As he relaxed for a moment and looked around, Kaya was already boiling the stew. Chloe was boiling down the shark fin in a sauce with soy sauce as its base, Anderson fried the sea anemone and was making purée. In the case of Ivanna, she seemed to have put green onion, garlic, bell pepper, mushrooms, and other things in the tripe; placed it in the oven; and then she seemed to be making blueberry purée to use it as a sauce.
In the case of Joanne, she roasted the deer liver like a steak and seemed to use balsamic sauce as the dressing. For Sasha, the octopus was already in the oven so he couldn’t know. For Hugo, it looked like he was boiling the calf brain in a sauce.
‘…….They were mostly roasting it.’
Actually, if you didn’t know well how to cook it, roasting it was the easiest choice. Because accompanying it with bechamel sauce, fruits, vegetable purée or whatever seemed to suit, it was easy for the result to be not bad. But of course, you wouldn’t know what score it would have.
Time flowed. Jo Minjoon took out the dough from the fridge and put it on boiling water. Originally, you had to cook it for 3-5 minutes to have a good consistency, but as he was going to cook it again in the oven, he only needed 1-2 minutes.
From now on, every minute was a sensitive one. Jo Minjoon took out the gratin gnocchi with a sieve and put it on the oven use container that had the cheese cream sauce. After he had sprinkled some mozzarella cheese, he put it in the preheated oven on 170 degrees.
He just had to wait. Jo Minjoon just looked at the clock impatiently. Rather than the first 10 minutes, the next five and the next two minutes were felt much slower. And when exactly 17 minutes passed like that, Jo Minjoon took out the container and put on a smile. Even if you were an experienced chef, the only thing you could be certain of when you looked at the dish was that the mozzarella cheese was well-cooked, but Jo Minjoon was different.
[Potato gnocchi gratin]
Freshness : 93%
Origins : (Too many ingredients to know)
Quality : High
Cooking Score : 7/10
It was 7 points even in a state without the truffle. Maybe…? He didn’t think that. In the first time, the cooking score was just like he had estimated it to be. Grating truffle wasn’t a factor that could raise the cooking score from 7 to 8. In the first place, it was a simple thing that didn’t even require skill, but you wouldn’t know if the truffle could make a fantastic combination with the potato gnocchi gratin…… But that was also not it.
Actually, even if you grated the white truffle on top of the cheese, nothing much would change. But that much was also good. Because it wasn’t a combination that lessened the flavor, as so the cooking score.
He couldn’t eat the food, so he only smelled it a bit. The special aroma of truffle that harmonized with the aroma of smell and the dirt was……honestly speaking, it was only special. It wasn’t an excessively charming aroma.
‘Why do they like this?’
He felt the same way when the judges ate the foie gras one of the world’s three great delicacies. Although it was a word used only in Korea and Japan, he thought that the name was because of the price, because just the price was outstanding. However, in the case of foie gras, it was only a liver full of fat. Although the flavor was deep, precisely because it was too deep, it was a flavor you would reject.
‘Even if your tasting level is 8, are you unable to enjoy every food?’
But actually, the reason he couldn’t enjoy the ingredients properly wasn’t because there was a problem with his tongue, but because those were unfamiliar ingredients. Those were food you couldn’t eat easily, and people that enjoyed it were also scarce. Even Korea’s Pyongyang Naengmyeon (평양냉면) was difficult to properly enjoy if you didn’t eat it many times.
Basically, he was the sensitive type for tasting. He could feel the flavor better than normal people, but it was difficult to compare him with Kaya.
“Everybody take your hands off!”
Joseph yelled with a blunt voice. However, in the case of Chloe, she could only put on a bewildered face. It seemed like she couldn’t keep track of time, but her shark fin was still in a state where it was still inside the pot. Chloe looked at the judges with a teary face, but they shook their heads calmly.
“Chloe. Bring your food with the pan. Rules are rules.”
“………Yes.”