I'm the Culinary God

Chapter 1162: Chapter 469: If You’ve Got Guts, Compete with Me in Western Cuisine! Lin Xu: There’s Such a Challenge? [Requesting Subscription]

"Look, after my last video of sugar-fried chestnuts went viral, lots of netizens started following suit. The air fryer manufacturer reached out to me, asking me to do an advertisement. Should I agree?"

Lin Xu glanced at the chat records; they offered a six-figure sum.

That’s pretty high, but it could probably go up a bit more.

"Do you want to take it?"

"I do, but the promotion you took was luxury cars, and mine is small appliances. It doesn’t quite match. I actually want to do high-end stuff like car manufacturers too."

Lin Xu chuckled:

"Better not. The luxury car brand is a modding shop; they don’t manufacture cars themselves, so there’s no issue promoting them. But if you promote car manufacturers, those car enthusiasts will be fighting in your comment section every day. Besides, our positioning is different: I’m the adventurous type, and you’re the peaceful days type. Small appliances aren’t bad either."

Shen Jiayue looked a bit hesitant:

"So should I take it?"

"Go ahead and take it. It’s something you use yourself, but make sure to tell them if Dundun appears in the video, they need to double the pay. Otherwise, it’s just a normal air fryer tutorial."

Dundun is a lucky charm. Even though no one understands how it brings in wealth, it’s definitely not going to help others for free.

They must pay more!

"I’ll go discuss it with them... By the way, Xu Baby, if the deal is done, what dish should I make?"

What dish?

Lin Xu remembered he had promised Shen Baobao to make fried chicken the last time.

But making fried chicken is too much hassle. Marinating alone takes hours, or best overnight.

Under such circumstances, it’s better to do something easy and catchy.

Thinking of this, he said to Shen Jiayue:

"Use the air fryer to make fried milk or even fried yogurt; the process is the same, just one’s pure milk, and the other’s yogurt."

Fried! Milk!?

Shen Jiayue’s face instantly lit up with excitement:

"Wahaha, this is great! And it’s quite funny, coat it with egg wash and bread crumbs, and the kid next door won’t need to follow the steps, they’d just cry right away!"

Having said that, she took her phone and happily went to talk to the other party.

By the window seat, Chen Meijuan was talking with a landscape designer about her ideas.

Although her mom agreed to help with the design, she can’t use design software and doesn’t know how to draw, so the best way is to hire a landscape designer to turn Chen Meijuan’s ideas into drawings.

Once there’s a drawing, construction can begin.

With nothing better to do, Lin Xu took out his phone and opened today’s newly updated video. He planned to check how the new account’s stats were growing, and promote it with his own account to boost followers for the company’s new account.

As soon as he opened it, he noticed a comment pinned at the top. Looking closely, it was actually from a chef who does cooking shows on TV.

Initially, he thought it was an impostor, but when he clicked on the avatar, he realized it was a verified account.

Since it was verified by the platform, it had to be real.

Was this a challenge?

He really didn’t expect someone to make such a demand of him.

He had originally planned to showcase the pan-fried foie gras when foreign friends came to dine, but since this Chef Min requested it, he might as well seize any opportunity to do it.

Defeating someone in their area of expertise should be quite fun, right?

He browsed through the replies under this comment, some making puns, some dropping emojis, and some using cryptic sarcasm, while others were being straight-up aggressive; it was a mess to read.

That Min Zhengnan also traded barbs with netizens, but he was just one person, while there were thousands of netizens; the combat power was not even close.

Not wanting to watch this drama, Lin Xu liked the video, tipped some coins, then chose to share it:

"Here’s a Level 1 account, everyone come bully it quickly!"

After sharing, he closed his phone, and was just about to head to the kitchen when Shen Jiayue came bouncing over:

"Haha, it’s done. They added money, but not to the level where Dundun appears, as they’re worried netizens will criticize putting pets and kitchenware together as unhygienic."

"Alright, then let’s not have it appear. Shall we start now?"

"Start, start. If it weren’t for you piquing my appetite, I could’ve bargained down a bit more."

The two of them went to the small kitchen, set up the recording equipment, and Lin Xu prepared a large box of fresh milk, some cornstarch, and a small bowl of white sugar.

Besides that, an Egg and bread crumbs were the only other necessities for this kind of cuisine.

But those two would be used last; they weren’t needed for now.

"You demonstrate once, Xu Baby, let me watch first. Once I get it, I’ll start recording."

Lin Xu nodded, taking the small non-stick pan he usually used for desserts, pouring about 300 ml of milk from the box into it.

Then he added 30 grams of cornstarch and 30 grams of White Sugar.

He mixed it well with chopsticks to ensure the starch had no lumps, then placed it on the stove, turning on low heat, and stirred it with a bamboo spatula while cooking.

Using the heat to make the milk thick and sticky.

"This step requires a slow simmer on low heat, don’t rush. Stirring it evenly will not only allow the milk to heat evenly but also help the sugar dissolve."

"Oh... doesn’t look too hard."

When the milk in the pan turned into a thick paste, he turned off the heat, fetched a heat-resistant container, and scraped all the milk into it.

He tapped the container forcefully on the work counter a few times to release any trapped air, then smoothed out the top before placing it in the fridge to cool.

"This is actually similar to making jelly; you cool the cooked starch to let it solidify."

"How long does it take, Xu Baby?"

"Not too long, once the temperature drops it’ll solidify. Once it’s solid, it’s ready for frying."

Lin Xu took out the air fryer, wiped it clean, and preheated it, so that when the bread crumb-coated milk was placed inside, it would heat immediately—you don’t need to warm it up slowly.

Soon, opening the fridge, Lin Xu saw that the milk inside was already solidified.

He inverted it onto the plastic pastry board; the milk jiggled a bit like White Jelly, but softer than jelly, reminiscent of Lactone Tofu, looking quite succulent.

He grabbed a small plastic knife, dipped it in some water, and sliced the milk into small strips.

Using the knife as a scoop, he placed the cut milk strips into a bowl filled with bread crumbs, shaking it to let the bread crumbs stick to the surface.

"Coat it now? Don’t we need to dip in egg wash?"

"It needs two coatings. These milk puddings have a lot of moisture; directly dipping in egg wash can make the batter fall off, but using the bread crumbs’ absorbency helps it stick better."

Coating it with bread crumbs, he lined up the milk puddings on a tray.

Then he dipped each one into the egg wash before coating them in bread crumbs again.

The originally white milk puddings turned a golden yellow after being dipped in the egg wash, and even before frying, Shen Jiayue was already salivating.

Cooking with an air fryer doesn’t allow overlapping layers, so you can only place a layer at the bottom.

So Lin Xu didn’t coat too much at once, stopping once there was enough for one batch.

Carefully, he placed the milk pieces covered with egg wash and bread crumbs into the air fryer, closed the lid, set the temperature to 180 degrees, and timed it for three minutes.

"Is three minutes enough?"

"The milk is cooked; it mainly needs to cook the egg wash and bread crumbs... later, we’ll flip them over and fry for another two minutes, and it’ll be done."

Hearing this, Shen Jiayue grinned, rubbing her fair hands together.

Is the kid next door ready to cry?

In the supermarket next door, Old Yu, who was chatting with Old Sun, couldn’t hold back a sneeze...

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