Chapter 814: My Own Style
The first week of the second round of the points race was very peaceful, and even the test on Sunday was very simple, turning the previous torturous route style into peace and love, 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, two cups of fruit and vegetable juice, each cup is made of fifteen different fruits and vegetables, one ingredient will be 100 points if you answer correctly, and 200 points will be deducted for a wrong answer, and you must fill in 30 kinds of ingredients, and you must fill in less incorrect answers.
Because of the innate advantage there, Taifeng Lou's game this week was so smooth that Jiang Feng didn't want to cheat during the test, and he closed his eyes during the whole tasting in order not to look at the tips above.
With its own strength, the group of Taifeng Building answered a total of 27 kinds of materials correctly and answered three incorrectly, with a total score of 2,100 points.
In the third week, Tai Fung Lou finally scored 7413 points, still ranking first in the overall standings.
Due to serious unadaptation, Zhiweiju's points this week were very dismal, and he did not complete the task of selling a total of 100 dishes and receiving 50 praises for the four dishes designated by Babaozhai, and deducted 2,000. Although Zhiweiju still ranks second in the total points, the difference between it and the top restaurant is less than 2,000 points, and according to his posture, he will definitely be overtaken by the top restaurant in the fourth week.
According to the informant, Roland was unexpectedly good at Cantonese cuisine, and Dinghu Shangsu did a very authentic job, although it was not as good as Sun Mao Caidan, it also bluffed most of the diners and received a lot of praise.
Let's just say you never know what a French chef is good at besides French food.
Like Zhiweiju, who did not complete the task and were deducted 2,000 points, there are also Babaozhai and Cheng Ji Restaurant, Cheng Ji Restaurant has obviously broken some jars, and has been used to staying in the penultimate for a long time, as if he doesn't care about the attitude, and the points are bleak. The owner of Cheng Ji Restaurant doesn't matter, because the weakest of these seven restaurants is Cheng Ji Restaurant, and it is normal to take the penultimate place.
Yongheju, who had not performed well before, was in good shape, not only completed the task, but also had a very impressive number of business points and test points, ranking third this week, and once again trampled Babaozhai under his feet.
At this point in the competition, it is already very obvious that the two restaurants that have qualified.
Unless there is one restaurant that can make a shocking reversal like Tai Fung House in the previous two weeks, the two restaurants that will appear will definitely be Tai Fung House and the Penthouse restaurant. And according to the current points situation, even if a dark horse restaurant is born in the last week, it is the top-level restaurant that will be squeezed out, and the program team will never allow such a thing to happen, so there will be no dark horse.
There was no suspense in the game, which made the final week of the points race very boring, unusually peaceful and love.
It's as if this isn't a reality show competitive cooking show, but a reality show casual dinner show. It's been a month since the competition, and everyone is very used to the atmosphere of the game, and there is less and less feeling of competition. Even if they are not in their own restaurant, they are not in the same state as when they were operating normally, and even if there is a camera master next to them 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 for cooking problems in his free time, apparently returning to the state he had been in when he was studying cuisine in Yonghe Ju a few months ago.
Of course, the clip of Jiang Feng asking Peng Changping to be broadcast can't be broadcast, but it's all a secret of cooking skills, not only can't it be broadcast, but the cameraman can't shoot it on the side.
It may be that the program team also realized that the last two weeks of the game were really a bit mediocre, there was no special material, except for the third Monday to the very fierce Zhiweiju suffered a heavy setback, the points fell seriously, and the second is about to change hands, there is nothing to broadcast.
Everyone is serious about cooking, serious management, and doing what a chef should do.
Chef Arnold doesn't say much about shit anymore.
Their original design should be very interesting, very conflicting, very explosive, very interesting bridges, but it becomes plain and warm.
This is not what the program team wants to see.
What they want to see is conflict, tearing, irritability, breakdown, swearing, crying, laughing.
Instead of being civilized, democratic, prosperous, harmonious, friendly, loving, and dedicated.
After a few days of urgent discussions and meetings, the program team decided to make a more interesting test on the premise that the ending is destined not to be changed, not necessarily tearing but maybe there will be tearing, not necessarily conflicting but in case of conflict.
They brought together contestants from seven restaurants.
At the end of the points competition, make a real cooking competition.
The program team's imminent operation confused Jiang Feng.
He originally thought that the last week of the test should be just a little messy and passed, 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 break after the points tournament before the semi-finals and finals began.
He is ready to plan for the next month, if the program team tells him that you are sorry that you still have to prepare, we still have a small breaking point.
Because it is the Sino-American Chef Competition, the final semi-finals and finals are set in Beiping, and the contestants from the American side have to cross the ocean, and a series of formalities such as visas and accommodation will take time.
According to the original setting of the program team, the finals were to be broadcast live, the United States was broadcast live on TV, and the Chinese side was broadcast online, and the relevant procedures for live TV broadcast were much more complicated than those of online live broadcast. Originally, it was all discussed, but it seems that there is a moth again temporarily, and the US side is arguing, and the finals and semifinals are estimated to be postponed.
During the window period in the middle, Jiang Feng was going to stay in Yongheju to continue to learn Jiang's ginseng soup with Peng Changping, and strive to practice it well, and leave the other dishes alone.
It doesn't matter what the memory is, it doesn't matter what the buff dish is.
Although Jiang's ginseng soup is a dish in the recipe column, it does not have any buff, and Jiang Zhongheng's method is different from Peng Changping's method. Peng Changping's method was improved again on the basis of Jiang Chengde's improvement of Jiang Zhongheng's method, but this does not mean that Peng Changping's method is better than Jiang Zhongheng's.
The improvement of the practice is due to the reasons of kitchen utensils and the reasons of the chef's own habits. Each chef is good at different points, some chefs are good at knife work, some chefs are good at seasoning, and some chefs have an intuition beyond ordinary people when it comes to heat. For example, Jiang Feng, he is a third grandmaster, and his weakest thing is seasoning, because he is relatively bad in taste compared to other masters.
This is a congenital problem, and there is no way to change it.
Even though Jiang Feng has a game and can see a lot of things that his tongue can't taste through identification, the most intuitive, convenient and useful way for chefs to experience and improve is his own tongue.
Jiang Feng's best is actually knife work.
However, most of the top dishes focus on seasoning, and it is difficult for Jiang Feng to give full play to his advantages. When it comes to the top dishes to teach knife skills, the first thing that comes to most people's minds is Wensi tofu, but even Wensi tofu knife skills are only the part of showing off their skills.
He completely relied on knife work, but it was a pity that Jiang Feng was not interested in raw food and did not want to develop in this area.
In the two weeks that Yongheju worked as a day worker, Jiang Feng discovered the true charm or uniqueness of Yongheju's chefs.
Previously, he studied cooking in Yongheju, although he was very familiar with everyone, but he did his own business during the business hours, there would be no communication, no cooperation, and he would not disturb others to do things, and he had only seen the management model of Yongheju Kitchen, but had not experienced it.
After experiencing it in the past two weeks, Jiang Feng knew why Lu Sheng dared to brag to him and say that Yongheju was the uncrowned king of Peking back then.
The uncrowned king indeed.
The coordination between each chef is so good.
Yongheju is different from other old restaurants, his chefs are basically immobile. Yongheju trained a chef from scratch, from the basic skills to the learning to become a chef, as long as there is no accident, the chef's entire chef career is spent in Yongheju. Even if it is an old chef from a non-Tan family's cuisine, they are all old employees who have worked in the store for twenty or thirty years, and now there are very few old employees like Yongheju, and all the junior employees are senior brothers.
Because it's the same door, I know it very well.
From the flaws in cooking to the habits of cooking, everyone in the kitchen knows everyone else inside out. Assigning each person what they are best at, letting them do their best in what they are best at, and putting together the best dish with countless bests is the best dish that the chefs of Yongheju can give to their guests.
This concept was left by Peng Changping back then.
Peng Changping feels that a chef does not need to practice every skill well, only one skill needs to be very good, and all other skills are qualified to be an excellent chef. Then this excellent chef only needs to do his best to show his own characteristics, his own advantages, and his own uniqueness when cooking, and make the dish his own.
This is not the first time Jiang Feng has heard this concept said by others, Xu Cheng is actually a supporter of this concept, which is why Xu Cheng admires Wu Minqi and is not optimistic about Gu Li.
Even though Wu Minqi's spicy dishes have not yet been completed, or even yet, she has her own style. Correspondingly, even though Gu Li seems to have a mature style, he has been imitating his master and cannot see his own style.
Jiang Feng understands the truth, but the day job in Yongheju in the past two weeks has made him see the truth become a reality for the first time.
Very useful and heartwarming.
Jiang Feng knew very well that he had been imitating all along.
He has been learning other people's dishes according to the game's recipes and tutorials, copying 100% of them, first for buffs, and later because he got used to it. And he thinks that the tutorial given by the game is not bad, and it doesn't need to be changed in any way, whether it's chicken bean curd or silk yam, because these buffs can make the dish itself icing on the cake.
His dishes look varied and eccentric, just because they are not the same person's dishes, and of course they will change their styles.
In a sense, he and Gu Li are the same, they are both imitating, but Gu Li is firmly imitating his master, and he is imitating so many different people at the same time that others can't see that he is imitating.
That's good, but it's not good either.
Just like Jiang Feng knows very well that his seasoning is a weak point, and what really shines is his knife skills, but he didn't have a well-known knife dish, but it was the chicken bean curd that focused on seasoning that made him famous.
Jiang's ginseng soup is obviously the most well-known existence in the Jiang family's cuisine, and it is also an S-level dish, but it has no buff, and it does not limit the number of times it can be cooked, just like an ordinary dish, but it happens to appear on the recipe bar.
Jiang Zhongheng, Jiang Chengde, Peng Changping, the three of them are not exactly the same, they all have their own styles.
Jiang Feng had always felt that he was not as stable as making Jiang's ginseng soup as other dishes, and the quality of the final product was always uneven, because this dish was too complicated and there were too many points that could be wrong.
But now he thinks 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 finds out, congratulations, you found this you are right, and after discovering it, you found out that in fact, this game has given very subtle hints before.
There is no buff and no limit on the number of productions, which is actually the best hint, but Jiang Feng has not realized it before.
Jiang's ginseng soup cannot be blindly imitated.
He needed to make a dish that really had his own style.
A dish that promotes strengths and avoids weaknesses.
(End of chapter)