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Chapter 196 Breakfast Porridge
With the help of the students from Class 8 of Grade 1 and the kitchen AI in preparing the ingredients, the preliminary preparation work for the five dishes did not take much effort, which greatly shortened the time taken to cook.

Kagawa originally thought that it would take at least forty to fifty minutes to prepare all these dishes, but it was done in less than half an hour.

After she tasted the saltiness herself, she handed over the remaining mass production processes to the kitchen AI, but she still found time to let the three people from the Tongue Club actually cook the dishes.

The main thing is that the process of making scrambled eggs with pepper and scrambled cucumbers with tomatoes does not require much technical skills, which is just right for her to use them for practical exercises with Ouyang Yating and others.

Don’t worry if you add too much seasoning, because these dishes are meant to be eaten with porridge anyway.

How can we enjoy porridge without some tangy side dishes?

After tasting the pepper scrambled eggs cooked by Ino, Kagawa thought so while drinking water voraciously.

Just then, a voice announcing that the time was up came from the big pot of porridge.

Kagawa walked over, and Chief Butler Wu and the students from Class 8 of Grade 1 who had prepared the ingredients also followed him over.

In order to prevent the students walking around in the kitchen from accidentally throwing some unprocessed ingredients into the porridge, Ino specifically asked the kitchen AI to cover the entire pot with a lid that only exposed the center part. The kitchen AI's robotic arm operated the stirring spoon extending from the center part, which had been stirring the gradually turbid porridge in the pot.

"Open the lid."

Kagawa ordered.

To be done!
Everyone's eyes lit up and they stared at the situation inside the glass without blinking.

After about thirty minutes of careful cooking over a low fire, the porridge was already in a state of slight boiling and tumbling, with the rice grains gradually dispersing in the water. This was very novel to Chief Wu and the students, but in Kagawa's view, this state of the rice in the pot meant that the first pot of porridge was a success.

The kitchen AI's robotic arm opened the lid of the pot, and the aroma of porridge, which was richer than yesterday's white rice, wafted to the face.

This aroma was very novel to modern people who had just tasted their first bowl of white rice yesterday. Both Chief Butler Wu and the students from Class 8 of Grade 1 who were crowded behind Kagawa stretched their necks to smell this wonderful aroma carefully.

Kagawa, who was used to this scene, picked up the spoon. The porridge in the pot had not yet completely sunk to the bottom due to the constant stirring by the kitchen AI just now. She gently scooped up a spoonful of porridge and poured it into the bowl.

The steaming white porridge glowed with a warm light in the spoon, and in everyone's eyes it looked like a finely crafted work of art.

"Come on, Yating, Aino, Lianggong, come and taste this first mouthful of white porridge."

Kagawa turned around and waved to the three people who were craning their necks nearby.

"Generally speaking, shouldn't the maker taste it first?"

Aino muttered to himself, but still followed Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong and gathered around Xiangchuan obediently.

The three of them looked at Bai Zhou with curiosity and anticipation in their eyes.

"Don't worry, this thing won't flip over unless it's not cooked properly."

At worst, the porridge will turn into rice gruel, Kagawa added quietly in his heart.

The porridge just out of the pot was still very hot, so Kagawa asked the kitchen AI to bring three small bowls, poured the porridge in the large bowl into the three small bowls, and handed them to them.

Ouyang Yating held the small bowl. The boiling porridge water was isolated by modern bowls and plates with excellent heat insulation performance, so she could not feel any warmth when she touched the outer wall. However, when she put her nose close to it and smelled it, she felt how boiling hot the porridge water was that had been boiled for half an hour.

She took a deep breath, and the light, pure rice aroma seemed to penetrate directly into her heart, giving her a good first impression of this mysterious food that she had never tasted before.

Ouyang Yating picked up the spoon, scooped up a mouthful and slowly put it into her mouth.

The warmth of the rice porridge spreads on the tip of the tongue, and the delicate and soft taste seems like clouds melting in the mouth. After thirty minutes of constant stirring and simmering over low heat in the kitchen AI, the newly harvested rice has been dispersed in the porridge, and the sweetness of the rice has been integrated into the porridge. Every grain of rice releases its most authentic taste.

She closed her eyes and savored the food carefully, comparing the porridge in her mouth with the white rice she had at noon yesterday. The texture of white rice was more solid, and each grain of rice maintained its own shape and a certain toughness. When chewing, one could feel the elasticity of the rice grains. However, the porridge brought the characteristics of rice to another extreme. The rice grains blended together, creating a soft and smooth experience in the mouth, as if the spirit of rice was dancing on the tip of the tongue.

In terms of taste, white rice has a simple and clear rice aroma, while white porridge has a richer and mellower rice aroma due to the cooking process, with a hint of the unique sweetness of porridge.

Ino also took a bite. He raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was surprised by the taste of the porridge.

"This porridge tastes amazing, like drinking rice soup," he said.

Liang Gong tasted the porridge with great enjoyment. After swallowing the last mouthful of porridge in the small bowl, he said:
"The texture of porridge is completely different from rice. Rice needs to be chewed, while porridge almost only needs to be swallowed."

"That means the porridge is ready."

Xiangchuan snapped his fingers and quickly asked the kitchen AI to help him serve his portion of porridge.

After all, there was only one pot of porridge for the trial, and with the greedy students in Class 8 of Grade 1 finishing almost two pots of rice at noon yesterday, this little pot of porridge was not enough to share.

I wonder if there are ways to shorten the cooking time in modern kitchens? For example, using a pressure cooker?

Kagawa thought of the retro yet modern barbecue oven in the backyard of his own club, and silently decided to leave the matter to the Ministry of Agriculture and his father to worry about.

With the eating experience of the three members of the Tongue Club and Kagawa's preemptive strike, the first pot of white porridge was immediately snatched by the starving people in Class 8 of Grade 1 and the steward Wu who was unfamiliar with the young people.

The aroma of white porridge soon spread throughout the cafeteria.

After the students in Class 8 of Grade 1 got their first bowl of white porridge, they quickly handed over the work at hand to the kitchen AI, then picked up their lunch boxes, ordered one portion each of the five dishes: spicy and sour crispy cucumbers, spicy pickled radish shreds, pepper scrambled eggs, spicy stir-fried cabbage, and tomato and cucumber, and went to their respective seats to enjoy breakfast.

This time, Manager Wu sat at the same dining table with Labor Committee Member Fu Chengkai, Long Xiaoxian, and Qing Ke. The four of them, who had been craving for porridge for a long time, started to put the first mouthful of porridge into their mouths the moment they sat down.

Fu Chengkai took a mouthful of porridge first. The warm rice porridge flowed on the tip of his tongue, and the rice aroma instantly awakened his dormant taste buds.

Then, he picked up a piece of spicy and sour cucumber with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. The crispness and sourness of the cucumber instantly burst in his mouth. The sourness of the cucumber comes from the blending of white vinegar, which is a fresh but mellow sourness, intertwined with the sweetness of the cucumber itself, plus the slight spiciness brought by the chili powder, instantly stimulated the taste buds and increased people's appetite.

Fu Chengkai did not forget what he learned yesterday at noon: "a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of vegetable". After tasting the crispy cucumber, he took another mouthful of porridge.

The fragrance of the porridge took away most of the sourness and spiciness in his mouth, allowing him to fully enjoy the next dish.

The spicy pickled shredded radish made in the same way brought Fu Chengkai another taste experience.

The crispness of the shredded radish and its sour and spicy taste are more deeply integrated, and the unique fragrance of the white radish itself is more prominent against the backdrop of sour and spicy.

No matter which one, it is a great tool for making porridge.

Long Xiaoxian and Qing Ke were not to be outdone. They also enjoyed their breakfast with a mouthful of porridge and another mouthful of vegetables.

The softness of the white porridge contrasts sharply with the hot and sour or sweet and sour of the side dishes, yet they blend perfectly together in the mouth.

After a while, the porridge was gone before I finished eating one portion of the side dish.

Everyone looked towards the kitchen with eager eyes, but at this time the kitchen AI had just put the washed rice into the pot.

Although there is a successful pot of porridge just made, the kitchen AI only needs to proportionally distribute the ratio of water and rice and adjust the fire temperature to make white porridge in a larger pot. However, in order to get the taste of the white porridge, you have to wait for at least half an hour.

All the students in Class 8 of Grade 1, who were not satisfied with their bowl of porridge, were now crowded at the food window with their bowls in their hands, looking eagerly at the kitchen AI robot arm that was slowly operating the stirring stick in the kitchen.

Everyone in Class 8 of Senior 1: Zhou, come here quickly.

Kagawa: It’s just a bowl of porridge, is that a big deal?