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Fairy Bie Xue attaches great importance to the banquets she hosts. More than half of her current status in the cultivation world is attributed to the Fairy Food Banquet, which is a stage for her to showcase her culinary skills. It is precisely because of this stage that fellow Taoists from all walks of life choose to bring their own ingredients and contribute money and effort to help her host this banquet.

For her, if she could host this banquet successfully, it would definitely be a huge boost to her reputation. More importantly, cooking has become a part of her spiritual heart. It is a pursuit that she will never abandon on her path of cultivation.

If she had enough time to communicate with enough experts to hone her skills and improve her cooking skills, she would definitely not refuse.

"If you are ready, then come with me and get used to the kitchen over there. It may be a little different from what you imagined. For us, traditional cooking utensils are a bit outdated."

Fairy Bie Xue was thoughtful, but she didn't comment, because in Fairy Bie Xue's opinion, there are not many changes that can be made in the kitchen. Throughout the ages, the development of the kitchen has not undergone much change. There are only a few ways to cook. Even with the development of modern technology, the final effect of using an induction cooker and using an ordinary stove is the same, and there is no essential difference.

Even a microwave oven, which changes the heating mode, does not have a very high status in the kitchen. It cannot be considered as changing the kitchen mode. In her opinion, human technology has developed to this point. If there is no revolutionary change in the kitchen, there will probably not be much change in the future.

However, after she stepped into the space door and entered the new kitchen, she realized that she was extremely wrong.

The many chefs busy in the kitchen were not using various cooking utensils, but were controlling the light screen suspended in the air in front of them. Rather than saying they were cooking, it would be better to say they were controlling a machine.

Fairy Bie Xue really wanted to say that dishes made by machines are soulless, but after thinking about it, she held back and didn't say it out loud. After all, she hadn't learned the working principles of these machines in detail yet. If she made such an assertion directly, she would be easily slapped in the face.

After entering the kitchen, Fairy Bie Xue began to carefully observe how these people cooked. Soon she saw some clues. When they were cooking, they not only input data on the screen, but also controlled some special substances in the air. These were the tools they used for cooking.

The substance they controlled was silver liquid metal. It looked like flowing water. But when needed, it could become as tough as a blade. In their hands, the food could be easily cut into neat small pieces. And it looked even neater than Fairy Bie Xue's own cuts.

"With the help of artificial intelligence and the measurement of precision tools, they can process and slice the ingredients. The precision of each slice is guaranteed to be at the nanometer level, and this part of the processing is completely automated without wasting the chef's own energy. And this is only the most basic function of their cooking utensils. If you want to practice your cooking skills here in the future, you must be familiar with the use of this special cooking utensils as soon as possible."

Lan Nuo remembered that the concept of molecular cuisine was mentioned in some of the food, animations, and comics he had seen before, although these were often used as supporting characters to highlight the power of the protagonist, or appeared as villains.

But one thing should be that the use of this kind of cooking technology often appears in a very powerful way, and the molecular cuisine that Lanno and others are using now is even more exaggerated than in the anime.

It is truly a process of processing food at the molecular level, or even at the atomic level. These colored liquids are special devices constructed by mixing controllable high-energy particles with a portion of nanomachinery.

It can quickly and intelligently complete the arrangement of molecular atoms. In traditional cooking, some effects that require the use of special ingredients can be simulated through molecular rearrangement.

For example, the Maillard reaction, which you have heard so much about in food shows, is essentially just a protein denaturation. However, for these machines that can act directly on the molecular level, it is very simple to accomplish. It does not even require a high-temperature environment. It can just fold the corresponding protein molecules one by one.

Fairy Bie Xue did think that cooking with these mechanical devices was soulless at first, but she soon gave up the idea. After actually getting to know how to control this type of equipment, she had to admit that if the technological level was high enough, this was the future of cooking.

A chef is not just someone who operates machines. In this new era, chef is also an important profession. However, unlike the original profession that involved more repetitive labor and more service industries, it has become a profession that is more inclined towards technology and research and development, that is, inventions and creations in the direction of cooking.

This is what she realized only after she learned about this new cooking equipment. Before that, Fairy Bie Xue was still somewhat limited by stereotyped thinking about cooking in this era.

Normal people think that cooking requires a chef. Things cooked purely by machines may only be cooked in a big pot, and the food may not taste good.

But with the advancement of technology, this situation is constantly improving. More chefs are being liberated little by little, and this profession is no longer physical labor, but more of a mental labor.

After the latest nano-cookers came out, traditional chefs were almost completely eliminated. The biggest reason is that cookers at this microscopic level can completely replace the repetitive work of chefs.

Today’s chefs only need to cook each dish once. AI will record the cooking process and mark every detail of the ingredients. Then just throw the ingredients into the cooker. The tools will automatically repeat the above process, process the ingredients, and cook the same dish. In this process, there will indeed be situations where the shape of the ingredients is not neat or the texture inside the ingredients is different from before, but AI is not rigid and can still handle some minor problems.

As for those relatively more troublesome problems, such as some special textures inside the stone, which sometimes play a role in the cooking process, these are indeed relatively difficult for artificial intelligence to handle. The cooked dishes may be slightly lower in quality than the original ones. But this is also very simple. All you need to do is cook the chef who cooked this dish for more than three consecutive times, let the artificial intelligence record his different ideas for handling different ingredients, and then fit other ingredients, and you can cook dishes that are very close to what the chef would cook himself.

The more times a chef makes a dish, the more detailed the information recorded by the artificial intelligence, and the more perfect the replicated dish will be. From this perspective, artificial intelligence and mechanical equipment have indeed liberated chefs from repetitive labor.

"When we designed this kind of cooking utensils, we considered social issues. In the civilization we lead, vulgar tastes are not advocated. We encourage everyone to have higher and more positive pursuits. However, if in the process of developing cooking skills, we pursue the spirit of craftsmanship and brand effects, and add too much added value to the dishes other than deliciousness, it is very likely that in the process of satisfying our taste buds, humans will pursue vulgar tastes.

That is, they compete to see who eats more luxuriously, who uses more expensive ingredients, and even put this competition in a meaningless direction. For example, the water source used in the cooking process is a meaningless comparison of using the dew on the leaves in the morning.

In order to prevent this situation from happening, we choose to industrialize and standardize cooking. The emergence of molecular cuisine in the cooking-related industry can be said to be a milestone turning point. After molecular cuisine can be popularized, the comparison of the preciousness of the ingredients used and the use of dew on the leaves in the morning as the water source for cooking, which I mentioned before, becomes a foolish behavior.

Because technology has reached this point, it is easy to replicate the ingredients in the morning dew. In theory, the dishes cooked with it can be exactly the same as those cooked with the so-called precious ingredients, down to every molecule.

People who truly enjoy these dishes are not enjoying the deliciousness, but enjoying their superior status. However, when tasting such dishes becomes a foolish act, such comparison becomes meaningless.

This is why we prioritized the development of replication capabilities during the development of this cooker, and why we launched it to the market only after we were able to mass-produce it.”

  Fairy Bie Xue frowned as she listened to this story. She was actually very uncomfortable deep down. It was as if she was saying that the exquisite cooking skills she had honed for many years could be completely replaced by machines. Then what was the point of all the efforts she had made over the years? If she used these machines to make a dish, and other people could use the machines to copy the same dish, then what was the meaning of her existence? Would she still be an indispensable existence in the chef world? Would there still be countless lickers in the world of cultivation like now, and even willing to give up their dignity just to be able to taste a table of delicious food cooked by her?

The answer is obviously no, but the unspoken thoughts hidden deep in her heart are actually the same as the thoughts of those eliminated chefs when this set of cooking utensils was first created.

Under the original dietary system, the beneficiaries are not just those in power, and not just those who are willing to maintain this system for the sake of their own superiority.

This also involves the interests of many celebrity chefs. One of the important reasons why these chefs have a high status is that their skills are not replicable. Of course, sometimes it is not necessarily that their skills are not replicable. It is that the previous marketing has made them become immortals, and they have really gained a high status like celebrities, and gained huge benefits in the process.

Most of these chefs who have been clinging to their past benefits in the tide of the times have now been eliminated. What Lan Nuo and others need is not a group of parasites who can live a lifetime with just one trick. If they want to get the same lofty status as before, they should not stop thinking. As long as they can develop more new and delicious dishes, in the new era of food, their status will not only not be reduced, but will be improved.

It will take some time for Fairy Bie Xue to turn around, but she has figured out one thing: the emergence of this advanced equipment is a fait accompli. Even if she is unwilling to admit the birth of this tool and hates these tools, it is impossible for her to make these tools disappear.

Instead of complaining about yourself, you should accept the existence of these tools. Learn how to use them quickly. No matter how the new era develops, those who can't keep up with the times will always be eliminated. I heard that keeping up with the times doesn't necessarily mean you can stand at the forefront, but it is always better than being left on the beach.

After taking over the control of the cooker constructed by high-energy particles, Fairy Bie Xue realized that she had underestimated the chefs of the new era. It seemed that these chefs only needed to select some buttons on the screen to complete their cooking. In fact, it was not the case at all. Most of the control was done directly through the brain.

Every molecule of this liquid metal can be controlled. Theoretically, the most perfect situation is to control the movement of every molecule at the same time. But this is almost impossible for humans, including cultivators, so programming is required during use, and a set of programs must be written to make artificial intelligence cooperate with oneself.

The device contains a set of initial basic artificial intelligence and a set of basic operating instructions. However, relying solely on these instructions can only cook the simplest dishes. If you want to become a true chef in this era, you must write a set of artificial intelligence that suits you during the cooking process.

Well, this writing process does not require much professional programming knowledge. Artificial intelligence itself has been developing for many years and gradually adapted to human natural language. It can automatically write corresponding programs through human subjective descriptions, and users only need to make requirements for the program and then adjust the details after the programming is completed.

Even Fairy Bie Xue, who had never been exposed to the relevant knowledge, was able to get started quickly.

[To be continued]

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