this battle would be Eden. If it’s the same meat dish and the taste is just as good, the difference comes from other things.

Sorban’s meat cake was definitely delicious, but if you inevitably put it in your mouth and chew on a cooker with various types of meat stacked on top of each other, the meat would disintegrate into each other. Of course, the taste feels more harmonious that way, but the meat itself is thin.

In comparison, Eden’s juicy explosion steak has a special juiciness and the meat is made from a creature called Norst. So the general texture is similar to beef steak.

The feeling of using meat and the feeling of chewing meat. In those two areas, Sorban’s cooking was inevitably inferior to Eden’s cooking. If he had at least dealt with the texture part, he could have won.

“Mr. Sorban’s dish was definitely a meat dish, but because it was shaped like a cake, it didn’t feel like I was eating meat. However, with Miss Eden’s dish, not only did it taste like meat, but it definitely felt like meat when you chewed it. So. We took Ms. Eden’s side.”

“I can’t believe that…!!!! I!!! I can’t believe I lost!!!! Aaaaa!!!!!”

That’s how the winner of the first match emerged.

My daughter’s skills have improved a lot while I haven’t seen her.