At half past seven, preparations officially began.
Bang!! A large basket of clawed crabs was fucked by Hinata, Igarashi Kumaomi and Denzono Usagi moved into the kitchen. Shi Ke was assigned the simple task of peeling potatoes.
"Today's theme is to cook crabs and shrimps. I'll get the shrimps, and you can take your time." Hinatako picked up a crab and put it on the cooking table before leaving the kitchen.
Seeing the crab slowly approaching, Akiyama Inusaki immediately became furious. He stretched out his right hand and swung it, ≥゜゜〕≤?(;′Д｀?), "Wow! Are you doing crabs again?! I was caught last time. My fingers are not healed yet!!”
"Hehehe... Who told you not to study hard when the chef taught you?" Cangmu Miao was a little gloating.
"Girls are afraid of things like this with a bunch of claws!" Akiyama Inusaki felt aggrieved,???.
"I am a woman~~Xiong Mei and Tuyu are also women~~Of all the chefs in the House of Mist, you are the only one who is afraid of crabs!" Cangmu Miao pointed it out ruthlessly, with contempt, (?ω?).
"Well..." Akiyama Inusaki was speechless and stared at the crab's angry face.
"Making crabs is quite easy." Shi Ke, who was responsible for peeling potatoes, came over with his head in his head.
Akiyama Inuzaki turned to Shi Ke with an angry face, "Have you peeled those thirty kilograms of potatoes?"
"Hmm. It's peeled. Do you want to check it?" Shi Ke pointed to the smooth potatoes that had been peeled and soaked in the pool to prevent oxidation.
"Do you want it to be so fast?! Xiong Mei and Tuyu will go out to move a crab, and you have peeled thirty pounds of potatoes?" Akiyama Inusaki slapped his face, giving up hope for the main task assigned to him today.
"In the kitchen, it's normal to move quickly." Shi Ke scratched his head, a little confused. What's wrong, you're not satisfied with my fast movements and good quality?
"Well... you can peel and dice the carrots, shred them and mince them."
"Cut it right away? Cut it before cooking?" Shi Ke tilted his head.
"Pack the three cutting methods evenly. Leave some peeled and uncut parts for later use. Cut the burdock and daikon as well. The requirements are the same. Once done, go and handle the crabs with Inuzaki and Xiaomei." Igarashi Bear Mei touched her chin and said.
"Oh, I understand. It would be good to assign more tasks at once like this." Shi Ke went back to cutting the pieces.
"Hmm... Inuzaki, your task is difficult. This guy's skills should be better than yours and mine. The only one in our entire Mist House who can be better than him is probably the chef." After Shi Ke returned to his post, Igarashi Xiong Mei looked at Shi Ke's peeled potatoes and the trash can, hesitated and said.
"Hmm... I've noticed it a long time ago. He didn't cut off the whole potato skin, he was so fast, and he didn't damage the tissue inside the potatoes. I can't do this technique at all." Akiyama Inusaki pointed to the peeled potatoes in the trash can.
"Um."
"I will ignore the chef's task for now. I won't be fired if I can't complete it. I will accept the punishment. I underestimated him." Akiyama Inusaki angrily used a kitchen knife and claws on the crab on the cooking table. The swords jingled together.
"Yes. It's done right. But don't you think the chef has a motive for doing this?"
"What's the purpose?"
"Come here." Igarashi Kumami softly called Cat, Dog and Rabbit together, "The chef actually wants us to learn techniques secretly, rather than asking us to teach Mr. Shike, who is much stronger than us."
"No way? Chef, she would think so much?" Akiyama Inusaki grinned.
"I don't think it's the same. The chef usually looks like this. How could he think so deeply?" Cangmu Miao took over.
"This is why you can't be a chef and she is a chef. You think too simply. Even if the chef doesn't think so, don't you want to learn that kind of technique?" Igarashi Kumami pointed at Masakiri.
The vegetables are cut until the stone guest looks like a goddess scattering flowers.
"Didn't you spill any of this?" Akiyama Inuzaki was dumbfounded as he watched Shi Ke finish dicing the carrots and then throwing the kitchen knife directly into the bowl in the distance without missing any pellets.
"..., what are you all looking at me for?" Shi Ke looked up and asked. The kitchen knife in his hand didn't stop at all, and it was still chopping carrots smoothly.
"It's nothing! Pay attention to your knife! It's cutting vegetables!" Akiyama Inuzaki shouted hurriedly.
Shi Ke put the shredded carrots into the bowl calmly and picked up the burdock. "The carrots are all done. Are you okay? Senior Akiyama."
"No...it's okay." Akiyama Inusaki was speechless.
"Oh." Shi Ke started to deal with burdock in a fancy way again.
After a while, Shi Ke finished processing the burdock and radish, and the foursome, the cat, dog, rabbit and bear, were all fascinated.
"..., four seniors?" Shi Ke waved his hand in front of the four of them.
"Wow!!" The four of them were all startled.
"What's wrong with you guys? I don't look that handsome, do I?" Shi Ke raised his eyebrows and used the blade of the sword as a mirror to look at his face, (?ω?)?.
"Stop being narcissistic!! We are just interested in your skills!" Akiyama Inuzaki was furious and had a puffy face.
"You told me earlier. I'll just teach you. It's not a technique that can't be taught to others, it's just ordinary sword skills." Shi Ke curled his lips.
"Ordinary?" Cangmu Miao picked up a piece of radish cut by Shi Ke and was speechless.
"You said you're sick of radishes this month. It's very simple, a little basic, and you can practice it carefully for a month or two. It's the technique of stacking radishes. If you cut it like this, the radish will be very refreshing and crispy."
"It can be seen... super sweet!!" Tianyuan Tuyu tasted a piece directly, ~(￣?￣~).
"You can taste it!" Cangmu Miao complained, (???ε???).
"The quality of the radish is the most important thing. Knife skills come second." Shi Ke also tasted a piece, nodded in approval, and ordered another piece.
"You two, please don't steal the food. It belongs to the guests!" Hinatako held a box of ice-cold prawns and poked her head out from the side of the cooking table.
"Poof...pop!" Shi Ke was so frightened that he spat out the second piece of radish that had just entered his mouth, and it stuck directly on the bridge of Gan Hinata's nose. Through the transparent radish slices, Shi Ke felt the look in Gan Hinata's eyes.
Murderous intent.
It’s scary, scary to death!
"Chef Gan, are you okay?" Shi Ke shamelessly took the radish slices off Gan Hinata's face.
"It's okay~~It's okay. Have you finished cutting the vegetables?" Gan Hinata said with a smile, which made Shi Ke's whole body run cold.
"Yes. It's finished."
"Yeah. Very good. Then, let's deal with the crabs next. The crabs I bought today are not big in size, and they were just out of their shells not long ago, so the shells are very soft, so..."
"Are you planning to do a crab fight? You want crab meat, right?" Shi Ke tilted his head and asked.
"Well. Today's main dish is Japanese crab bucket."
"Oh. I know. I can take the crab meat out of the shell without leaving any meat behind."
"Oh. My request is to put crab legs in crab claws..." Gan Hinatako just said the request, and suddenly found that Shi Ke's self-requirements were higher than she thought, "Uh?! No meat left at all?"
"Well. Isn't this a basic requirement? Crabs are very expensive and the meat cannot be wasted." Shi Ke had a puzzled expression, (?_?).
"Please demonstrate the basic requirements." Gan Hinata pointed at the crab on the table.
"I'm going to get a knife. This knife can't do such fine work." Shi Ke ran out of the kitchen and came back a few minutes later carrying a seven-star knife on his back.
"I can start." Shi Ke spread the seven-star knife on the cooking table.
"Start." Ganhi Xiangzi gave the order, and the stone guest pulled out the smallest and sharpest two of the seven-star swords, and waved them at the crab who was still preparing to fight.
Sheathing the knife, the crab lay motionless on the cooking table. Shi Ke took out a small piece of red paper and pasted it on the crab's shell, "The salvation is complete."
Click! The crab's eight legs and a pair of pincers fell down with a sound, and the carapace on the legs and pincers automatically opened a hole. Shi Ke took a knife and gently picked it, and the complete crab leg meat was presented to everyone one by one. Hinata looked inside the shell, her eyes twitching, not even the flesh of her toes was left.
Shi Ke picked up the crab body, broke off the back cover, and then broke off the largest crab shell to reveal the crab meat, internal organs and crab roe inside the crab body. Take out the crab roe and put it on a plate, and remove the internal organs such as crab stomach and crab lungs and throw them away. Once it comes, only the last bits of crab meat are left.
Shi Ke took out a knife and made a few cuts on the crab, cutting through the thin inner shell of the crab meat. Then he broke the crab meat into eight symmetrical petals like an orange, and then cut the inside of each petal again. The shell was picked lightly with a knife, and pieces of crystal-clear crab meat fell into the plate. When the last crab body was hollowed out, Shi Ke put down the crab shell and wiped his hands with a towel, "It's done, please accept it."
"Basic requirements..., you come on. I'm waiting for the acceptance." Gan Hinata looked at the time Shi Ke had spent. It was more than two minutes, and then looked at the clean and transparent empty crab shells neatly placed on the cooking table. Along with a plate of crab meat placed in the same order, my mood collapsed and I left the kitchen in embarrassment.
After walking out of the kitchen, Gan Hinata opened her teeth and vented to the air, "Wow! What are the basic requirements?! You obviously studied anatomy! I can't teach you this kind of technique!"