Chapter 1571 – [What Is the Best Dish]

After the first confrontation, Sorban screamed for a while and then sat down as if he was devastated.

Her Eden must have mastered her cooking many times longer than Lee did, but he competed with her and lost. Even if Eden beats me, I would be happy to hear that she has grown so much, but other people wouldn’t, so her pride would have been greatly hurt.

“The winner of the first match is… Choi Eden.”

Darkon, the head of the dark cooking world, declared the winner as if confirming the kill. Although his voice seemed calm, his disappointment in Sorban was evident.

And in that situation, Eden… Was secretly eating Sorban’s cooking from one side. Even after serving it to the judges, he looked carefree as he ate the remaining two pieces of meat cake.

“Oh, man, this is delicious. It’s my preference to use various ingredients like this to make something more delicious.”

“… What?”

“Would you like to try what I made? I have some leftover.”

“Ugh, are you deceiving me now!!!!!”

To others, it may seem like teabagging, but that wasn’t Eden’s intention. The comments she makes after eating Sorban’s food are sincere and because it’s really delicious.

“If I won 3 to 7, it means that 3 out of 10 people took your side. If I had overcome my sense of taste, it wouldn’t have been strange to see who won, right?”

“But in the end, what you lose is what you lose!!!!”

“We couldn’t compete on taste, so we judged something else? Isn’t the best taste what the dark cooking world pursues?”

“… The best taste includes other elements as well. Not only the dish itself, but the entire process required to eat it can be considered taste.”

“Hmm, really? Anyway, this is a really well-made dish. If it had been pressed and compressed like cold cuts, it could have made up for the lack of texture.”

“What? Wait, when did you think like that?!”

“It just occurred to me.”

“Haha…!!!”

Sorban felt the difference in his talent and was able to accept his defeat to some extent as he immediately suggested solutions to the weaknesses of the dishes he worked hard to create on the spot. Then he got up and shook Eden’s hand.

If it had been ignored until now, it was now an act of respect for the winner and respect for the outstanding chef.

“Okay, I lost this time. But next time I will definitely win!!!!”

“But this is a dark cooking world, so there’s no penalty for losing?”

“There is some punishment for the loser, but what kind of penalty are you talking about?”

“Like branding them losers and chasing them away, cutting off their arms, so they can’t cook, or throwing them as food to man-eating fish. I guess that’s what it would be like if it was some sort of dark cooking world.”

“You’re saying terrible things. Just because you’re defeated doesn’t mean the skills you’ve built up will go nowhere. Would you kill a talented chef so recklessly?”

“This place was healthier than I expected!!!!!”

Anyway, that’s how the first fight ended. The winner is our Eden, who has already won one out of three matches, so they only need to win one more time.

Knowing that, I thought that Darkon, the leader of that side, would come out in person, but someone else came out. He probably seemed that confident in his skills.

Soon, Robnam, who was next to Darkon, appeared, lifting his robe. He had unusually blue skin, and his pointed ears made him look like an elf or a half-blood.

“My name is Suerta Degos!!! I am the best poison chef in the dark cooking world!!!!”

“Poison cooking? Are you talking about a blowfish cooking expert or something?”

“You did a good job defeating Sorban, Choi Eden. But I will never be able to win!!!!”

“You look like a member of the Na’vi tribe. Can the topic of this match be capturing Toruk and cooking it?”

“Uh-huh, Eden. If you say things like that, the dimensional civilization will call you a racist.”

But it’s poison cooking… I don’t think I’m talking about poison cooking, where something like poison comes out when you cook it, but I think I’m talking about cooking using poison in the ingredients themselves.

Of course, it will remove the poison. If you eat it and die instantly without even having a chance to taste it, there’s no point in making the dish, right? Only transcendental people, for whom poison has no meaning, will probably be able to eat such poisonous dishes.

Cooking should be edible for everyone. Even if the person chooses the dish, the dish should not obscure the person.

“So what is the topic of the second match?”

“This is it!!!!”

Suerta, the second chef of the dark cuisine world, ordered the waitresses to bring something. And then something large appears on a cart.

It was a large piece of meat, the size of a pig, placed in an airtight container made of glass, and the dull purple flesh gave it a somewhat hideous feel. The marbling itself was so good that I was reluctant to eat it.

“It’s the meat of a poison drake that lives in a poisonous swamp. An average person will be poisoned to death just by coming within 20 meters, and it is a very vicious beast that boasts a level of venom that will kill you instantly as soon as you touch it, even if you are wearing gloves.”

“Can I eat that?”

“If someone were to choose a dish to eat at the end of their life, it is such delicious meat that they would choose a dish made from this meat. It’s just that the process of removing the poison is difficult and difficult.”

“Oh, as long as it tastes good, it’s okay.”

But the important thing is that you have to cook with it.

Of course, poison won’t work on Eden, so that’s meaningless. However, the judges are not the ones who have to eat dishes made with that.

Even if a trace amount of poison remains, it will be a big problem if the judges die because of it. If you go to a pufferfish restaurant and eat pufferfish, and someone dies from pufferfish poison, the shop has to close. If you make a mistake, Eden’s life as a chef could be in jeopardy.

“Both sides make dishes with this meat!!! If there is a side that kills the judges, that side loses!!!! If the judges are okay after eating both sides’ dishes, then they will compete in taste and make a more delicious dish. The chef who created will win!!!”

“It’s one competition, but there are two factors that determine victory or defeat. It doesn’t matter because in the end, it just means making it delicious and good.”

“It will require a decontamination process, so the cooking time is 5 hours!!! Now, do you accept the challenge? Your mistake could kill someone, so the only way to give up is now!!!”

“If I was going to give up, I wouldn’t have even started in the first place. Just give me meat!!!”

“You’re confident!!!! Good!!!!”

Rumbling!!!

As Eden accepts the victory, the stage begins to change. A glass wall rose from the floor and covered each person’s cooking space, making it an enclosed space.

This appears to be a measure taken to prevent the inevitable spread of poison while cooking. On the other hand, it is said to be a strong enough poison to have to be treated that way.

“It’s a poison drake. It’s polyp meat, but it would be difficult to remove the poison.”

“Didn’t Eden teach you how to remove poison from dragon meat?”

“That’s true. However, the freshness and taste of the ingredients inevitably decrease. So the keyword for winning depends on how well you can remove poison and maintain the quality of the meat.”

“Eden has the essence of water that purifies Dokdo… It would be difficult to use that.”

“They say it’s dead, but it’s not polyp meat for nothing. It probably contains toxicity at the cell level, but the toxicity cannot be completely removed by soaking it in water.”

You can remove the toxicity by putting it in purified water, similar to removing the blood from meat, but as Phantom said, polyps are strong at the cell level and contain toxicity in those cells.

If you use purified water in moderation, you cannot completely remove the toxicity, but if you use it strongly, you can remove the toxicity, but the cells are destroyed and the taste deteriorates.

The reason the other person brought up such a topic may have been to make Eden uncomfortable, but it was probably because he was confident in removing the poison. You won’t be able to win with meat that lacks flavor.

“What are we going to do with our daughter?”

Eden seemed to care about what we said, so he didn’t start preparing the ingredients right away. I just look at the poison drake meat stored in an airtight container and think deeply.

Fortunately, the time itself was longer than the first fight, so there was some time to spare, but if you waste a lot of time just worrying, you won’t have time to cook, so you can’t think about it for too long. In contrast, Suerta began decontamination work quickly.

Since his physical specifications were not at the transcendental level, he started cooking while heavily armed, wearing something similar to a protective suit to prevent poisoning. After cutting the meat into appropriate sizes, he began to evenly apply an unknown white powder to the meat.

“I don’t think it’s sugar or salt. Could it be yeast or yeast?”

“Removal of toxicity caused by microorganisms? I think there was something similar to that while cooking puffer fish roe.”

There is something like that in Japanese cuisine. The eggs of the puffer fish are also highly poisonous, and it is said that if the eggs are pickled in salt and rice bran for a long time, the toxicity will be removed by microorganisms, making them edible.

The effort of humans to create a recipe to eat puffer fish, which is normally eaten, and not even the flesh part but even the eggs, which are clearly poisonous, is truly remarkable. I’m also really curious about the person who first ate puffer fish and who developed the recipe.

In any case, Suerta’s decontamination method seemed to be effective enough to be proud of. Perhaps that is not ordinary yeast, but something specially improved and made, and it can even remove the poison of Poison Drake, which has a powerful poison.

The poison drake meat is sealed in plastic and placed in a sous vide machine at a temperature suitable for microorganisms to proliferate. You may have to leave it for a few hours, but by the time you take it out, most of the toxicity of the meat will have been removed.

On the other hand, you may think that cooking the meat that way will make it sous vide, but meat with strong polyps is fine even at the sous vide temperature. It probably won’t cook at all when you take it out later, so you can cook it in a variety of ways.

Since it came out like that on the other side, Eden had to start cooking as well. Then he seemed to think of a way and took out the poison drake meat from the airtight container.

Thanks to being a transcendental and receiving various blessings, the poison did not affect Eden, but even so, he was not poisoned. He blinked and complained of itchiness due to the poison spreading in all directions as if he were cutting garlic or chili peppers.

From the looks of it, I touch it with my bare hands because it doesn’t hurt, but the itchiness is probably different, so I think it would be better to wear gloves or a mask… It’s not because I’m foolish, I guess I’m thinking about something.

“Huh?”

“Oh, a purple resonator there?”

Eden began preparing the Poison Drake’s meat with a purple resonator. To others, it may seem like they are just catching fish and grunting, but in reality, they are removing poison from each cell by pulling out a purple resonator so detailed that it is impossible to see with the naked eye and can only be seen with a microscope.

If we focus our senses, Eden’s method of removing poison is very precise and accurate. This is because the poison has been completely removed from the parts that have been treated at least once.

And above all, the quality of the meat remains the same. Poison Drake’s toxicity was in the cells themselves, but the toxicity was removed without destroying a single cell wall.

But… The problem is that it takes too long.

How many cells are there in a piece of meat the size of a small pig? There wasn’t enough time to deal with all of it because it was so toxic that not a single thing could be missed.

“Made in Heaven!!!!!”

“It’s a time manipulation ability, but don’t say that there!!!!!”

Eden accelerated his time using time manipulation, an ability he gained after catching the evil spirit Demon King. Of course, thanks to her, she could save time, but it was inevitable that she would waste a lot of energy.

Even if you have more time than others, it is meaningless if you do not have the stamina to endure that time in the first place. Eden tried her best to remove the Poison Drake’s poison, but it took more than an hour before she knew it.

1 hour from our perspective. From the perspective of Eden, who used time acceleration, more time would have passed. Nevertheless, Eden continued to catch and prepare the fish.

“… It’s great.”

“She’s my daughter.”

Although she is said to be a transcendent, Eden’s stamina and will to endure for an hour, or more than that in her experience, while using techniques such as the purple resonator excessively, must have reached their limit.

But even so, Eden is holding on. The source of her will, which is the foundation, was her pride as a chef.

To make delicious dishes. And to serve delicious dishes.

Eden was a great cook, even if she didn’t seem like one. Her talent and strength were so great that it was thought to be everything to her, but even if that wasn’t the essence of her Eden, she was still an excellent cook with a heart.

If you have motivation, it is natural for your will to soar. Eden’s cooking continued and soon ended with about an hour and a half left in the time limit.

“Fuuuuu!!!!!”

Eden sighed deeply. The removal of her poison was finally over, and her sighs were refreshing and refreshing.

But what remains is the actual cooking. Even if the poison is removed, if the taste is poor, it is natural that it will be defeated in the end. And the first thing Eden did in that situation was to cut up some of the meat she had removed from the poison and roast it.

“Wow!!!!! The meat tastes so good!!!!!”

“Why don’t you tell me that you tried it in order to cook ingredients you didn’t know?”

“Maybe half the reason is that if it’s Eden, the other half is because she just wants to eat.”

Anyway, it’s not an ingredient that was chosen as a topic of confrontation for no reason; it’s highly toxic, but at the same time, it tastes good. Eden decided on her cooking direction, seasoned various ingredients, applied them to the surface of the meat, and placed them in the steamer. I think they were planning to preserve the natural taste and juice of the meat by steaming it, but honestly, it was a good idea.

And the opponent, Suerta’s cooking… Seemed to be making a stew using meat that had been detoxified with microorganisms. It is a sturdy stew that is boiled with a little bit of broth.

Personally, if I were to just say my personal preference without a house manager, it would be towards Suerta. Maybe it’s because I’m Korean, but I like things with broth, whether it’s stew or soup.

However, in our opinion, there was a critical difference in the two people’s cooking, and in the end, that difference will determine victory or defeat.

“Speaking of dragon meat, I also crave dragon meat.”

“Poaching is prohibited in dimensional civilization, just like whales.”

“It’s okay to secretly kill and eat a fucking dragon, so there’s no problem.”

“I still hate this little dragon.”

“If you cook it well, it’s quite delicious. Moreover, Poison Drake meat is poisonous, but the meat is a fairly delicious ingredient.”

In any case, the difference arose due to the two people’s cooking methods, and it was decided that they would win or lose. It is obvious that the winner of this match is clearly determined.

Soon the two started cooking quickly. Suerta stir-fried the poison drake meat with vegetables and boiled it into a stew, and Eden sliced ​​the once-steamed meat into thin slices and finished it off by pouring sauce on it and decorating it.

And before I knew it, the 5 hours of cooking time was almost over. The two finished cooking in a similar amount of time. For now, I decided to take a leisurely look, leaning against the back of the chair I was sitting on.

Since the outcome is decided, this match is obvious. I don’t know if he knows or not, but I just leave the rest to the judges.

“Then we will start the review now!!!!”

With Darkon’s declaration, the two people’s dishes began to be judged in earnest.