God of cooking

Chapter 111: Reunion in front of the door (3)

This does not belong to me. It is translated by KobatoChanDaiSuki.  

Jo Minjoon didn't like crayfish. More specifically, he didn't dislike the flavor, but how it looked because it looked like an insect. That's why, when peeling off the shell of the tail of the half-cooked langostino, the Norway lobster, his hands couldn't be fast. Joanne looked at him and smirked.

"You are quite the scaredy cat?"
"........It's a bit disgusting."
"What disgusting? Look how cute it is."

Joanne raised the sautéed langostino with a calm face. Then, she peeled off the shell with skillful movements, and took out the meat.

"See? It's this easy."
"......I know."
"Get accustomed to it quickly before the finals."

At Joanne's words, Jo Minjoon let out a sigh for a moment and started to handle it with determination. He didn't want to look like coward. After taking out the meat and refrigerating it, it was the time of the secondary ingredients. And that was the reason Jo Minjoon got in charge of the langostino, which he didn't even like. Because there were many things that was easy to change the flavor, just like purée, foam, etc.

Sauce. It wasn't only one kind of it. In the sauce field like carrot purée, buttermilk purée, and buttermilk foam, Jo Minjoon could perform it the most perfectly. He followed the normal recipe that was Kaya's, but they were free to change the density according to their judgments.

'I can make purée better than anyone.'

But of course, taking into account the whole world, there would be a lot people that did it better than him, but at least it was like that on this competition. He was confident on being able to beat Anderson and Kaya on giving flavor to sauces.

It was also about time he got confident. His cooking level was 7. His comprehension towards French cuisine, American cuisine, etc. had risen quite a lot. He was confident on harmonizing the flavor an ingredient had with the flavor of the sauce, and knew what dishes were delicious when cooked. He could know understand at times the meaning it had when he cooked.

That's why Jo Minjoon was certain. He believed that Kaya could win. No, that he would bring victory towards Kaya. That he could prove himself.

The dish Kaya got in charge was gazpacho. Since gazpacho was a cold dish, it didn't matter if they made it ahead of time. It was much better to prepare that and check the condition of the dishes of the others.

Originally, that was what a head chef was. It didn't happen that they grabbed the pan or knife themselves, except if it was a small restaurant. It wasn't because of the awareness of superiority. Leading a kitchen was a much more difficult of a job than doing their own dish perfectly.

Just looking at Alan's case was like that. His cooking level was 8. Of course, even if he and Kaya were the same level 8, there would be some differences. But regardless of being level 8, he was running a Michelin star restaurant. That was because, aside of cooking skills, his strength for leading the kitchen was certain.

And on Jo Minjoon's eyes, Kaya was quite a fine head chef because she had her sense of taste. Jo Minjoon could know the cooking score at a glance with the strength of the system, but Kaya could completely understand the state of the dish with just slightly tasting the sauce. But it wasn't that she only depended on her taste. She could know how well it was cooked just by looking at the external colour, and on those cases, she even sent it back without hesitating.

'I shouldn't need to worry.'

Jo Minjoon's plating was simple but luxurious. He poured the purée on the plate as if he was drawing, and he placed the seared carrots with duck fat and sauteed langostinos. Next to the langostinos, he placed a sage leaf as if it was a tree, he put breadcrumbs with particles as thick as a railroad. He ended the plating after putting buttermilk foam above the langostino meat. And like that, the five dishes were made. Kaya pierced the langostino with a chopstick and nodded.