Chapter 821 Another bowl! (4000+)
Four forty-seven, thirteen minutes left before the end of the game.
All the contestants have entered the final stage. They have not grasped the time well and now they have stopped and started to think about the issue of plate placement. Jiang Feng's almond milk has been prepared, and it's time to add the last two drops of sesame oil to the preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
It is worth mentioning that this time Jiang Feng used a medium-sized casserole instead of the extra-large casserole that is characteristic of the Jiang family.
The spectators outside the stadium were already excited.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be difficult to imagine the scene at this time. Even Xu Cheng saw it for the first time.
Soaked in the broth, the roots are bright, translucent and soft, as if the golden crab roe shark fins have been dyed with the broth. The shark's fin also has large chunks of plump and oily vegetarian crab roe made from salted duck egg yolk floating on it. Under the shark's fin, there are soup-soaked dried tofu, carrots, winter bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms. A whole portion of crab roe and shark fin is placed on the kitchen counter like a bowl of sparkling gold, and it is eye-catching without any plating.
The three sets of ducks that came out of the pot looked unattractive. In a large basin of duck soup that looked like white water, there was a complete white fat duck with its legs in the air and knots on its belly. Accompanying him were only a few of the freshest and most tender ducks. The cabbage heart was very shabby. But with just one knife, the duck's belly is cut open to reveal its inner beauty, and shabbyness becomes low-key luxury.
Not to mention the eight-centimetre-high beef tower, the high-calorie feast of lobster cooked with butter, fish stock, cream, crab roe, and cheese. The lobster is double-crispy in the steaming oil just out of the pan, and the presentation is exquisite and beautiful as if it were in full bloom. The fat flower's crab meat lion's head, the white-robed shrimps known as the first hot dish at the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Wensi tofu that shows off its knife skills like three sets of ducks, and the colorful white dishes made by Zhiweiju chef and Zheng Siyuan. dessert.
Even at Tai Feng Restaurant, which seems to be the most perfunctory and only pursues quantity rather than quality, the baked lobster and Wenchang chicken in soup are also quite good dishes.
The aroma of vegetables has already entered the noses of everyone present and also entered their hearts.
Han Youxin had already started to swallow his saliva spinelessly.
At five o'clock sharp, the game ends.
The dishes of the seven groups of contestants are all on their respective cooking stations.
All the contestants looked at each other because they realized a very serious problem.
There seems to be no judges.
It’s not that they look down on Peng Changping, Xu Cheng and Han Guishan. These three people are the sponsor’s father, the number one chef and the strongest food critic respectively. Of course they are qualified to be judges, but...
They didn't act like they were here to be judges, but rather like they were just here to make a living.
The game was over, and the three of them were still standing far away, watching from afar, with no intention of getting closer.
Everyone felt confused and started whispering.
"Everyone, please be quiet." Just when everyone was discussing and showing a hint of dissatisfaction and discomfort, the staff finally jumped out to take charge of the overall situation.
"Shit, who are today's judges?" Chef Arnold glanced at Peng Changping in the distance and said with great dissatisfaction.
The staff member who heard Chef Arnold say shit subconsciously trembled. His good professionalism made him quickly return to normal and explained loudly, "Now I will announce the selection rules for the final test of the points competition."
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After the Chinese was finished, there was an English translator who translated again in English for Chef Arnold’s group.
"The evaluation method of this test is to exchange comments. The chefs are asked to taste the dishes of the remaining six groups and give the corresponding rankings before 5:40. After that, we will statistically analyze the rankings given by each group and announce The final ranking situation.”
There was an uproar, no one expected that the last test would be an exchange of mutual reviews.
Chef Arnold's face darkened instantly. His portion of beef tart was not enough for twenty-four people.
Not to mention twenty-four, it would be enough for six people.
Looking at the reactions of the chefs on the scene, Han Guishan looked regretful: "Actually, the program team should have announced that it was an exchange of reviews from the beginning, so that the weight of the dishes might be more. I just don't know what we can do after the self-evaluation is over. Eat something.”
"It would be boring if we said we were exchanging reviews from the beginning. Don't worry, not everyone will taste it." Xu Cheng said with a smile.
Xu Cheng was right. After the program team announced that the rules of this review were to exchange reviews, each group started a discussion. Each group only sent one or two chefs to taste the dishes of other groups.
This choice was made entirely because no one had thought of this kind of review method. Generally, there are three to six people judging food competitions, and six people is already a lot. Although this competition lasted a long time, everyone spent such a long time on preliminary preparations, such as making soup stock, soaking and marinating ingredients. Except for Tai Feng Lou, each group did not do a large amount.
Tai Feng Tower only provides food for people - porridge.
A medium-sized casserole can cook a lot of porridge.
The small portion means that it is impossible for everyone to eat, and everyone has different tastes. Everyone has their own preferences for radish and cabbage. If there is a dispute between the same group over ranking, it will be difficult to determine the overall ranking. Each group will send one or two representatives, and the strongest person will be sent out to comment.
Soon everyone reached an agreement, and each group assigned one person to taste the dishes, the best one.
Tai Feng Lou sent Sun Maocai, and Jiang Feng could only stare at a few dishes he wanted to eat with a little regret.
He wanted to try the beef tower, crab roe and shark fin and three sets of duck. The beef tower was probably hopeless, and the crab roe and shark fin and three sets of duck were probably still good.
The seven selected chefs began to circle around and taste the dishes under everyone's gaze. The cameraman could only hold the camera and silently swallow his saliva to follow behind.
Because there was a cameraman filming nearby, everyone's facial expressions were very restrained. Only Chef Arnold was being himself. Basically every pore in his body was roaring loudly with every bite——
That's it?
Rubbish!
None of them are as delicious as mine!
Even when eating three sets of duck and crab roe and shark fin, Chef Arnold was almost in the same state.
Until he walked to the cooking table of Tai Feng Building.
I don’t know why, but every chef deliberately avoids the cooking station in Tai Fung House. Obviously, the cooking station in Tai Feng Building is in the middle, and you will pass by it no matter how you walk, but everyone seems to have made an agreement not to pass by it. Even if you take a detour to Huaiyang Building, the cooking station is not from Tai Feng Building. Passed by the cooking counter.
Chef Arnold was the first chef to stop at the cooking counter at Tai Fung House.
He tastes food the fastest. He usually stops for two seconds after finishing the meal and then leaves without leaving any trace of it. Other chefs are still trying the third or fourth restaurant, but Chef Arnold has already tasted five restaurants. .
Chef Arnold walked up to Jiang Feng and looked into Jiang Feng's eyes.
Jiang Feng made a gesture of invitation to him confidently and calmly, obviously confident.
Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai stood in the back eating melon.
Chef Arnold looked at the dishes on the table. Compared with the top-notch dishes in other restaurants, these dishes in Tai Feng Lou can only be said to be home-cooked side dishes. Except for Sun Maocai's two meat dishes, the others are indeed just home-cooked side dishes.
Sishen soup, fish-flavored eggplant, almond syrup and preserved egg and lean meat porridge are all common home-cooked dishes.
In the opinion of Chef Arnold, the cooking skills of Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai are at the level of home cooking.
Chef Arnold picked up his chopsticks and started eating with disdain. The more he ate, the more disdain he got. His face was full of disdain. Even when he ate the baked lobster and Wenchang chicken, the disdain on his face only diminished but did not disappear.
Jiang Feng always felt that Chef Arnold actually wanted to say some sarcastic, harsh and mocking words, but he hadn't finished eating yet so he held back for the time being.
"What is this?" Chef Arnold asked in Chinese, pointing to the casserole that had not yet been opened.
"Preserved egg and lean meat porridge." Jiang Feng said, opening the casserole.
Instantly, the aroma of preserved egg and lean meat porridge burst out from the casserole.
Yes, it bursts out, not floats. Just like a bomb made of preserved egg and lean meat porridge exploded in the factory, the aroma inspired by the sesame oil swept the entire venue almost as soon as Jiang Feng lifted the lid, covering up the taste of all other dishes. .
If the previous competition venue was the flourishing of cuisines from all over the world and the contention of a hundred schools of thought, then the current competition venue is one dominated by preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
When Master Xu ate three sets of duck, he smelled the smell of preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
Everyone was shocked, including Jiang Feng.
He knew that after the porridge was ready, adding a few drops of sesame oil and covering it with a lid to simmer would better stimulate the aroma of the preserved egg and lean meat porridge. He didn't expect it to be so exaggerated this time, it was almost like adding special effects.
Ever since the preserved egg and lean meat porridge was prepared, Jiang Feng had been very confident.
Even if other people's dishes are crab roe and shark's fin, three sets of duck, Wensi tofu, fried double crispy, and beef tart, he is still very confident.
Because he saw the game's evaluation of today's preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
【A perfect serving of preserved egg and lean meat porridge】
Perfect.
The game will not evaluate the dishes that are not in the menu in an equitable manner. Instead, it will use words such as acceptable taste, excellent taste, and near perfection to evaluate it, which make it difficult for you to judge its true level, and then use A more detailed inspection will tell you that this dish is actually full of shortcomings and room for improvement.
The grade fluctuations in these reviews are actually quite large.
Taking near-perfection as an example, Jiang Feng found that the range of near-perfection should be from B+ to S. This range is very wide and very confusing, because he has never made a dish that was rated as perfect before.
Sometimes he feels that a dish should reach S level. The evaluation given by the game is still close to perfect, but the conditions for improvement are more stringent and difficult to achieve.
This made Jiang Feng wonder if perfection could only be achieved at S+ level, or if there was no such level of perfection at all, because it was difficult for him to imagine what a perfect dish would look like.
How can there be a perfect dish in this world.
Until ten minutes ago Yugi told him that yes, there are perfect dishes in this world.
Perfect preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
It was the word "perfect" that made Jiang Feng confident.
Chef Arnold was a little stupid. He stared at the preserved egg and lean meat porridge in front of him for a long time and was speechless. His breathing too hard exposed his uneasy heart.
Chef Arnold felt that the preserved egg and lean meat porridge in front of him had completely subverted his concept of cooking.
Although he is a native American, he has also eaten porridge, and naturally he has eaten preserved egg and lean meat porridge, which is the best in the salty porridge world.
But how could the porridge in front of me be preserved egg and lean meat porridge? !
Or how could preserved egg and lean meat porridge be cooked like this!
This is unscientific! ! !
This is of course unscientific. Although S-level or even S+-level dishes are rare, it does not mean that no one can make them. Chef Arnold can make it, so can Peng Changping, and other masters with superb cooking skills can also make their specialty dishes.
S+ grade beef, mutton, pork, sea cucumber, shark fin, and abalone dishes are easy to make, but it does not mean that S+ grade porridge is easy to make.
To a certain extent, the quality and quantity of raw materials in a dish can play a decisive role in the deliciousness of the dish. The richer the ingredients and the more delicious the raw materials, the higher the chance that the final product will taste delicious.
The probability of cooking perfect preserved egg and lean meat porridge using ordinary preserved eggs, good quality lean meat and good rice is almost zero.
This kind of impossible challenge can only be accomplished by Jiang Feng, a porridge king who is extremely talented in porridge, has good intuition and is also a fool.
You have tasted S+ grade braised shark fin, but have you also tasted S+ grade preserved egg and lean meat porridge?
It would be no exaggeration to say that Jiang Feng's perfect preserved egg and lean meat porridge can reshape people's outlook on porridge.
It simply redefines preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
If Jiang Feng hadn't finished the dishes together with everyone, and the ingredients were all obtained from the same place, Chef Arnold would almost wonder if Jiang Feng had added any new food additives or chemicals to the porridge, or even hallucinogens to make him Hallucinated.
He has never seen such preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
Merely smelling the taste or even tasting it gave rise to an unlimited appetite, stimulating the most primitive desire for food in the heart. The stomach was burning and shouted that it wanted to drink ten bowls, and it could drink as much as it wanted to lose weight with preserved eggs. Meat porridge.
Chef Arnold just wanted to yell at his stomach, "Shit, shut up and gain some energy."
But he couldn't, because he really wanted to taste the bowl of porridge in front of him.
Want to taste it like never before.
Jiang Feng was scooping porridge for Chef Arnold.
To put it bluntly, when he was ladling the porridge, he was not thinking about handing the bowl of porridge to Chef Arnold, but taking a spoon and taking a bite himself.
How can I say this? Your cooking skills are beyond your imagination.
The appeal of the perfect preserved egg and lean meat porridge was indeed beyond Jiang Feng's imagination.
But he still handed the first bowl of porridge to Chef Arnold very principledly.
More than half a bowl of porridge, freshly out of the pot, piping hot, with small pieces of preserved eggs intertwined with smooth lean meat cubes, the rice is just right thick and plump, and the aroma is overflowing.
Apart from the fact that it may be a bit hot to the mouth, there is almost nothing wrong with this bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge.
Even the preserved eggs and lean diced pork looked so well cut.
Don't ask why the cooked preserved eggs and lean diced meat can still be seen to be well cut. Just ask, you can see it, not only with your eyes, but also with your nose and tongue.
Chef Arnold eagerly took a sip.
Everyone is looking at him.
"shit!"
Everyone:? ? ?
Chef Arnold: It burned me to death!
With the lesson of being burned at the first bite, Chef Arnold learned the principle that all kindergarten children know: take two puffs before drinking the porridge. Soon the bottom of the bowl of porridge was gone.
Everyone was still looking at him, waiting for his comment.
Chef Arnold stared at the bowl and pondered for a long time, as if he was reminiscing.
Finally, his lips moved.
"shit!"
"One more bowl!"
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
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