Chapter 52 (2/2)

The next was the gravy Jo Minjoon poured the chicken gravy in a mid sized saucepan and turned on the fire It was a ht the gravy on fire and Jo Minjoon placed the shallots and the prosciutto on a cutting board It wasn’t the prosciutto he had fried just then, but a new one He chopped the sa with shallots, and he just had to fry it in the low heated frying pan

Before the shallots turned brown fros he had to do in those 1 to 2 e leaves for a bit, and had to peel the pear to chop it the size of a dice As he was handling the pear and looking around, the onions were already finished cooking Jo Minjoon’s hands fastened And that was the reason A voice was heard

“Minjoon! Look at your hands! Hands!”

It was Es dumbfoundedly And only then did he notice that his left thumb had quite a deep wound Jo Minjoon raised his left arm The medical crew quickly approached him and disinfected and sprayed hemostatic medicine in his thumb Emily asked with a worried face

“Can you continue?”

“I will”

Jo Minjoon replied briefly and chopped the re pan Pear, rice, and a teaspoon of sage It wasn’t frying but just coating it in oil while shaking the pan, and the next was the wine After the treatlove, and he poured half a cup of dry wine in the frying pan His hand burned, but Jo Minjoon was too concentrated to bother about that

He raised the fire of the pan that had the redients, and Jo Minjoon just waited for the wine to boil down in the rice grains And only then could he notice E at him concerned But she wasn’t the only one He didn’t knohen he had co at his hands Precisely speaking, at his left hand Jo Minjoon looked down at his hand Now that he was conscious of it, a hot and painful feeling made him frown

Alan and Eet a proper treatment Because they knew really that for Jo Minjoon, and all the other participants, this place had a deepJo Minjoon composed himself and said

“I’m okay There’s no need for you to be concerned”

“…As soon as the et proper treatment”

Alan said in a blunt voice and turned his back Eh and went to another table Jo Minjoon bit his lips The pain was getting worse, but it wasn’t the ti it is a bit difficult’

Because of the pain, he couldn’t feel it well However he was already done with the knife The inconvenience wasn’t that big of a problem

When the as almost boiled down in the rice, Jo Minjoon poured about half a cup of the boiling chicken gravy on the rice When it boiled down, another cup It boils down and another cup

And like that, 10 or 15pear Jo Minjoon peeled off the pear, chopped it just like before and then put it on the pan The pear slowly started to lose shape under the hot gravy and then disappeared

Jo Minjoon repeated tasting it He felt the roundness of the rice grains, and also felt the faint aroma inside it He couldn’t exactly knohat al dente h the taste his systeue could

It was hard The rice’s flavor, pear’s flavor, wine’s flavor, gravy’s flavor, sage’s flavor Feeling all of these flavors at the sa to do However, Jo Minjoon was in a state of concentration like never before It was an unfamiliar dish And because of that, he had to evaluate it ot about the pain in his thumb He just felt the flavors Flavor, aroht noas the risotto, and he was only listening to the rice grains exploding in his ue No, precisely speaking he wasn’t concentrated in his tongue Cooking Jo Minjoon was i eravy, Jo Minjoon confirrains were completed They were inflated like a balloon, and when he chewed the insides of it, his teeth felt the softness The aroe and prosciutto tickled his nose like an elaborated puzzle

Jo Minjoon turned off the fire, and started to cool the risotto After a minute passed, he put in theIt was completed

‘The estimated score was 6?’

Jo Minjoon bit his lips and stared at the risotto The systeth In the end, it didn’t decide his lih he had never eaten a proper risotto, in the end it was still food A delicious one And Jo Minjoon kne to give it flavor Just like Alan had said, he knehat cooking was Although he didn’t have the absolute sense of taste they thought he had…… Jo Minjoon believed in his talent and passion for cooking

There’s a saying that those who believe in theht that that versicle was too idealistic and si he had comprehended those words

And that comprehension and trust, compensated him

[Youconcentration!]

[The ingredients have perfectly har all of that flavor!]

[Thehas risen!]

Jo Minjoon’s eyes shook He looked at the last ith those shaking eyes

[Pear risotto]

Freshness: 95

Origins: (Too h

Cooking score: 8/10

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