Chapter 836 It’s time to show real technology
Jiang Feng, whose tactics were incomprehensible, was watching other contestants cooking in an even more incomprehensible way.
It was really a crowd-pleaser.
Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi seemed to be two spectators who accidentally entered the stage. They sat on the small bench with their heads propped up and watched other chefs cooking. From time to time, they would move their stools to make way for Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai.
Other chefs who noticed the state of Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi:?
Look down on us?
Jiang Feng not only watched the excitement, but also discussed it with Wu Minqi.
"Qiqi, look at that chef from The Light of New York. Have you noticed that it's been so long that he hasn't even dared to look at Chef Arnold? He didn't even dare to take a look." Jiang Feng quietly pointed at the bearded chef from The Light of New York. .
He is also a bearded man and a strong man, so why are he so cowardly?
"The chef of New York Light is responsible for desserts." Wu Minqi obviously discovered more.
"Dessert?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but look at the ingredients in front of the bearded chef. They were very rich in eggs, meat, vegetables, fruits, and some bottles and jars that might be spices, seasonings or pigments. Almost It should be piled up into a small mountain.
With such rich ingredients, Wu Minqi actually said that he was in charge of desserts.
A high-end word that Jiang Feng didn't understand suddenly appeared in his mind.
“Molecular gastronomy?”
"Maybe." Wu Minqi didn't understand molecular cuisine either. Under the leadership of Chef Arnold, the menus in the top-floor restaurant were rough, wild, and primitive. There was no such exquisite and elegant cuisine as molecular cuisine.
For Chef Arnaud, tender and juicy, grilled or slow-cooked meat is the true essence of cuisine.
Of the four restaurant contestants on the field, the four chefs from New York Light were the most stressed.
People like Jiang Feng, whose teammates were so awesome that they cheated on themselves, and who started thinking about what to cook in the finals before the semifinals even started, never paid attention to the semifinals.
Chef Arnold is the same as above, but it’s not that he doesn’t take the semi-finals seriously, he doesn’t take anyone seriously.
Several chefs in the Chinese restaurant knew that they were just here to accompany them, so they had a very good attitude. They fully expected to go back to their country to have a look and go shopping, and to pick up their grandmaster at the same time. They treated the semi-finals as a publicly-funded trip.
The New York Lights are different. They think they can reach the finals.
As the restaurant with the most expensive dishes in the United States, the Light of New York has been vaguely titled as the number one Western restaurant in the United States for the past two years under the leadership of Chef Arnold. This title has not changed hands for the time being after Chef Arnold changed jobs. Under the aura of being number one in the United States, the bearded chef of New York Light naturally believes that his restaurant will be the favorite to win.
Of course, he is only the favorite to win the championship. No matter how arrogant he is, he doesn't think he can compare with Chef Arnold. After all, he was still Chef Arnold's younger brother at this time last year. In the kitchen, he only had to be trained by Chef Arnold and ordered to do this and that.
The bearded chef thinks he is going to be in the finals.
Tai Fung House and the Chinese restaurant are the ones that accompany me.
In order to show your talent to the greatest extent, and at the same time prove to the boss that although he is worse than Chef Arnold, you are definitely better than all the chefs in the restaurant, and you are definitely worthy of being this chef. The most important thing is that he has a better temper than Chef Arnold and never scolds the boss. It is best to give him a salary increase next year. The bearded chef made a lot of pre-match plans before the semi-finals.
Finally I chose planF.
I went all out in the semi-finals and won brilliantly and advanced smoothly. However, I was so-so in the finals and lost miserably. I raised the white flag and surrendered.
The bearded chef decided to take out his trump card in the semi-finals, the Jedi anti-killer cuisine, grape juice egg pudding.
This is a dish that even if the boss puts a gun to his head and asks him to do it, he would have to argue a few words before doing it. It is super complex and difficult, and it is perfect for luxurious molecular cuisine.
In this dish, grape juice is not grape juice, eggs are not eggs, pudding is not pudding, even the sauce used for garnishing is not sauce, and the lemon used for decoration is not lemon leaves.
This dessert requires more than 60 kinds of ingredients in total and takes more than 5 hours. The cooking process is not like cooking but like a chemical experiment. There are many measuring cups, test tubes, syringes, and plastic droppers. Every moment Every moment requires measurement and every moment requires concentration.
The bearded chef's cooking process was comparable to a chemistry experiment, which reminded Wu Minqi of some unforgettable painful memories from her short college years.
"Fengfeng, have you ever tried molecular cuisine?" Wu Minqi suddenly asked.
"No." Jiang Feng shook his head. How could he have the money to eat that? "But I think molecular cuisine is quite interesting. It uses visual deception to achieve the ultimate taste enjoyment. It is actually a bit similar to chickpea pudding. And those vegetarian dishes Aren’t they all the same? Using tofu to look like meat can also give you the taste of meat.”
"But I don't think this looks like cooking or experimenting." Wu Minqi suddenly felt a little thirsty. After looking around, she found that there was no water prepared for the stools at the kitchen table.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Feng asked.
"I originally wanted to check if there was water, but I found that there seemed to be no water at our place. Only the judges had water." Wu Minqi was a little helpless.
"It's okay, Qiqi, just sit here. I'll go to the fruit shop and get you two oranges and squeeze them back." Jiang Feng got up and went to get the oranges.
As soon as Jiang Feng stood up, the camera teacher noticed him and immediately switched the camera to him, following him closely.
Then the cameraman watched as Jiang Feng picked a few oranges and squeezed two glasses of orange juice, one for Wu Minqi and one for him. He continued to drink orange juice as if he were a spectator watching the game as if nothing had happened.
Cameraman:? ? ?
Are these two really here to compete?
The game had only started for an hour when Jiang Feng started drinking orange juice.
We can't blame the time for passing slowly. The main reason is that everyone is very busy. Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi are just sitting around doing nothing like the crowd. They even started to drink juice and asked Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai if they wanted to drink juice.
Others' busyness sets off their leisure.
Others' scrambling for time highlights their wasted time.
Jiang Feng only felt that the clock on the big screen was ticking a little slowly. How long would it take for him to get up and go to the ingredients area to find ingredients and start making phoenix eggs?
The most important thing is that Jiang Feng is a little hungry.
He didn't have lunch.
I didn’t eat much breakfast either.
In the past few days, Jiang Feng had done nothing but make soup. He drank lean meat soup in the morning and beef soup in the evening for several days. When he saw the lean meat soup he made this morning, he didn't want to drink it all, so he took two bites.
At first I thought it was nothing, it didn’t matter if I didn’t eat for a day. The most important thing is that when he went to pick oranges, he passed by Chef Arnold's cooking station. Chef M is a meat fanatic and always cooks big meat no matter what the competition is. When Jiang Feng passed by, Chef Arnold was frying steaks.
The steak is fresh, tender and juicy, with beautifully distributed snowflakes, and is fried in butter.
That's called a fragrance.
When Jiang Feng passed by, he almost wanted to go over and ask Chef Arnold for a piece and let him take a few bites first.
More than an hour after the competition started, chefs in each group basically started cooking.
For making sauces, marinating meats, boiling them in advance, and steaming them.
The aroma of food began to emanate from the stoves of the cooking stations of the contestants in each group.
Chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, and all kinds of poultry and meat are in great demand.
Jiang Feng was hungry.
He felt that he could not sit still and wait for death.
This game will end in more than 4 hours. If he is hungry for another 4 hours, who knows what the final phoenix egg will be like.
The program team did not say that the dishes must be eaten by the judges, and the contestants cannot eat them first.
Anyway, he has a lot of time. As long as the preliminary materials are prepared, not to mention one, 20 copies can be made within the specified time.
Jiang Feng decided.
He stood up suddenly, and Wu Minqi was so startled that she almost spilled the orange juice.
"Qiqi, let's go pick out the ingredients!"
"Ah, but I haven't finished drinking the orange juice yet." Wu Minqi thought Jiang Feng wanted to drink other juice because Jiang Feng had already finished the glass of orange juice in front of him.
"Instead of squeezing juice, let's pick out the ingredients for the phoenix eggs. You go to the mushroom section and bring all the fresh, freshly picked mushrooms and bamboo shoots you can see. I'm going to get a few eggs. I'll go to the aquatic products section. Pick out the fish on the side.”
Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi split into two groups and began to select ingredients.
When the two of them arrived, the cameraman didn't respond and didn't take pictures of them. He was taking pictures of other people. Mainly because Jiang Feng had a criminal record, the camera teacher thought he was trying to get something to eat for himself. When Wu Minqi began to carefully select mushrooms and picked half a basket of mushrooms, and Jiang Feng was also rummaging through the aquatic area to select fresh fish, the camera teacher finally Mengchu woke up and realized that the two were finally about to start competing, and quickly turned the camera to them.
The ingredients of Phoenix Egg are actually very characteristic of Jiangjia cuisine and Tanjia cuisine.
Jiang Feng didn't know if it was because of the limitations of the times. He found that many Tan's dishes and most of the Jiang's dishes he knew so far liked to combine the taste of the mountains with the taste of the sea.
Delicacies from mountains and seas were people's interpretation of delicious food in the past. It was also a matter of frustration that due to inconvenient transportation, rare ingredients from two places thousands of miles apart could not be brought together on one table to make dishes.
Phoenix eggs are a must-have dish for the royal family’s New Year’s Eve dinner, so naturally they have to include delicacies from the mountains and the sea.
Fresh mushrooms and fresh fish.
When Jiang Feng first learned this dish, Peng Changping told him that the ingredients for this dish were actually not fixed and very flexible. The meatballs are delicate handmade fish balls made by beating and kneading minced fish meat and very finely chopped mushrooms. The materials of the mushrooms and fish meat are not fixed. They can be river fish or sea fish, or one kind. You can use a variety of ingredients, use whatever is good and whatever is fresh.
This is a dish that can change over time.
Because the most important thing about this dish is not the meatballs inside at all, but the layer of extremely tender egg liquid that is wrapped in it when it is almost out of the pan.
The meatballs provide the deliciousness, and the egg liquid provides the soul.
Peng Changping told Jiang Feng when he was making it that the legendary most perfect phoenix egg was the one made by Jiang Chengde, but it was a pity that he had never seen it with his own eyes.
The perfect phoenix egg only takes a few seconds from the time the egg liquid is put into the pan to the time it is evenly coated. During these seconds, the egg liquid needs to be evenly coated on the surface of each meatball, half-cooked, and then thickened and spooned out of the pan to serve. , during the whole process, the egg skin on the surface of the meatballs must not be damaged, and there must not be any residue of egg liquid in the pot.
Peng Changping always felt that this was just a legend because he couldn't do it.
At that time, Jiang Feng wanted to tell Peng Changping that this was not a legend, but true, because he had seen it with his own eyes. Not only does it look good, it’s also done very quickly. It goes from pot to pot without stopping. At first glance, it looks even neater than Jiang Jiankang’s fried tomatoes and eggs.
Of course, there is a reason why Peng Changping can't do it. He won't turn the tables. The Big Turning Spoon is a unique skill of the Jiang family. Without mastering the real skills of the Big Turning Spoon, it is very difficult to achieve a perfect thickening without breaking the egg skin, leaving no egg liquid behind.
Jiang Feng felt that it was time to show Peng Changping the true skills of making phoenix eggs.
He couldn't make it as perfect as Jiang Chengde. At most, he could make the egg skin unbroken and thicken the soup just fine, but it was absolutely impossible not to leave any egg liquid behind.
But he can show Peng Changping how to give the phoenix egg the finishing touch with a large turning spoon.
By the way, I would like to show you the thickening technique I just realized this morning.
It’s time to let everyone know what real thickening is!
With this thought in mind, Jiang Feng happily chopped up the fish paste and hummed a tune in his heart.
He was afraid that he would just hum it and run away and others would hear him.
"Fengfeng, are these mushrooms cut separately or mixed together?" Wu Minqi walked to Jiang Feng carrying a basin of washed mushrooms.
"Let's separate them separately. I haven't decided which ones to use yet."
Wu Minqi:?
Wu Minqi glanced at the big screen behind her.
There are only 4 hours left in the competition, and her family, Fengfeng, has not yet decided what ingredients to use for cooking.
So now the question is, what was her Fengfeng thinking when she just drank orange juice?
Shouldn't this kind of thing be thought about in advance?
Jiang Feng: I’m thinking about what to eat later
(End of chapter)