Chapter 268: The Preliminaries Begin
Because Liu Pleiades worked tirelessly to help Nagi cut thistle to "preach" before, many folk cooks knew his concept......
That is to say, the culinary world will be turned into a unified big machine, only the "recognized" chefs will act as the "engine" to innovate, and everyone else will be used as gears and fuels, using the recipes provided by the "engine", prohibiting gears and fuels, all forms of independent innovation, so as to save the "engines" time and resources!
Probably in Nagi thistle's impression, the real chefs he "recognizes" can devote themselves to the exploration of cooking, while those pseudo-chefs who can only produce feed can completely copy the recipes of real chefs and deal with diners......
Because Liu Pleiades helped him "preach", Nagi Che Ji had not yet shown his ambitions, and many people knew his philosophy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The most important thing is that Liu Pleiades completely said that he was in his heart, but the timing of the announcement was wrong, so Nagi Ji couldn't refute it at all, otherwise when the time came, he would have no reason to promote this!
Therefore, many folk cooks have quite opinions on naginata-cut thistle......
After the start of the preliminaries, the atmosphere in the No. 1 division was far more tense than Liu Pleiades imagined, and it seemed that for these seeded players, the preliminaries were instead a test for themselves, as for the final...... They were just here to show off their store's signature ramen, so they weren't that nervous.
Liu Pleiades glanced at Erina, and then at Calamus, and also Erina and Calamus's bet, and Dojima Silver also served as a witness......
After that, Liu Pleiades took out the wheat flour he had prepared, and ...... Lotus petals, lotus leaves!
"The preliminaries are three hours, which is still plenty of time, so let's mix the noodles first, and then prepare the soup." Liu Pleiades muttered to himself.
I saw Liu Pleiades pour a bag of flour into the basin, and then added water, but what is a little concerned is that the water seems to be a little red, or a faint orange yellow......
Of course, according to the rules, the water is at most a shallowly processed or lightly processed product, and it cannot be a dashi or anything like that......
At this time, many people were quietly observing Liu Pleiades, after all, three hours was a lot of time, and they also had time to see what Liu Pleiades was doing.
Many people looked puzzled when they saw him take out a short stick the thickness of his thumb, and when they saw him pinching one end of the short stick with his thumb, index finger and ring finger, and the other end reaching into the basin, most of them did not know what he was going to do.
And when I saw that he only had his wrists moving, and he wanted to play like a child, using a short stick to "make peace" in the basin, he was even more confused......
On the contrary, among the judges, an older gourmet, who looks to be in his sixties and seventies, and the master chef of "Senwei Ramen", seemed to realize something, and his expression couldn't help but be a little solemn.
As for Dojima Gin, he hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, which didn't seem surprised......
At this time, Liu Pleiades's arm was gradually raised, and from the mouth of the basin, a circle of "white shadows" could be seen, which was in the shape of a long snake, and was rotating with a short stick.
Before everyone could see it clearly, Liu Pleiades suddenly stretched out his arms and shook them, and his arm holding a short stick swept over his head, drawing a high arc!
The original flour and water in the basin have become a reconciled dough at some point, wrapped around the head of a short stick at one end, and with the trajectory drawn by Liu Yuexing, it flew to the noodle table like a long snake......
The short stick shook a few more times from the basin and landed on the noodle table, only to see that the noodles that had already taken on a long snake shape were already like the freezing point of ice cream, and they were placed on the noodle table in a circle!
White Dragon Snake Transfer!
Using the power of "circle", the "surface" and "water" are combined into the optimal resilience state in the mind in a short time.
And this time, Liu Pleiades used the strength of the reconciled noodles to roll on the short stick when spinning, and "dragged" the entire noodles to the noodle table.
"Huh? It's just a little bit of a noodle trick, do you need to be so surprised? Liu Pleiades said with a smile that made people want to punch it.
Not to mention the other players who peeked at him around, even the viewers who were watching the broadcast screen couldn't help but let out exclamations......
Halfway through Liu Pleiades' noodles, the cameraman gave him a long close-up, and the audience clearly saw how the "flour" and "water" rotated under Liu Pleiades's short stick, and also saw the reconciled noodles, which looked like a python rotating in the basin under the short stick, and finally was driven to hover on the noodle table!
Even on the judges' bench, several judges showed surprise to varying degrees, and focused all their attention on Liu Pleiaus's side.
One of the oldest gourmets, Masato Asai, couldn't help but say, "This is ...... Could it be that this Liu Pleiades is the descendant of that master? ”
"Huh? Mr. Asai, which master are you talking about? Have you ever seen such a ...... before? Noodles tricks? Another gourmet, Toshihiko Takasugi, asked, gritting his teeth and chalking it up as a "noodle hack."
"Nothing, you may not know...... is a pastry master of the Dragon Chef Alliance. ”
At this time, Dojima Silver said, "If you are shocked now, it is too early. ”
"Oh? Dojima is so confident in his juniors? ”
"You'll know why in a minute......"
Liu Pleiades didn't care about the surrounding eyes at this time, but continued to knead the "lump" noodles a few times, so that it was no longer a strip, and divided the noodles into two parts, one large and one small, wrapped the lotus petals prepared before on the large mass of noodles, and then wrapped them tightly with lotus leaves, and tied them with a string rubbed by sisal, and finally rolled out another small ball of noodles into a skin and wrapped them on the outside of the lotus leaves......
After putting the dough aside, Liu Pleiades began to work on the soup part on the side.
At this time, the pot used by Liu Pleiades was also a little concerning, this pot was brought by himself, and it looked like a closed structure similar to a pressure cooker......
I saw that Liu Pleiades first connected the water inside, then put all kinds of spices and bay leaves into the pot, and then closed the lid.
At the same time, I don't know why, Liu Pleiades's pressure cooker actually needs to be connected to the power supply and boiled on the stove......
Usually pressure cookers are divided into open flame heating type and electric heating type, but this kind of simultaneous use of electricity and fire has never been seen before.
Erina happened to knead the "special" noodles at this time, glanced at the direction of Liu Pleiades, and found that there was still the sign of "Yuanyue International" on this pot......
"Yuanyue International" does not sell products, only sells technology, that is to say, this pot should be the "Yuanyue International" test product!
Three hours passed, little by little, and the players in each region showed their abilities......
In addition to the No. 1 division, there is no shortage of dark horses in other divisions, especially this year, because of the participation of the first-year students of Yuanyue Academy, there are far more amazing dark horses in each competition area than imagined!
The rules of the contest are that after three hours, the judges of each competition area will start tasting one by one according to the number, not who will do it first and who will taste it first, and will not start tasting before the three-hour time limit.
But for the players, it's not a problem......
Since the limited dish is ramen, there is obviously no strict "best before date"!
Just like in a ramen shop, after the customer orders the ramen, the ramen master starts to ramen and boil the noodles, and then the cooked noodles are placed in a bowl, hot soup is poured on top of them, toppings are placed, and then they are presented to the customers......
For three hours, the contestants only need to prepare the noodles, soup, and toppings, and then when the ramen of the contestants in front of them is tasted, they can start to ramen, boil, pour the soup, put the toppings, and serve the ramen to judge when it is their turn, just like in a ramen shop.
That's why so many people can be squeezed into each division......
"It's time! Please stop processing the noodles, soup, and toppings, and start the final ramen and serving ...... at the right time."
As soon as the three hours arrived, the sound of the radio rang out in the ten competition areas at the same time.
Because there are a lot of people in each competition area, except for the first competition area, there are only 100 people, and there are three or four hundred people in the other competition areas, in addition to the judges waiting for tasting, there are also judges who flow in the competition area, so as to avoid the contestants using the prohibited high-quality finished products, or adding seasonings to the soup and processing the toppings after the time is up.
With the exception of Region 1, the review process for the other nine regions is also different......
The first division starts with the No. 1 contestant, and five ramen servings are presented to the five judges in turn, and then the judges give their opinions on whether to pass or not.
In the 2nd to 10th divisions, there are five contestants in a group who present ramen to the five judges, and if the judges think that the ramen they have tasted is "likely to pass" or "close to passing", they will ask the corresponding contestants to submit four more copies, and the five judges will discuss whether to approve or not......
Of course, it's not because the judges in the next nine divisions aren't serious, but because they want to quickly eliminate those who play soy sauce!
In fact, as long as you are a little outstanding, you can enter the stage of collective tasting......
"Ask the No. 1 contestant to present the ramen, and the contestants in the back will take care of the time for the ramen to be dressed."
In the first division, the first contestant presented ramen to the sound of the announcement...... This is a contestant from a ramen restaurant in Sapporo Ramen Street.
And Liu Pleiades is No. 100, Erina is No. 99, and Calamus is No. 98.
This sort of order obviously has some meaning and is intended to be ornamental.
The three of Liu Pleiades are all competitive, and they are very symbolic, and they each represent the Far Moon Academy and Hitori Ramen, which is the only star ramen restaurant in the island country, and they are all non-Hokkaido local ramen chefs, and they are ranked in the last three of the finale...... (To be continued.) )