Volume 9 Chapter 28: A Stable And Consistent vor
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<span style="font-weight:400">Gus was already in the kitchen. Keith nodded, “Gus, we’re preparing a lot for today.” With the queen and grand duchess here, it was time to pull out all the stops!
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmhmm! I will follow your lead on this,” Gus grinned. It had been quite some time since he had followed his boss’s directions.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“What will we be making today?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“A carmelized onion pasta with cloud pig sauce. Then, a smoked orc steak would be on the side of that.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Smoked?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I got it here,” A beautiful brown b of meat appeared on the table.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“The aroma is incredible!” The first thing that was hit with was the aroma.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmhmm, the aroma is incredible with this.” I guess I will need to build them a smoker; it was a must since, after eating something like this, they would need it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Boss, what did you marinate this with?” There was something different with this meat; something translucent and spices were ced on top.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Some honey and spices.” The dragon bee honey had somepounds that made meat softer than it should be.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Dice some onions into the pot and add some butter to it. That will take some time.” Making caramelized onions would take a lot of time.
<span style="font-weight:400">Keith sliced the orc meat into slices. I can sear itter, just patt it down for now.
<span style="font-weight:400">Time for the stock. Keith boiled a pot of water. Then he had taken out dried cloud pig meat. In an instant, the meat melted, turning the water into a golden color.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Amazing.” Gus blinked. He had never seen meat dissipate like salt.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Boss, I think the onions are done.” Keith looked over and saw the onions had finished browning.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good, I’m going to add some spices to it,” Herbs were tossed into the spice mixture. Next, add the cloud pig stock and cream. The sauce slowly formed.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Now for the steaks,” Keith ced the meat on the pan. The golden crust formed, and he was excited. While he watched,
<span style="font-weight:400">“Everyone, you can go to the dining room.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Understood, Son.” William coughed as everyone quickly headed to the dining room. It was time for them to have a feast.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Presenting cream onion pasta with smoked orc steak on the side.” Keith grinned. That was when everyone started to dine.
<span style="font-weight:400">“This is amazing,”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It was worth iting here,” Violet and Thalia savored each bite, with Sophia staring at them. Her gaze said it all. Mooch.
<span style="font-weight:400">Carolyn and Krystal continued to eat as well. As they did,
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Big Brother, when will the chocte factory be made?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Chocte factory?” William and the others tilted their heads; this was their first time hearing about this. They know about chocte from the cake they ate. But to make a factory? This was new.
<span style="font-weight:400">Keith exined, “I’m nning to open one in the city. But it won’t happen any time soon. May is still finding a patch ofnd. Also, I need to find more workers as well.” This would take some time.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Aww,” The two little ones pouted.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Do you really want to eat chocte that badly?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes!" It wasn’t even one of them; multiple people had said this at once! The others were quite eager about the factory as well.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“…Going to take some time.” Keith went with this at the end. After they finished their meal, they all went to do their own thing. Violet and Thalia went with Sophia to talk about some things.
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<span style="font-weight:400">While that urred, Keith knocked on the door, “Who is it?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Brother, it’s me.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Hmm,e in.” When Keith entered his room, he saw rows of books and a lot of different ns all across the room. “Woah, you’re really hard at work.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Of course, I’ve been working on some designs for magic tools.” Besides helping out the territory, Alvin became a magic engineer who focused on creating new items that could benefit the lives of others.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I wanted to ask you about making something.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Hmm?” Alvin was interested.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I want to build a machine that makes espresso.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ohohoh,” Alvin grinned, “That’s good. But you have the stovetop? Is there a problem with it?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah, the stovetop works alright. But the quality is the issue.” From time to time, Keith would make a batch that wascking. Sometimes, it would be too watery, while the other was too bitter. He wanted the machine to give him a more concrete drink.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Do you have the design?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmhmm.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“You’re saying that pressure for the heat from the water is what makes the espresso, right? But the problem is that you want to make it more controlled to create a stable and consistent vor?” Alvin stared at the design Keith had made for the stovetop.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. Woah, you got the gist so fast.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course,” Alvin grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But I will have grounded coffee in this cup where it drips down.” Keith then took out a small design of the machine version.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I see,” Alvin nodded as he stared at the design, “I think I can make the interior of it first. But the outside we’ll-“
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I have Orin helping out with that. He said he was going to help with making the design.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Haha, you always have everything ready,” Alvinughed, “Alright, I will try to make the machine work before anything.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mmhmm! Thank you so much, Big Brother.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m also excited for the drink.” He was also an avid espresso drinker.
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<span style="font-weight:400">While Keith was discussing with Alvin, May had the darkest expression ever. And Mel sighed, “At some point, you need to tell him off.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t. How am I supposed to do that?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Then ask the young master to do it for you.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t want that!” This was her situation; why should she bring Keith into this mess? It was definitely asking for trouble!
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Why shouldn’t you? After all, don’t you-“
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m not.” May shook her head. She couldn’t be thinking like that.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“What about him?”
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