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"Haha, with the new ingredients, I can teach you how to cook, old lady."

The old woman selling chestnuts said cheerfully.

Chen Ye couldn't help but feel dumb. He didn't expect the ingredients to come so suddenly!

It seems like it’s already there...

Could it be that my [luck] had another effect?

"From this point of view, the characteristics of [Wanderer] are quite good. After all, in the process of playing, he can keep his luck at a high level."

With the blessing of this month's novice rankings, the main way for players to improve is undoubtedly playing.

However, some professions may also bring potential danger to themselves during the performance process.

Or maybe it’s too difficult…

The performance of [Wanderer] is much better.

Not only is the process simple, you only need to keep walking. While increasing the weird value, you can also gather luck!

Luck is also an important part of this dangerous world.

If you are a little unlucky and encounter a trick that you cannot handle, you will be out of luck!

Fortunately, when Chen Ye encountered the two relatively powerful spies, they were not too dangerous.

Erhu elders are friendly fellows.

The old woman selling chestnuts seems to be a relatively neutral scheming for the time being.

The characteristic item he absorbed - the suona, came from the old woman's deceased son.

As long as they don't seek death, these two powerful aboriginal residents will not only not harm themselves, but also promote their own growth.

Then, the old woman selling chestnuts slowly came to the side of the "sarcoma".

At some point, a small knife appeared in his hand.

She carefully cut off part of the "sarcoma" with a knife.

While cutting, he turned his back to Chen Ye and began to talk about cooking techniques:

"The whole process of cooking is not just as simple as cooking. The selection of ingredients is also very important."

"What you can eat, what you can't eat."

"Something delicious, some not delicious."

"Beneficial, harmful..."

"Different ingredients have different properties. Some things are often decided before cooking."

"Choosing ingredients is also a technical job."

The old woman's movements were very slow. She slowly muttered such a long string of words and then cut off a piece of flesh from the sarcoma.

Then, she continued to move slowly, transferring all the chestnuts in the pot into packages of oiled paper bags, freeing up an empty stove.

After completing the whole process, it felt like half an hour had almost passed.

If Zhao Cheng and others hadn't eaten a lot of sugar-roasted chestnuts and knocked a small portion to the ground, this process might have taken much longer.

When the last candied roasted chestnuts were finally packaged, the stage of cooking instruction finally came.

Light the fire, heat the pot, add oil...

When the old lady selling chestnuts was holding a spoon, her movements seemed to have suddenly become decades younger, becoming brisk and familiar, completely without the jerky and laggy state before.

The whole movement is done in one go, like a martial arts master who has practiced martial arts for many years, and can only be fast!

After waiting for the hot pot, the ingredients were immediately put into the pot, and there was a "sizzling" grilling sound.

In the darkness, sparks splashed in the pot, dazzling like flying stars.

When the ingredients are cooked to a certain extent, the chestnut seller repeatedly beats the meat with a spatula, causing the whole piece of meat to shrink in size and turn into a ball, just the size of a roasted chestnut.

Then poured in thick syrup, golden powder, and at least four or five unnamed special materials next to it...

Start stir-frying in the pot!

Chen Ye watched the old lady's movements attentively and learned the whole step.

The temperature in the furnace is getting higher and higher, and the surface of the pot has a faint red light, as if it can cast iron. It doesn't look like it is cooking food at all, but like it is forging weapons.

But the more this happens, the more Chen Ye realizes that he knows very little information about this world, and must write down all the details in order to understand the real way of survival.

Boom! ! !

Suddenly, a rising flame burst out of the pot, followed by a burst of acrid black smoke.

A sugar-roasted chestnut that was so burnt that it was hard to bear to look at appeared in the center of the pot.

"Failed?"

Chen Ye was stunned and had this idea in his mind.

Observing with the Eye of Luck, it is not difficult to see the black halo surrounding this chestnut.

Even without the help of this special perspective, you can see with the naked eye that this roasted chestnut has been roasted to the point where it is no different from coal, as hard as stone, and your teeth cannot bite it at all.

Normal people know that this stuff is not edible, right?

It is also very different from the usually roasted sugar-roasted chestnuts.

Did he miss it?

But the old woman selling chestnuts had a calm look in her eyes, as if she had anticipated this outcome. She shoveled the burnt sugar-fried chestnuts out of the pot and said:

"This is a failure made using the wrong ingredients and the right cooking techniques."

"Although I followed the correct method of making sugar-roasted chestnuts throughout the process, it still failed because the quality of the ingredients itself was not good."

"A qualified food must be fully baked at high temperature to achieve a complete sterilization effect. On this basis, the cooking methods should be optimized to produce better food."

"It's a pity... this ingredient is unprocessed and low-quality. It cannot withstand high temperatures and needs to be professionally processed."

Chen Ye listened attentively, his mind running rapidly, and he tried his best to write down all the details.

Hearing that it was a problem with the ingredients... Chen Ye suddenly realized that the old woman selling chestnuts deliberately showed him the failed method as the first lesson.

Yes, the choice of ingredients is very important, especially in the world of "Strange Era".

The rule structure here is completely different from the normal world. Even the cooking methods will subvert normal people's cognition.

Chen Ye immediately filtered out three key information points——

"First, the ingredients need to be cooked at high temperatures to have a sterilizing effect... This is probably a common practice, as the old lady cooks at a very high temperature."

"Second, corresponding to the first point, because the food here needs to be processed at high temperatures, the requirements for ingredients are very high. If it is ordinary ingredients, it may not be able to withstand such a cooking method. Even if the grandmother uses the correct steps , you will still be limited by the ingredients and make failed products.”

"The last third point is how to handle and process the ingredients?"

Chen Ye asked the last question smoothly.

The old woman selling chestnuts laughed and said, "I'm just a cook. Although I have some cooking skills, there are some things I'm not good at."

"As the saying goes: professional things should be left to professionals."

"Since processing ingredients is not what you are good at, you need to find professionals!"

coming!

Familiar quotations!

Chen Ye couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity in his heart as he listened to the old woman selling chestnuts with an old and wrinkled face, but kept talking about various classic sentences.

He looked at the "meat sculptures" standing not far away, his mind moved, and he suddenly said:

"Grandma, you said that the ingredients are very expensive, you should be talking about processed ingredients, right?"

“But since these ingredients haven’t been processed, aren’t their values ​​​​that high?”

"Accordingly...then it won't be that expensive?"

The old lady nodded with satisfaction:

"You're right."

"If it is processed food, it must have a starting price of at least fifteen copper coins per pound, and a starting price of five copper coins."

"However, if these low-quality ingredients are used, their value is only worth one copper coin at most."

"This copper coin is not the price per kilogram, but the package price."

"You only need to pay one copper coin, and you can choose one at will from these ingredients."

There are four "meat sculptures" in front of you.

Chen Ye's eyes lit up and he immediately said:

"Grandma, I'll use three copper coins to buy three pieces of ingredients from you!"

The old woman who sells chestnuts keeps a "piece" for herself and uses it to teach her how to cook on the spot.

The other three pieces will be used for studying, cooking for yourself in the future, keeping them as rations to extend your life, or selling them to obtain other income...