Chapter 202: The second round, the duel of the Imperial Sword Skill
The final result of the first round is, of course, the emperor's selection of 15 special chefs who have cleared the customs, including Ah Fei and Xiao Dangjia. As for the other 15 special chefs who did not clear the customs, they had no choice but to leave the examination room.
Even if the theme of "baking" is revealed, then everyone ushered in the second round of tests, this second round is 16 into 8, and the remaining personnel in each round will be directly reduced! No matter who it is, the pressure is very huge, and Zhao Yao is no exception.
No one can predict whether the questions in this second round will match their strengths, after all, although everyone is a master chef, there is always one aspect that they are good at, and some aspects that they are not good at.
Take Zhao Yao as an example, if the second round of questions is out of the scope of the skills he has now, it will be a big problem for him.
At this moment, when everyone was in the spotlight and everyone was nervous, two white cloths were hung on the left and right sides of the city wall. Obviously, there are two requirements for the second round of exams, and the dishes must meet both conditions before they can pass, which also makes everyone break out in a cold sweat.
Basically everybody is thinking, don't have one that I'm not good at.
In anticipation, the one on the left of the two white cloths drooped impressively. The strip of cloth, which was originally still white, had a huge black italicized word on it - carving!
This first test point is like knife work. Zhao Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if it was a sword skill, he still had the skill of sword skill level 5 in his body, and he should be able to survive it smoothly. However, some people are happy and some are sad, not every super chef has amazing knife skills, and some people on the scene are not.
The dramatic scene was the first-round bye player, and he had an extremely ugly face on his face, obviously knife work was not what he was good at. originally thought that he could easily advance to the third round than the second round, but maybe this round could kill him.
This is really a suggestion to all the special chefs present, and the winner is the one who has the last laugh.
"As you can see, there are two questions in this second round of the competition, one of which is to test everyone's knife skills, and the next is the second question...... After the referee introduced, he shouted to the person on the right, and another white cloth also rolled down.
Everyone stared intently at this moment, and finally saw the big black italics written on the white cloth, this time there was not only one word on the white cloth, it was written - magnificent!
Yes, "carving" and "magnificent" are the questions for this time. As everyone guessed, the referee continued: "The second round is the sword duel in front of the palace, everyone has seen the two exam questions, and only if they are satisfied at the same time can they be considered passed." ”
"Another point that needs to be explained is that the works submitted by all of you must be from easy to difficult, and there must be at least three levels. Well, the game time is a stick of incense, hurry up. ”
The moment the incense was ignited, everyone immediately set off to the ingredients area, there were a lot of ingredients to test the carving skills, and it was undoubtedly relatively difficult to choose the three ingredients from easy to difficult, and to try to satisfy the critical eyes of the emperor judges.
However, Zhao Yao just walked around and selected the ingredients he wanted to carve, at this moment Shiro was holding a large winter melon in his hand, and Dudu was holding a basket of white radishes in his hand, and Zhao Yao himself was holding a piece of tofu that grew about fifty centimeters on the side.
The emperor, who was watching all this from the city wall, had a slight smile on his lips. Winter melon, radish, and tofu, this is a surprising three-tiered ah. It stands to reason that winter melon and radish are both melon-like vegetables, and the difficulty level difference between carving should not be too big, so what does he want to do?
It's no wonder that the emperor doesn't understand, Shiro and Dudu are also full of strange faces. It stands to reason that the second choice of winter melon or radish is good, so the first one is harder than winter melon and radish and it is not impossible to choose, why bother?
For example, the hardness of bamboo shoots is definitely higher than that of radish or winter melon, and the shape of bamboo shoots is easy to carve into the shape of a pagoda. No, large shellfish in seafood are also acceptable.
However, after the last round of roasting milk incidents, whether it is Shiro, Dudu or the emperor, they are already surprised, maybe this guy is going to do something shocking.
The time of a stick of incense is obviously enough for a chef who is very good at knife skills.
After arranging the winter melon, radish, and tofu in order, the knife in Zhao Yao's hand began to dance. In order to cater for the second round of the competition, there are a variety of kitchen knives with different blades on the special kitchen counter for chefs to choose from.
But in the process of carving, Zhao Yao only took a small kitchen knife shaped like a dagger from beginning to end. This is actually a wonderful performance of knife skills, unless it is an ingredient that is very difficult to handle, the simpler the knife is used when showing knife skills, the better.
"This guy really didn't disappoint, I have to work hard." Ah Fei, who had just selected three ingredients, walked to his place, but he had already seen Zhao Yao holding a knife and constantly flying on the winter melon.
The competition of knife skills is far less hot than the first round, as if it was hot at the beginning, and then it was silent, first rising and then suppressing. Perhaps because they were afraid of disturbing the chefs at the scene, the audience did not shout.
Nearly halfway through the burning of incense, Zhao Yao had already completed all his carvings, but he was still patiently waiting for the last moment to come.
Finally, with the patience of the audience, this pillar of incense burned out. When the gong sounded on the city wall, it was a pity that four of the chefs said goodbye to the place, because they had not completed even the most basic three carvings.
Naturally, those who leave have regret on their faces, because they will not be able to make the last top chef.
But after all, this is a selection competition, a competition, and since it is a competition, then there must be a result, and there must be a victory or defeat. Of the remaining 12 people, eight will advance to the third round.
"Number Six comes forward and shows your work."
The cook at the front of the crowd strode out, and the three ladies walked to the city wall with his work in hand.
"Tell me directly, what did you carve." The Emperor's voice was flat, but the presence of such a high voice was irresistible to his words.
"Yes, the emperor......" The chef was obviously a little nervous when he approached the emperor for the first time, but in the end he introduced his work in turn.
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