Chapter 12: Don't throw in the towel
Hua Jitian secretly said that he was unlucky, it was the critical moment, but the gas was gone, if he held on for another five minutes, there would be another ten minutes, and the dish would be ready.
This is too much, and Hua Jitian is depressed.
Uncle Wang also came around, and suddenly made a judgment: "There must be someone making trouble." "Uncle Wang is old and has a lot of experience, so he knows that it can't be a coincidence.
Hua Jitian's expression changed: "Someone is making trouble?"
Wang Bodao: "It must be." The gas tank specially prepared for the competition, normally speaking, how can the gas volume not be enough. ”
Hua Jitian glanced at Qin Yong. Qin Yong pretended to inspect his stove, and didn't look at Hua Jitian at all.
There is not enough time left for the game.
"It took less than half an hour to prepare the food, and it has been almost an hour and ten minutes since it was served, and there are only ten minutes of competition time. Pang Xuan looked at the chronograph and said anxiously.
The three judges also found out that something was wrong a long time ago. The chairman glanced at Qin Yong fiercely, and he knew that Qin Yong would definitely not be able to get out of it.
The hotel manager, who was the host, hurriedly said, "Go, get another can of gas." ”
The three judges, including Chairman Yang Jing, did not speak.
For ordinary people, in the process of steaming, let alone breaking the fire once, even if it is broken more than a dozen times, ordinary people may not be able to taste the difference.
But for a gourmets like the chairman, it's a thousand miles away.
Even if Hua Jitian is more powerful than Luo Chuanshui, and has that person's ability, as long as there is an unnecessary fire break in the process of cooking a dish, the taste of the dish will inevitably be affected.
It can be said that if you only talk about the taste of this dish and one soup, at this time, Hua Jitian has already lost.
Although it wasn't because of Hua Jitian's personal problems.
However, Hua Jitian lost.
There are always accidents in the competition, and accidents will change the results of the competition. Whether this accident was man-made or accidental is another matter.
The result is the result.
To lose is to lose.
"How can this be?" Huo Jiajia couldn't accept it, the competition was good, just him, his mother broke the fire, did he and his mother have heavenly reason, and did he and his mother have the royal law.
The people who eat melons saw that something had happened and began to make noise.
"Will it affect the results of the competition?"
"Probably will?"
"What do you mean by yes, yes, you all work in restaurants, and you don't know the heat? ”
"Your whole family is a big fool. "These waiters who are polite to the guests, when they face each other, they are extremely vulgar, almost you are stupid, he is stupid, except for me.
New gas canisters were quickly brought in and replaced.
But Hua Jitian didn't go to the fire again.
He knew that the fire had been cut off, and when he lit it again, the dishes and soup that were burned out were not the original taste, he couldn't imagine that Qin Yong would be so shameless and use such obscene means.
Huo Jiajia hurriedly said: "The time is almost up, hurry up and light the fire." ”
Hua Jitian shook his head: "It's useless, I lost." ”
Hearing this, Qin Yong's face showed a hint of joy and a hint of sneer. Xise because he won, and sneered because Hua Jitian lost.
At this time, the chairman of the board of directors sitting on the judges' seat knocked on the microphone, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said: "A real chef must have the ability and courage to survive in a desperate situation, and now there are twelve minutes before the end of the competition, and the competition is not over yet." Hua Jitian, you still have a chance to live, I hope you can grasp it. ”
Hua Jitian looked at the unfathomable chairman Yang Jing and couldn't see the depth.
Yang Jing was on the judges' seat, in addition to talking to the two judges around him, he used the microphone three times.
The first time he spoke, he knocked Qin Yong and helped Hua Jitian.
Speaking for the second time, he announced that he would not compare the knife work, but only the taste, which was a favor for Qin Yong.
And the third time, that is, this time, is mentioning a little bit of flowers.
The chairman knows that if Hua Jitian can pass the hurdle in front of him, he will definitely soar to the sky. As for Qin Yong, he was just a whetstone in the sky, maybe not even a whetstone, just a praying mantis or a bedbug in the way.
"Opportunity?" Hua Jitian pondered.
His eyes lit up: "Other dishes are also fine." "Originally, the competition only stipulated one dish and one soup, and there was no specific dish.
But what kind of food do you make in such a short period of 12 minutes?
Hua Jitian's brain is running rapidly, and the secondary cooking system is also circulating wildly, screening dishes. After the opening of the second-level cooking skills, all the dishes that have been formed in Huaxia can basically understand the production method.
It took less than a minute for Hua Jitian to decide what to cook and what soup to cook.
Hua Jitian turned his head to Pang Xuan and said, "Home-cooked egg fried rice and seaweed egg drop soup, prepare the ingredients." ”
Pang Xuan was overjoyed: "The egg fried rice is in time, there is overnight rice in the kitchen, I will prepare it, and it will be done in two minutes." ”
Wang Bo said: "Hurry up for two people, I'll go too." Wang Bo trotted with Pang Xuan about the ingredients needed for egg fried rice and seaweed egg drop soup, "ham, eggs, carrots, onions, cucumbers, seaweed." ……”
Hua Jitian said loudly: "As the chairman said, the time has not yet come, and the competition is not over yet." ”
"So, I don't throw in the towel. ”
The audience who ate melons applauded, no matter whether they won or lost, just talking about pride made these people yearn for it.
Huo Jiajia was also applauding, and her little hands were red.
The three judges looked at each other and smiled, this is the best, even if Hua Jitian loses, it will not leave a psychological shadow, and it will not prevent Hua Jitian's cooking skills from reaching a higher level in the future. If you can't get over this hurdle, it will be difficult to walk the road of cooking after Hua Jitian.
In fact, this is all wishful thinking on the part of the three judges, and it really doesn't matter if it's a day.
Although Hua Jitian wants to win, it has not reached the point where he must win, even if he loses, Hua Jitian can face it calmly and will not leave any so-called psychological shadows.
The chairman of the board of directors once again announced into the microphone: "The game continues. ”
In less than two minutes, Pang Xuan and Uncle Wang brought the ingredients. In order to save time, both of them use running.
Pang Xuan's face was flushed, and Uncle Wang was out of breath.
Next.
Pang Xuan washed the carrots and cucumbers and other ingredients that needed to be cleaned, and Wang Bo beat the eggs into a basin and stirred well.
Nine minutes.
There are nine minutes left until the end of the game.
Hua Jitian began to move the knife.
Knives flying.
The people in the hall went crazy.
"It's so fast. ”
"Knife Shadow. ”
"There is only the shadow of the knife, and there is no knife in sight. ”
Huo Jiajia seemed to be more nervous than Hua Jitian on the field, and her hands tightly grasped an unknown waitress beside her, and the arm of the waitress was about to be broken.
"Sister, if you try harder, my arm will be useless. The waitress struggled, so she had to yell into Huo Jiajia's ear.
"Oh oh, I'm sorry, it's pure excitement. Huo Jiajia was very embarrassed and let go of the innocent waitress.
But within a minute, she grabbed the waitress again and shouted excitedly, "Come on, come on." ”
The waitress was tortured by Huo Jiajia and cried.
Hua Jitian took the ingredients handed over by Pang Xuan.
Carrot.
Cut.
Onions.
Cut.
Cucumber.
Cut.
Ham.
Cut.
Cut and cut and cut.
The kitchen knife chops on the cutting board, forming a dense tinkling sound, connecting in a line, stopping occasionally and then ringing, full of rhythm, like an incomparably beautiful percussion music.
Hua Jitian entered the realm of forgetting things and me, and all he had in his eyes was the kitchen knife in his hand.
As the saying goes, a long carpenter is a short blacksmith, the carpenter's wood is long and can be cut off, and the iron in the blacksmith's hand is short and can be mended.
But the cook.
can only fall without regrets.
Hua Jitian cut cucumbers, hams, onions and carrots into cubes, which were very even, and Pang Xuan looked at them again and again, and couldn't tell which of these dices was big and who was small.
"Fire. Hua Jitian roared.
Pang Xuan hurriedly turned on the two stoves, turned on to the maximum, and the flames burst out of the old high, and they couldn't stop beating.
Whirring is the sound of gas coming out of the stove and turning into fire.
Place two scoops on the stove at the same time.
After a fried scoop is heated, Hua Jitian puts in less than half a spoonful of water, and Hua Jitian shakes his hand, picks up the frying spoon and pours the water into the trash can next to it. Then I put in two more bowls of water, and I didn't care.
This one is fried to make seaweed egg drop soup, and before the water boils, there is no other work.
Another fried scoop, Hua Jitian put a large spoonful of oil on it, and made egg fried rice.
"Beat the rice, put it in the egg mixture, add another five grams of salt, and stir well. Hua Jitian said again.
"Hmm. That's not what egg fried rice does. Pang Xuan was puzzled.
"Do as Xiaotian says. "Uncle Wang has long seen that Hua Jitian's cooking skills are amazing, so Hua Jitian naturally has his reasons for doing this.
I saw Pang Xuan put the beaten rice into the egg mixture and stirred it vigorously. The chairman of the judges' bench slammed to his feet.
"Born out of the fire?"
"Could it be that the person created it out of the fire?" the female judge was also excited.
"Except for this trick, the rest of the egg fried rice is almost always fried with eggs first, and even if it is not, it is fried rice first and then poured in the eggs. The chairman smiled wryly.
"Hua Jitian is that person's apprentice?" the male judge said.
"Not necessarily, that man never took in disciples. He was born out of fire, but a few people have learned it, maybe Hua Jitian learned it from them. The chairman thought for a moment and said.
"It's a very difficult move. The reason why it is called born in the fire means that it is a phoenix when it is done, and if it is not cooked well, the rice will be mushy and become a roast chicken. Only perfect cooking skills can be done well. "The female judges know the ins and outs of this trick very well.
"At this point, we'll have to wait and see. The chairman took a deep look at Hua Jitian.
There are still five minutes left in the competition time, and the seaweed egg drop soup has just begun to boil water, and the egg fried rice has just been put with cold oil, and not a single dish or soup has yet been made.
But Hua Jitian seems to be confident, fast, but not the slightest bit of panic.
At this moment, Qin Yong turned off a stove.
"My Buddha jumped over the wall, and after the production was completed, I asked the three judges to taste it. Qin Yong was proud.
Qin Yong opened the lid of the altar where the Buddha jumped over the wall, and the strong fragrance overflowed, reaching the heart and spleen, arousing the appetite of the people who eat melons, and the hall was full of the sound of gurgling and swallowing saliva.
The three judges also had a thumb move.
"It's been a long time since I've smelled this. The female judge said with a smile.
"Qin Yong's approach is very authentic. The male judge said.
"Qin Yong played well today. "The chairman knows Qin Yong well, so he naturally knows what Qin Yong can do.
Huo Jiajia was also greedy for this taste, but she was secretly anxious in her heart, Qin Yong's dish smelled very extraordinary, and the egg fried rice and seaweed egg drop soup that Hua Jitian made in just a few minutes were estimated to be enough compared to Qin Yong's dish.