vstars Chapter 142: The chef solves the problem of cattle
Chapter 142: The chef solves the problem of cattle
This is utterly ridiculous! Tusa frowned, finding it hard to accept, especially for someone who cherishes food.
"Uncle, just because you can't does doesn't mean others can't. Besides, I'm almost 16! I'm not a kid anymore!" Yufei retorted, looking at Tusa's disapproving expression as he discussed her decision to have surgery.
Hmph~ Thirty years east of the river, cough cough, no, no, don't bully the young. These skills are all learned by those who are already proficient. With her fiery temper, she thought, "If I don't show this old man my skills today, he won't know how many talented people our Great Xia has to offer."
"Brother Jun, Brother Huang, bring that calf up here!" Yufei's eyes were already blazing with the fire of her teenage angst, and she was determined to prove herself.
"Alright~ Here we come!" Lei Jun and Qi Huang rolled up their sleeves, ready to carry the calf, which was even bigger than a grown water buffalo in Daxia, onto the slaughtering board.
Tusa stopped him.
"You don't need to do it, I'll do it!" With that, he picked up the calf with one hand and threw it onto the makeshift slaughtering board. The board trembled violently from the impact of the calf, and it took several minutes for it to calm down.
Regardless, it managed to withstand the weight of the three-eyed calf, which was the size of a buffalo.
Tusa raised an eyebrow at Yufei, gesturing for her to proceed, as if to say, "I'll just watch your performance quietly; if you dare waste my cow, I'll beat you up even if you're a woman!"
His eyes were filled with distrust towards Yufei. Yufei knew that no amount of words would help; only...
With a focused look, Yufei drew one of the knives. In a flash, she cleanly and swiftly slit the calf's throat, ending its short life.
Immediately afterwards, Yufei brought a large bathtub, placed it over the bleeding neck, and then made another deep cut into the calf's neck to hasten the bleeding.
While Yufei was butchering the calf, the other soldiers had already set up three hot pots.
Lei Jun called out to them, telling them they could start eating while waiting for Yufei to finish butchering the cow. At this time, not only Lei Jun and his men, but also Kukochi and the others were hungry.
Lei Jun hosted Kukoc, and Kukoc's father and uncle sat with him to show proper hospitality.
While he was still staring at the diagrams of Yufei's dissection, the moment the hot pot was served, all his attention shifted to the pot emitting a rich aroma.
His mouth watered uncontrollably at that moment. Tusa swallowed hard and asked, "What is this?"
"This is a specialty dish from our hometown! Come on, let's eat with the ingredients we've prepared first, and then we'll try the fresh ingredients after Yufei finishes processing the calf."
As Lei Jun greeted everyone, he thought to himself that once he finished dealing with that… cow, he was determined not to touch a single bite! The taste of yesterday's roast beef was still fresh in his mind.
Therefore, he didn't object when Yufei said she would slaughter the cattle today; in his view, it didn't matter who slaughtered the cattle! Lei Jun demonstrated how to cook the ingredients for hot pot.
I told them that this was a yin-yang hot pot, consisting of a clear broth and a spicy, buttery broth, and then let the three of them try it.
No matter how much they describe it, it's nothing compared to tasting it yourself. Indeed, spicy hot pot is forever the best. The three of them tried both types of broth.
The first thing we tried was the clear broth hot pot. We ate the food in it with gleaming eyes.
After trying the spicy broth, they abandoned the clear broth and indulged in the spicy broth with gusto.
He kept making "hissing" noises while eating.
Sweating profusely from eating, he kept waving his chopsticks towards the hot oil pot.
While they were enjoying their meal, Yufei, using her blood-draining techniques, had already bled the calf dry in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
She took out a small awl and got to work. Finding a spot, she made a single, swift cut, and in no time, a whole piece of cowhide was peeled off.
Then she deftly switched to a boning knife, and with a few deft movements, she poked at a few joints of the already skinned calf.
The cow was instantly torn apart, and the different cuts of meat were displayed to Yufei. Yufei quickly switched to another knife.
Yufei quickly sliced the already disintegrated beef, separating it into various cuts such as premium shoulder, marbled fat, and shank.
Sprinkle with the prepared ginger juice and pour over it. Yufei also coated a portion of the high-quality pork shoulder with egg white.
After processing all the beef ingredients, they were divided into three portions and served to three tables.
"Come on, try some of my prepared beef and see how it tastes!"
After placing one portion on Lei Jun's table and the other two on the tables of the other brothers, Yufei also sat down at Lei Jun's table.
Looking at the huge bowl of beef that hadn't been touched yet, Lei Jun and Qi Huang didn't want to eat it, while Kukoc, his father, and his uncle didn't know how to eat it.
Seeing that Lei Jun and the others hadn't touched the beef, I assumed that the way they were eating it was different from the way they had just taught us!
Yufei wasn't entirely confident about how she had prepared the beef, but she was always willing to try new things.
Yesterday, when they were having barbecue, Yufei couldn't help but vomit, but her sensitive tongue noticed that besides the indescribable gamey smell, there was also a unique milky taste of cow and sheep.
However, the flavor was completely masked by the overwhelming muttony smell; if it weren't for her extremely sensitive tongue, it wouldn't have been so easy to detect.
Yufei was thinking at the time that their beef and mutton didn't taste very good, which might be related to improper preparation.
Aunt Xia Chan had told her before, when she was teaching her how to handle ingredients and butcher animals, that sometimes the taste of ingredients can be very different depending on whether they are bled or not.
Some top-quality ingredients, even with the slightest error in preparation, can be completely ruined.
The texture of the ingredients can be completely different from the texture of the ingredients from one second to the next. Therefore, Yufei wants to try using the methods she is familiar with to process the animals in this world and see if the taste can be improved...
If that doesn't work, then no one can salvage the taste of these animals. Thinking this, Yufei picked up a slice of marbled beef with her chopsticks.
Yufei dipped the beef slices in the hot oil a few times, watching them change color, and then dipped them in her homemade sauce.
I put it in my mouth, "Mmm~! ⊙▽⊙" The spicy flavor, combined with the subtle savory sauce, brought me immense satisfaction with every bite of the fatty beef.
Yufei chewed the beef in her mouth, her jaw moving rapidly, her eyes growing brighter with each chew.
After the initial burst of spicy and savory flavors upon entry, the taste of the otherworldly three-eyed beef was awakened between the lips and teeth.
It was slightly inferior to the top-grade beef from Space Cow, but surprisingly, it was just as good as the best Wagyu beef from Earth.
The milky aroma gradually intensifies with each chew, becoming increasingly rich and authentic, reminiscent of the vast grasslands, with absolutely no trace of goatyness.
It's so delicious! Yufei couldn't help but pick up a couple more slices and put them into the hot pot to eat. Kukoc and the other two could see how Yufei ate.
They also understood how to eat the beef. Unlike Lei Jun, they didn't hold back and followed Yufei's example, quickly dipping the beef in the sauce and putting it in their mouths.
Mom! Is this the beef from the three-eyed cow they know? Is this some kind of divine meat?! It's so delicious! One bite, and Kukoc, his dad, and Tusa felt like they were in heaven!