Chapter 818 My own style
The first week of the second round of the points competition was very peaceful. Even the test on Sunday was very simple. Instead of the torturous route style before, it became peace and love, which was just a simple test of taste.
The test mode is a bit similar to the test mode of the Good Taste Cooking Competition that Jiang Feng participated in. There are two cups of fruit and vegetable juice, each cup is squeezed from fifteen different fruits and vegetables. A correct answer on one ingredient will give you 100 points for an incorrect answer. Two hundred points will be deducted. Thirty kinds of ingredients must be filled in. If you fill in less, it will be counted as an incorrect answer.
Due to the inherent advantage, Tai Feng Lou's competition this week was so smooth that Jiang Feng didn't want to cheat during the test. He closed his eyes throughout the tasting just to not read the above prompts.
Relying on their own strength, the Tai Feng Lou group answered a total of twenty-seven materials correctly and three incorrectly, scoring a total of 2,100 points.
In the third week, Tai Fung House finally scored 7413 points, still ranking first in the overall standings.
Due to serious acclimatization, Zhiweiju's points this week were very poor. Moreover, it failed to complete the task of selling a total of 100 dishes of the four dishes specified by Babaozhai and receiving 50 positive reviews, so it was deducted 2,000 yuan. Although Zhiweiju still ranks second in total points, the difference between it and the top restaurant is less than 2,000 points. According to his attitude, the top restaurant will definitely overtake him in the fourth week.
The restaurant on the top floor unexpectedly completed the task without deducting two thousand points. According to the informant, Roland was surprisingly good at Cantonese cuisine. Dinghu Shangsu’s cooking was very authentic, although it was not as good as Sun Maocaidan. It also frightened most of the diners. Many good reviews.
It can only be said that you never know what a French chef is good at besides French food.
Like Zhiweiju, Babaozhai and Chengji Restaurant were also deducted 2,000 points for not completing the task. Chengji Restaurant was obviously a bit broken and was used to staying at the bottom of the list for a long time. The attitude score for caring is bleak. The owner of Chengji Restaurant is quite indifferent, because among the seven restaurants, Chengji Restaurant is the weakest, so it is normal to be ranked last.
Yongheju, which had not performed well before, was in good shape. Not only did it complete the task, but its business points and test points were also very impressive. It ranked third this week and once again stepped on Babaozhai.
At this point in the competition, it was already obvious that the two restaurants would qualify.
Unless one restaurant can make a dramatic turnaround like Tai Fung House did in the past two weeks, the two restaurants that will emerge will definitely be Tai Fung House and the Top Floor Restaurant. And judging from the current points situation, even if a dark horse restaurant emerges in the last week, the top restaurant will be eliminated. The program team will never allow such a thing to happen, so there will be no dark horse.
The lack of suspense in the game made the final week of points competition seem very boring and extremely peaceful.
It seems that this is not a reality show competitive cooking show, but a reality show casual eating show. The competition has been going on for a month, and everyone is very accustomed to the atmosphere of the competition, and it feels less and less like a competition. Even if they are not in their own restaurant, the situation is not the same as when it was open normally. Even if there is a cameraman nearby reminding them that this is a reality show, everyone still can't help but feel that they are just doing tasks at work when they are cooking.
Jiang Feng even began to ask Peng Changping about cooking skills in his free time, apparently returning to the state he was in when he was learning cooking at Yonghe Residence a few months ago.
Of course, the clip where Jiang Feng calls Peng Changping cannot be broadcast, but these are cooking secrets. Not only cannot the broadcast be broadcast, but the cameraman cannot be filming nearby.
Maybe the program team also realized that the last two weeks of games were a bit mediocre, with no special material. Except for Zhiweiju, which had always been very strong in the third week, suffered a heavy setback and suffered a serious drop in points, and the second place was about to change hands, there was nothing to show for it. broadcast point.
Everyone is cooking seriously, running the business seriously, and doing what a chef should do.
Chef Arnold doesn’t even say shit anymore.
What they originally designed was supposed to be very interesting, very conflicting, very explosive, and very eye-catching, but it became dull and warm.
This is not what the program team wants to see.
What they want to see is conflict, quarrels, irritability, collapse, curses, crying, and laughter.
Instead of being civilized, democratic, prosperous, harmonious, friendly, loving and dedicated.
After several days of urgent discussions and meetings, the program team decided to make a more interesting one based on the premise that the ending is destined to not be changed. It may not necessarily lead to conflicts but there may be conflicts, and it may not necessarily conflict but in case of conflict. tested.
They brought together contestants from seven restaurants.
At the end of the points race, have a real cooking competition.
Jiang Feng was confused by this last-minute move by the program team.
He originally thought that the test in the last week should be done by just messing around with something. Anyway, no matter what you do, it is impossible to change the final outcome. He had asked the staff before that there would be about a twenty-day rest period after the points match before starting the semi-finals and finals.
He has already made plans for the next month. If the program team tells him that he is sorry but you still have to prepare, we will have a small breaking point.
Because it is the Sino-US Kitchen King Competition, the final semi-finals and finals are set in Peking. The contestants from the US side have to travel across the ocean, and a series of formalities such as visas and accommodations will take time.
According to the original setting of the program team, the finals will be broadcast live. The United States will broadcast live on TV and the Chinese side will live broadcast on the Internet. The procedures related to live broadcast on TV are much more complicated than those on the Internet. It was originally discussed, but something went wrong. The US side is wrangling, and the finals and semi-finals are expected to be postponed.
During the intervening period, Jiang Feng planned to stay in Yongheju and continue to learn Jiang's ginseng soup with Peng Changping, trying to master it well and ignore other dishes.
No matter what memory or buff dish it is, it doesn’t matter.
Although Jiang's Ginseng Soup is a dish on the menu, it does not have any buffs. There are certain differences between Jiang Zhongheng's recipe and Peng Changping's recipe. Peng Changping's approach was improved upon Jiang Chengde's improvement of Jiang Zhongheng's approach, but this does not mean that Peng Changping's approach is better than Jiang Zhongheng's.
The improvement of the method is due to the kitchen utensils and the chef's own habits. Every chef is good at different things. Some chefs are good at knife skills, some chefs have a keen sense of taste and are good at seasoning, and some chefs have extraordinary intuition about heat. Take Jiang Feng for example, he is the third master, and his weakest point is seasoning, because his taste is relatively poor compared to other masters.
This is an innate problem and there is no way to change it.
Even if Jiang Feng has a game and can see many things that cannot be tasted by the tongue through identification, for a chef, the most intuitive, convenient and useful way to experience and improve is his own tongue.
Jiang Feng's best skill is actually his knife skills.
However, most of the top dishes focus on seasoning, and it is difficult for Jiang Feng's advantages to be fully utilized. When it comes to the top dishes for teaching knife skills, most people think of Wensi Tofu at the first time, but even Wensi Tofu's knife skills are just a part of showing off your skills. If you really want to eat delicious Wensi Tofu, you still have to watch the heat. and seasoning.
Wei completely relied on his knife skills, but it was a pity that Jiang Feng was not interested in raw food and did not want to develop in this area.
During the two weeks of working part-time in Yongheju, Jiang Feng discovered the true charm or uniqueness of Yongheju's chef.
Previously, he studied cooking at Yongheju. Although he was very familiar with everyone, he did his own thing during business hours. There was no communication or cooperation, and he would not disturb other people's work. For Yongheju's back cook, I have seen the management model but never experienced it.
After experiencing it for the past two weeks, Jiang Feng understood why Lu Sheng dared to brag to him that Yongheju was the uncrowned king of Peiping back then.
The uncrowned king indeed.
The chefs all work very well together.
Yongheju is different from other established restaurants in that its chefs are basically not mobile. Yongheju trains a chef from scratch, from practicing basic skills to becoming a chef. As long as nothing unexpected happens, the chef's entire chef career will be spent in Yongheju. Even the veteran chefs who specialize in non-Tan cuisine are all veteran employees who have been working in the store for 20 or 30 years. Nowadays, there are very few veteran employees like Yongheju, and all the junior employees are brothers.
Because we are from the same school, we know each other very well.
From flaws in cooking skills to cooking habits, everyone in the kitchen knows everything about everyone else. Assign everyone what they are best at, let them do their best in what they are best at, and combine countless bests into a best dish, which is the best dish that Yongheju's chefs can give to guests.
This concept was left behind by Peng Changping.
Peng Changping believes that a chef does not need to master every skill. He only needs to have one skill that is outstanding and all other skills to be qualified to be an excellent chef. Then when this excellent chef is cooking, he only needs to do his best to show his own characteristics, his own advantages, and his own uniqueness, and make the dishes his own.
This is not the first time Jiang Feng has heard this idea said by others. Xu Cheng is actually a supporter of this idea. This is why Xu Cheng admires Wu Minqi but not Gu Li.
Even though Wu Minqi's spicy dishes have not yet become a success, or even successful, she has her own style. Correspondingly, even though Guli looks mature in style, he has been imitating his master and cannot see his own style.
Jiang Feng understood the truth, but these two weeks in Yongheju allowed him to see the truth become reality for the first time.
Very useful and heartwarming.
Jiang Feng knew very well that he had been imitating.
He has been following the game's recipes and tutorials to learn other people's dishes, copying them 100%. At first it was for the buff, and later because he was used to it. Moreover, he felt that the tutorials given by the game had no problems and were good, and did not require any changes. This was true for whether it was chickpea flowers or shredded yam, because these buffs could make the dish itself even better.
His dishes seem to have varied styles and weird cuisines, but that's just because they are not the dishes of the same person, so of course the styles will vary.
In a sense, he and Guli are the same. They are both imitating, but Guli firmly imitates his master, and he imitates many different people at the same time so that others cannot tell that he is imitating.
That's good, but it's also not good.
Just like Jiang Feng knew very well that his seasoning was his weak point, and what really stood out was his knife skills. However, he did not excel in the knife skills. Instead, it was the chicken and bean curd that focused on seasoning that made him famous.
Jiang's Ginseng Soup is obviously the most famous thing in Jiang's cuisine, and it is also an S-level dish. However, it has no buff and no limit on the number of times it can be made. It is just like an ordinary dish, but it just happens to appear in on the menu bar.
Jiang Zhongheng, Jiang Chengde, and Peng Changping all have different production methods, and they all have their own style.
Jiang Feng had always felt that making Jiang's ginseng soup was not as stable as other dishes. The quality of the final product was always uneven because the dish was too complicated and there were too many mistakes.
But now he feels that it may not be because of this.
This game never takes the initiative to tell him anything, but always likes to tell him after he discovers it. Congratulations, you are right for discovering this. And only after discovering it did you realize that this game had actually given very obscure hints before.
There are no buffs and no limit on the number of productions. This is actually the best tip, but Jiang Feng has never realized it before.
Jiang's ginseng soup cannot be imitated blindly.
He needs to create a dish that truly has his own style.
A dish that exploits strengths and avoids weaknesses. (End of chapter)