Chief Scientist VS Master Chef

It was dark inside the science lab dining hall. All the lights were off. No voice can be heard of spoons or food pouring in plates or chit chatting of scientists while eating dinner. But it was dinner time in the Science lab. In fact its 9:00 pm. Whereas dinner time starts at 8:00 pm. And still no sound is coming out from the science lab dining hall.

But why???? Today was supposed to be a big dinner arrangement in the dining hall. The chief scientist of this country, who was the most brilliant scientist ever born in this country, was coming to this science laboratory for an annual dinner.  He had also received numerous awards from the government for his great inventions.

A 7 star chef was hired today for making a perfect delicious and memorable dinner for this scientist. This chef has worked in the kitchen of Queen Elizabeth of England. He was the favorite chef of the queen. The Queen has also honored him with the title “Sir” when he made 90  dishes on the 90 birthday of the Queen. Each dish was a representation out of the 200 nations on which England has ruled in the 18 and 19 century. Each dish was made deliberately taking in consideration the taste buds of the Queen and then selecting the famous cultural dish of that nation. 

The queen was sitting on the royal dining table with a tiny fork and a sharp knife in her hands. The royal servants were serving the 90 dishes one by one…...hot, hot , the dishes were coming directly from the kitchen without a break.  

It was a hard challenge for the chef. All the other royal chefs rejected this challenge saying it's impossible. As the chef had to be vigilant with his time management, cooking skills, presentation analysis and above all in accordance with the eating time of the queen. As all the dishes had to be served one by one and directly from the oven once the Queen was done eating with one dish.

But chef Gulzar took this as a challenge for himself to prove his abilities not only to the world but to himself also.

He accepted the challenge !!!  knowing the perils of this challenge….and what it can lead to…... it might cost a long prison in the jail for not coming up to the mark.

Chef Gulzar asked for 4 months of preparation time for this challenge. He made a small plan of action on a small piece of paper. Just to make his plans hidden from everyone. Hidden in his hidden pocket in his underwear. He wrote down his abilities and disabilities being a chef. And then he closely observed the time management strategy. With watchful eyes he used to note down the eating time of the Queen in every bite of her food.  And then he started training himself for this big challenge.

The Queen was sitting on one end of the royal dining table. The royal dining table was so big that 100 chairs were placed around this table. The table was decorated with a delegate hand embroidered table runner over it. Next to the last 100 chair was the kitchen door. The royal kitchen staff were coming out from that door one by one serving the dishes to the Queen. The queen used to cut a tiny half inch bite from each dish. And then once she is done eating that half inch bite the next dish was supposed to be served. 

When it was time to eat the cultural dish from Pakistan. The chef chose to make Pakoras for the queen. It's a fried ball made from chickpea flour mixed with onions, green chilies, mint, coriander, salt, red chili flakes, coriander seeds, cumin and egg.

The dish was served hot, immediately coming from the frying pot. The knife in the queen’s hand kissed the crispy surface of the pakora. The outer side of the pakora was extremely crispy while the inner side was soft as rose petals. The knife easily made a cut inside the Pakora. The queen puts the small cut piece of pakora in her fork and now she opens her mouth to eat it. And the minute she chews it in her mouth. Her eyes got wide open. And then shuts as if she eats something very unique and out of this world. The royal servants moved the dish aside now but the Queen makes an order to place this dish back in front of her with her hands. And then the queen says

“ I want to eat the whole dish and would like to end this dinner over here by eating 2 more plates of Pakoras.”

“ Plus I want these to be served regularly with my Saturday evening tea.”

“Please call the chef outside as I want to meet him and title him “sir” for his excellent performance.”

Chef Gulzar became the most popular and expensive chef in the world after receiving the title “sir”. He is now known as master chef Sir Gulzar. He left the place after 6 months due to his new busy schedules. As now he was all time busy giving interviews to international media, going on personal planes by the richest Arab sheikhs to cook for them, being called by the countries all over the world to cook in their special dinners.

This time also a country whose name has to be kept hidden also hired Chef Gulzar on the request of their finest and the most brilliant atomic scientist. He was the first atomic scientist of this country. So he was not an ordinary scientist. He was a very powerful scientist in this country. Working as a chief scientist the government had to give him respect and to accept all his demands. He was the reason to bring the atomic power to this country.

And this time this chief scientist demanded dinner made by the world famous chef sir Gulzar and in this dinner he demanded the chef to make those Pakoras which he made for the queen on her 90 birthday dinner. 

But why is the dining hall dark from inside with no lights switched on in it...plus it’s also locked???Where is chef sir Gulzar ?? He came to make this dinner on a private plane given by the government of this country…But now why is there so much quietness in the dining hall and in the kitchen???....

..Let's roam around the lab to get some ideas.

Some young scientists are smoking outside the building on the lawn.

“I think it was too much for today…… the chief should stop thinking of himself as jackal of all the trades all the time.”

“I think the same too…… he just showed extra arrogance in his behavior today…”

“Uuuhh God do you people know…. I am so hungry……...I hope.. I don’t get sulfate and hydrogen for dinner today”

“You never know ….. As the chief accepted this master challenge from master chef sir Gulzar.”

“Sorry  I was late….. I didn't get it… Why did he accept this challenge??”

“Why because he is a fool living in a fool's paradise thinking cooking pakoras is just like mixing carbon in water.”

“Just look at his disgusting attitude towards sir Gulzar on tasting his famous Pakoras: 

This is the most unpleasant, unhealthy food I have ever eaten in my life”

“Ya did you forget he also said:

They look like gigantic nostrils to me”

“Ohh God the chief did not even forgive the queen saying:

“I think the Queen overlooked this in the crowd of 90 tasteless dishes.”

“And this was I guess too much saying:

The only truly remarkable thing about this pakora is how remarkably bad they are in taste.”

“I find this line of the chief even more irritating:

You can imagine now this isn’t something to boast about…..If you have anything else to do ...do that for me then….”

. “OOh My the chief said all this to the famous master…...master of all the master chefs…... sir Gulzar.”

“Yes and guess what???? Sir Gulzar said.??.. keeping his distance of pace with sophistication:

Easy-Peasy, o plankton-brain.”

“Did he say plankton- brain to the chief ??”

“Yes ….the chief howled while he stood up to have a nose to nose, eyeballing with chef Gulzar:

Your pakoras made my mouth run out of taste and now your words are making me run out of patience.”

“This chief thinks everyone is just like us…. who won’t say anything to him about his misbehavior…..but chef Gulzar reacted very well with him in this staring contest.”

  “Ya his words were full of dignity, saying:

You have gone too far.

No one has ever talked like this with me.

I had ….Had ENOUGH…..

You think….You know a lot about food and taste…..

You said the Queen misjudged me…..

OK……..then I CHALLENGE YOU ??????For a Master Challenge then?????

To make far more better, yummy, tasty, good, light and delicious Pakoras then mine…...

I am not going to put my foot down again in the kitchen if you win………………….”

“Surely the chief was not expecting this fight back attitude….his face got blank as if how could I cook…but everyone was closely watching him for his turn now…...I am absolutely sure he might have rejected this challenge if Chef Gulzar had not puffed his face twice his normal size with anger.”

“Ya you are right…..just look at his hissing words over this challenge:

I will do all these things …...A simple thing making it complex….you might learn a lesson from this challenge then that not everyone is a fool in this world.

“It's been an hour now and the chief is working all alone in the kitchen while chef Gulzar is waiting for his pakoras in the Vip lounge.”

“To be honest I liked Chef Gulzar’s idea of making the whole department of atomic science the judge to taste the two pakoras.”

“Let's see now what happens and who wins?”

“1 hour has gone and only 1 more hour is left.”

Lets sneak peep  in the kitchen now……Maybe we might find something deliciously cooking up…..

“Oooohhh that baby chef thinks I don’t know anything about food or health…”

“I will surely teach him a lesson……. What it takes to get rude with me….”

“What this pakora…...let me open my YouTube to get its recipe and then I will invent my own new recipe just like all the other great inventions I have made.”

“I think this grandma teaching this recipe sounds good…..as Grandma’s are always the best chef.”

“Welcome to Grandma channel….where everything you eat is made by Grandma Love….

So my children today I am going to teach you how to make delicious Pakoras….I used to make these Pakoras for my husband when he was an army officer….he used to call my Pakoras ….. Juliet pakoras….you might be thinking Juliet???? Yes my children Juliet…..as he says he fell in love with me like a Romeo after eating the pakoras made by me when I was young.

Before I start off my recipe don’t forget to hit the bell icon and also to like and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Note down the ingredients:

1 cup chickpea powder

2 green chilies chopped

Small amount of water for mixing

1 potato chopped

1 onion chopped

Salt as per taste.

Mix all these ingredients and then with a help of a spoon start pouring this mixture one by one in a pan filled with hot oil. We have to deep fry these balls. When they start getting golden in color just take them out from the oil.

And here you go, your Juliet pakoras are ready to make someone fall in love with you.

“The government is already in love with me Grandma..”

“Now this chef is going to taste the real magic of my hands….hhmm what an unhealthy food without any proteins in it and then deep fry it to make you fat…..Ooh God this Grandma doesn't know about Air Fryers…. We need to Air Fry instead of deep fry these days to kill extra oil fat from the food ….. “

“I think I should use non refined chickpea flour with flour Beetle in it give a touch of protein in it and then Air fry it... to make my dish far more healthy in nature then that puffy face chef made dish.”

“I will also add more vegetables in it and will mix it with cheese and milk instead of water.”

Chief mixed the Beetle chickpea flour with onions, tomatoes, green chilies, jalapeno, mushroom, potato, egg plant, spinach, corns, olives, bitter gourd.”

“I don’t want to make my dish look like some dragon eyeballs so why not pour the whole mixture in the frying pot of the Air Fryer and then cut it in small pieces afterwards.”

“Now you will know what real food tastes like…………...Inventing and inventions are just tricks of my hands…..and today I am inventing a new dish in this world…”

“ I think it would add an extra point to my CV now…”

  Let's pour the mixture now…..

“Hey what's going on, why is this mixture leaking down the grill in the fryer…”

“Make be because Pakora mixture is even new with this new race of pakoras building up in them”

“Let's put the timer on for 20 minutes.”

The fryer bell rings….

“Oohh my pakoras are ready, let me take a look at my latest invention.”

“Ohh god why has this mixture stuck tight with the frying grill…..it's not getting out….it's even black in color from outside….”

“I should taste it….. It would surely be better in taste than his pakoras……”

“Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh yuckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…………………. Tuu tuuu….I need some water….it is neither sour nor salt in fact it tastes bitter.”

“Oohh God….what should I do now…..its almost 2 hours now………... “

Suddenly there is a knock at the kitchen door. Now a young man enters the kitchen.

“Sir….. your 2 hours have finished...Now it’s time to meet your challenge...may I help in taking your dish to the dining room….”

“Ohh my dish….. Oh no… oh yes… it’s here…...no no………..it’s there…. Listen, just give me a few more minutes??...in a confused terrified voice the chief requested.

“No sir….Chef Gulzar is waiting”

“Oohh please are you not my brother… you look just like my brother….tell that chef anything just for 20 more minutes…..pleaseeeeeeee.”

“No sir it's unethical…….” said the young man with a clear voice.

“It’s not getting out of the Air Fryer”... the chief cried

“Please get aside so that I can take this fryer then in front of the judges…”

“OK then tell Chef Gulzar I am in the washroom and will join him after 10 minutes.”

Chef Gulzar looked at the frying Dish in the Air fryer with shiny eyes and a hidden smile on his face.

Everyone started tasting the two pakora dishes….

Some vomited, some had a tooth break down, some got a bad bowel movement and horrible of all some even felt a minor heart attack on eating this hard stone like bitterly bad tasteless pakoras made by the chief Scientist.

Now Everyone was waiting for the chief to give an explanation of what he had cooked. But there came a noise of a plane taking off instead of the chief coming. And when it was investigated why a private plane of the chief took off without  any call. It revealed that the chief had flown away in that plane just now.

Chef Gulzar laughed on hearing this and simply said :

“The work suits in the hands of the one skilled to do it.”