The Ugly Duckling Of The Tiger Tribe Chapter 38: Difference between raw and cooked

I took a torch from the stands and used it to set fire underneath the slab, on the sticks I had gathered, and made sure it was blazing hot, enough to burn through the rocks, making it seem like a stove.

Fenric was worried I would burn myself, but I told him not to worry since I knew what I was doing. Though, that didn’t an I couldn’t get burned if I made a mistake.

Then, I got at that had its blood squeezed out. I used the crude rock knife to cut it into a few pieces, though it wasn’t easy. Fenric did the rest for since I just wanted to hurry and get started.

Then, for the mont of truth.

I scratched a bit of the salt on my hand and then sprinkled it on the slab before placing the at softly and gently over the hot slab.

It let out a chilling and sizzling sound on contact with the at. I could feel myself salivating and my stomach turning badly because I was hungry.

I needed to put sothing in my mouth already. But I had to wait. It wasn’t ti yet.

So, I swallowed hard.

Everyone was watching carefully as I went ahead with this ticulous process and began to whisper again. Of course, I could hear their whispering.

"What do you think she’s trying to prove?"

"How is the at supposed to reach the fire if she blocks it with a stone?"

"She’s just trying to get attention again."

Of course, these low lives don’t know art even if it hits them in the face.

I can only shut them up with results.

"While it’s easier to just skin the animal you kill and eat it right away," I explained. "This process takes a little more ti," I said, and got a long stick, poked a few at into the stick, and sprinkled salt over it. "In that case, you can just do this and put it over a fire, unless you’re unable to make a fire."

"So fire is needed?" Rakan asked and I nodded.

"Yes. That’s the whole point. You can’t use the salt however you please and expect the at to taste good. If you just decide to eat it with the salt on top..." I walked towards my father and sprinkled salt on his hand, urging him to taste it.

As soon as he did, he squinted his eyes and his face twisted, as he had just been given li to drink.

"It’ll taste like that."

"So you’re saying with fire it’ll taste different?" Chief Kasa asked and I nodded. "How does that work?"

"Well," I pointed at the fireplace. "I’m showing it to you now, aren’t I?"

I walked back to the fireplace, knelt down, and sprinkled salt on top before I started flipping the at. They had begun to stick to the rock, and the sticks couldn’t pick them up cleanly, but that’s not a problem.

I did that and then twisted the sticks that I had dug on the floor so the other side of the at could touch the fire as well.

Phew, I suddenly feel like I’m filming a cooking show.

The clickbait would’ve been sothing like, ’Roasting at for the wild beastn I t after transmigration.’

Surely no one would believe they were real beastn and just call it props.

Funny.

"I think this should do it," I said and put all the at on a rock. I left them to cool as I put more raw at on the slab. Let’s not waste this opportunity given to us and cook more at.

"Is it done?" Chief Kasa asked and I nodded. "It slls great," I could see him wiping the drool from his mouth.

Yeah, that’s the right reaction.

Everyone had their eyes on the at I was carrying but no one said a word. I could hear their gulping though, as they salivated over this aromatic at, unlike the dull raw at they usually ate.

"Sorry for the delay. Your barbecue, I an, your roasted at, is ready." I smiled, placing the rock in front of them.

But first things first.

I picked up a stick and then blew on it.

"It’s hot," I said to them. "So you can’t just throw it in your mouth or you’ll get burned."

"All this process seems unnecessary." Ashren suddenly said from behind father. "I an, instead of going through all this, why not just eat the at as it is?"

Everyone began to support him and I understand. After all, soone accustod to bathing in cold water in the winter will never understand the warm feeling of bathing in hot water when they’ve never experienced it.

Wait, no, this idiom does not suit them since they don’t even bathe.

Whatever. He’ll change his mind once he tastes it.

I handed one stick to Fenric, smiled at him, and said,

"Make sure to blow on it."

They’re animals so I’m sure they can manage a little burn or two.

He blushed as he nodded it.

"I never thought a day would co when I would receive at from a female." He said and I laughed.

"It’s not just any at, though." And it’s not like I caught the at myself. He knows this fact but still feels happy about it.

I turned to Chief Kasa and Rakan.

"Once you taste the at, you’ll understand why the process was so long and why just eating it raw might never cross your mind again," I said, my eyes darting to Ashren who dared to speak such words without even trying it out first.

After handing the at to those I dread were important, not including Veyra and the two brothers who saw as an eyesore, I said,

"Please tell what you think after you eat it."

I took the lead and dug my teeth into the at that seed so much more tasty than the raw at I had been offered that morning.

With a single bite, I ripped the at out of the stick and...

"Hmmm, hmmmmm..." I unintentionally humd out excitedly as I chewed this delicacy with my hand glued to my cheek.

It was great. I did great.

At this point, anyone in this era would believe it if I said my hands had magic flowing through them.

Now, this was at worth eating.

The others saw my reaction and decided to eat as well.

As soon as they tasted the at, their eyes were opened to a new world and their taste buds went up by one level.

The level of eating premium steak, lol.

Now let’s see you run your mouth about how this is just a waste of ti.