"Xiao Zhuo, today's game is not as good as the peony Yancai last time, but this time it is the master who shot last time, are you confident?"

As soon as he arrived at the hotel auditorium where the competition was held, Zhang Sheng greeted him.

The last time he compared peony and swallow vegetables, Zhang Sheng's deliberate release of water and used white fungus as a peony flower impressed Xu Zhuo, so he invited him to join the board of supervisors.

If you are your own people, you have to take care of it.

In fact, not only Zhang Sheng, but even Jiang Dabiao is now appointed as the deputy head of the supervision group of the board of supervisors, and has changed from a bullied boss to a bully.

Xu Zhuo smiled at Zhang Sheng and said, "It's okay, my grandfather has been teaching me in the past few days, and it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

When Zhang Sheng heard this, he was relieved: "With your grandfather's guidance, even if it's just a surprise guidance, it's absolutely fine." ”

In fact, since the date of the game was determined, Boss Xu used the excuse of preparing for the game and went home to play the newly bought "Call of Duty 16" story mode.

The back kitchen of the restaurant was completely handed over to the idle old man to manage, and he experienced the fun of stealing a lot of idle life.

But others don't know about this stubble, at the welcome banquet held in the restaurant yesterday, when Xu Zhuo appeared with dark circles under his eyes, he immediately made the elders feel distressed.

Even Yu Keke, who doesn't know the truth, thinks that his man is practicing cooking skills at home.

This is the benefit of setting up a person, even if it is indulged occasionally, it doesn't matter much.

Of course, Xu Zhuo dared to play like this mainly because of his skills, otherwise he would not be so presumptuous.

After all, he is also a celebrity now, but he knows how much impact the collapse of his personality will bring.

The venue is very well arranged, after all, there are sponsors, and the live broadcast platform has also paid for it, so it is bound to make this cooking competition a year-end feast.

There are a lot of people present today, some well-known self-media, staff of live broadcast platforms, and a group of anchors dominated by Lao Meng.

In addition, the main figures of the federation, the families and apprentices of the contestants, and the head chefs of various restaurants came to cheer the whole auditorium.

And the old men who competed with Xu Zhuo on the same stage were all wearing white and clean chef clothes, with chef hats more than two feet high on their heads, and their eyes were full of disdain when they looked at Xu Zhuo.

Of course, this kind of person is still very good at saying beautiful things, and when he saw Xu Zhuo going to check the kitchenware and stove, he hurriedly took two steps to this side, and greeted Xu Zhuo in a strange way.

"Xiao Xu, you are from a family of chefs, young and promising, our group of old guys are really not opponents, you can't play a dead hand in the competition later, let's learn from each other......"

This is too fake, if Xu Zhuo hadn't taken the position of chairman of the board of supervisors as a bet, would they have agreed to the game?

Before Xu Zhuo could respond, the old man came over.

"What's the matter? Are you going to take the initiative to admit defeat? It's okay to admit defeat, it's not ashamed, after all, it's my grandson who is competing with you, and it's normal for you to be incomparable, understandable. ”

To deal with the onmyoji, it is naturally better to have the old man.

As soon as he said this, the old men suddenly felt like they had eaten flies.

However, the old man didn't mean to stop, and continued: "I really envy a few of you, I don't blush when I compete with my grandchildren on the same stage, and I look complacent, I'm really inferior to you in this regard......"

A few people walked away stupidly, and they were in no mood to gossip.

Tian Chengrun patted the old man from behind: "How can you talk now? ”

The old man is a chef with a national prefix, and the old men on the other side are just famous chefs in the provincial capital, not an order of magnitude at all.

However, the old man has always been a master who does not suffer losses, and if someone says strange things in front of his grandson, he will naturally not agree.

And this group of people can't compare to him in cooking, and they can't compare to him in business, and even in fights, they are defeated.

In this case, the other party still takes the initiative to jump, isn't this looking for scolding?

"I'm calling this the way of the Onmyoji, so that the Onmyoji have no way out...... Lao Tian, wait a while, you will be fair as a judge, don't come nonsense, I believe in Xiao Clumsy's craftsmanship. ”

Tian Chengrun nodded: "Don't worry, we know what to do." By the way, you really don't sit on the stage, how good it is for the eight of us to be together, why do you have to refuse to be this judge?"

"I'm avoiding suspicion, okay, I'll sit back first, little clumsy, come on, don't save face for those old things. ”

After speaking, the old man returned to the stage in a dashing manner and sat with Feng Weiguo, Wei Junming and others.

This time, not only did the old man avoid suspicion, but even Wei Junming did not become a judge because he was Xu Zhuo's godfather, and chose to sit in the audience and watch.

Although the others really wanted to sit on the judges' bench, they looked at the seven Taishan Beidou who were sitting now, and unconsciously extinguished this thought.

There is an insurmountable gap between national and provincial chefs, but it cannot be bridged by being old and thick-skinned.

So when the competition began, there were seven judges including Yu Peiyong, and Zheng Guangyao was elected as the chief judge because he was the oldest, and Tian Chengrun was eloquent and the spokesman of the jury.

After the competition began, Zhao Jinma first said a bunch of clichés, introduced the origins of the seven judges, and said hello to the fans in the live broadcast room by the way.

Today is also Lao Zhao's highlight moment, at least hundreds of thousands of people are watching him speak, so he unconsciously became energetic.

Next, he talked about the rules of this competition, as for the reason and bet, he didn't mention it, after all, everyone wants to be faced, and the intrigue will naturally not be revealed.

At half past nine in the morning, the game officially began.

The stove and kitchenware have been arranged, and the next step is to distribute the ingredients.

Each person sent two Zhangqiu green onions and a dozen soaked sea cucumbers.

In addition, each person also has a pot of chicken soup and a small pot of pork bone stock, and other seasonings such as lard, chicken fat, sugar, salt, light soy sauce, etc., all of which are available in sufficient portions.

When Zheng Guangyao announced the official start, Xu Zhuo immediately put on a wok and began to boil scallion oil.

In fact, at the beginning, Xu Wenhai planned to provide scallion oil together, but was rejected by Xu Zhuo.

The soul of this dish is scallion oil, and if the organizer provides it directly, it still means a fart?

Moreover, the way Xu Zhuo learned to fry scallion oil is slightly different from the current one in Xujia Restaurant, so for the quality of the dishes and in order to convince the other party to lose, it is more appropriate for the contestants to fry the scallion oil by themselves.

Although fried scallion oil is to cut the green onion into the oil pan and fry it until fragrant, there are still specific differences.

For example, Xu Zhuo, he put lard, chicken fat and peanut oil into the pot according to the proportion, and slowly boiled over low heat, and then began to prepare the ingredients for boiling scallion oil - green onion roots.

Yes, boiling scallion oil not only requires the use of green onions, but also the green onion roots with roots, which are washed and cut into an open pot to boil, the fragrance of green onions will be more intense, and it is not easy to volatilize.

This is a skill in the system, and the old man also mentioned it vaguely, but he didn't go into details.

Xu Zhuo put the roots of the two green onions in water and washed them repeatedly until the color of the soil was washed off, and then cut them off with a knife.

The reason for this is that if you cut it off and wash it again, the smell of the onion will be washed away with water.

After washing, Xu Zhuo cut the shallots into slices and put them on a plate for later use, and then peeled the dried green onion leaves.

Cut off the white part of the green onion and put it aside, and the remaining green part and tender green onion leaves are cut into segments, put together with the green onion root, and fried in scallion oil.

In addition, Xu Zhuo picked a few more corianders, washed them with the roots, and put them together with the green onion roots.

When the old man in the audience saw it, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "This kid bullies people as soon as he comes up, this is not good, why don't you give people a thought?"

Yu Keke didn't understand this: "Grandpa Xu, what do you mean?

As soon as she asked this, Yao Meixiang and the others next to her also pricked up their ears.

The layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, and now Xu Zhuo just cut a green onion root and washed two corianders, they really didn't see what there was to be happy about.

"It's still early to win or lose, but a few of them use green onion roots to squeeze oil, and everyone else only uses green onion segments.

And they almost all put star anise to enhance the fragrance, while Xiao Zhuo uses coriander, which is a lot more clever than them. ”

Wei Junming was only an audience today, and there were several family members sitting next to him who didn't know how to cook, so he simply began to explain in a whisper, explaining to Yu Keke, Sun Panpan, Yao Meixiang, Chen Guifang, Pang Lihua and others.

In the end, the old man summed up and said: "The most taboo thing to make scallion roasted sea cucumber is to put spices, and those old men made a big mistake at the beginning." ”

For the defeated generals of those few subordinates, the old man didn't bother to comment at all.

After Xu Zhuo prepared the ingredients for frying scallion oil, the oil in the pot also smoked.

The lard and chicken fat have melted thoroughly, and the oil temperature is gradually rising, and it is ready to start frying.

He put the green onion leaves, green onion roots, and coriander into the oil, and at this time, he looked at the operation of several opponents, and then he was relieved.

None of the opponents used mixed oil, except for the two who used lard, everyone else chose vegetable oil, and even one used imported olive oil.

Big brother, this is fried scallion oil, do you use olive oil to dry your hair?

Are you ready to fight the price or the health?

So after looking at it twice, Xu Zhuo gave up, stared down at the scallion oil in the pot, and made a concentrated appearance.

Yu Peiyong and the others were naturally full of lightheartedness, so this formed a very strange scene.

No one spoke, but the expressions of Xu Zhuo and the judges were very relaxed, and even slightly disdainful.

Those who understand will naturally understand, but those in the live broadcast room will ......

"What do you mean? Explain it to me with a 20-centimeter length. ”

"That's right, I can't see that I'm confused, Boss Xu didn't do anything, why do you feel like you have the chance to win?"

"Now I can't even understand cooking at a low level, how can this be good?"

......

Don't be in a hurry to fry the scallion oil, you must fry it slowly over low heat, so that the green onion can be thoroughly fried into the oil.

While waiting, Xu Zhuo was not idle, he checked the sea cucumbers next to each other.

The quality of this sea cucumber belongs to the middle and upper, and the soaking is decent, and there is no big problem, but if you want Xu Zhuo to come, he will soak it slightly smaller than this, so that it will taste more meaty.

However, restaurants all pursue size, and the sea cucumber naturally follows the characteristics of the bigger the better.

After the green onions in the pot turned golden brown and the green onion leaves gradually dried out, Xu Zhuo used chopsticks to take out the coriander in the pot.

The purpose of increasing the fragrance has been achieved, and the taste of the coriander will suppress the flavor of the green onion when it is fried, so the coriander must be fished out at this time, and the taste of the green onion cannot be suppressed.

After about six or seven minutes, when all the green onions in the pot were fried to golden brown, Xu Zhuo took a clean and waterless basin, put the fine mesh sieve on it, and then poured the scallion oil in the pot.

The steps of frying scallion oil have come to an end, but these residues of fried scallion oil cannot be thrown away, and they have to be kept for blanching sea cucumbers.

Next, Xu Zhuo cleaned the wok and put it on the stove for later use, and then began to cut the green onions.

This green onion segment is paired with sea cucumber, so not only the length is required, but the thickness is also the same.

And before cutting, you have to dry the water on the surface of the green onion thoroughly with kitchen paper, and then cut the green onion according to the length of the sea cucumber.

The specific criterion is that the green onion segment should preferably be two-thirds of the length of the sea cucumber, and the position is as close to the green onion root as possible.

Because the closer you are to the green onion roots, the denser the structure of the green onions, the less likely it is to spread out during the cooking process, and it is easier to retain the aroma.

The length of each green onion segment should be consistent, and the incision should be flat, and the surface of the green onion body is not allowed to hit the flower knife.

As for the number of green onion segments, it is generally the same as sea cucumber, and one sea cucumber is paired with one green onion, so that it is the most perfect to eat.

But a little more doesn't matter, don't miss it.

Because sea cucumbers are so expensive, it is not easy to eat them in one go, but the price of green onions is much cheaper......

Sea cucumber free.

After the green onion is cut, pour a little more scallion oil into the pot, heat it and turn down the heat, then put the green onion in and start frying.

Frying green onions in scallion oil has a kind of original soup to turn the original food into a mystery, which reflects the meticulousness and attention of the older generation of chefs.

Of course, this kind of operation is also redundant in the eyes of many people.

But the art of cooking is quite complicated, otherwise everyone can just eat a kind of food, why bother to make tricks?

Don't fry shallots in a hurry, and don't use a spatula and spoon to turn them frequently.

If you want to turn over the green onions, just shake the pot a few times, so as to make the green onions more complete and beautiful.

While frying the shallots, Xu Zhuo looked at the others and found that they had already done this step.

It should be the step of frying scallion oil just now, and these opponents made the green onion segment in advance.

This is a tricky method, maybe it's okay to deal with ordinary people, but it's not so easy to fool the seven judges in the audience.

"It's pretty steady, and now it seems that he has a good chance of winning. ”

Zheng Guangyao stroked his beard and chatted with Yu Peiyong with a relaxed expression.

Dai Zhenting next to him did not relax: "Now is not the time to be happy, although Xiao Clumsy's approach is rigorous enough, but the final victory or defeat is still in seasoning, and it cannot be taken lightly." ”

Yu Peiyong nodded: "Yes, you can't take it lightly, and don't be thin later, although I really want Xiao Zhuo to win, but I prefer him to lose." ”

"Why?"

"Only by losing a game can he make his heart more stable and calm. But...... If these old men really don't do well, then let Xiao Zhuo be the champion, and by the way, let him go to Yangzhou to give a lecture. ”

"Lecturing?"

"Yes, if Xiao Zhuo wins this time, I will make him a visiting professor at the Culinary Institute of Yangzhou University...... Load him up!"

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Tomorrow I will go to Zhengzhou for a review, check my ears by the way, and then have a paronychia surgery, so I am in a hurry today, and I have made a two-in-one chapter.