The bear meat is simply fried until mature. It looks delicious, but after one bite, the fishy smell of bear meat fills the mouth and nasal cavity, which is really addictive.
"Sure enough, it's not that simple to process bear meat. The fishy smell is too strong." Xing Ping Soma felt that he was under great pressure just after taking one bite, and realized that the use of spices was crucial in this competition.
And spices are Ko Hayama’s domain.
"Spices, spices, star anise, cinnamon, pepper..." Yukihira Soma scratched his head. Although he could bring these things by himself, he didn't prepare them. There were none in the kitchen, because the kitchen only had local ingredients and spices from Hokkaido.
"Star anise, cinnamon, pepper..." Someone was repeating Souma Yukihira's words.
Then Souma Yukihira smelled a burst of fragrance, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Teruki Kuga, the senior who he had competed with at the Tsukiyoshi Festival.
"Why are seniors here?"
"Of course I'm here to support my junior."
Yukihira Soma exposed it directly and said: "Senior, don't you feel guilty when you say this?"
"Hahaha, I am indeed here to support you. As long as you defeat the ninth seat and then lose to me, I will be able to resume my status as a top ten hero again, hahahaha——" Teruki Kuga said with a smile.
"But as far as I know, I'm not the only one who was fighting against the Ten Heroes at the same time. In the third exam, those who were identified as rebels all met the Ten Heroes. Now that we are separated, they must also be thinking about ways to defeat the Ten Heroes.
." Xing Ping Soma knew that everyone was in a hard fight now, because the third exam was specially prepared for them by the Central Food Agency.
"Of course it's because you have the greatest potential. Regardless of this, it's very complicated to process bear meat. If you just maintain the current level and lose, just use the spices I support." Kuaga Teruki said hoarsely.
smiled.
Although I don’t believe that the senior would be so kind, I do need spices now: “Okay, I will make a hot pot bear meat now.”
"It's a great idea to remove the smell of bear meat by marinating, steaming, and dipping it, so I'll give it a try." Teruki Kuga said with a smile.
The bear meat hot pot does remove the strange smell of bear meat, but it is just simple meat without any characteristics at all.
"Junior, this is not acceptable."
Yukihira Souma also knew that it was not possible and had to think, but he had no idea. He suddenly asked his senior: "Senior, how did you come into contact with Sichuan cuisine?"
"Because I have money."
"??" Xingping Sozhen couldn't think of any direct relationship between money and cooking.
The senior said: "Because I have money, I have traveled around the world with my parents since I was a child, and I have had the opportunity to taste cuisine from all over the world. The first time I came into contact with Sichuan cuisine was when I traveled to the local area, and I became addicted as soon as I ate it. You know? It's different.
Different regions and seasons have different flavors of cuisine. If you want to understand the evolution of delicious food, it is necessary to delve into the source of the cuisine."
The source of the food? Soma Yukihira suddenly had an idea and said: "Senior, can you please arrange to go into the mountains? I want to see where bears are."
"Junior has a great idea. Leave it to me. The permission to enter the mountain, the equipment to enter the mountain, and the best guide will be prepared for you before tomorrow." Jiuga followed the minutes and showed off his money making ability.
Souma Yukihira can be regarded as seeing the ability of the second generation ancestor.
We made arrangements early the next morning and found a local hunter to take everyone to hunt black bears.
The hunter was very experienced. He had hunted many bears and even dissected a bear himself. He originally wanted to go into the mountains and catch one to show Souma Yukihira, but hunting depends on luck, and it is impossible to catch it accurately.
However, Yukihira Souma relied on his social skills to get along with the hunter and learned a lot of knowledge. The hunter also gave Kuga Teruki and Yukihira Soma face, especially Kuga Teruki's ability, and he also talked about everything.
Xing Pingchuang really thought that the ingredients that stimulate the delicious taste of bear meat might be in the mountains, and he had to find it himself.
The hunter said regretfully: "If you want to know the taste of bear meat, it is best to kill, cook and eat it freshly. It will definitely be more delicious than frozen bear meat. Unfortunately, hunting does not always yield a harvest. I think if I could
You might be able to hunt a bear if you stay in the mountains for a week, but you only have one day, so I can't guarantee you'll be able to hunt a bear."
"It doesn't matter, I have learned a lot." The young man discovered that there were many spice plants in the mountains and said, "In very ancient times, hunters who caught bears would only use the limited materials in the mountains to cook bear meat.
To make bear meat more delicious, you need to make flexible use of materials in the mountains. This time I went into the mountains, I really learned a lot of knowledge. Not only did I know that bears eat acorns, berries, and nuts. Because they are omnivores, they also mainly eat
Birds and fish. This kind of food is becoming more abundant in my mind. It is no longer just a piece of meat, but a delicacy nourished by the environment and ecology."
"Haha, you young man can talk. If you want to learn, I can teach you more on the way down the mountain. And you need a lot of bear meat to cook. I have a way to get more bear meat, if necessary.
, I can give it to you at a low price." The hunter is also very good at doing business. He rarely meets a wealthy customer and takes the opportunity to sell his prey.
This is exactly what Yukihira Souma needs. He is worried because there is too little bear meat in the trial. Now that he can get bear meat directly from the source, he is naturally happy.
This is what the gourmet chaebol has always wanted to avoid. The gourmet chaebol has formed a valve to ask for orders from farmers and hunters at the bottom, and to check for chefs and diners at the top. As a middleman, it protects farmers and hunters, chefs and diners, and at the same time makes money.
It has made huge profits and has the pricing power and the right to speak.
This is how the chaebol controls the entire society by controlling the upper and lower valves.
At the beginning, the emergence of the chaebol was definitely to protect everyone. After all, farmers, hunters, chefs, and diners did not have any trust relationship, and they needed a guarantee to ensure everyone's interests.
Chefs and diners don’t want to buy rotten vegetables, and farmers and hunters don’t want to be deceived. Having a chaebol as a middleman is a good safeguard. If someone sells rotten vegetables and fruits, the customer has to seek arbitration. If the customer bullies the store, the price will be lowered.
, forced buying and selling, farmers and hunters also have to seek arbitration. The chaebols set the rules and are also arbitration institutions.
But as the gourmet chaebol becomes larger and larger, in order to maintain the chaebol's own operation, it will continuously absorb resources from the two sectors.
The lower side controls the pricing power, and farmers and hunters have little room for development. The upper side has the right to speak, and chefs and diners must listen to their arrangements, otherwise resources will be blocked and they will be left to fend for themselves.
It would be great for Xinghei Soma to obtain bear meat directly from hunters, but the price and quality cannot be guaranteed.
And the Orion told the boy: "If it is the bear meat provided by Yuanyue Academy, the quality will definitely be good. It must have been processed by the most skilled butchers, and there will definitely be no smell of bear." In other words, he told the boy that the meat in the Orion's hands was definitely good.
The bear meat is not that good, but the two big tubes are full.
Only a small part of the chaebol's resources circulate, and even if the remaining resources are dumped or rotten, they cannot be delivered to the chefs and guests.
If they want, chefs and diners can only go to the countryside to find them themselves, but the cost is high.
There is a big difference in time cost and trust cost between chefs getting ingredients from supermarkets and going to the countryside. When the cost is high, the food will be more expensive and customers will not consume it often. Therefore, chefs must keep costs down and can only go to supermarkets.
Choose ingredients.
It can be said that the existence of gourmet chaebols definitely has advantages, such as ensuring upstream and downstream circulation, and arbitrating when necessary. The disadvantage is that gourmet chaebols maintain their own operations, but their own operating costs are getting higher and higher, so they must be controlled through
Circulation valves to extort money and obtain tolls.
Now Yukihira Soma has obtained enough ingredients to make various experiments. Of course, the price of meat sold by Orion is not low. Fortunately, I will take care of this rich man for a long time.
He helped Yukihira Soma not because he wanted to eliminate the Ten Heroes, but because he wanted to become the Ten Heroes again and become a part of the Zaibatsu Game.