Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 192: Tripping and hairy crabs can be eaten

Hermione insisted that tea leaf fortune telling was nonsense and not rigorous at all. She was still complaining to Harry that these things were meaningless when she said goodbye to Hagrid.

Sainz was very happy after teasing the Saviors in the name of divination.

Having satisfied his evil taste, Sai did not forget to give Hermione some advice. If she wanted to improve her abilities, practicing alone would be ineffective. If she could have someone to teach her step by step, her spell skills would definitely improve significantly.

Hermione seemed to have thought of the difference between her Cutting Spell and Sainz's, "Saienz, you..."

"I can't do that. You know I need to take my exams this year. I don't have time. Why don't you go ask Professor Lockhart for help?"

Hermione's eyes wandered as she said, "Well... I did... but Professor Lockhart is very busy... he doesn't have time..."

"Well, if you ask the professor to teach you alone, he certainly won't have that much time. You can gather little wizards who have the same ideas as you to form a study group or a small club, and ask the professor to be your instructor. In this way, after the time is fixed, the professor will be able to take time out regularly and it will be easier to arrange."

Hermione's eyes lit up, "Yeah, why didn't I think of that!" Without waiting for the other two, she ran away first.

Harry pulled Sainz aside and said, "I don't believe you didn't notice."

Ron nodded and said, "Yeah, I think everyone has discovered his true identity, except for those whose heads are..."

"Ron!" Harry pulled him.

Sainz nodded and said, "Didn't you notice that the last time he held the duel club, there were almost no senior students?"

"Since you've already discovered it, why are you still doing that?" Ron asked in confusion.

Harry seemed to have grasped some clues. "You want Hermione to ask questions together with others, so as not to give him a chance to shirk!"

"Yes, if you want to understand a person, the best way is to get close to him. Whether he is genuine or not cannot be concealed in practical activities. If there are more than ten or twenty students asking him questions at the same time, he can't shirk and let them find the answers themselves.

When a person makes the same mistake over and over again, even if he has a halo filter, people will think there is something wrong with him after a while.”

Harry sighed, "Oh~ I hope Hermione can discover his true level sooner."

After giving Lockhart a little trouble, Sainz said goodbye to Harry and the others in a good mood.

Back in the Room of Requirement, he completed the day's tennis-ball practice without fail and made his usual inspection of the greenhouse.

Continue to go to the alchemy area to improve the luminous powder. In fact, the luminous powder has basically met the market requirements. He has found a ratio of black powder and bar crystals that can stably emit the brightness of fluorescent lamps. According to the standards of extensive use, it is acceptable.

However, Sainz wants to achieve his goal in one step by developing a full chain of products with adjustable brightness and color to directly occupy the entire market.

There has also been great progress in the research on the edibility of hairy crabs.

He even wanted to stop the research, but then he thought that the time and material costs had already been invested, and it would be a great loss to give up halfway.

Unexpectedly, after not paying too much attention, there would be unexpected results.

At first, all his attempts showed that roasting hairy crabs directly over fire or steaming them directly in a pot did not work.

In other words, this thing cannot be eaten fresh like ordinary crabs, but must be eaten after being slaughtered like land animals.

If the animals are slaughtered too quickly, the meat will quickly rot in the air.

Afterwards, because of the more important research on the Vanishing Cabinet and Occlumency, simple food and drink were put at the end.

As the priority decreased, I didn't care so much about it. There was a hairy crab tied up and thrown into the water for who knows how long.

This drowned giant creature actually gave Sainz a surprise. Who would have thought that in order to eat it, he had to drown it first!

The experiment was like panning for gold in the sand. Sai was glad that he did not just throw away the drowned body and threw it in when he was steaming it.

When the pot opened, Sai immediately felt that this time he was in the right direction. Sure enough, the hairy crab that was drowned and soaked in water finally revealed its true form as food.

After opening it, it was finally not a box of smelly water or rotten ointment, but meat the color of egg white!

The meat was tested and observed using mice to confirm that it was non-toxic.

After finding the direction, Sainz began to experiment and screen out the optimal time to stay submerged in water.

After observation, it was found that even after being tied up in water for a week, these insects were still alive and kicking.

He speculated that this might be because people don't know that it can be drowned. After all, in nature, no hairy crab would deliberately tie itself in the water for more than ten or twenty days just to drown itself.

Perhaps people still think that they can live underwater.

It’s like a crocodile, which lives in water. But if it is tied underwater, it will drown.

After half a month, these guys with long endurance are finally drowned. Now when they are taken out and steamed, meat will appear inside.

Sainz speculated that perhaps some substances in their bodies were consumed in the process of fighting the flooding, which prevented their meat from rotting quickly.

Subsequent flooding experiments showed that the optimal water treatment time for hairy crabs is forty days, at which time its meat is tender pink.

Generally speaking, as the flooding time continues, the color of their flesh will change progressively, from the initial white to the final dark red.

The meat probably tastes best when it's pink.

Repeated tests on the magic showed that it was non-toxic. Sainz took out the antidote he had prepared and put it aside, and finally gritted his teeth and conducted a human experiment!

He took a bite!

It was surprisingly fresh and tender, not like seafood at all, without a single fishy smell. It was also unlike other insect ingredients, with more shell than meat, and had a truly mammal-like taste.

The white and tender one tastes similar to chick, the pink one tastes similar to rabbit meat but is softer and more tender, and the dark red one tastes similar to beef.

If the waterlogging time exceeds two months, the taste will be similar to that of an old cow that has been stewed until it loses water, and it will be a bit dry.

It took me six or seven months to finally find a way to eat hairy crabs. Overall, the taste is not amazing.

There may be other ways to deal with it that are more suitable, but Sainz has decided not to waste his energy.

He himself does like delicious food, but he is not a gourmet who will focus his main attention on it just to satisfy his appetite.

The reason why these strange things have not become common ingredients is because their input and output are seriously disproportionate. It is okay to use them as a seasoning occasionally, but studying them as the main dish is a bit of putting the cart before the horse.

"Conte, put away this "Summary of Hairy Crab Processing". You can go further in this direction, but you don't need to spend too much energy."

"Yes, sir!"