Chapter 27 Chef's Class

"Haha, with the new ingredients, I can teach you how to cook, old lady."

The old woman selling chestnuts said cheerfully.

Chen Ye couldn't help but feel dumb. He didn't expect the ingredients to come so suddenly!

It seems like it’s already there...

Could it be that my [luck] had another effect?

"From this point of view, the characteristics of [Wanderer] are quite good. After all, in the process of playing, he can keep his luck at a high level."

With the blessing of this month's novice rankings, the main way for players to improve is undoubtedly playing.

However, some professions may also bring potential dangers to themselves during the performance process.

Or maybe it’s too difficult…

The performance of [Wanderer] is much better.

Not only is the process simple, you only need to keep walking. While increasing the weird value, you can also gather luck!

Luck is also an important part of this dangerous world.

If you are slightly unlucky and encounter a trick that you cannot handle, you will be out of luck!

Fortunately, when Chen Ye encountered the two relatively powerful spies, they were not too dangerous.

Erhu elders are friendly fellows.

The old woman selling chestnuts seems to be a relatively neutral scheming for the time being.

The characteristic item he absorbed - the suona, came from the old woman's deceased son.

As long as they don't seek death, these two powerful aboriginal residents will not only not harm themselves, but also promote their own growth.

Then, the old woman selling chestnuts slowly came to the side of the "sarcoma".

At some point, a small knife appeared in his hand.

She carefully cut off part of the "sarcoma" with a knife.

While cutting, he turned his back to Chen Ye and began to talk about cooking techniques:

"The whole process of cooking is not just as simple as cooking. The selection of ingredients is also very important."

"What you can eat, what you can't eat."

"Good food, bad food."

"Beneficial, harmful..."

"Different ingredients have different properties. Some things are often decided before cooking."

"Choosing ingredients is also a technical job."

The old woman's movements were very slow. After slowly chanting such a long string of words, she just cut off a piece of the sarcoma.

Then, she continued to move slowly, transferring all the chestnuts in the pot into packages of oiled paper bags, freeing up an empty stove.

After completing the whole process, it felt like half an hour had almost passed.

If Zhao Cheng and others hadn't eaten a lot of sugar-roasted chestnuts and knocked a small portion to the ground, this process might have taken much longer.

When the last candied roasted chestnuts were finally packaged, the cooking teaching stage finally came.

Light the fire, heat the pot, add oil...

When the old lady selling chestnuts was holding a spoon, her movements seemed to have suddenly become decades younger, becoming brisk and familiar, completely without the jerky and laggy state before.

The whole movement is done in one go, like a martial arts master who has practiced martial arts for many years, and can only be fast!

After waiting for the hot pot, the ingredients were immediately put into the pot, and there was a "sizzling" grilling sound.

In the darkness, sparks splashed in the pot, dazzling like flying stars.

When the ingredients are cooked to a certain extent, the chestnut seller repeatedly beats the meat with a spatula, causing the whole piece of meat to shrink in size and turn into a ball, just the size of a roasted chestnut.

Then poured in thick syrup, golden powder, and at least four or five unnamed special materials next to it...

Start stir-frying in the pot!

Chen Ye watched the old lady's movements attentively and learned the whole step.

The temperature in the furnace is getting higher and higher, and the surface of the pot has a faint red light, as if it can cast iron. It doesn't look like it is cooking food at all, but like it is forging weapons.

But the more this happens, the more Chen Ye realizes that he knows very little information about this world, and must write down all the details in order to understand the real way of survival.

Boom! ! !

Suddenly, a rising flame burst out of the pot, followed by a burst of acrid black smoke.

A sugar-roasted chestnut that was so burnt that it was hard to bear to look at appeared in the center of the pot.

"Failed?"

Chen Ye was stunned and had this idea in his mind.

Observing with the Eye of Luck, it is not difficult to see that this chestnut is surrounded by a black halo of evil energy.

Even without the help of this special perspective, you can tell with the naked eye that this roasted chestnut has been roasted to the point where it is no different from coal, as hard as a stone, and your teeth cannot bite it at all.

Normal people know that this stuff is not edible, right?

It is also very different from the usually roasted sugar-roasted chestnuts.

Did he miss it?

But the old woman selling chestnuts had a calm look in her eyes, as if she had expected this outcome. She shoveled the burnt sugar-fried chestnuts out of the pot and said:

"This is a failure made using the wrong ingredients and the right cooking techniques."

"Although I followed the correct method of making sugar-roasted chestnuts throughout the entire process, it still failed due to the poor quality of the ingredients themselves."

"A qualified food must be roasted at high temperature to achieve a complete sterilization effect. On this basis, the cooking methods should be optimized to produce better food."

"It's a pity...this ingredient is unprocessed and low-quality. It cannot withstand high temperatures and needs to be professionally processed."

Chen Ye listened carefully, his mind working fast, trying to remember all the details.

Hearing that it was a problem with the ingredients... Chen Ye suddenly realized that the old lady selling chestnuts was deliberately showing him a failed method as the first lesson.

Yes, the choice of ingredients is very important, especially in the world of "Weird Era".

The rules and structures here are completely different from those in the normal world, and even the cooking methods will subvert the cognition of normal people.

Chen Ye immediately selected three key information points from it-

"First, the ingredients need to be cooked at high temperature to have a sterilization effect... This is probably a common practice, and the temperature of the old lady's oven is very high."

"Second, corresponding to the first point, since the food here needs to be processed at high temperature, the requirements for ingredients are very high. If it is ordinary ingredients, it may not be able to withstand such a cooking method. Even if the old lady uses the correct steps, she will still be limited by the ingredients and make a failed product."

"The last third point is how to handle and process the ingredients?"

Chen Ye asked the last question casually.

The old lady selling chestnuts laughed and said, "I'm just a cook. Although I have some cooking skills, there are some things I'm not good at."

"As the saying goes: professional matters should be left to professionals."

"Since processing ingredients is not something I'm good at, I have to find professionals!"

Here it comes!

The familiar quotations from classics!

Listening to the old lady selling chestnuts with an old and wrinkled face, Chen Ye couldn't help but feel absurd in his heart as she kept spouting various classic sentences.

He looked at the "meat sculptures" standing not far away, and suddenly said with a move in his mind:

"Grandma, you said that the ingredients are expensive, you should be talking about processed ingredients, right?"

"But these ingredients are not processed, so are they not that valuable?"

"Correspondingly...then they are not that expensive?"

The grandma nodded with satisfaction:

"You are right."

"If it is processed ingredients, the starting price should be at least 15 copper coins per catty, and the starting price should be 5 copper coins."

"However, if it is these inferior ingredients, their value is only one copper coin at most."

"This copper coin is not the price of one catty, but the package price."

"You only need to pay one copper coin, and you can choose one from these ingredients at will."

There are four "meat sculptures" in front of him.

Chen Ye's eyes lit up, and he immediately said:

"Then grandma, I will use three copper coins to buy three pieces of ingredients from you!"

The grandma selling chestnuts kept "one piece" for herself to teach her cooking methods on the spot.

The other three pieces are used for study, cooking in the future, keeping as food to sustain life, or selling to earn other income...