Although the black curtain blocked the view, it could not stop the penetration of the filaments of divine consciousness.

When Xiao Yu's divine consciousness filaments penetrated the curtain and entered it, the image inside was clearly presented in Xiao Yu's mind.

In the black curtain, there are five wheelchairs side by side, and in the wheelchairs sit five patients in hospital gowns, these five people are men and women, all of them are pale, skinny, three points like people, seven points like ghosts, at first glance they are long-term malnourished tuberculosis ghosts.

Drops of nutrient solution flowed into their veins from the infusion bottles suspended from their wheelchairs, and two young nurses in the uniforms of the First People's Hospital watched over them carefully.

Xiao Yu was dumbfounded, thinking of what Xiao Ke said just now, he was now almost sure of the origin of these five people, it turned out that the so-called mysterious judges invited by the organizing committee were actually five patients suffering from severe anorexia.

It seems that this time the organizing committee is really moving, and wants to use anorexic patients to test the cooking skills of the contestants.

It's a bit whimsical, if anorexia could be cured so easily, the doctors in the hospital would have been laid off long ago.

Suddenly, the second girl standing beside Xiao Yu touched his arm and whispered, "Brother Xiao Yu, what are you thinking?" The host is about to announce the title of the contest! ”

Xiao Yu was startled, and immediately retracted his consciousness and returned his attention to the hosting stage.

“…… The ingredients for this competition are very ordinary, and I believe you must have used this ingredient countless times before, and it is 'chicken'! ……”

Before Xiao Ke finished speaking, it immediately caused a response from the audience, and many chefs were happy, 'chicken' is simply too ordinary for them, not only is it commonplace on the table of ordinary people, but also for these chefs, they don't know how many dishes about chicken to cook every day.

I thought that today was the finals, and the organizing committee would definitely find a relatively rare and difficult to make ingredients, such as sea cucumber, bear's paw, bird's nest, etc., to test everyone, but I didn't expect that the theme was such an ordinary chicken, which was really a bit unexpected for everyone.

There are also some chefs who frowned, the more ordinary the ingredients, the more difficult it is to make well, in the field that everyone is familiar with, if you want to come out on top, you must have a unique unique skill, such as 'spicy chicken', 'curry chicken nuggets', these are home-cooked dishes that everyone can make, naturally they can't overwhelm the crowd and come out on top.

Not to mention that the chefs had their own thoughts, Xiao Ke on the stage continued, "Please pay attention, in order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, so this competition we do not provide slaughtered chicken, but provide live chicken, each team can only choose one from the one hundred live chickens prepared by the organizing committee to cook, as for the quality of the selection of ingredients depends on your eyesight." ”

"I can reveal a piece of information here, among these 100 live chickens, mixed with 20 sick chickens, if you happen to choose a team of sick chickens, then you can only be considered unlucky, you will be eliminated in the first part of the competition, because our judges will never eat sick chickens. Next, please send one person from each participating team to go outside to choose chickens! ”

This can make many teams confused, these ** mostly work as chefs in well-known hotels, and the ingredients required for the kitchen are delivered to the door by special suppliers, and ingredients such as chicken are handled by the suppliers and then sent over, where have you done this kind of work such as selecting chickens? I couldn't help but scold the organizing committee for its lack of morality, how could I come up with such a crooked idea?

In particular, the members of the 'Almighty Chef' team, all of them look at each other, they are all researchers of scientific research institutes, usually devote themselves to research, according to the recipe compilation program, even the kitchen at home is rarely down, the oil bottle will not be poured, how can you choose chicken? No matter how versatile the 'Almighty Chef' is, he can't do this job!

The combination of Lang Lang and Han is smiling, these people usually flow in all directions, sometimes there is no oil and water in the stomach, and they do some stealing chickens and dogs, and they are all too familiar with the selection of chickens, it is the rat that fell into the rice tank, and it is in the middle of it.

Although Xiao Yu has no research on the selection of chickens, but he is not flustered, not to mention that his reconnaissance skills are enough to find sick chickens, Ling Yun under his command, the family is a professional chicken farmer, so to speak, Ling Yun grew up with chickens, and he is very good at selecting chickens.

"Xiaoyu, I'll do this job, don't worry, I promise to pick the best chicken for you!" Ling Yun confidently assured Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu smiled and whispered in his ear, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go, Ling Yun, I know, you will definitely not let us down!" ”

"Hmm!" Ling Yun nodded heavily, exchanged palms with Er Ya and Shi Jianlong, walked out of the team of 'Qi Xianju', and walked out of the grand banquet hall with the members of the chicken selection sent by the other participating teams.

There was a buzzing discussion in the VIP room, and the change of the review by the organizing committee was beyond everyone's expectations.

However, the selection of ingredients is also a necessary homework for a chef, and if you can't tell the difference between good and bad ingredients, how can you cook delicious food?

Those media reporters have already taken their cameras and followed the members of the chicken selection out of the banquet hall to shoot wonderful shots, and today's cooking elite competition is really a lot of material, just the pre-game tidbits are enough to win the page.

After a while, the contestants who went out to select chickens walked in from outside the door and stood in front of their team's operating table.

Xiao Yu looked at the chicken selected by Ling Yun, it was a little hen about three months in size, full of energy, eyes were focused, and the feathers were soft and shiny, it was really a rare good chicken.

Chickens at this age have basically completed their physical development, and their meat is delicate and tender, which is very suitable for cooking, which is exactly what Xiaoyu needs.

On the stage, little Ke Lang said, "Qiaoqiao, please go down and check the chickens you have chosen, and see if they have a thin red thread wrapped around their right paws!" ”

Qiao Qiao stepped off the stage in response, and checked the chickens selected by each group of participating teams one by one, Xiao Yu glanced at the right paw of the chicken selected by Ling Yun, there was no red thin line, and he immediately put his mind at ease, thinking about it, the chicken with the red thin line on the right paw should be the sick chicken mixed in it.

After a round of inspection, only the chicken selected by the 'Almighty Chef' team had a thin red line wrapped around its right paw, and at this time, everyone in the other teams obviously understood the meaning of this thin red line, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Those who almost chose the sick chicken were secretly in danger, but they secretly rejoiced that the 'Almighty Chef' was a strong contender for the title, and it was an unexpected result to be able to eliminate them before the game started.

The member of the 'Almighty Chef' team who selected the sick chicken cried and mourned, wishing that he was a big mouth, and when he chose it, he only cared about choosing a chicken with a big head and a good body, where would he notice the thin red line?

This is good, my team lost to Jin Long and Mo Donghai in the last rematch, I wanted to play well in the finals, and I didn't expect it, but now I have to leave early.

Xiao Ke's voice came from the host stage, "I believe you already know the meaning of this red thin line, yes, the chicken with the red thin line wrapped around the right paw is a sick chicken, the 'Almighty Chef' team, I'm sorry, your footsteps in the National Culinary Elite Competition can only end here!" Give them a round of applause and encouragement! ”

In the applause of the audience, the three researchers of the New Product Research Institute of the Armed Police Technical College walked out of the field with the 'Almighty Chef', although there were some small regrets, but this competition brought them more gains.

Due to the outstanding performance of their product 'Almighty Chef' in the previous competition, which was affirmed by the audience, many electrical dealers called to express their intention to buy 'Almighty Chef' in bulk, and in addition, what made them most happy was that they designed a large 'military picnic vehicle' according to the principle of 'Almighty Chef', which also passed the army's inspection at the same time and entered the stage of formal equipment for the troops.

Starting today, the 'military picnic car' will become part of the Chinese army's field supply support system, galloping on the battlefield with the field troops, for which each of them has been awarded a collective first-class military merit medal.

For them, this military medal is much heavier than winning a culinary competition.

The exit of the 'Almighty Chef' left nine teams competing for the title, increasing the chances of each team by 10 percent, and many of them are gearing up to fight against the odds.

"Participating teams, the official competition is about to start, you have an hour to complete your work, in the storage cabinet under your counter, there are dozens of auxiliary ingredients for you to choose, if not enough, you can also go to the storage room on the west side of the banquet hall to choose ingredients, but the time to select ingredients is counted within this hour, okay! Five! Four! Three! Two! One! It's game on! ”

With Xiao Ke's order, all teams immediately took action, and Xiao Yu quickly gathered his teammates together and assigned tasks.

"Lingyun! You are in charge of the content and decoration of the food carving! ”

"Erya! You're in charge of killing chickens! ”

"Shi Jianlong!" Xiao Yu opened the storage cabinet under the operation table, glanced at it, and continued, "You go to the storage room in the west to see if there are orange peels and black plums!" ”

"Orange peel and black plum? Xiaoyu, what do you want these two things for? Shi Jianlong was stunned for a moment and couldn't help asking.

There is no such cooking method in the recipes related to chicken that he knows, but you must know that orange peel and black plum are both acidic ingredients, and when cooked with chicken, the acidity of the chicken will increase accordingly, so can this dish be appreciated by the judges?

Xiao Yu squeezed his eyes mysteriously at Shi Jianlong, "Brother Long, you just do what I say." ”

Since Xiao Yu is now the boss, Shi Jianlong can't say anything, but he feels that this champion seems to be getting farther and farther away from them.