When the preliminaries of the food conference officially began, the whole Orleans fell into a different atmosphere, and compared with before, Orleans was now more angry.

The venue of the preliminaries is located in the center of the central square, divided into an area, and some stoves have been set up in the area, about 30, and there is an area next to the stove where a lot of ingredients are placed.

Some of these ingredients are provided by Fantasy Success, and some are provided by certain chambers of commerce, and they are not supplied for free, but are gathered here to provide a convenience for the chefs participating in the preliminary round.

Not far away, there is the judge's seat.

There were ten judges, one from Orleans officials, two from Orleans citizens, two from foreign knights, two from members of the Chamber of Commerce, and one from a wandering dwarf who had settled in Orleans.

The remaining two were selected from New Zealand and Pigburg, respectively.

All ten of them have the qualifications of gourmets, and when the chefs flocked to Orleans before, these people were the more prominent among the diners, and they could distinguish the good from the bad with a relatively clear eye.

At the same time, these ten people have also passed in terms of character, plus some rules formulated by Green, I dare not say that they are 100% fair, but they will not be too unfair.

There are a lot of applicants, but the number of preliminaries for one day is fixed, and the judges can't work all the time, they need time to adjust their taste responses.

The rules of the preliminaries are that as long as one of the judges feels that the food is qualified, it is considered to have passed the preliminaries, but a chef can only hand his own food to one judge.

But in order to prevent the judges' tastes from being incompatible with the chef's dishes, Green also gave the chefs a reconsideration option, that is, if the chefs did not pass the preliminaries, they could choose another judge.

However, this time, the chefs need to pay a certain amount of money.

Quite simply, it is not a voluntary task for the judges to judge the chefs' dishes, Green pays them, but only once, and the chefs have to pay for more opportunities, of course.

One judge can taste 10 dishes a day, and 10 judges can judge 100 dishes.

More than 1,000 chefs have signed up in Orleans, 100 a day, and it takes more than 10 days to complete, which is the main reason why Green held the preliminaries of the food conference two months in advance.

The judges were a little excited at first, after all, the chefs who came to participate in the competition were all chefs who were confident in their own cooking skills, and the dishes they made could not be too bad.

In Orleans alone, you can taste the cooking of hundreds of people, which is something to look forward to.

But as more dishes were tasted, the judges gradually became a little unbearable, and the chefs were mixed, and the dishes were also good and bad, some were really surprised, and some did not even want to look at them.

The chefs were nervous, for fear that their dishes would not pass the judges' review, and they all came with dreams, not for the golden apples, but at least to show off their cooking skills.

The Orleans Food Conference is a great platform for countless chefs from mainland Greens to come together and compete in cooking, which is something that can excite any chef.

After all, every chef has a considerable degree of confidence in his or her cooking skills, and it would be a great joy to be able to beat his peers in this area.

However, since it is a competition, there is naturally a difference between winning and losing, and it is impossible to say that all chefs have passed the preliminaries, which is unrealistic, and if this is the case, then the preliminaries will be meaningless.

Green's criteria for the judges were one out of ten.

This means that among the more than 1,000 chefs who have signed up, only more than 100 will be able to pass the preliminaries, and more than 1,000 chefs will not be able to pass the preliminaries.

Purely from the perspective of proportions, you know that this is very strict.

The judges were cautious, and they were testing on the first day, and they did not immediately say that they had tasted the dishes and then made a judgment.

Taste 10 dishes a day, and only the best ones are chosen.

The remaining nine are losers.

The onlookers were very excited, Orleans is a newly built city, and the accumulation of many aspects is not as deep as those cities that are tens or hundreds of years, such as festivals, Orleans now has only one Orleans Festival.

And because the Orleans Festival was held in a hurry last time, it didn't get many people excited.

But this time is different, this time the food conference will last for two whole months, and this type of competition is particularly interesting, food, clothing, housing and transportation, no one can go without eating.

But whenever there is time and opportunity, they will gather around the preliminaries square to watch all this.

Judgment, even if they don't understand anything, or even don't see anything, they can diverge their imagination and make up some messy stories.

After tea and dinner, there is no better way to pass the time.

And if you can grasp a little more information than others, or a little new information, then you can brag for a while.

As the evening approached, the judges began to announce their lists, and in front of each judge stood ten chefs, all looking forward to the judges reading their names.

At the same time, the chefs looked at their counterparts next to them, and their eyes couldn't help but be a little more hostile.

"Willis!"

A middle-aged man waved his fist excitedly, rejoicing that he had passed the preliminaries.

The remaining nine losers had different expressions.

One of the losers looks incredulous, unable to believe that he has failed.

A loser has a blank look on his face.

Some of the losers shook their heads inadequately and walked out of the crowd.

Suddenly, one of the losers clenched his fists and rushed to the judges, shouting and swearing.

"It's not fair, it's not fair! I can't lose to him in my cooking skills, you did it on purpose, you are complicit!"

A member of the Orleans Escort came out, knocked the loser to the ground with lightning speed, tied him with ropes, and then looked around and said.

"The Duke said that those who are dissatisfied with the judges can apply for a re-examination, but if they make trouble on the spot, they will be permanently expelled from Orleans, and they will never be allowed to participate in future gastronomic conferences. ”

"His name will forever be on Orleans' blacklist. ”

This made the remaining losers take a few steps back, and he, like the troublemaker, also felt that the game was unfair and wanted to refute or resist, but when they saw the consequences of the trouble, they flinched.

The judges, a little frightened, glared at the troublemaker and withdrew from the crowd.

Today his task is complete, and the rest is the business of the other nine reviewers.