I Got the Almighty Tongue - Chapter 60



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“Thank you for your effort..”

Ye-yoon energetically greeted the filming staff and got into the van.

“Ah. I feel like I’m going to die. Seriously.”

As soon as she gets in the car, Ye-yoon’s energetic appearance on set is nowhere to be found, and she suddenly turns into a tired office worker. Her manager looks at her with pity.

“You worked hard today too. Now that our schedule is over, let’s go home.”

Ye-yoon is a solo singer and actress in her 9th year since debut.

Although she debuted as a member of a girl group and became known, she never reached the top and ended up just being one of the members of a mediocre first-tier girl group.

The girl group ‘Priscilla’ is quite well-known among the public, but most people outside of the core fan base do not know the member ‘Yeyoon’.

An opportunity came to her as well. After the group disbanded after seven years of activities, she happened to get a supporting role in a drama and it became a huge hit.

As her popularity skyrocketed, the company belatedly offered her a solo career. Only after her solo song became a huge success did she realize what life was like for a top star. She was busy enough to die.

“Please go home, Manager Oppa.”

The van gently leaves the filming set, as if taking care of the tired Ye-yoon.

Beep beep beep

Crash

“I’m back.”

You enter a house where there is no one and report your return.

If you live alone and don’t use your voice all day, your voice will get sore. You have to talk to yourself at home and sing even when no one is listening.

Druk

Squeak

I open the refrigerator door. Then I take out the grade 1 Korean beef sirloin that I bought in advance and place it on the island table.

“This one is good.”

When I lived with the members, I had to control myself even when there was something I wanted to eat. That’s because no matter what I did, I had to make enough for five people. I wanted to put as much meat in my curry as I wanted, but I couldn’t because everyone’s tastes were different.

I pull out my laptop and start playing the Gourmet Road Steak Special.

“The meat should be at room temperature for an hour. Remove any blood and season with salt at least 45 minutes before.”

As per the recipe in the subtitles, remove the blood with a paper towel and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Time has come to prepare the vegetables.

“Mushrooms and asparagus.”

Today, I decided to eat properly, so I decided to make the sauce like Chef Shin Je-hee did. I watched the screen and awkwardly fried onions in butter, then poured wine to make the Bordeaux sauce.

“Didn’t you tell me to use a core thermometer?”

Insert a thermometer into the meat at room temperature, place it in the oven, and set the temperature.

Ye-yoon was very curious about the taste of the steak cooked with reverse searing.

“What kind of taste must it be that makes you go overboard like that?”

Ye-yoon, a carnivore, also wanted to taste the steak that her usually dignified senior, Min-woo Jeong, had praised so highly.

The thermometer set at 48 degrees beeped. Ye-yoon quickly took out the meat and began to preheat the cast-iron pan she had purchased for that day.

“I bought it because people said it was good, but why is it so heavy?”

The cast iron pan was heavier than she thought.

When the pan starts to smoke, add a generous amount of oil and start grilling the meat. Set the time again and sear for 1 minute and 30 seconds, turning over. Arrange the prepared garnish neatly on a plate and prepare the sauce.

“What is this? It makes me nervous.”

I cut the finished steak on the cutting board with a kitchen knife. The beautiful cross-section is revealed when I gently cut with the knife. I can see the pink flesh similar to what I saw on TV.

“Wow! This works.”

Ye-yoon admired herself for a moment.

“Maybe I actually have a talent for cooking?”

No. She often posted her cooking on Facebook and got a lot of views, but it wasn’t because she was good at cooking. Rather, Ye-yoon became the icon of a pretty woman who couldn’t cook, following Jung Soo-jung.

Place the neatly cut steak on a plate.

“Photo, photo. This is crazy. I almost ate it.”

Click

Click

The steak on the iPhone screen looks so delicious.

“Okay, that’s enough. I’ll enjoy my meal.”

The moment she picked up the meat with chopsticks, dipped it in sauce, and put it in her mouth, she understood. The crispy crust, soft meat, and juicy steak danced in her mouth. Ye-yoon felt the terrible fatigue she had felt today disappear.

“Wow. This is really impressive. I can’t believe I cooked this.”

Ye-yoon, who had made delicious food for the first time in her life, wanted to share this overwhelming feeling.

“This is unbearable.”

She uploads photos and writes hastily on her Facebook account, which has hundreds of thousands of followers.

[Shin Je-hee is a god.

Mom, I did it!

#reverse shearing

#Gourmet Road Steak

#Shin Je-hee

#CookingGeniusYeyoon]

└ Ye-yoon also took on the steak challenge.

└ Who knew that recipe would even save Ye-yoon?

└ Reverse searing can be done roughly with just a real thermometer and a pan, and the results will be good.

└ Why have I been doing all this trouble grilling steak until now? There is such an easy and delicious way.

└ As Shin Je-hee said, you have to stick to the basics. If you do it recklessly, you’ll end up like me.

└ Jung Min-woo also uploaded a photo. It looked like a restaurant. They made it with confit.

└ Ye-yoon, you finally have the right to marry me. I didn’t have the courage before, but now my brother allows it.

└ I hear that steakhouse sales are dropping because of Shin Je-hee. It tastes better when you make it at home.

└ They say he’s the public enemy of the chef world?

└ If you were a chef, would you like Shin Je-hee? She’s so awesome all by herself.

This trend was spreading not only among the network but also among the general public.

2010 was a time when the public’s knowledge about steak was still lacking. The steak special broadcast on Gourmet Road sufficiently satisfied the public’s needs.

* * *

“Brother.”

Joo-hee suddenly calls me as if she had a thought. She is in New York for the weekend. She says she can’t feel at ease unless we’re together, so I think it’s time to think about marriage.

“huh?”

“My mom said she tried making steak while watching TV at home. She was surprised because it was more delicious than she thought.”

“Did you cook it yourself? That’s rare.”

“He used to do it often until I was in high school. He rarely does it these days. But he must have had fun. He would call me and brag about it for a long time. He said he called his father and older brothers and fed them to them.”

“Is it the positive power of broadcasting? Because anyone can make steak well if they know how.”

As the public’s interest in steak increases, this naturally leads to a demand for fine dining. The show was launched with the hope that people would become more interested in fine dining, and fortunately, it seems to have been successful.

“But what you make yourself is much tastier, but people don’t know that.”

Joohee pouts as if she doesn’t like something.

“I guess you can just eat that.”

Joohee smiles brightly, as if she likes what I said.

“What time did the commercial say?”

“There are ten minutes left.”

Today is the day when the Master Chef commercial, which was filmed during the week, will be aired. The PD told me the first airing time, so I’m waiting to watch it with Joohee.

“But did filming end that quickly?”

“Yeah. I was just told to eat the food and make different facial expressions. Then we took a group photo and that was it. Gordon and Joe moved around the place to take the photos.”

“I’m curious to see how it turns out. Just try taking weird pictures.”

As I was eating a simple pizza for dinner, the time came and the commercials started to come on.

A grandiose music plays as the camera pans across the spacious and expansive Master Chef kitchen. It pans around to reveal the sleek kitchen and pantry filled with ingredients. Then comes the voice actor’s narration.

[This is the Master Chef Kitchen.

It is also a place that can make your dreams come true.]

The camera pans to show a number of cities across the United States: New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, and Boston.

[We are waiting for you, the contestant. You came here just to cook for your friends and family. You will leave here as a professional chef, with a $250,000 prize and the chance to publish your own cookbook.]

The music becomes more urgent again, and restaurants in various cities flash across the screen.

[Three of the most talented people in the culinary industry will judge you.]

The camera then pans inside one of the restaurants, quickly opening the kitchen door, where Gordon Ramsay, dressed in chef attire, is putting the finishing touches to a splendid dish with tweezers.

[Gordon Ramsay. A legend with 14 Michelin stars in 25 restaurants around the world.]

Gordon Ramsay walks out of the kitchen and looks into the camera and says:

“Contestants will be expected to cook as if their lives depend on it in each round, because we strive for perfection in every dish.”

[Of course, he isn’t always this sweet.]

Gordon is seen on screen throwing plates and threatening a contestant in Hell’s Kitchen.

[Be careful not to let him see you like this.]

[Joe Bastianich. He has successfully run 20 restaurants across the United States and holds multiple Michelin stars.]

The restaurants owned by Joe flash past the screen. Then the camera pans to a large vineyard. Joe walks out and picks a bunch of grapes from the tree, sniffing them.

[He is also a producer of excellent wines, but he has more demanding tastes than anyone else.]

“What I ask of you at MasterChef is elegance, sophistication, and mastery. Food that doesn’t look good isn’t worth eating.”

[Who can satisfy his taste?]

The screen flashes again. I am shown in Luce de Sole, dressed in chef’s attire, leading the kitchen.

[Sous chef of New York’s only Italian restaurant to receive three Michelin stars, and Young Chef of the Year by the Michelin Guide.]

The screen changes again to show Professor Robert Miller sitting on a chair in a study room filled with books.

“Chef Shin Je-hee? I can assure you that no one has a more perfect sense of taste.”

[The chef with the most perfect sense of taste in human history. Shin Je-hee.]

I open the door and enter the restaurant, dressed in a suit. I sit down at a table with food in the center, pick up a fork, scoop up some food, and put it in my mouth. Then I close my eyes, and various CG-realized ingredients appear one by one in the air. It’s as if my thoughts are appearing as images. Then I open my eyes. Subtitles appear at the same time.]

[Absolute Taste]

“I value balance in cooking. Modern cooking should never be simple. Of course, it should be edible above all else.”

There’s a scene where I vomit and spit out food. I thought the production team was intentionally torturing me by putting out messy food, but it seems like they wanted to make this scene.

[Absolute taste also has a side effect. His body rejects tasteless food. Can you make food that he can eat?]

The three judges are gathered in the Master Chef kitchen, arms linked, staring at the screen. Joe and I are on either side, and Gordon is in the middle.

[Try it now. The world’s greatest cooking show, Master Chef US.]

“Wow! Oppa, you’re amazing. You’re even on TV like this.”

Joohee looks at me curiously. And then her phone starts ringing like crazy.

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