Food: I Am A Cartoonist In Totsuki

Chapter 124: Around the Fresh Fight

The moon is about to enter the “Way of the Moon”, and Nakiri Senzaemon also stood up and reminded: “Please be prepared.

When the whole moon entered the “gully”, only Nakiri Senzaemon was heard shouting: “Cooking begins!”

After these words, Nakiri Erina has already taken the lead in taking action, because she is very aware of the characteristics of saury

The saury died from the moment it was salvaged, and its deliciousness was gradually lost.

On the fish river bank near Tōtsuki, saury fishing is generally carried out from 1:00 to 3:00 in the morning, and the current time is more than 7:00 in the evening, close to 8:00. Therefore, more than 12 hours have passed since the death of the saury.

Even if it is sealed with the most high-tech food preservation boxes, it will still lose a certain degree of deliciousness.

Even if Nakiri Erina has the “God’s Tongue”, this situation cannot be avoided, so she chooses to deal with the saury in the first time to minimize the loss of deliciousness.

Erina took out the fresh-keeping box of the prepared ingredients, and after opening it, there were several saury with tight bodies and shiny whole bodies.

The three major criteria for freshness of saury are clear, firm fish body and shiny whole fish.

Obviously, these saury prepared by Erina are quite fresh, and they are like sharp swords in their hands.

Then I saw Erina take out one of the saury and start processing it.

Karma.

The kitchen knife was aimed at the saury’s leg bone, and then the fish head was cut off along this place.

Seeing this scene, many people were puzzled.

“Well? Cut off the head of the saury directly. What are you going to cook?”

“First of all, exclude dishes such as charcoal grilling, because charcoal grilling will not cut off the head, you must know that the saury head after charcoal grilling is also delicious.”

In the confusion of the crowd, Erina continued to use the knife. She pushed the kitchen knife inward against the spine, and grabbed the upper half of the fish maw with her left hand. Then she suddenly used force and chopped off half of the fish maw.

After this work is done, turn the whole saury over, the knife still runs against the spine, and cut off the other half of the fish maw.

Finally, turn the fish skin down and the left side of the belly to remove the fishbone with an oblique knife…

When seeing this, someone has already seen Erina’s intentions.

“Actually removing the saury’s bones, this is to make a boneless saury~~.

“The saury is different from ordinary fish. Although there are few spines, it is very difficult to completely remove the spines because of the small size of the fish, but Erina removed them so easily, enough to see Her knife skills are superb!”

The two gourmets at the special guest table said so, nodding to Erina’s knife skills.

Not only the two gourmets were complimenting, but the rest of the audience were also amazed.

In less than five minutes, Erina easily removed the bones and bones of a whole saury. After removing all the fish bones, the saury can still maintain a similar shape to the original, which once again proves her skill in knife skills.

“The cooking technique of removing fishbone and fishbone will only appear in some star-rated restaurants. Some guests with tricky tastes do not want to eat fishbone, so they ask star chefs to remove the fishbone and then cook it. This is a combination of knife skills and cooking experience. The requirements are extremely high, and even some professional chefs may not be able to do it.” Dojima Gin rubbed her chin and stared at Erina in front of the cooking station secretly.

Erina skillfully and quickly removes the bones and bones from the saury, while Tong Yu here is calmly handling the ingredients other than the saury.

“Tong Yuyu didn’t deal with the saury at the first time? Didn’t he know that if the saury was handled slowly, it would lose an extra point of its deliciousness?”

“Wait, wait, these ingredients he took out were eight kinds of seafood!!!

Only then did everyone discover that the ingredients on the Tong Yu cooking station were “eight kinds of seafood”.

Eight kinds of seafood refers to eight kinds of seafood such as shark fin, sea cucumber, fish maw, mussels and dried scallops (meat), dried scallops (dried scallop meat), fish lips, abalone and squid.

These are the eight species in the sea, and there are also “eight treasures of animals” on land, namely bear paw, elephant trunk, hump, orangutan lip, deer tail, monkey brain, leopard fetus, and bird’s nest.

Whether it’s “Eight Seafood Species” or “Eight Treasures of Animals”, there are top ingredients in Chinese cuisine, and these ingredients generally only appear on state banquet dishes.

Especially in the Qing Dynasty where Liu Pingxing and others lived, “Eight Species of Seafood” and “Eight Treasures of Animals” were the chief dishes of court cuisine.

Eight ingredients Tong Yu processed quickly, and then put a few of them into the pot and started to simmer.

On Tong Yu’s cooking table, there is not only a cauldron cooked with one candle, but if you look closely, there are five full candles on fire. There are three different types of pot mouths: casserole, fryer and pressure cooker.

Seeing this, many people also guessed that the ingredients cooked by Tong Yu candles must be more than “eight kinds of seafood”.

This made many of him wonder again. What kind of cooking is it that needs to use so many boiled ingredients at one time? And the most important point is to use a lot of ingredients to process other ingredients, and leave the saury aside, the taste will be reduced. Lost a lot.

Everyone couldn’t understand what Tong Yu was thinking. When they turned around, Erina had already completed all the work of deboning and debone of the saury, and then saw the fish maw, fish body, fish tail, Fish back meat is served separately and processed.

Each part of the meat is made into puree, and then seasonings, egg whites, corn oil, etc. are added successively.

“It turns out that the saury is made into puree and marinated with seasonings, and then sealed with egg whites and oil to lock the deliciousness of the saury firmly, so that even if it is put aside to process the ingredients, the taste will not be changed. Lost!”

“There’s really a set, but what to do with this delicious saury?”

As everyone watched, half the cooking time had passed, and the moon had already traveled halfway along the “Road of the Moon”. At this time, Tong Yu (who got Zhao) took out his saury.

“Is it too late to start processing saury at this time?

“Well, even if you put it in the food safe, the taste must have lost a lot.”

“Why are his saury so big? Hey, is there such a big saury!”

When Tong Yu took out one of the saury, everyone in the audience was surprised.

Because the saury that Tong Yu took out was twice as big as that of Erina saury, it weighed at least three or four pounds.

What everyone is amazed at is not the size of saury, because they also see a lot of big saury, but if you want to eat 1 to 2 catties of small saury, the taste will definitely be better.

Like this big saury, it has survived in the sea for a long time, and the meat has become aged and the taste is poor.

Unfinished (to be continued…),