Chapter 835 - Dish Decoration Competition? (1/2)

Before mixing the beef and pork, Dean first cleaned his hands before seriously kneading the minced beef and pork step by step, turning them into meatballs.

In the process, eggs and black pepper were mixed in as well.

Clang! Clang! Dean took out some silver-colored round tools and inserted each of them into another round tool after inserting a piece of cheese into each of the meatballs.

One could see that each meatball fitted nicely into the round tool. With this, all meatballs would have similar size, looking like they were a product of mass manufacturing from a factory.

“Making same-sized meatballs manually? He’s good,” Jiang Meisi exclaimed in admiration.

“He is worthy of being a famous chef indeed,” Bai Guo exclaimed in admiration as well.

“Although this seems easy, it still shows how good he is,” Li He nodded.

“More importantly, he is very handsome,” Jiang Meisi said as she clasped her face with her hands, obviously smitten by his looks.

“You are already smitten this fast? I thought you said that your favorite was Boss Li the other day,” Bai Guo teased with a “you are unfaithful” expression on his face.

“I can’t help it. Women are fickle,” Jiang Meisi nodded and admitted with no hesitation.

“I’m quite good looking as well, right?” Bai Guo promptly said, seeming dissatisfied with this.

“But you can’t cook,” Jiang Meisi gave Bai Guo a look of derision and said.

“But I can eat,” Bai Guo declared with a straight face.

“Look, Dean is starting on the tomato stew. The stew will most like be mixed with the meatballs,” Li He interrupted them and pointed at Dean.

“Wow, he even has a different knife for the tomatoes,” Jiang Meisi lamented as she looked at the new knife.

That’s right. In the process of cooking this dish, Dean had already used six different knives. This was his seventh knife, a knife for tomatoes.

Everyone noticed something odd. For Chinese cuisine, if the chef couldn’t handle the ingredients with a single knife, that chef would be mocked due to his lack of skills. But for Western cuisine, the chef would look extremely professional if he kept switching knives.

The difference in perspective was extremely large. There was no problem with this, though. This was merely a result of the difference between food cultures.

The tomato knife’s edge flowed like a wave that allowed the tomato’s skin to be smoothly sliced off before slicing the tomato into thin slices. And to avoid excessive drainage of the tomato’s juice, the tip of the knife was forked, allowing the chef to pick the tomato slices with it.

That’s right. The tomatoes used for the stew had all been cut into slices. This would shorten the time required for the tomatoes to be cooked.

Next, the onions and sweet basil leaves were cut into thin slices before they were sautéed. Then, they were mixed with the tomato slices to be stir-fried. Finally, chicken stock was added.

Naturally, the chicken stock was provided by Li Li as well. After he found out that Dean had decided to make meatballs, Li Li became even more enthusiastic.

While the stew was boiling, Dean started pan-frying the meatballs. His every motion was relaxed and he even had the time to occasionally raise his head and look at Yuan Zhou.

Naturally, Yuan Zhou would never split his attention from cooking. After all, even if someone had ordered the Swedish Meatball, there were also other dishes he needed to be completed.

And thus, Yuan Zhou had merely made a slight revision on the sequence of meatball preparation so others could better see the process. Apart from that, he did not act any differently.

Due to the distance, Dean could not see Yuan Zhou’s cooking clearly. However, the customers seated nearby had a good look.

When preparing Swedish Meatball, apart from when he was removing the skin from the ingredients, all other steps of the preparation process including cutting and mincing were done without his hands touching the ingredients.