Jiang Feng was directly dragged away from the back kitchen by Sun Jikai, and the fire of the simmering sea cucumber didn't have time to turn off, so he remembered it after getting in the car and called Jiang Jian to ask him to help turn off the fire.

"Is it that the semi-finals are going to start in the evening, why are we in such a hurry to go over?" Jiang Feng asked puzzled after getting into the car.

"The venue is in the suburbs, and it takes more than an hour to take a taxi, and if there is a traffic jam on the road, it is estimated that it will take three hours to go back and forth. It's half past three now, in the past, we will prepare for mining first, and then check the venue, if we don't hurry up and rush to the front of the top-floor restaurant, we don't know how long it will be delayed, and we will have to delay a lot of effort. Sun Jikai explained.

Jiang Feng suddenly realized that he didn't know a lot of information when he didn't receive the call, so he could only ask Sun Jikai first when he was in the car.

"Did we change the venue? Didn't they say that the venue was for the semi-finals and finals? I think it's a good place, the cooking station is good, and the venue is big. ”

"I also think it's a good place, but it seems that something is wrong, I don't know if it's the fire or where it's not qualified, anyway, it's been dragging it like that, so I changed to a new place. Sun Jikai said and sighed, "I heard that the reason why the semi-finals dragged on for more than 20 days to give us news is not only because of a problem with the venue, but also because there is a player in the United States who has a visa and has to be replaced, so it has been delayed for so long." ”

Jiang Feng suddenly became interested, no matter what time it was, gossip was always the most interesting: "There is a problem with the visa, what is the problem? Could it be that he is engaged in some illegal things?"

"It looks like a drunk driver has been caught. ”

Jiang Feng: ?

Do you call this a visa problem? It's a human problem, okay!

Jiang Feng asked some other questions, and Sun Jikai answered everything he knew and could answer. These days, Jiang Feng doesn't care about the competition at all, and he doesn't even know as much about the things related to the competition as those players who have been eliminated.

Due to the delay in the semi-finals, all kinds of gossip and rumors are flying all over the sky, and there are various versions. Some say that the father of the financier on the US side has withdrawn his investment, some say that Xu Cheng and Han Guishan offended people and the venue could not be used, and some people say that it was actually Han Guishan's investment failure that caused the capital chain to be broken and withdrawn. Between the fact that Han Guishan's most failed investment in history was the porridge shop in Snack Street, Jiang Feng felt that the last one must be a rumor.

The two exchanged information all the way like this, and when they were about to arrive at the venue, Jiang Feng finally remembered that he had been trying to ask Sun Jikai the question he had forgotten to ask later at noon.

"By the way, Lao Sun, I have a question for you, do you think the technique of thickening the eight treasure chestnut pigeons can be used in other dishes?"

"Huh?" Sun Jikai was stunned, he didn't know why the topic suddenly changed from gossip to such a serious discussion of cooking skills.

Or a culinary discussion that he couldn't answer.

"This ......," Sun Jikai thought for a while, "it should be okay." ”

"Then do you think that if I use the method of thickening the Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon to thicken the Jiang's ginseng soup, can I bring a qualitative change to the Jiang's ginseng soup?" These days, Jiang Feng has asked countless people all kinds of strange questions, and the more he has asked, the more he practiced, and the more he naturally learned.

He was able to understand the thickening technique of the Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon because he saw Cao Guixiang thickening the big black cucumber. Correspondingly, Jiang Feng felt that the thickening technique of the Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon was very ingenious, and this thickening technique that directly determines the final quality of the dish by relying on subtle changes in temperature and sensation should theoretically be suitable for Jiang's ginseng soup.

Of course, it has to be changed.

Sun Jikai: ?

You're embarrassing me fat tiger.

"No, maybe. Although Sun Jikai has not fully learned the thickening technique of the Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon, he suddenly felt quite feasible when he heard Jiang Feng say this.

Although he didn't know how to make Jiang's ginseng soup, he saw Jiang Feng do it.

"I think it's okay, so don't leave tomorrow afternoon, let's discuss it in the kitchen. Jiang Feng slapped his thigh.

Sun Jikai looked out the window in despair.

Mother's, he neither thickens nor Jiang's soup, discuss a fart!

Before Sun Jikai looked out of the window in despair for two minutes, they arrived.

The new venue, although it was decided on an ad hoc basis, was a bit hastily decided and was still in a more remote suburb than the previous one, but it was huge.

It's really big.

Jiang Feng felt that if the four of them formed a cheerleading team in each of the four restaurants, the cheerleading venue would not look very crowded when the respective contestants came out of one of the cheerleading venues.

Although the venue was made temporarily, the stage, lighting, and all aspects of the equipment looked very good and professional, which made Jiang Feng feel like he had come to the TV studio.

The kitchen table is also larger than the last test, with four stovetops, two vegetable sinks, and two ovens, which can be said to be very luxurious and can be pulled directly to the back kitchen of the hotel.

Jiang Feng wanted to pack the oven and take it home, and the oven prepared by the program team looked much more high-tech and expensive than the oven in Taifeng Building.

Sun Jikai's worries are reasonable, although the competition venue is very large, there are only two preparation rooms, Wu Minqi and Sun Mao arrived first and were already preparing in the preparation room, Jiang Feng and Sun Jikai went to see the kitchen table to check the facilities.

The two of them were like children who had never seen the world, shouting at a series of kitchenware prepared by the program team.

"Wow, Lao Sun, this oven is definitely the latest, I feel like I may not be very good at using it, is there a manual? Do you have a manual there?" Jiang Feng stroked the oven with an amazed face.

There are not many times that Taifeng Lou uses the oven, mainly Zhang Guanghang is using it, and he will also use it when he makes dim sum in Ji Xia, the oven is very simple, cheap, affordable and cost-effective, and it is completely different from the money prepared by the program team to pay IQ tax.

Sun Jikai looked for a long time by the oven over there: "No." ”

Jiang Feng beckoned to a staff member: "Can you please show me the manual of the oven, I don't seem to know how to use it." ”

Staff member:?

After studying the oven, Jiang Feng and Sun Jikai studied the stove, vegetable sink, cutting board and other things. may be in order to highlight the high-end of this show, the kitchen table of the new venue obviously adheres to the principle of choosing only the expensive ones and choosing the right ones, and the shape is very stylish just by looking at it, even the vegetable washing pool is not the same as the vegetable washing pool that Jiang Feng and Sun Jikai see on weekdays.

This is a shaped vegetable sink.

Anyway, the first impression of such a kitchen station is that it is not the chef who cooks on this cooking station.

It should be a robot.

It should not be a vegetable but a nutrient solution.

Naturally, there is no problem with things, Jiang Feng and Sun Jikai spent almost an hour touching all the inside and outside of the cooking table, not even letting go of pots and pans, and even trying the pressure cooker, which is very useful.

I even want to buy a set to take back to Taifeng Building if I can put it in the back kitchen.

Wu Minqi and Sun Mao set off half an hour earlier than Jiang Feng and the others, and it stands to reason that they should also arrive half an hour early. Jiang Feng studied the cooking table for more than an hour, Wu Minqi and their competition was not over, and after putting on makeup, the staff waited for more than 20 minutes before informing him and Sun Jikai to go to the preparation room to prepare for mining.

In this rough estimate, it takes about two hours for a person to prepare.

It's been a horrible amount of time.

After entering the preparation room, Jiang Feng found that there were many more staff in the room this time than the previous times. It's not like the previous few times, there were only simple props such as tables and chairs in the room, and the camera teacher directly shot people's faces.

The decoration of the house this time was very exquisite, a small round table and a sofa chair were prepared for Jiang Feng, and there was a row of cabinets where the camera should not be able to shoot in the distance, and there were all kinds of drinks and juices on the cabinets. In addition, there are many insignificant things in the house, but they can highlight the fresh small decorations, wallpaper, potted plants, and fake flowers by the windowsill, which make people feel very relaxed as soon as they come in.

"Mr. Jiang Feng, right? I'm sorry to keep you waiting, let's do it, do it, what do you want to drink? This preparation time may be very long, you can treat it as a small interview. When the time comes, the interviews with the 16 contestants will be cut into a short program that will last about an hour, which you can use as a warm-up before the semi-finals. As soon as Jiang Feng entered, the staff member in charge of asking questions warmly beckoned him to sit down.

Jiang Feng shook his head and said that he didn't need to drink.

"Then let's start now, I have a lot of questions here, if you think there are questions that are not appropriate or difficult to answer, you can just don't answer, just treat it as a normal chat. The staff lady smiled and began.

"Due to some special reasons, the start of the semi-finals has been delayed for a long time, and there is a gap of more than 20 days since the end of the last test, and during this time we have learned that many players have done a lot of preparation for the semi-finals. But the preparation you made was the most unique of the sixteen contestants, as far as we know, you locked yourself in your house for half a month, as if you were practicing cooking at home, can you tell us why?"

Jiang Feng was stunned, but he didn't expect the program team to know quite well about the recent situation of these contestants, and the news was very well-informed, and he asked such a purposeful question as soon as he came up, obviously he was well prepared.

Jiang Feng couldn't help but sit up straight, smiling, and slightly polishing and modifying the remarks that had fooled the old man and the third grandfather before, and said it very smoothly.

Well-founded and convincing.

"Sounds like a good pre-match preparation tactic, but can I take the liberty of asking, has the past 15 days been a huge improvement in your cooking skills, and has there been any significant improvement in your state of mind?" the staff member then asked.

"Nope. Jiang Feng said.

Staff member:?

"No?" the staff thought they had heard the difference.

Jiang Feng nodded: "Yes, not at all, I wasted fifteen days exploring a completely wrong path." ”

The staff was stunned for a very short time, and her good professionalism made her react quickly and threw out the next question: "So you actually delayed the precious fifteen days of pre-match preparation, do you think that when the other players have trained very effectively, will the waste of these fifteen days directly lead to your defeat in the semi-finals?" ”

Jiang Feng shook his head: "I think it's okay for me to enter the finals." ”

The staff smiled and moved on to the next question.

Every question of the staff is related, and all of them are linked together, even if Jiang Feng chooses not to answer a few questions and skip them, the next question can be linked to the previous question. It can be seen that this is a very sincere little interview.

The two-hour period passed quickly, and the more than two-hour interview ended with the staff asking the last question.

Just as Jiang Feng was about to get up and leave, he finally remembered what the question he wanted to ask the most at the beginning.

After answering questions for two hours, his mind is now a little dizzy.

"By the way, you haven't said yet, when exactly will the semi-finals be set? Now that the venue has been decided, hasn't the time for the semi-finals been set yet?" Jiang Feng asked.

"The exact time has not been determined, but it will certainly be in the near future. The eight players from the U.S. will arrive in Peking tomorrow and will definitely face some problems such as adaptation and jet lag, and we can determine the time for the semi-finals once they are in good shape. The staff explained.

Jiang Feng nodded in understanding, left the house, and was not allowed to take a bottle of water before leaving.

After two hours of talking, he died of thirst.

No wonder as soon as he entered, the staff asked him what he wanted to drink.

Just as Jiang Feng was walking out and gulping water, Chef Arnold walked towards him, obviously going to the preparation room.

After more than 20 days of not seeing, Chef Arnold looks stronger.

The two are getting closer.

Chef Arnold slowed down, and his eyes began to change.

Jiang Feng also slowed down and drank the water in the bottle and squeezed it in his hand.

Passing by.

Suddenly, Jiang Feng stopped.

Chef Arnold also stopped, and there was even a slight smug on his face, and I knew he had something to say to me when it was full of words.

"Chef Arnold, I have a question for you. Jiang Feng turned his head.

Chef Arnold raised his head proudly and looked down at Jiang Feng, looking both smug and contemptuous.

"I didn't get your beef tart in the last test, but I still have a few questions I want to ask you. How do you control the thickness of beef when slicing? Is it thinner or is there a limit? Is the optimal thickness of beef with different degrees of maturity different? I've been thinking about this question for the past few days, if the texture can directly affect the level of taste, knife work can play a decisive role. But none of the chefs around me have much experience in this area, and I think it must be related, because I remember that when you make a beef tart, the way you cut each piece of beef is actually different. ”

The last time Jiang Feng was too idle, he basically watched others cook.

Chef Arnold: ?

Sun Jikai, who came out a few minutes earlier than Jiang Feng and had been waiting for him at the door: ......

Sun Jikai had already begun to think about whether he should rush up to pull the rack first if Chef Arnold and Jiang Feng fought in the next second, or should he call Wu Minqi and Sun Mao to come over and then rush up to pull the rack.

Chef Arnold's expression was visibly sluggish for a few seconds, and soon the sluggishness turned into confusion.

He stared at Jiang Feng.

Stared at Jiang Feng for half a minute.

"Of course, the optimal thickness of meat with different degrees of doneness is different, different parts are different, to be precise, each piece of meat is different, and you can't find the best point at all. How can the meat be thinner, knife work is one of the most important skills, didn't Peng Changping even teach you this Chinese?"

Sun Jikai: ???