Chapter 244 Who decides the winner?
“Successively awesome?”
No one can believe their eyes.
"Isn't the snake meat stewed so hard? How could there be a straightforward sound?" Someone asked another question.
The Eagle Claw King knew the answer, but he did not answer, but scooped up another tablespoon of snake meat soup.
He continued to eat.
"It's snake skin." I explained, "Although the snake flesh was cooked in soup, the snake skin had been peeled off long ago, roasted on a fine fire and finally combined with the snake flesh."
"But in such a short time, how did you cook the snake meat?" another judge asked.
"How come the boiled snake meat is delicious?" I shook my head.
"It's not cooked, why did it come down as soon as you dig it?" the judge said in surprise.
"The fish can be chopped into glutinous rice, and the snake meat can be done," I said, "But this is not a snake meat, but a snake slice. Master Wu from Yunlailou used his ultimate skill to cut all the meat of a snake to the size of a snake scale, and then filled the slices with extremely fine wild fruit and wild vegetable powder. After biting it, the snake skin is crisp, the snake meat is tough, the fruit and vegetable fragrance, and the fish soup is fresh, it can be said to be endless!"
"Then the turbidity of your soup base..." the judge tentatively.
"It's the fine powder made of wild fruits, wild vegetables, wild mushrooms." I said.
"Why did the snake swim in the soup at the beginning?" The judges asked more questions.
"Because I'm angry," I said.
"Angry?" The judges didn't understand.
"That's right." I explained carefully, "When we put the snake section into the soup, we deliberately left some air inside, so there was a slight vibration, and the snake section floated up by itself. Because the air began to rise out, the snake section began to roll - because there was white foam covering it, it looked like it was swimming."
"The last question." The judge of the white-bearded old man stood up and said, "Cooking soup with lake fish and snake meat. How do you remove the fishy smell of these two things?"
"Good question, this is indeed the biggest problem." I said happily, "Actually, just like vermilion fruit, many wild fruits have the effect of removing fishy smells - I first rub the snake meat with raspberries, then cut it into thin slices, then pass a piece of cold water and filter a piece of hot water, and there is basically no fishy smell."
"Yes, it's easy to remove the fishy smell of snake meat just by removing the fishy smell." The judge of the white-bearded old man said, "But with fish, things are not that simple. Fish is not as good as snakes. After chopping, the umami loss is severe. Moreover, there are too many out of flavor ingredients added, which will inevitably affect the taste of the snake meat and even the whole soup..."
"Well, the solution is very simple." I smiled.
"What is the simple way?" The white-bearded old judge turned his ears to the side with a serious look on his face.
The other judges also put their heads close.
Seeing this scene, the boss lady and Jazha looked at each other and showed a naughty smile.
"The secret is..." I deliberately stretched my tone, "No fish."
"Ah?" The white-bearded old judge was full of confusion.
"You heard it right, and I wasn't wrong." I said, "As long as you don't put fish, there will naturally be no fishy smell of fish."
"Yes...a...a...a...are you not fish soup?" The white-bearded old judge said in shock.
"No, which eye of yours sees fish inside?" I shrugged.
"I didn't see it, but the smell..." The white-bearded old judge was stunned for a moment, and suddenly snatched a spoon of fresh soup from the feasted king of Eagle Claws.
The Eagle Claw King was not annoyed, and continued to drink his soup and eat his snake meat.
The white-bearded old judge's hand trembled slightly with the soup spoon, making people worry that he would spill the soup out.
He trembled and put the spoon to his mouth and took a sip.
"How is it?" the judges asked with concern.
"Fish... there are indeed fish, but..." The white-bearded old judge's face changed again and again, "I, Mr. Yu, eat all the twenty-nine states, but I can't taste what kind of fish it is."
"Old man." I sighed, "You usually eat delicacies, and it is normal that you have never tasted this kind of fish."
"What kind of fish is it?" the white-bearded old judge asked anxiously.
"It's fish...scale dish." I gave the answer.
"Fish-scale dish?" The judges were stunned.
"I know this kind of wild vegetable," said the judge of the white-bearded old man. "But I have never heard of it smelling like fish, let alone such a delicious fish smell?"
"I can't taste fish, because the way I eat it is wrong." I grabbed a handful of leftover fish scale dishes and showed them to the judges.
The so-called fish scale vegetable is a wild vegetable grown in volcano. It has thin and dense leaves and extremely thick roots, which can stabilize the water and soil.
"Often people eat fish scale cabbage, they eat their leaves. The roots of the cabbage are too thick and tough, and they can't be gnawed at all." I explained, "Why do some people say that cooking soup with fish scale cabbage brings a little fish flavor? That's because he threw some of the roots into the soup and cooked it - yes, the fish flavor of fish scale cabbage is actually hidden in these rhizomes."
"But can the wild vegetables really taste so umami?" Some judges refused to believe it.
"Of course it's not possible to rely on fish scale dishes alone." I said, "Think about it, can even a real fish be directly cooked with the best umami flavor? So the role of fish scale dishes in this soup is just a seasoning that brings out the flavor and arouses appetite. Various wild fruits, vegetables and snake meat are the real main ingredients."
"This is OK?" The judges looked at each other.
"Why can't it be!" The Eagle Claw King, who had been unable to stop eating, suddenly said, "What a dragon in the abyss, the taste is indeed as deep as a sea of abyss. The feeling of snake flesh bounces in his mouth is even more fierce, making people unable to stop their mouths..."
"ah!"
"Ah! Ah!"
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"
When the judges saw it, they shouted regardless of their face.
"Oh?" The Eagle Claw King looked down and said embarrassedly, "I actually ate too much if I was not careful."
I stretched my neck and looked at it: there were only a few reed leaves left in the basket.
What is this that is not what to eat too much, it’s fine?
"We didn't even lick it." Some judges suddenly screamed.
"Don't worry, sir." The boss's wife smiled. "In order to prevent accidents, we specially made two more pots of soup."
"Guan? Where did the pot come from in the mountains and mountains?" The judges were a little curious.
Chazha and Tongtou walked into the woods and pushed out two square rocks.
Master Wu stretched out his palms and gently slighted everything, and Shi Gai flew into the air.
At the opening, strands of white mist flowed.
"So it's a stone pot!" The judges suddenly realized.
"This vine basket is also clever." The old judge of the white-bearded man opened the reed leaves on the bottom of the basket and found that the gaps in the vine basket were filled with dark green mud.
"This is dragon claw moss, not only used for caulking, but it is actually one of the soup ingredients..." I said.
No one listened to me.
Because the judges rushed to the stone pot and tried their best to drink the soup.
"Master Zheng." Seeing this scene, I was not polite and walked directly to the Eagle Claw King, "Dare you dare to ask, is there a conclusion on the outcome of this game?"
"Young people, don't be impatient." The Eagle Claw King smiled, "I don't judge the outcome of this game."
I turned my head and looked at the judges sitting next to the stone pot.
"It's not up to them to judge." The Eagle Claw King said again.
What?
I was stunned.
Then who decides our victory or defeat?
Chapter completed!