Chapter 5 The Unique Cooking Oil

Chapter 5 The Unique Cooking Oil

Just as Ye Fei had picked out which recipe to work with when someone by the username of Tao Tie [1] came into his channel. This guys name also reflected his personal interest very well. By naming himself after an [2] evil beast of gluttony and greed, Tao Tie clearly signal his love for good food.

After popping into the channel, Tao Tie send up a chat message, Yi~? Why is there nobody here?

Offended, Tasting Everything Under Heaven retorted, Tao Tie, open your dog eyes and take a good look. You trying to say that this daddy is not somebody?

From the familiar tone, one would assume that Tasting Everything Under Heaven knew Tao Tie. Then again, the circle of fans under Fine Food Category was only so big and cant be compared to the number of fans from Song & Dance or Storytelling. Therefore, people who often haunt the Fine Food channels of QQ Broadcasting more or less knew each other.

Tao Tie laughed, I did see you, Tasting Heaven Bro, but Im surprised, ah. What is a senior fan like you doing here alone? This guy is only an Iron Star Rank 1 noob, ah. Whats so interesting about him? Better to visit Devourer of Peaks & Rivers channel. That guy is going to challenge 10 Burgers, 2 pounds of [2] Zha Jiang Mien and 20 Chicken Fillets. Its really exciting, ah.

Tch, Tasting Everything Under Heaven sniffed and said, Whats so interesting about that? Isnt it just watching some dude stuff his face? Wait, why are you here and not there?

Tao Tie said, Its only starting at 10 a.m., I have some time left and was attracted by this channels ostentatious name. Heheh, dont you think Divine Culinary Channel is kind of ostentatious, huh? Youve been here for a while now, right? How much has this broadcaster eaten?

Tasting Everything Under Heaven replied, Nothing yet,

Tao Tie, f*ck me, so what are you doing here, ah? Come on, come on, whats so good about watching a rookie Hm~~ What is this guy doing?

Tasting Everything Under Heaven let out a little hehe laugher and said, Have you finally realized it? Theres something different about this place. Let me tell you now, this new channel is pretty interesting. All the other broadcasters only ate and drank things they bought but this Ye Fei is making his own food, ah. See those potato strips on the cutting board? He just cut those right before my eyes. Tao Tie my friend, let me tell you, his knife work is topnotch! I cant resist crying out good!

For reals?

Why would I lie? Ive already handed out HX50 worth of Applause and Flowers. You know I dont give out rewards easily.

The QQ Broadcasting Platform would automatically tally up the tokens given out by all viewers by marking the value down as a number next to their avatar.

Next to Tasting Everything Under Heavens avatar was a 50 [3], meaning he had contributed HX50 today.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tao Tie reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. Aiyo! F*ck me! This for real, Tasting Heaven Bro?

Tasting Everything Under Heaven, How can it be fake? The knife work alone was enough to induce me to reward him. Let me tell you, ah. Im curious to see what he would do next. If he pleases daddy, this daddy is willing to shower him with more tokens. Well? Are you interested yet?

Tao Tie hesitated for a moment. On one hand, Devourer of Peaks & Rivers was about to break his eating record, on the other was a curious newbie broadcaster strongly recommended by Tasting Everything Under Heaven. Which should he choose?

After a while, Tao Tie sent up a smiley face, Ill believe you this once. I want to know if this guy is as interesting as you claimed.

While they two had been chatting with each other, Ye Fei finally decided to go with Golden Potato Strips.

To make Golden Potato Strips, the first step was to cut the potatoes into strips. The other was to choose the oil to fry the potatoes. Since this was a simple, two-ingredient recipe, the quality of the ingredients as well as the skill of the chef factor a lot in the quality of the Golden Potato Strips.

Since the potatoes were given to him by the System, they should be the good stuff. However, he could only use his own factory blended peanut oil to fry the potatoes since he was not given any oil.

Ye Fei often cooked for himself at home [4] due to the unfortunate combination of being poor and having a huge appetite. It was much cheaper to just feed himself at home. He took out a brand new wok and placed it on the stove. He turned on the fire and was about to pour the peanut oil into the wok when a mechanical voice interrupted him.

The blended peanut oil has been disallowed by the System. If you wish to make Golden Potato Threads, please use the Top Grade Rose Oil prepared by the System.

Normally, to get good fried potato shreds or potato slices, the potatoes should be soaked in water first to get rid of excess starch for a crispier finish.

However, there was no need to go through this stage with the potatoes provided by the System. These potatoes have no excess starch on the cut surface [5].

When the oil was properly heated through, Ye Fei carefully scattered the potato threads into the oil.

The crisp ci la ci la of frying felt so much like music to his ears that Ye Feis soul nearly started dancing too

[Gumihou: The reason why Gumi didnt want to pick up this novel is because of weird ingredients like these. Even so, it is still a technically possible ingredient. See Note 5]

[1] Tao Tie one of the 4 evil creatures in the world and is usually associated with greed and/or gluttony. Included this explanation in the sentence instead of just leaving it as oh, his name is Tao Tie, so he obviously likes /watch?v=E2zIUK6QYgE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taotie

This creature was also mentioned in The Feast in the chapter when Su Nuan Nuan first served her family the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.

[2] Zha Jiang Mian Also known as bean sauce /zha-jiang-mian/

[3] Some minor editing to smooth out the text

[4] The rose cooking oil appeared to be some kind of solidified fat, since it was later described to have melted with the heat. Could only assume that Rose Oil was probably a type of hydrogenated oil like margarine. Also, to achieve the deep pink colour as described, a lot of food colouring would be required, probably at least 3 different kinds Gumi thinks this oil sounds kind of disgusting actually

However, frying with rose oil is still technically possible. Although scientists would probably have to hydrogenate the vegetable oil and put a lot of colouring, to cheat rich people into spending money on a ridiculous thing like rose coloured, rose flavoured, rose scented solid fat for frying.

Also.

Rose oil is difficult to extract and is mostly used as an essential oil. It takes thousands of rose petals to make a few drops of Rosa damascene oil. The fragrance from the Damascus rose fits the description of the scent being refreshing best.

Anyway, it is technically possible to blend rose oil with organic sunflower oil. However, no one in their right mind would use pure rose oil for cooking because the rose flavour would be very highly concentrated and youll probably faint just from inhaling it.

So. The NHR Rose Oil 5% blended means 5% rose (0.5ml), 95% sunflower oil in a 10ml bottle at Euro 32.95.

https://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/rose-oil-blend-food-grade-10ml.html#

According to the description, the rose oil is very concentrated, so you only need one or two drops for a recipe. According to this logic, the oil used by Ye Fei could possibly contain 0.01% rose oil and still smell like roses.

The box of solidified oil in Ye Feis hand probably contains 500ml of oil (considering the size of the heart-shaped box, possible fancy oil container and the 500 jin description) with 0.01% concentration of rose at 5ml. Depending on the cost of rose oil alone, the price of the Top Grade Rose Oil would probably be at least Euro 330 per 500ml of oil. Considering the fancy box its probably closer to Euro 380 or Euro 500 depending on the shop that carries this good.

In short, Top Grade Rose Oil is probably something like a powdered pearl extract face cream. Probably not a lot in there but theres enough of it to jack up the price of a good by 15 times the regular price.

Oh, the solid pink of the rose oil is probably colouring. Sorry to break everyones expectations but extracted rose oil looks just like most other oil when it comes to colour. A clear light yellow. Everyone, please dont be cheated by Divine Culinary System into buying this expensive and clearly fake pink Rose Oil.

[5] Lol, no starch content on the cut surface? After all that fuss about starch making potatoes slippery in the previous chapter?