Demon King, you just need to conquer, and your husband will come up with the solution.

Irons patted Margaret's shoulder and assured her, "That's enough, Margaret. Leave the rest to me. I'll make this thing...delicious~"

……

"Wow... the one who entered the kitchen before was Lord Demon, and now Lord Ains is entering the kitchen. I feel like it's getting more and more difficult for us to enter this kitchen rashly..."

Looking at Ains squatting in the kitchen and fiddling with mashed potatoes, a group of monsters in charge of the kitchen of Demon King's Castle stood in the corner, looking a little embarrassed.

They had already been embarrassed once before, and even scared once.

After all, a distinguished guest had come, and not only were these chefs useless, they also asked the Demon King to cook for them himself, and the food he cooked was even better than that of the chefs in the Demon King's castle.

What does this mean? Does this mean that the Demon King's Castle no longer needs their cooks?

As a professional chef, he can't even cook better than the Demon King...

No, it would be too presumptuous to surpass the Demon King...

However, as a cook, letting the Demon King cook for them personally was a sign of the Demon King's distrust and disdain for them as cooks! How could they have the face to look at other demons?

Therefore, after the Demon King cooked, the chefs of the Demon King Castle learned from their mistakes and decided to improve their cooking skills! As a result, the servants' meals at the Demon King Castle seemed to be more sumptuous than before.

However, now, the Demon King has occupied the kitchen and has not left yet, and a new guest has come in, which makes these chefs even more uncomfortable.

The most important thing is that at least these cooks can understand what the Demon King does as cooking.

Irons was soaking, filtering, and rinsing a pile of mashed sweet potatoes, and the cooks really couldn't understand what was going on.

The big leaf yam can be made into a paste and boiled in water. Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? After all this, can a big leaf yam be made into a flower?

"Hey... can you understand what this human guest is doing?"

"Uh... I don't understand... Anyway, I've never seen mashed potatoes processed this way..."

"After flushing it with water so many times, wouldn't there be only some residue left? Can these residues be eaten?"

"Who knows? Anyway, the Demon King has clearly ordered us not to disturb this human guest."

The cooks were whispering to each other, totally unable to understand what Ains had done. Of course, although they were full of doubts, they still followed the Demon King's orders and did not disturb Ains.

After everything was done, Irons left behind a basin of turbid white water, and the remaining sweet potato residue was thrown into the stove by Irons to be burned as firewood.

This operation made the chefs even more confused. After all this time, they were not dealing with the dregs? So... they were eating this basin of water?

Everything was done. Irons looked at the basin of water in front of him. All that was left was to let it settle. He turned his head to look at the cook who was watching the show and reminded him, "Sorry to take up the kitchen for a while. Please don't touch the basin of water. Let it settle like this."

"Oh! Okay, okay!"

"We will never move!"

"Um, what does it mean to let it settle?"

Irons chuckled and explained, "Just leave it like this and let the things inside sink to the bottom. Anyway, you just need to leave it alone. Margaret values ​​this thing very much."

After saying that, Irons washed his hands which were sticky with dry starch after drying, and then left the kitchen.

After Irons left the kitchen, the cooks looked at each other and asked, "Did you understand what he just said about letting it settle?"

"Hmm... I don't understand. Anyway, just don't move."

Then a group of cooks came to the basin of white water and looked at it with curiosity.

"Don't mention it...it's quite white."

"Nonsense, who can't see that!"

“So this thing is edible?”

"I don't know if I can eat it, but I think I can drink it."

As he spoke, a cook reached out, took a little, put it in his mouth, and smacked it.

Another cook immediately patted its head and said, "You idiot! Didn't the human guest just now say that we can't touch this basin of water? This is something the Demon King values!"

"Hey! Just a little to taste it! It shouldn't have any effect, I won't touch it later!"

"So what do you taste?"

"...No. There is no smell at all..."

"Sweat!" xN.

After a lot of discussion, the chefs still couldn't figure out what was going on with the water, so they simply ignored it and returned to their respective classes to prepare dinner for the Devil's Castle.

After dinner, the cooks finished their busy work and lay down on the chairs in the kitchen to chat. As they chatted, they talked about the basin of white water that Irons was tinkering with.

"Hey, what about that basin of white water? No one touched it, right?"

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it...No one should have touched it. Anyway, I didn't look closely."

"Hmm... let's go take another look?"

"Row."

The two cooks stood up and came to the basin. Looking at the changes in the basin, their expressions gradually became... horrified.

"Are you sure no one touched it!? How did it become like this!?"

"How should I know? I was cooking and didn't even notice!"

"Who touched it? If it wasn't touched, how did the white stuff come out from the bottom of the basin?"

"Uh..." A cook squatted down and took a look, then stirred the basin with his hand. The precipitated starch immediately became turbid again.

"Hey! Look, it's back again~"

"Hey...you really are a genius~ Now no one can tell whether you moved or not!"

……

"..." Irons looked at the starch water in the basin that was still as turbid as before after waiting for a whole night. He turned his head helplessly to look at the nervous cooks standing by and asked, "You guys moved, right?"

"!????"

"No, no! Absolutely not! We didn't move! Look, the white water is the same as yesterday!"

"Yeah, yeah! Exactly the same white water, of course we didn't move!"

Hearing the ridiculous answers from the cooks, Irons couldn't help laughing. He sighed and said to the cooks, "Well, it's my fault that I didn't explain it to you clearly before I left.

Did you see the water become clear and white stuff appeared under the basin, so you thought someone had tampered with it?"

"..."

Several chefs were stunned for a moment, looking at each other, somewhat confused.

"Alas, that's exactly the effect I want..." Irons sighed and shook his head, but he was not angry.

It seems that I also need to popularize scientific knowledge to these demons who are engaged in prenatal education.

Of course, if I explain it rashly, they probably won't understand it. After all, they don't know what the term "still settling" means. Explaining it to them verbatim will certainly be of no use.

So he went straight back to his bedroom and got a book, then moved a stool and sat down next to the basin.

"I didn't explain it to you clearly at that time. Now I am standing here to demonstrate to you what static sedimentation is..."

The sedimentation process was not short, but not long either. After Irons finished reading the book in his hand, all the starch in the basin had settled.

"This kind of static sedimentation happens naturally, not by human influence. Impurities in the water will slowly sink to the bottom, just like in a basin. When you wash things, most of the dirt will sink to the bottom of the water..."

Irons patiently explained to several chefs in the most common terms, and then asked them to help him pour out the clear water on the top of the starch.

Looking at the moist starch lumps in the basin, Irons smiled. The starch content of this sweet potato... is extremely high.

A cook looked at the white lumps that "changed" from the big-leafed sweet potato and asked curiously: "What are these? Can they be eaten?"

Irons responded with a smile: "Haha~ These are the essence of the big-leaf yam that makes you full and strong. Of course it is edible, and not only is it edible... it is also very delicious!"

Chapter 49 This is the food industry!

"Is this flour? Is this flour made from yam?!"

Margaret looked at the yam starch that turned into a snow-white powder after drying with surprise, showing great excitement. When she saw the snow-white powder, the first thing Margaret thought of was the flour that is the staple food in the human world.

As for what flour is used for? Is there any need to ask! ? Bread, scones, noodles... these foods that are difficult to obtain raw materials for in the Demon Realm can now be promoted!

Irons really did what he said and made the sweet potato delicious!

Seeing Margaret's extremely excited expression about the starch, although Irons could understand her excitement, he still patted her shoulder and corrected her: "Margaret, this is not flour, this is yam starch."

"starch?"

This word made Margaret a little confused, which was normal. After all, there was basically no place in the entire continent that had the habit of extracting starch from crops.

Generally speaking, for potatoes, the way civilizations across the continent chose to eat them was quite simple. No one would try to process them to produce starch.

Therefore, starch was something that Margaret had never heard of before.

"What is starch? Isn't it different from flour?"

"Yes, they are different. The difference is quite big. Flour is essentially wheat ground into powder. It is still wheat, just in a different form. But starch... you can think of it as the sugar in yam."

"Sugar?" Margaret was stunned. She put some starch in her mouth and smacked it. Then she asked, "But it's not sweet..."

"Ah... this knowledge may be too advanced for you... let me explain it in a simpler way..."

Irons picked up some starch and explained to Margaret, "Although starch is not sweet, it is similar to honey in composition. Both are called carbohydrates. I know you don't understand this word, but you can write it down first.

Carbohydrates can provide the energy needed for life and movement, which is why big-leaf potatoes can satisfy hunger and satisfy satiety. They have an astonishingly high starch content and can provide a lot of energy to the eater..."

For some reason, Margaret felt a little sleepy when listening to Irons' explanation. She was so energetic just now, why did she feel sleepy all of a sudden...

"Ah~ Tsk~"

For a moment, the demon king couldn't help but yawn in front of Ains.

This laugh interrupted Irons's explanation, and he looked at Margaret awkwardly.

After Margaret yawned, she awkwardly noticed her own gaffe, and the atmosphere between the two of them suddenly became even more awkward.

"...Ahem..." Finally, Ains coughed and changed the subject: "Forget it, we'll talk about this later when we have a chance. You just need to know that this thing is different from flour, but it can be made into delicious food just the same."

At this point, Margaret instantly perked up: "Oh! What delicious food can you make? Can you make bread?"

"Um... no, but you can make vermicelli."

"Vermicelli"

Irons nodded and smiled, then asked, "Uh-huh~ Do you want to do it with me?"

Margaret's face lit up: "Of course!"

Vermicelli is a very common starch food in China, the country where Ains lived in his previous life. Basically, any place that produces a lot of potatoes will have the technology to make vermicelli.

In fact, Irons didn't know who was the first person to have the genius to extract starch from potatoes, and which gourmet created the process of making vermicelli with starch.

However, as the previous generation planted the trees, the next generation will enjoy the shade. These food processing techniques that have been passed down for thousands of years were finally brought to this alien world by Ains, bringing a little bit of Chinese culinary shock to the food-scarce land of Demon Realm.

Tasteless? Not at all. A good gourmet can always find a way to make food taste good!

The method of making vermicelli is not difficult. First, use boiling water to blanch a part of the starch. After high temperature blanching, the starch denatures and becomes a viscous paste together with the boiling water.

In fact, this thing is also considered a special snack in China. A snack called Pueraria powder is made using this principle.

However, to make vermicelli, it is not enough to just turn it into a paste. What you need to do next is to pour the paste into dry starch, mix them together, and knead them several times like kneading dough.

After mixing evenly, the paste and dry starch are combined into a snow-white semi-Newtonian fluid. The subsequent method is very familiar to the Chinese people who live in areas where they eat noodles for breakfast.

Grandpa and grandma would use a colander to scoop out the snow-white starch paste, and then let the paste flow down through the holes in the colander into the boiling water in the form of threads.

After these starch pastes are denatured again through high temperature, they will become dark brown vermicelli. At this point, the production of vermicelli is completed.

This thing can be made and cooked for a while and then eaten directly, or it can be quickly taken out and dried after being formed into dry vermicelli for storage.

The vermicelli made is smooth and delicious, and can accommodate a variety of flavors. The corresponding ways of eating are also different. If you are conservative in form, then it will naturally be used as a staple food, holding a bowl of pig intestine noodles and spicy and sour noodles and slurping them up.

As for the liberal form, they are more creative. They don’t have to eat it as a staple food, they can also cook it as a dish! Ants climbing trees!

You can also chop it up and use it as filling for buns, such as spicy vermicelli buns!

It can also be used to make soup as a natural thickener, such as vermicelli spicy soup!

The entire production process of vermicelli is not complicated, it can even be said to be very primitive, but the smooth and delicious product at the end is beyond people's imagination. Its source is the dry potatoes that make your throat burn.

This can really be said to be the crystallization of food processing by ancient gourmets.

Thinking of this, Irons couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people in food.