Shokugeki no Soma 85

Shokugeki no Soma 85

p1
"Shokugeki no Soma"
Cutlery: The election semifinals begin!!
Gin: For the semifinals of the Autumn Election---
Gin: The judges
Gin: Will be the five of us.
Guy: Wh...
Guy: Whoooa!!

p2-3
Text: 80th Generation Second Seat Inui Hinako
Text: Japanese Restaurant "Kiri-no-ya"
Text: 79th Generation Second Seat Mizuhara Fuyumi
Text: Italian Restaurant "Ristorante F"
Text: 69th Generation First Seat Doujima Gin
Text: Tootsuki Resort General Head Chef
Text: 88th Generation Second Seat Tsunozaki Taki
Text: Spanish Restaurant "Taki Amarillo" //lit. Taki Yellow
Text: 89th Generation Second Seat Kikuchi Sonoka
Text: Western-style Restaurant "Shunkatei" //Lit. Spring Fruits Pavilion

p4
(cutlery) 85 The First Bite's Secret
Voice: The first match, Yukihira Souma vs Mimasaka Subaru.
Voice: Begin Cooking!!
Cutlery: Flying sparks...!!
Shokugeki no Soma
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
Star: The JC Volume 9 and the Jumpack are on sale with rave reviews!!
Yuuki: Whoooo! It's Doujima-senpai!!
Megumi: Chef Inui! And Chef Mizuhara, too!
Hinako(thinks): Megumi-chan, you're looking cute as always...
Megumi(thinks): Eh...Our gazes are meeting...? From this distance?
Zenji: And...
Zenji: Even Chef Tsunozaki and Chef Kikuchi...

p5
Zenji: They both became independent unprecedentedly fast, doing it before two years passed from their graduation! They created their own restaurants...
Zenji: They're both monsters who fight on equal terms with veteran star chefs at such a young age!!
Megumi(thinks): They're just a few years older than us from the 92nd generation...
Megumi(thinks): But their aura is incredible...!
Taki: Hmmmmmm...
Taki: Just like the T.S.' article said...They're both making beef stews.
Taki: And...He's the bastard who spit out gum onto a knife.
Taki: If he did that to me I'd lynch him.
Taki: I'd just kick him in the face without leaving room for discussion
Taki: And continue stomping on him until he understood what he's done.
Taki: Well, I'd make his body remember it whether he wanted to understand it with his head or not.

p6
Taki: That would be the perfect way to educate him...
Sonoka: Ta...Taki-senpai!
Sonoka: Body punishment is forbidden!
Sonoka: That practice was widespread in the kitchens in the past but we're no longer-
Sonoka: Shut your trap, you breast monster!!
Sonoka: Don't go dangling these things when you’re timid and gloomy!!
Taki: So? The headband guy comes from a special-of-the-day restaurant in the downtown?
Taki: And it's only been half a year since he transferred here...
Taki: That's no good.
Taki: As a western-style cuisine pro, don't you think the same, Sonoka?
Sonoka: Y...Yes, I think...It might be difficult for him.

p7
Sonoka: A stew adequate for this theme
Sonoka: And what you'd need for a special of the day are totally different.
Erina(thinks): The flavor of a special-of-the-day restaurant...You could also call it a "Mother's flavor".
Erina(thinks): For these kinds of dishes it's said that the best seasoning is one that makes you think it's delicious on the "third bite".
Erina(thinks): A tender flavor that spreads on the third bite so that you don't get tired of it after eating it daily.
Erina(thinks): On the other hand, the seasoning for a first-class restaurant
Erina(thinks): Must give the dish a strong flavor that leaves a great impression of deliciousness with the "first bite".
Erina(thinks): The theme is a "Western-style main dish".
Erina(thinks): Without a doubt, what is needed is a strong dish worth of being the main dish...And yet
Erina(thinks): Your beef stew’s flavor was too tender!

p8
Erina(thinks): On top of that, you planned on leaving in the soft-flavored light-brown miso.
Erina(thinks): That would only draw you further away from the true aim of the theme...
Hinako: ...To think that just by looking at the data
Hinako: You're already trying to decide the outcome...Oh no, no!
Hinako: Having someone like that in a top kitchen must create a really strained atmosphere!
Taki: Shut it, thirties woman.
Hinako: I'm not thirtyyyyy! I'm in my twentieeeees!!
Taki: What with those stretched out words? Stop trying to act cute!
Hinako: Mizuhara-senpai! Please tell her something too!!
Fuyumi: Don't talk about ages face to face.
Taki: .........Yeees......Fuyumi-senpai.
Hinako: Why do you only show respect for Mizuhara-senpai!?
Taki: That's a given, I just choose who I should respect!
Gin: Hahaha, they get along pretty well.
Sonoka: Don't just laugh and stop them, please, Doujima-senpai...

p9
Erina(thinks): Since the day you came to me...I've been really looking forward to today.
Erina(thinks): I’ll watch attentively
Erina(thinks): How you pathetically lose...
Erina: ...?
Ikumi: The meat Yukihira's cooking...
Ikumi: Beef tail...?

p10
Voice: Tail!!?
Voice: Meat from the beef's tail!!?
Guy: What's this about...? Wouldn't you normally use belly meat for a beef stew?
Guy: Yeah...Why did he choose the tail...?
Erina(thinks): Ah......!!

p11
Gin: It would seem
Gin: That Yukihira found his own answer to this.
Erina(thinks): I understand it now...! Your idea...Your aim!!
Erina(thinks): Out of all the parts of the beef, the tail is
Erina(thinks): The part with the most gelatinous components...!
Erina(thinks): By adding salt, black pepper, and wheat flour to parboiled beef tail, fragrantly frying the surface, and carefully boiling it,
Erina(thinks): By the time the demi-glace sauce has fit in with it
Erina(thinks): The gelatinous components will have completely dissolved...

p12
Erina(thinks): Adding "Viscosity" by using the gelatinous components.
Erina(thinks): This entangles with the demi-glace sauce and the stock and creates a body in complete harmony.
Erina(thinks): It lets you give the body more depth without destroying the light-brown miso's flavor!!
Erina(thinks): This is...What Hisako did!
Erina(thinks): This is the method Hisako used for her Soft-shelled Turtle Burger!
Erina(thinks): I'm sure this doesn't have such an abundance of gelatinous components as a Soft-shelled turtle,
Erina(thinks): But the amount contained in beef tail is ideal for a stew...!
Souma(thinks): What is requested isn't a tender flavor that lets you eat many of the same dish...
Souma(thinks): I didn't consider tail meat at first since I thought it was too heavy,

p13
Souma(thinks): But Nikumi's gift served as a hint...
Souma(thinks): With this meat I can make a strong stew worth of being the main dish!!
Souma(thinks): That phrase: "You don't understand this theme at all."---
Souma(thinks): Here's my answer!
Souma(thinks): Nakiri!!

p14
Erina: ...!
Ikumi: ...
Hinako's sd: Huhmm
Taki: ...
Taki: What's with that face!!
Taki: Don't look at me like that, damn it, Inui!!
Guy: He added aroma to the tail meat using spices.
Guy: Which ones did he use!?
Souma(thinks): The cumin and cardamom I tested...They were great for curry
Souma(thinks): But too sharp for a stew.
Souma(thinks): What I ended up using were "clove", which has a sweet rich taste,
Souma(thinks): And "Black pepper", which also helps remove the bad smell!

p15
Ikumi: I see...! The clove gives the stew's mildness an even greater emphasis.
Ikumi: Only adding salt and pepper directly to the meat makes sense, too.
Ikumi: If he also added the clove directly the beef tail would have an excess flavor!
Voice: He's finely slicing vegetables now!
Voice: He's also adding those to the pot!?
Erina(thinks): That combination means...A matignon!!
Erina(thinks): He's thought it well...!
Big Text: Matignon
Text: Carrots, onions, ham, and celery finely cut and sautéed with butter. (They're also boiled with Madeira Wine.)
Text: It's used to finish many different dishes as it can be used to add the vegetables' sweetness.
Erina(thinks): It can be used to give the body more depth without ruining the mild flavor!
Erina(thinks): This stew probably...
Erina(thinks): Will be so delicious the one he made a week ago will be no match for it...!!

p16
Mitsuru(thinks): You're amazing...!! Yukihira-senpai!
Mitsuru(thinks): To think that in just a few days you went from that starting line
Mitsuru(thinks): And brought your dish this far---
Subaru: Kefuh-
Subaru: Kufufufuh

p17
Snake: Hyahah
Subaru: In this last week
Subaru: What you bought, who you met, what you tried,
Subaru: I know aaaaall of it.
Megumi: Ah...!?
Voice: The meat Mimasaka is frying---
Gin: It's tail...!
Voice: Mimasaka
Voice: Is also using tail meat!!

p18
Subaru(thinks): Clove and black pepper!
Subaru(thinks): Preparing the vegetables like a Matignon while I'm boiling the stew.
Voice: It's the same...!
Voice: He's going through the exact same cooking steps as Yukihira!!!
Subaru: From now on-

p19
Subaru: It's time to surpass you......!
Voice: Wha...!?
Voice: Meat is...Suspended in the air...
Voice: What’s that meat!!?
Cutlery: Mimasaka's arrangements will outdo Souma...!? Next issue, both sides clash!!
Shokugeki no Soma
(cutlery) 85/End