Chapter 228: The First Bite Of Pork Swallowed 30,000 Years Later
After Xiang Chuan had been cutting for an hour and a half, the various groups finally completed their respective tasks one after another, and this pig slaughter show officially came to an end.
The edible parts dissected from the castrated pig were stuffed full onto three shelves, causing the animal husbandry department cadres in the holographic field to discuss animatedly.
“How can there be so many edible parts? Can this student’s processing method really work?”
“I don’t know if it’s my illusion, but I feel like the parts this girl threw away don’t even weigh as much as one pig hind leg…”
“Did she throw anything away? Besides the pig neck meat and some fluffy fat, did she throw away anything else?”
“How could she not even spare the bones… Could ancient people have a way to make bones as tender as meat?”
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Students from other classes also raised the same doubts.
Mainly, Xiang Chuan’s operations with Class Eight, apart from the internal organs processing being overly “shocking,” felt like just separating bone from meat for the other parts.
Is there any meaning to it?
It’s just eating meat, is it necessary?
These were the main doubts from students of other classes.
But none of this had anything to do with Xiang Chuan and the students of Class Eight Grade One, because they were now heading to the sterilization room to change out of the fairly comfortable protective clothing they were wearing, wash off the fishy smell on their bodies, and then prepare to head to the kitchen of the First Canteen.
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Xiang Chuan stood in front of the control panel in the kitchen, looking at the three shelves delivered cold by AI beside her, her mind racing with ideas for a moment.
In the 21st century, pork sales were high because there were many seasonings available then, and pork, being meat with high fat content, was most suitable for heavy oil and heavy salt cooking methods, so now Xiang Chuan didn’t have many recipe options either.
One step at a time, then. Xiang Chuan sighed lightly, reached out to pick up a piece of lean meat to try making a pork chop to test the waters.
This was also to confirm the taste of this castrated pig. During the dissection just now, Xiang Chuan had already noticed through the smell difference between this pig and the pork she had bought before that this castrated pig was from the same lineage as the pigs she had seen at the meat stall in the vegetable market.
But the other students didn’t know yet.
So let the taste speak for itself.
For the pork chop preparation process, Xiang Chuan directly stopped thinking and had the kitchen AI prepare the ingredients according to the pan-fried steak setup, then she directly turned on the heating plate and started pan-frying.
The difference between pan-fried pork chop and pan-fried steak is that pork, due to its meat quality inherently having some softness from the fat, plus for food safety considerations, needs to be fully cooked. Xiang Chuan was completely familiar with the series of operations, because back at the Xiang Family Mansion and the A Bite of China Club Small Restaurant kitchens, she had tried countless times using modern pork to make pan-fried pork chops.
In no time, the fragrant pan-fried pork chop infused with pepper aroma was plated. Xiang Chuan cut it into small pieces with a butter knife and fork, then picked up a piece with her own chopsticks and put it in her mouth.
Seeing Xiang Chuan’s action, whether it was the Class Eight Grade One members in the kitchen or the animal husbandry department cadres crowded together outside the kitchen, all held their breath.
Success or failure hung on this one move.
Xiang Chuan chewed nervously a few times. The fishy gaminess she had experienced before did not appear; instead, it was replaced by the tender, savory texture unique to pork that she had eaten just a few months ago but now felt like a distant memory from another world, directly making her excited to tears.
Her tears instead scared the Class Eight crowd. They thought Xiang Chuan had failed again this time and, not caring about much else, all crowded over.
“X-Xiang Chuan?! What’s wrong?! Did it fail again?!”
“Don’t cry, Xiang Chuan. If it doesn’t work this time, we’ll try again later. When you get back, organize the breeds of edible pigs from ancient times, let the Agriculture Bureau use cloning technology to recreate and restore them, and maybe by this time next year we’ll be eating delicious pork!”
“Yeah, Chou Manman is right, Xiang Chuan, don’t lose heart. We still have plenty of chances. If we can’t do it this time, treat it as practice. Take this meat to the nature reserve to make feed, maybe it can help you break even—”
Xiang Chuan at first felt quite touched listening, but when she heard this sentence, she was so scared that her tears retracted.
“No! Absolutely not! The meat I worked so hard to portion out—I haven’t even tried bacon yet. How can I let those animals have it, even if they are rare animals?!” she said excitedly.
“This stuff is so bad it made you cry, and you’re still defending it so fiercely. Are you a masochist?” Ainuo looked disdainfully at the pork chop on the plate.
Xiang Chuan twitched her mouth. This kid really couldn’t speak nicely. She didn’t bother retorting, directly picked up her chopsticks to grab another cut piece of pan-fried pork chop, and stuffed it into Ainuo’s mouth while he wasn’t reacting.
Ainuo didn’t react to what Xiang Chuan had done. With his mouth half-open, the pan-fried pork chop in his mouth nearly fell out. Xiang Chuan helpfully supported his chin to close his mouth. When he realized what Xiang Chuan had stuffed into his mouth, his whole face turned green. He opened his mouth wanting to spit out the pork. Xiang Chuan saw through his little movement at a glance. She directly fixed Ainuo’s occiput with one hand and covered Ainuo’s mouth with the other, firmly not letting him spit it out.
The sudden change stunned the Class Eight members.
This… Was Xiang Chuan, due to the heavy blow, looking for someone to vent on?
Thinking of this possibility, the crowd who had been comforting Xiang Chuan all retreated three steps back at this moment, avoiding themselves becoming Xiang Chuan’s next target.
Xiang Chuan at this point also couldn’t be bothered with the others. She glared fiercely at Ainuo and ordered:
“Chew it for me, savor it properly before swallowing! Who are you calling a masochist!”
So, so scary…
The Class Eight members trembled. They looked pityingly at Ainuo, who had become the number one sacrifice.
But contrary to their expectations, Ainuo’s complexion was no longer as bad as before; instead, it carried some… confusion? And they also saw Ainuo’s cheeks moving.
He, he was… chewing? He was really tasting that piece of pork?
Class President Lu Daiqing reacted first at this moment: Just now, after Xiang Chuan put that piece of pork in her mouth and chewed, she didn’t, as usual, chew two bites and then rush to the sink to spit it out, but swallowed it!
He stared deathly at Ainuo’s movements. When he saw Ainuo also swallow the meat like Xiang Chuan, Class President Lu Daiqing was completely shocked.
Although Ainuo usually couldn’t hold his head up in front of Ouyang Yating and Nancy, that was because those two suppressed him with their “childhood sweetheart” status. How good Ainuo’s physical fitness was usually was something Class President Lu Daiqing and the others, who had played with exoskeletons alongside him in PE class, naturally knew full well.
For such a guy to obediently swallow something at his mouth when forcibly fed food he couldn’t swallow!
In other words, this pork chop—it was edible!
Ainuo at this moment also removed Xiang Chuan’s hand covering his mouth, looked puzzled at the pan-fried pork chop on the plate, and asked in doubt: “You… did you just use some other seasoning to make such a big change in this pork?”
As soon as this sentence came out, whether in the kitchen or outside the kitchen, or the students from other classes in the dining area outside the canteen watching the live broadcast through the temporary camera in the kitchen, everyone let out cries of surprise!
It was edible?! The pork had become palatable?!
