Chapter 46 Eccentric and Spirited

At eight o’clock that day, Jiang Qiuqiu opened her livestream room on time.

As usual, the livestream room was bustling. “I’m Jiang Jiujiu, welcome to my livestream room, everyone. Today’s menu: Roasted bird.” Since autumn was approaching and she planned to make a Hundred Ways to Eat a Gugu Beast, she temporarily removed Gugu Beast delicacies from her menu.

Today’s dish name was quite sloppy, but she had no choice. Here, she couldn’t find anything called duck, so any species resembling a duck was uniformly referred to as a bird, hence roast duck became roasted bird.

[Roasted??? Are we going to see another new cooking method today?!]

[I’m more concerned about the ingredients. Can you eat birds? Eating a bird once gave me a childhood trauma.]

[The person above, did you dare to eat this bird in your childhood? I’m afraid it’s a trauma from adulthood!]

[…Now that you mention it, it was indeed an adulthood trauma.]

When birds were first captured, many warriors in the Federal Star attempted to eat them, trying various cooking methods like boiling, frying, and steaming. However—

Because birds didn’t offer much nutritional value compared to nutrient solutions, and their taste wasn’t superior to nutrient solutions either, they were quickly rejected by interstellar people.

Nowadays, only top restaurants use them, while the rest are kept as attractions on breeding planets.

[It’s so bad that even three books couldn’t fully describe how bad it is.]

[I’ve noticed that Jiujiu likes to challenge these difficult ingredients!]

[Alright, enough talk. Let’s follow Jiujiu and deal with bird meat together.]

“To roast a bird, we need to choose one that’s on the plumper side.” Jiang Qiuqiu weighed a duck in her hand, showing off the ‘rich’ fat on the bird.

[…I feel like this thing is going to be terrible!]

[This thing is both fishy and greasy, not good at all.]

Many people in the barrage avoided fatty meat the most.

They said this was the kind of thing they least liked to eat.

Untreated or poorly treated fat does taste greasy, but when properly treated, fat is actually quite delicious. And—

Jiang Qiuqiu exclaimed, sounding a bit whimsical, “So after it’s done, none of you will eat its skin?”

“Since you haven’t tried it, you don’t know. After roasting, the excess fat on the bird’s skin will seep into the meat, leaving some fat behind, and the soft texture will become very crispy. Eating it with the meat will enhance the taste.”

“I didn’t expect you all didn’t like it. Then how about—” Jiang Qiuqiu reached out and shook in front of the  camera, heartlessly saying, “I’ll remove its skin for you. This way, you can just eat the meat.”

[!]

[???]

[Don’t do that! We were just kidding! Jiujiu, your boasting is always top-notch! We believe that whatever you roast, even the fatty meat will be delicious!]

[Please don’t peel off the skin!]

[(﹃) Host, don’t tease us like this. Sob, sob, sob, start cooking, I want to eat!]

[It’s late at night, and I haven’t eaten yet. I’m waiting to eat while watching the host’s dishes and drinking nutrient solution.]

[…]

The voices begging for mercy grew louder, and Jiang Qiuqiu couldn’t help but laugh.

“Okay, I was just joking. Since everyone’s hungry, let’s not waste any more time. Let’s start preparing this fat bird.”

Jiang Qiuqiu took out a large kitchen knife. “First, let’s remove the unwanted parts.”

With a thud, the duck butt was gone.

Another thud, and the head was gone.

After chopping off some troublesome parts, a relatively regular-shaped duck appeared in front of the  camera.

Her movements were swift and seemed quite watchable, but the onlookers—

[Huh? I thought Jiujiu was a delicate girl.]

[Before, when the delicate girl made meatballs and minced meat… emmm, she didn’t seem delicate at all.]