Chapter 598 Layering
With the experience from last time, the four of them stopped their movements, held their breath, and stared at the drink in front of them attentively.
But this time nothing changed inside the cup.
Malu took out the timer originally placed on the table from his arms.
“I actually didn’t finish this dish because there were some parts that required on-site cooking, so I asked the staff for advice.
“They said this part can be left until the stage, as long as the cooking time is factored in.”
Indeed, some dishes now cannot be eaten directly after being served to the table, and require on-site secondary processing by the waiter or even the chef himself.
This is also to ensure flavor or ornamental value.
After getting the signal from the staff, Ma Lu took a picture of the timer again and came to the rostrum.
Then he took out a dropper from his arms and poured it into the glass in front of the four judges.
The next moment a miracle happened.
The brown juice fell into the cup and turned into a coconut grove. The coconut trees continued to grow downward until they took root at the bottom of the cup.
Later, large coconut leaves grew on the coconut tree, and eventually coconuts were born.
This scene, which was like a magical reappearance of the Harry Potter world, stunned all the Muggles.
The four judges were all dumbfounded.
They were still thinking about how to express "meaning" in the fifth dish of Malu.
Most people think that he might use liquid nitrogen or dry ice to create a smoky scene, or find a way to recreate the "Grilled Buns" he made in the first game in the same way.
That dish is also quite artistic.
As a result, no one expected that Malu had another big surgery this time, and in front of everyone, a coconut grove grew out of the drink.
Is this scene really real and not a hallucination?
Violet Huppert, the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine, flashed his eyes, thought of something, and blurted out.
"Are you using the cocktail layering technique?"
Layering is a basic skill for every bartender.
For example, the famous rainbow wine is prepared using this technology. Base wines or liqueurs with different densities are added into the wine glass in order of density.
The densest ones are at the bottom, and the smaller ones are at the top. You can easily achieve layering, add pigments for coloring, and what is finally presented in the cup is a cocktail with different colors in each layer, as gorgeous as a rainbow.
But Malu should have gone one step further.
After layering them with base wines or liqueurs of different densities, he did not add pigments to allow the layers to appear.
This makes the drinker mistakenly believe that he is not using layering technology.
And what he just added into the cup with a dropper should be mixed with a lot of coconut milk and milk.
Using coconut milk and milk to spread at different speeds in wine layers of different densities, the illusion of coconut trees growing and bearing fruit is finally created.
To confirm her suspicion, Violet Huppert then took a sip of the drink in front of her.
Sure enough, I tasted the taste of coconut milk, alcohol and syrup.
Although she saw through the secret behind the magic, Violet Huppert's evaluation of this dish did not decrease, but instead increased again.
Because knowing the principle is one thing, but wanting to do it is another.
In just a small bite, he tasted six or seven different flavors, and this was only a small part of the above.
He estimated that in order to achieve the final effect, Malu divided the drink into at least a dozen layers. It was extremely difficult to do so, and most people would not be able to make the coconut milk spread into the shape of a coconut tree without thousands of experiments. arrive. Even if it could be done, it would probably be difficult to successfully replicate it.
In the end, Violet Huppert could only sigh, "What a wonderful work of art. Although most of the chefs I have contacted know about wine, there are basically very few who can work part-time as professional bartenders.
"Because this is also a profession that requires talent and a lot of practice. Being at the top is no less difficult than becoming a chef. How many skills do you have that we don't know about?
"Or I should ask, are there any other skills that you don't know how to do?"
"No."
Malu's answer was as arrogant as ever.
The last person to play was Luo Junkang.
Luo Jungkang does not have the same endless supply of novel ideas as Sun Mei and Ma Lu before him.
He just cooked the dishes honestly, because time was really tight this round, and he didn't even bother to put the dishes on the plate.
But it smelled pretty good when I served it.
Gaggan Anand used his fork to pick up a butterfly-shaped piece of fried food on the plate and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"Tea steamed buns." Luo Junkang said, "A traditional snack in Huai'an. I used it to make loofah tea steamed buns. Well, I just changed the recipe. The chicken soup was replaced with truffle soup, and crab meat was added. It was considered a deluxe version of the competition. ”
Rocky Chen was not in a hurry to taste the dish, although it looked tempting, but continued.
"I noticed that your time is almost running out. Even if you pass this round, you won't be able to compete again. Unless you have some back-ups that we don't know about, why don't you choose a better one? Where’s the food?”
"I have no backup plan," Luo Junkang shook his head, "As for why I didn't choose something easy to do, it's not that I don't want to, it's just because the opponent is too strong."
"If I don't do my best, there will be no hope of surviving this round. As for the next game, I don't have time to think about it."
"I understand."
After eating the loofah tea steamed buns, the four judges tasted all the three people’s works in this round, and then they completed their scoring.
Sun Mei also felt a little nervous this time. Although Sun He and Luo Junkang's grandfather were old friends and had worked together, she and Luo Junkang were not very familiar with each other.
However, Sun Mei had tasted Luo Junkang's cooking before and recognized the latter's strength. She had always regarded Luo Junkang as her potential opponent for the championship.
In order to buy time for the final round, she actually didn't show her full form in these two rounds.
On the contrary, Luo Junkang seemed to have given up on winning the championship and spent all his time in this round.
In this way, Luo Junkang, who had unleashed his last remaining strength, would pose an even greater threat to Sun Mei.
Sun Mei also regretted whether she should spend more time polishing "Night in a Foreign Land" this round, but when her eyes shifted to Ma Lu, she became determined again.
There is no difference between the second and the third to her.
Only by defeating the man in front of her could she fulfill her agreement with Sun He.
Since there were only three people left, the staff calculated the scores much faster.
The final score was announced. Malu once again led the game with 5 points, Sun Mei scored 4.25 points, and Luo Junkang also scored 4.25 points.
Tie vote.
This is the first time in the competition that the last place has a tie.
Next, the judging panel needs to discuss a result.
(End of chapter)