Chapter 831: It's really confusing
Jiang Feng was the last contestant to arrive at the competition venue, and he didn't even have time to put on makeup, so he was carried backstage to prepare for the game.
In fact, it's the same with makeup or not, anyway, the lens has its own beautifying effect, and there are no strong competitors like Zhang Guanghang who are embarrassed to go on stage without makeup, and some are just chefs like Arnold, who make people look at the bearded strong men who want to go first.
The four participating chefs who felt the same way about New York Light had already wanted to leave.
Chef Arnold was clearly not in a good mood today.
You don't need to know why he's in a bad mood, Chef Arnold has a lot of reasons to make him feel bad every day. The ingredients are not fresh, the stupid boss calls him again, a brain-dead food critic on the other side of the ocean writes an article to spray him, or the breakfast is not delicious, and the tool man is not good This kind of small thing can make him angry.
The reason doesn't need to be known, everyone just needs to know that Chef Arnold is unhappy today.
Chef Arnold is not happy, the show must be wonderful.
The photographers are ready, and at the beginning of the competition, they will use their cameras to completely record the scene of Chef Arnold pointing at several of his younger brothers and scolding, and shitting frequently.
"How is it? Did the staff talk about the rules of the competition just now?" Jiang Feng was led into the dressing room as soon as he came late, and hurriedly painted a makeup that couldn't be seen at all, missing all the staff's speeches.
"Anyway, the rules are pretty simple. Wu Minqi said, "The theme is not limited, only each group can only produce two dishes, a main course, a dessert, and the competition time is still a full 6 hours from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the afternoon." ”
Jiang Feng nodded, it was indeed quite simple.
A main course, a dessert, 4 chefs, 6 hours, more than enough, but you can't hang the soup stock will limit the play of the Chinese chefs on the field a little.
As long as there is enough time, what Chinese chef doesn't want to make a dashi dish or two, let the bearded chef opposite show what the meaning of soup is.
Long time has the advantage of a long time, many delicacies and delicacies need a long time to simmer slowly, and the same is true for Chinese food and Western food. Although the long-term competition system will affect the viewing effect, it can give the chef more room to play.
This may also be the reason why the program team chose such a large venue but did not set up an audience seat.
All the participating chefs are waiting backstage, and the judges are already seated in the judging table. The host also began to pretend that there was an audience in front of the empty studio, and introduced the 16 chefs and 4 judges of this competition to everyone with emotion.
To sum it up in one sentence, the judges and contestants in this competition are very good, and we are serious about the cooking competition.
After a ten-minute walk, which is estimated to be cut into a few minutes of introduction, the 16 contestants took the stage (which is also the competition venue) under the spotlight as they had done in the previous rehearsal, walked to their respective cooking stations, and waited for the competition to begin.
As the huge electronic clock on the big screen began to enter the countdown state, the semi-finals of the Good Taste American Chef Competition officially began.
The ingredient area is on the left side of the stage, and it is more abundant than the ingredients in the semi-finals of the last test, it can be said that there are all the ingredients that an ordinary person can imagine, and Jiang Feng can clearly see that the bamboo baskets in the second row are filled with fresh vegetable snakes.
The game started, and no one moved.
Each group of contestants gathered behind their respective cooking stations to discuss the dishes they should make in the semi-finals.
The biggest difficulty in the semi-finals is that the theme of the competition is at short notice, and all the contestants have to decide on the two dishes they want in a very short time. A main course, a dessert, it seems to have a large range, but if you want to win beautiful and neat, you have to show some housekeeping skills, and you can't take it out completely.
And the finals.
The killer feature has to be saved for the finals.
"I'll be in charge of the dessert, and you can decide the main dish Jiang Feng. Xiao Kai come to help me, Wu Minqi, you go and help Jiang Feng" Sun Mao made the final decision.
Although when it comes to desserts, most people's first thing that comes to mind is Western food, but in fact, when it comes to patterns and eating methods, Chinese food is definitely one of the best.
The desserts of Chinese food are Cantonese cuisine.
It is definitely the best choice for Sun Maocai to be in charge of the dessert.
"What are you going to do?" Jiang Feng asked.
"Rock sugar bird's nest. ”
Jiang Feng: ?
Although rock sugar bird's nest can be regarded as a dessert no matter how you look at it, he still feels that Sun Maocai is hanging.
Other chefs make desserts like Black Forest, brownie, and pudding with caviar or a sprinkle of gold leaf to raise the price.
Sun Maocai poured it well, and directly used bird's nest as the main dish to make desserts.
Is this the top Cantonese chef?
After deciding on a dessert that could be beaten with ten dishes, Jiang Feng began to have a headache about the main course.
He is very confident in Jiang's ginseng soup now, but this is his killer weapon, and he must save it for the final before he can take it out to blind the audience. The desserts are all rock sugar bird's nest, and the main dish is not to take something that can calm the field, not to mention the dishes that can't control others, and even your own desserts can't be controlled.
What should we do?
Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai had already gone to pick vegetables, and Jiang Feng was still squatting behind the processing table pondering what to do.
Wu Minqi didn't speak, her task today was to give Jiang Feng a hand, he would do whatever Jiang Feng said, and Jiang Feng wouldn't do it if he didn't say it.
After thinking about it for about five or six minutes, Jiang Feng finally made a decision.
He's going to make a phoenix egg.
In terms of difficulty, the difficulty of phoenix eggs is very high, far above rock sugar bird's nest, and the requirements for the chef's heat and other aspects are very high. In terms of rarity, this is definitely a rare dish that is no less than the chefs of major restaurants, and now there are basically no Chinese restaurants on the market to sell this dish, because it is too troublesome and not profitable, if it is made, it will definitely make Si Weiping's eyes shine.
Jiang Feng had learned from Peng Changping before, and he had also seen Jiang Chengde make it in his memory, so he knew that the biggest difficulty in this dish was turning the spoon.
He happened to practice the Jiang family's peerless master some time ago, and he made a big breakthrough.
The skillful big spoon can definitely make the phoenix egg icing on the cake and amaze the audience.
In addition to the taste, the most important thing is the effect. A dish that is beautiful, fresh and delicious that everyone has never seen before, but it is more attractive and advantageous than the good-looking and delicious dish that everyone has seen and heard of.
"Kiki, let's make phoenix eggs. Jiang Feng decided.
"Good. Wu Minqi nodded, "You tell me what ingredients you need to use, let's pick them separately." ”
"Uh. Jiang Feng was silent.
Phoenix eggs are good at everything, but they are served too quickly.
Even if you start from the preparation of the raw materials, you can finish it in two hours slower.
The game lasted a full six hours.
"Let's wait and see what the others cook. Jiang Feng said, looked around, and found that there were actually 4 chairs stuffed under the kitchen counter.
Why didn't he find out that there were chairs under the cooking skills during the rehearsal before, could it be that the program team was afraid that everyone would be tired from cooking for too long, so they thoughtfully prepared chairs for everyone to rest?
No matter why the program team prepared chairs, it was a good thing that there were, Jiang Feng silently pulled out two chairs, he took Wu Minqi one and motioned for Wu Minqi to sit down for a while.
"The phoenix eggs can be finished in two hours at most, and they have to be eaten while they are hot, let's wait for more than 3 o'clock to get the vegetables, and then they will be out of the pot." Jiang Feng explained.
Wu Minqi expressed her understanding and sat down.
Jiang Feng also sat down, leisurely watching the other contestants choose dishes in the ingredients area, and some were even so anxious that they were sweating profusely.
The photography teacher who saw this scene: ?
What is this latest tactic?
This year's contestants are really incomprehensible.