Chapter 506 [Noodles]
Zhao Caimo said: "I helped you make an appointment with Shangguan Xiongba, he will wait for you in the metropolis tonight, first, to celebrate the success of your cooking competition, and secondly, to talk to you about the affairs of Guanghan Palace." ”
Su Le blurted out, "Are you going or not?" After saying that, this thing immediately regretted it, what is the place of the metropolis? A man's paradise is not the same for a woman. Su Le didn't mean to embarrass Zhao Caimo, he just said it.
Zhao Caimo said softly: "The matter between you is still discussed by you alone!" She didn't show any unhappiness, whether Su Le's words were intentional or unintentional, it was not enough to make Zhao Caimo feel embarrassed, and she remembered something after she finished speaking, and said meaningfully: "When you go to that kind of situation, you must control yourself." ”
Su Le smiled and said, "It's okay, I've always had a good concentration." ”
Zhao Caimo laughed because of his words.
Su Le accompanied Zhao Caimo to the scene of the competition, and just entered the arena when he heard thunderous applause, this is just one of the venues for the preliminary round. What is being tested at the scene is the white case kung fu of the contestants.
The so-called white case is often said to be pastry, don't underestimate the white case kung fu, from the white case can see the basic skills of a chef.
Ten chefs on the scene showed their abilities, today's proposition is set by Liu Xianyang, chairman of the Chinese Restaurant Federation, when Su Le didn't come in just now, these chefs have already done knife work demonstrations.
Su Le accompanied Zhao Caimo to the guest seat and sat down, Zhao Caimo saw Li Lianhai in the middle of the guest seat, Li Lianhai looked at it very seriously and did not notice the arrival of this little sister-in-law.
Two bottles of mineral water were delivered by the on-site service staff.
Su Le introduced to Zhao Caimo in a low voice.
In fact, the preliminary round is just a preliminary screening, after becoming the organizer of the competition, Su Le's attention to the competition itself has decreased significantly, what he cares most about is whether the competition can be carried out smoothly, rather than the specific process of the competition, and people pay attention to different things at different stages, if in the past. Su Le must be looking at things from the perspective of a chef, but now he has begun to think from the perspective of an organizational manager, and the change of position determines the mentality.
Liu Xianyang's proposition is very simple, noodles! The ten contestants on the scene showed their abilities, to make a bowl of noodles with full color and flavor within the specified time, as for the specific category to no regulations, as for the specific category to no regulations, you can make lo noodles, hot dry noodles, knife cut noodles, fried sauce noodles, oil splash noodles, stewed noodles, pot lid noodles, wonton noodles, or dragon beard noodles, cold noodles, Lao noodles, and even you make pasta, Arabic noodles, as long as you make noodles, and can win the recognition of the judges. Then you can stand out from the preliminary round.
Among the ten contestants, there are many white case masters, and the 10th is Xiao Jingliang, the chef of Wu Yue's Qiantang store, who is also the most optimistic player by Li Jingxian.
Su Le is concerned about No. 3, senior sister Zhu Xiaojiao, today Zhu Xiaojiao is wearing a chef's uniform as white as snow, in order to distinguish herself from others. also specially tied a dark red bow on the top hat, Zhu Xiaojiao stood in front of the table, and was not in a hurry like the other players, standing there as if thinking about something. Full of momentum.
After thinking about it for about three minutes, Zhu Xiaojiao began to start with the noodles, watching the white noodles add water to quickly enhance their own coagulation power, under the rubbing of Zhu Xiaojiao's chubby palms. Quickly turning into a dough, what she has to do is ramen, and the noodles are a key step in making ramen zuò. In winter, the dough needs to be warmed water, the temperature of the dough pattern is easily affected by the natural air temperature, and the water temperature used when passing guò and dough is different, so that the temperature of the dough is always maintained at about 30 degrees, which is scientific, because at this temperature, the protein in the flour has the highest water absorption, which can reach 150%, the gluten generation rate is the highest, and the extensibility and elasticity of the dough are the best, only in this way can it be convenient to stretch.
In the process of making western ramen, water and lime are added for a long time, and the osmotic pressure of water can reduce the distance between the protein molecules in the dough and increase the density, especially the viscosity of gliadin, which is one of the gluten proteins, and improve the ductility and elasticity of the dough. Usually, in order to enhance the gluten feeling of ramen, the most common thing to add is puffy gray. Puffy ash is an alkaline substance fired from the Gobi specialty of Puffy grass. When adding noodles to the noodles, the noodles can have a special fragrance, and can make the noodles smooth and yellow, and the muscles are strong.
Due to the time constraints of the competition, there was not enough time to rest after the noodles were reconciled, and most of the players used additives in the process to shorten the preparation time.
As soon as Zhu Xiaojiao and the noodles began, soon everyone's eyes were attracted by her movements, Zhu Xiaojiao's movements were very large, kneading the dough with both hands, her movements were continuous, coherent and harmonious, and the dough kept changing shapes in her hands. Although her movements are not elegant, they give people a feeling of being so comfortable.
Zhu Xiaojiao's dough mixing process should be the longest among everyone, and then Xiao Jingliang has used a rolling pin to roll the reconciled dough into a round dough, his every move is unhurried and methodical, although the speed of the movement is not fast, but every action is not redundant. Looking at Xiao Jingliang's face case again, it is extremely clean, and he does not make flour fly like some players.
Xiao Jingliang sprinkled a handful of dry flour on the dough, continued to roll it out, and after repeating it several times, folded the dough and picked up the kitchen knife from the side.
Although Liu Xianyang's topic is ordinary, it is an all-round examination of chefs and noodles, kneading noodles, knife work, and pyrotechnics.
The kitchen knife in Xiao Jingliang's hand started, and the speed of the knife was still not fast, but the knife speed control was very stable, and the rhythm of the knife was even and consistent, and under his knife, the dough turned into noodles. There was a deafening cheer from the audience, but it was a No. 7 contestant from Jinxi who performed the knife cutting noodles live, raising the dough in his left hand and holding the curved knife in his right hand, slicing the noodles into the boiling pot one by one. The face leaf cut with a knife is thick in the middle and thin on the edge, with sharp edges, similar to willow leaves. Regardless of the taste of the contestant's knife-cut noodles, his performance alone has successfully attracted the attention of the audience and the judges.
Most of the audience is not as professional as the judges, insiders look at the doorway, laymen look lively, for the audience is lively is good-looking, seeing the No. 7 contestant in his hand scimitar, cold light, peeled on the dough, the dough like snowflakes flying into the pot, the visual effect is extremely good, so the audience all began to applaud.
The applause and cheers naturally attracted the attention of many players on the scene, and there are still a few players who can really be distracted in the game.
Man Zaiyuan doesn't like too fancy performances, in his opinion, the essence of cooking is still in taste, not how beautiful the movements are in the process, he has been paying attention to the table of these contestants, there are only two people who can really be called distracted, one is the female apprentice Zhu Xiaojiao he just received, and the other is No. 10 Xiao Jingliang.
In the deafening applause and cheers of the scene, Xiao Jingliang remained unmoved, he still focused on cutting his noodles, and the rhythm and speed did not change in the slightest.
Man Zaiyuan saw Xiao Jingliang's live appearance, and couldn't help but nod appreciatively, this person's strength is quite good, if you want to become a smart chef, you must first have a firm heart, and only by focusing on one thing can you do one thing well.
Suddenly there was a puff in the cheers! There was a muffled sound, and everyone's spirits were a little distracted by the sound, and they looked at the place where the sound came from, but saw that Zhu Xiaojiao was still fiddling with her dough, and the dough that had been repaired into a ball by her was hit the dough table, and the flour was flying, and the spherical dough was also flattened because of this impact. After Zhu Xiaojiao repeatedly pounded, kneaded, kneaded, and fell, the dough finally achieved the effect she expected.
Zhu Xiaojiao grabbed the dough, kneaded it back and forth into long strips, and then used two boats to hold the two sections of the strip-shaped dough, and after lifting it, beat it the dough table, after the strip-shaped dough was elongated, the two sections were folded in half, and then continued to hold the two sections of beating, repeated many times, the purpose of beating was to adjust the order of the gluten protein in the dough, so that the originally chaotic protein molecules were arranged into a regular long chain, and the culinary world called this procedure Shun gluten. Finally, knead into long strips and knead them into two centimeters thick and chopstick-long strips.
Other people's noodles began to be cooked, Zhu Xiaojiao began to ramen, ramen is definitely a highly technical job, holding the two ends of the rough noodles, both arms evenly accelerate outward, and then fold the two ends in half, put both ends in the finger seam of the left hand at the same time, hook the other end with the middle finger of the right hand downward, turn the palm upside down, make the noodles form a noose, and at the same time stretch the hands to both sides. After the noodles are lengthened, put the end of the hook of the right hand on the left finger, and continue to hook the other stretch with the right hand. The speed of stretching should be fast, the force should be even, each fold is called a button, and the thickness of the ramen is selected according to the customer's taste, and today Zhu Xiaojiao pulled out 9 buttons of thin noodles.
Although Zhu Xiaojiao is fat, the skills and flexibility shown in the ramen table make everyone forget her weight, and seeing a piece of noodles become inextricably linked in her hands, like an acrobatic technique, the audience was stunned and fascinated.
Accompanied by a ponto! There was a muffled sound on the ground, and Zhu Xiaojiao's hands pulled out tenacious noodles, jumping and trembling in her hands, showing excellent texture and elasticity.
The corners of Man Zaiyuan's lips showed a smile of relief, he could conclude that except for Xiao Jingliang, the other players on the scene had no ability to fight with Zhu Xiaojiao at all!
Octopus is not a professional background, so it is quite difficult to write, although I try my best, I am still afraid that I will laugh and be generous, and please Haihan for the shortcomings, so what, the double monthly pass is almost over, and readers of the monthly pass please vote for the food! As a diner, not voting is also a waste! (To be continued......)