Chapter 949: Chapter 948: Divine Beast Cuisine (Part 3)

King Vinegar, huh.

Xia Yu understood in his heart.

No wonder, given Singh’s face of certain victory, this is the basic confidence of a Food Tyrant Chef towards ‘resonance ingredients.’ Especially when it comes to the so-called “King Vinegar,” and it’s in the golden forbidden quality…

A sharp spear made of gold!

“Clear it!”

Deleting all the seasoning information from his retinas, Xia Yu withdrew his gaze, shook his head, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Food duels and exchanges didn’t stir much emotion within him originally. Nowadays, cooking was merely a chef’s instinct to discover new ingredients, process them, and create recipes around them.

But now, Xia Yu suddenly had an exciting thought—could he combine various techniques into another sharp spear, using ‘Rock Alpaca’ as his domain, his arena, and see whose spear is thicker and sharper?

He withdrew his gaze and looked at several lamb legs.

In his “X-ray” like vision, these lamb legs appeared intact on the surface, but internally, the fine tendons were all severed, even the fibrous meat layers had been turned upside down by his subtle knife skill.

But…

“Not enough yet!”

“The meat is not tender enough!”

Believing that he had perfected the ‘knife skill’ step, Xia Yu aimed for another method to make the meat tender and delicious—marination!

Previously marinated with Sichuan pepper salt, it was the most superficial approach.

But now Xia Yu needed to make changes deep enough to reach the bone, in this step, he had to catch up to Female Qilin Chef Maria!

First, he didn’t have “King Vinegar.”

Marinating with vinegar makes any type of meat ingredient tender.

Scientifically, vinegar contains acetic acid, and acidic substances can break down the fibers and proteins in meat.

Of course, there’s also marination with red wine or fruit wine because wine contains fruit acids that have a similar effect to acetic acid. Thinking of this, a subtle smile spread across Xia Yu’s lips.

“You have King Vinegar, and I have…”

He turned to his suitcase, searching for the second must-have item besides “Molso Oil.”

This was also a bottle, but it was a milky white glass bottle, very high-end, and as soon as he took it out, it caught the attention of many Hunters. Xia Yu casually placed the bottle on the kitchen counter and gently twisted open the cap. As soon as the lid came off with a pop, a seven-colored rainbow light burst from the bottle mouth!

As the Hunters watched in amazement, Xia Yu casually grabbed the bottle, splashing fruit wine over the four large lamb legs with a sizzle.

With a nearly instrumental microscopic view, as soon as the wine was poured, it immediately penetrated deeply through the holes he’d made with a small pointed knife, and those crisscrossing knife marks invisible to the naked eye, down to the lamb bone.

Thus, the lamb legs underwent a deep wine bath.

“This is…” Jintan Shun was dumbfounded.

“Snow Maiden!”

Tulip’s eyes filled with desire. This kind of wine had been out of stock in the Neon Market for a while, and every time it was listed in malls, it was snatched up instantly. Some unopened new bottles were listed on auction sites, selling for around 200,000 yen, much higher than the original price.

Snow Maiden? If Xia Yu were to answer, he’d definitely shake his head. This is undiluted, high-purity, incredibly authentic Rainbow Fruit Wine, not a mass-produced reproduction for external sale!

Seeing Xia Yu arrange the four lamb legs neatly on the grill rack, Jintan Shun couldn’t help but applaud and praise, “What a brilliant solution!”

“The acid of King Vinegar can neutralize the hardness of the alpaca meat!”

“Hey, fruit wine also has similar effects, and it’s a miraculous fruit where a drop of juice can dye a swimming pool. If it’s pure pulp, I’d even suspect the alpaca meat would dissolve in the fruit acid!”

At this point, Tulip also smiled.

Singh was in shock and disbelief, and Female Qilin Chef Maria slightly widened her eyes.

Xia Yu, however, ignored the stares around him. He laid the lamb legs one by one on the grill and immediately expressed dissatisfaction with the stovetop’s temperature. At this tepid heat, it would take forever to roast the lamb legs!

Frowning, a blower? No, Bursting Flame was nearing perfection, approaching the legendary source, blower tools, even that Heavenly Craft Wind Box were unnecessary, too inefficient. Xia Yu opened his mouth to ask Jintan Shun for casting materials, “That bottle of grease just now?”

“Here it is—”

Jintan Shun immediately offered it with both hands.

Before he could step back, Xia Yu took the bottle of grease, pouring the golden liquid onto the fiery charcoal stove, and instantly, it was as if a foot had kicked over the Flame Dragon’s nest. The flames surged so suddenly, exploding ferociously, engulfing the unprepared Jintan Shun. He hurriedly protected his big beard, shouting, “My hair, my beard is burning!”

“Burned to a thread!” Xia Yu glanced sideways.

“Ah!”

The strange old man only now realized something was wrong. The flames seemed fierce but were harmless, like a Flame Dragon tamed and controlled by someone. It was a peculiar experience, being in a sea of flames, yet the fire had little heat and wasn’t fierce.

Jintan Shun focused on the stove at the fire’s center, observing the lamb legs in the central area. Listening to the sizzling, beautiful grilling melody, and smelling the rich aroma and wine scent that permeated his nose, he suddenly realized, “So that’s where the highest temperature is!”

This was precisely opposite to the candle’s flame core, inner flame, and outer flame.

The candle’s flame core has almost no temperature, while the outer flame, fully interacting with the air, burns the fiercest, so its temperature is the highest too.

“This heat manipulation, I’m impressed!” Jintan Shun grinned.

Half an hour later, the flames contracted rapidly.

“Done—”

A voice said blandly.

Using tongs, Xia Yu picked up a golden brown grilled lamb leg from the grill, plated it without looking back, then casually tossed it. Like a flying saucer, the plate traced a parabolic arc landing accurately in Singh’s hands.

“Please enjoy it slowly. If you think it’s good, kindly give a thumbs up.”

Upon hearing this, Singh’s hand trembled.

It’s only been half an hour!

He found it hard to believe as he looked at the steaming lamb leg on the plate. Even with charcoal grilling, not to mention in an oven, it usually takes one to two hours for an alpaca leg to cook thoroughly.

Very unreasonable!

Yet, staring at the golden, aromatic lamb leg on the plate, Singh’s Adam’s apple moved, overwhelmed by the aroma that numbed his mind, he stuttered, “No, isn’t it necessary to drizzle sauce?”

“Such things are unnecessary.” The young man didn’t turn his head.

“Is that so?”

His Adam’s apple moved again, Singh couldn’t hold back any longer, “Then I’ll give it a taste…” He had just grabbed the lamb leg when the moment his fingers touched it, the entire person was stunned.

Poof.

Steam gushed out, spraying directly onto Singh’s face, making his entire face sweaty.

On the plate, a shining meat flower blossomed on the lamb bone, golden and beautiful beyond compare.

As Singh blinked vigorously, the lamb leg originally on the plate vanished, rated by the IGO organization as inedible due to its toughness, the meat separated from the lamb bone like petals, unfolding and spreading an intense aroma that drove all the present Hunters into a frenzy.

His pupils contracted, Singh watched the petite rainbow bridge hovering over the plate, inhaling sharply, “Again with the rainbow…why, why can a stone bloom? What kind of divine fire control technique is this!”

He couldn’t wait to take a big bite of the lamb leg, not encountering the hard texture of stone, on the contrary, his mouth felt like it was in intimate contact with cotton.

With a ferocious tear at a piece of leg meat in his mouth, chewing on it with big bites, Singh was tearfully moved, “So delicious it makes you cry…”