The wagyu cubes sizzled like they were telling secrets.
Liam watched the fat render, little pearls of it sliding down the sides of each two-inch square, pooling at the bottom of the cast-iron pan. The Level 3 Hearth's flame was steady, a deep orange-blue that held its heat without spiking. He'd spent forty minutes getting it there. Worth it.
"See the colour," he said, tilting the pan toward the stream crystal. The blue screen hovered at the edge of his vision, chat scrolling fast enough to blur. "Not brown yet. You want that pale gold. If it goes brown, you've lost the marbling."
He tonged the first cube, flipped it. The seared side gleamed.
[Elgumbre]: BRO THAT'S WAGYU???
[He_He03]: real questions here, how did you get so strong so fast?
[daisycattt]: I bet he won't read my comment.
[Allen_Davis_4917]: I miss the days he was a little guy.
