Chapter 832: It's Time to Show True Technique
Jiang Feng, who couldn't understand the tactics, was watching the other contestants cook even more incomprehensibly.
It's really onlookers.
Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were like two off-site spectators who strayed into the stage, sitting on a small bench with their heads propped up to watch other chefs cook, and from time to time they had to move their stools to make way for Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai.
Other chefs who noticed Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi's state: ?
Look down on us?
Jiang Feng not only watched the excitement, he also had to discuss with Wu Minqi.
"Kiki, look at that New York Light chef. Have you noticed that for so long, he didn't dare to look at Chef Arnold, and he didn't dare to aim. Jiang Feng quietly pointed to the bearded chef of New York Light.
is the same beard, the same strong man, why is he so cowardly?
"The chef at New York Light is in charge of the desserts. Wu Minqi apparently found out more.
"Desserts?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but look at the ingredients in front of the bearded chef, which were very rich in eggs, meat, vegetables, fruits, and some bottles and jars that could be spices, seasonings, or pigments and the like, almost piled up into a small mountain.
With such abundant ingredients, Wu Minqi actually said that he was in charge of desserts.
A high-end, a word that Jiang Feng didn't understand suddenly came to his mind.
"Molecular cuisine?"
"Probably. Wu Minqi also doesn't know about molecular cuisine, and the menus in the top restaurant are relatively rough, wild, and primitive under the leadership of Chef Arnold, and there is no such delicate and elegant cuisine as molecular cuisine.
At Chef Arnold, juicy, grilled or slow-cooked meat is the essence of the cuisine.
Of the four restaurants on the field, the four chefs of New York Light were the most stressed.
A teammate like Jiang Feng forced himself to hang up, and a person who started to think about what to do in the final before the semi-finals began, never took the semi-finals into account at all.
Chef Arnold is the same, but it's not that he didn't take the semi-finals into account, he didn't take anyone seriously.
Several chefs in the Chinese restaurant knew that they were here to accompany the runner, and their mentality was very good, and they were completely holding the mentality of returning to China to take a look and take their grandfather home by the way, and compared the semi-finals as a publicly-funded tour.
The New York Lights were different, and they felt they could make it to the finals.
As the most expensive restaurant in the United States, New York Light has faintly won the title of the No. 1 Western restaurant in the United States under the leadership of Chef Arnold in the past two years. With the aura of being the No. 1 in the United States, the bearded chef of New York Light naturally thought that their restaurant would be the favorite.
Of course, he is only the favorite to win the championship, and no matter how inflated he is, he does not feel that he can compare to Chef Arnold. After all, at this time last year, he was still the younger brother of Chef Arnold, and in the kitchen, he was only trained by Chef Arnold and instructed to do this and that.
The bearded chef felt like he was going to make it to the finals.
Tai Fung Building and the Chinese restaurant are the ones who accompany the runner.
In order to show your talent to the fullest, 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 definitely deserve to be this head chef. The most important thing is that he has a better temper than Chef Arnold and never scolds the boss, it is better to give him a salary increase next year, and the bearded chef has done a lot of pre-match planning before the semi-finals.
In the end, I chose plan F.
In the semi-finals, he went all out to win the beautiful and smoothly advanced, and the finals were so-so, and he lost directly and surrendered with a white flag.
The bearded chef decided to pull out his killer weapon in the semi-finals, Jedi Killer Cuisine, Grape Juice and Egg Pudding.
This is a dish that usually even if the boss points a gun at his head and asks him to do it, he will only do it after a few words of reason, which is super complex and super difficult, and it is top-of-the-line luxury molecular cuisine.
In this dish, grape juice is not grape juice, eggs are not eggs, pudding is not pudding, even the sauce used for garnish is not sauce, and the lemon used for garnish is not lemon leaves.
There are more than 60 kinds of ingredients required for this dessert, and it takes more than 5 hours, and the process of cooking is not like cooking but like a chemical experiment, with a lot of measuring cups, test tubes, syringes, and rubber droppers, which need to be measured all the time, and every moment needs to be focused.
The bearded chef's cooking process, which is comparable to a chemistry experiment, reminds Wu Minqi of some haunting and painful memories of her short college days.
"Feng Feng, have you ever eaten molecular cuisine?" Wu Minqi suddenly asked.
"Nope. Jiang Feng shook his head, how could he have the money to eat that, "But I think molecular cuisine is quite interesting, using visual deception to achieve the ultimate enjoyment of taste, which is actually a bit similar to chicken bean curd." And those vegetarian dishes are not all the same? The appearance of meat made from tofu can also make the taste of meat. ”
"But I don't think it's like cooking or experimenting. Wu Minqi suddenly felt a little thirsty, and after looking around, she found that the stool prepared on the side of the kitchen table did not prepare water.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Feng asked.
"I wanted to find out if there was any water, but I found that there seemed to be no water on our side, only on the judges' side. Wu Minqi was a little helpless.
"It's okay, Kiki, you sit here, I'll go to the fruit and get you two oranges and come back to squeeze the orange juice. Jiang Feng got up and went to get the oranges.
As soon as Jiang Feng got up, the camera teacher noticed him, and immediately switched the camera to him and followed him closely.
Then the camera master watched Jiang Feng pick a few oranges and go back to squeeze two glasses of orange juice, he took a cup of Wu Minqi and a cup, as if he was really a spectator watching the game, and continued to drink orange juice as if nothing happened.
Cameraman: ???
Are these two really here to compete?
When Jiang Feng started drinking orange juice, the game had only been an hour into it.
can't blame the slow passage of time, the main reason is that everyone is busy, just Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi sat and had nothing to do like the people who ate melons, and even began to drink juice, and asked Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai if they wanted to drink juice.
The busyness of others sets off their idleness.
The race against time of others sets off their wasted time.
Jiang Feng only felt that the clock on the big screen was moving a little slowly, ticking and ticking, when would it be more than halfway through 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 eat lunch.
I didn't eat much breakfast.
In the past few days, Jiang Feng hasn't done anything to make soup, drinking lean meat soup in the morning and beef soup in the evening, and drinking it for several days in a row. When he saw the lean pork soup he made this morning, he didn't want to drink it all, so he ate two bites himself.
Originally, I didn't think it was anything, and it didn't matter if I didn't eat for a day. The most important thing is that when he went to pick oranges just now, he passed by Chef Arnold's cooking table, Chef M is such a meat fanatic, no matter what the competition has to make big meat, Chef Arnold was frying steak when Jiang Feng passed by.
The steak, which is very fresh and juicy with very beautiful snowflakes, is still fried in butter.
That's called an incense.
When Jiang Feng passed by, he almost wanted to walk over and ask Chef Arnold for a piece and let him taste two bites first.
More than an hour into the competition, the chefs in each group basically started cooking.
Sauce, marinated meat, boiled in advance, steamed in a pot.
The aroma of food began to emanate from the cooktop of each group of contestants' cooking stations.
Chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, all kinds of poultry and meat.
Jiang Feng was hungry.
He felt that he could not sit still like this.
There are still more than 4 hours left before the game is over, and if he is hungry for more than 4 hours, he knows what kind of phoenix egg will be made in the end.
The program team did not say that the dishes made 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 ready, let alone one, 20 copies can be made within the specified time.
Jiang Feng decided.
He stood up suddenly, so shocked that Wu Minqi almost splashed the orange juice.
"Kiki, let's go pick the ingredients!"
"Ah, but I haven't finished my orange juice yet. Wu Minqi thought that Jiang Feng wanted to drink other juices, because the glass of orange juice in front of Jiang Feng had already been drunk.
"It's not juice, let's pick the ingredients for the phoenix eggs. You go to the mushroom section and bring all the fresh, freshly picked mushrooms and bamboo shoots that you can see, and you get a few eggs, and I pick the fish from the aquatic side. ”
Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi divided into two ways and began to choose their own ingredients.
When the two of them first arrived, the cameraman didn't react and didn't shoot them filming the others. The main reason is that Jiang Feng has a criminal record, and the camera master thought that he wanted to get something to eat by himself, and when Wu Minqi began to seriously pick mushrooms and picked half a basket of mushrooms, Jiang Feng was also picking fresh fish over and over again in the aquatic area, the camera teacher finally woke up from a dream and reacted that the two of them were finally going to start the competition, and hurriedly turned the camera to them.
The ingredients of phoenix eggs are actually very characteristic of Jiang's cuisine and Tan's cuisine.
Jiang Feng didn't know if it was because of the limitations of the times, but he found that many of the Tan family dishes and most of the Jiang family dishes he knew so far liked to combine the taste of the mountain with the taste of the sea.
The delicacies of the mountains and seas are the interpretation of delicious food by people in the past, but also because of the inconvenience of transportation, it is impossible to gather rare ingredients thousands of miles apart into a table to make dishes.
Phoenix eggs are a dish to be eaten at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the royal palace, and naturally it is necessary to gather mountain delicacies and sea delicacies.
Fresh mushrooms and fresh fish.
When Jiang Feng first learned this dish, Peng Changping told him that the ingredients of this dish are actually not fixed and very flexible. Meatballs are delicate handmade fish balls made by patting and kneading with minced fish and very finely chopped mushrooms, the materials of mushrooms and fish are not fixed, they can be suitable for river fish or sea fish, they can be one or a variety of them, and they can be used for whatever is good and what is fresh.
It is a dish that can change over time.
Because the most important thing in this dish is not the meatballs inside, but the layer of tender egg liquid that is wrapped in the final pan.
The meatballs provide the umami, and the egg liquid provides the soul.
Peng Changping told Jiang Feng when he was doing it that the most perfect phoenix egg in the legend was the phoenix egg made by Jiang Chengde, but unfortunately he had never seen it with his own eyes.
Perfect phoenix eggs, from the egg liquid into the pot to wrap evenly before and after a few seconds, in these few seconds of the egg liquid needs to be evenly wrapped on the surface of each ball, half-cooked, and then thickened and turned the spoon out of the pot to contain, the egg skin on the surface of the balls can not be damaged in the whole process, and there can be no residue of any egg liquid in the pot.
Peng Changping always felt that this was just a legend because he couldn't do it.
Jiang Feng especially wanted to tell Peng Changping at that time that this was not a legend, it was true, because he had seen it with his own eyes. This piece is not only good-looking, but also made, one pot without even stopping a pot, at first glance it looks more neat than Jiang Jiankang's fried tomatoes and scrambled eggs.
Of course, there is a reason why Peng Changping can't do it, he won't turn the spoon over. Under the premise of not mastering the real skills of the big spoon, it is very difficult to achieve that the egg skin is not broken, the egg liquid is not left, and the thickening is perfect.
Jiang Feng felt that it was time to show Peng Changping the real skills of making phoenix eggs.
He can't be as perfect as Jiang Chengde, at most the egg skin is not broken, the thickening is improvised, and it is impossible to leave the egg liquid.
But he can show Peng Changping how to finish the phoenix egg with a large flipping spoon.
By the way, show me the thickening skills I just realized this morning.
It's time for everyone to know what real thickening is!
With this thought, Jiang Feng happily chopped up the fish minced and hummed a little song in his heart by the way.
He was afraid that he would just snort out and run away and be heard by others.
"Feng Feng, are these mushrooms cut separately or mixed together?" Wu Minqi walked to Jiang Feng's side with a pot of mushrooms that had been washed.
"Separate from each other, I haven't figured out which ones to use. ”
Wu Minqi: ?
Wu Minqi glanced at the big screen behind her.
There are only 4 hours left in the competition, and her family Feng Feng has not yet figured out what ingredients to use for cooking.
So now the question is, what was her Feng Feng thinking when she just drank orange juice?
Shouldn't this kind of thing be thought about in advance?