Chapter 464: Difficulty

The special cooking utensils that Gao Dian put out were specially sent by air to him.

Just shipping this kitchenware costs a lot of money.

Because these kitchen utensils are all glass products, they will break if you are not careful. Moreover, it is an expedited express shipment, which is naturally not cheap.

These kitchen utensils are not for chemical experiments, of course, they are somewhat similar to chemical experiments.

Some of the people present have never seen it, but there are still some who know this way of cooking.

This cooking method is called molecular cuisine!

Molecular cooking is a very peculiar way of cooking, and perhaps the first thing that comes to everyone's mind when it comes to this is to break up and reorganize.

For example, a real strawberry is broken and reassembled into a fake strawberry.

It looks like I'm lonely, but it's not.

In the process of breaking and reorganizing, various ingredients are added to provide other flavors to this fake strawberry dish.

Molecular cuisine is an interesting way to cook.

Of course, there are some obvious differences between the cooking process and the traditional cooking process.

From the outside, molecular cooking looks like a chemical experiment, not cooking at all.

Although molecular cuisine is a new way of cooking, the concept has existed for a long time.

What Gao Dian is doing is using molecular cuisine to extract the flavor of lilies.

It has to be said that molecular cuisine has its own uniqueness.

The way to extract the flavor of lilies is actually very simple, that is, to put it in water and extract its flavor by distillation and extraction.

This lily-flavored water is also called hydrosol.

Later, Gao Dian will need this.

In addition to the lily hydrosol, Gaodian also uses hot oil to extract the flavor of lilies.

This method is not unique to Gaodian, but has existed for a long time.

Like chili oil, this is how it is made.

In fact, like hot oil extraction, it is best to extract the flavor after 24 hours before it can be extracted to the greatest extent.

But Gao Dian doesn't have that condition, so it can only be so.

Fortunately, the impact is not great.

Time passed slowly, and it took a lot of time to thoroughly refine the flavor of the lily.

This also made many people cry out that they couldn't understand it.

And at this moment, Xun Yun is making Jiumiao buns.

This pastry is one of Xun Yun's specialties, and it is also one of his master's proud works.

Once, Gao Dian had seen this pastry, in Wei Qiaoyi's hands.

Jiu Miao Bun is a very difficult pastry, not only in terms of how it is made, but also because of the balance of the filling.

Gao Dian glanced at Xun Yun, he was fine at the moment, and he needed to wait for the division of the lily to be fully extracted.

And at this time, it is still too early.

This also led to a gap in Gaodian, where you can see what Xun Yun is doing.

He can't help it, you must know that the lily soaked in oil, the longer the time, the stronger the flavor.

In order to shorten the time, Gao Dian has adopted some special means.

One is to put more lily petals in the lard, and the other is to chop these lily petals.

Both of these methods can shorten the extraction time and achieve the desired effect in a short time.

Of course, this is also wasteful.

If it was usual, Gao Dian would not use this method, he would usually soak it on the first day and use it directly the next day.

Now in the competition, it is impossible to bring your own ingredients, and Gao Dian has no choice but to make it from scratch.

As for waste, it's better to waste some.

Jiumiao buns, Gao Dian also knows how to do it.

In the recipe left by the teacher, there is this pastry, and its method is marked in detail.

As one of the best pastries left by his teacher, Takano naturally studied.

However, due to the high difficulty of Jiumiao buns, Gao Dian only barely learned it, and he didn't do it very well.

Otherwise, he would have to add one more pastry in his plan for this competition.

Jiumiao bun is a bun inside, there are nine kinds of fillings, each filling is separated, and it has a separate taste when eaten separately, and it has a different flavor when eaten together.

This pastry is also known as the steamed bun that can never be eaten.

Because you don't know what it will taste like every bite, and maybe the taste of each bite is different.

Of course, this is the effect that can only be achieved when Old Man Wei is alive.

Only he can make this pastry to the extreme, and be able to produce a different taste in the mouth.

Later, people learned to do it, but they couldn't reach his level.

The key to this is the balance between the nine fillings.

Nine kinds of fillings, not nine kinds of ingredients, each filling is made of a mixture of multiple ingredients, and the ingredients of the nine kinds of fillings add up, there are twenty or thirty kinds of ingredients.

With so many ingredients, you can imagine how difficult it is to cook.

You know, the more ingredients there are, the more difficult it is to cook.

Each of these nine fillings is not difficult to make, and some are even simple and the seasoning is not complicated.

However, the balance between each filling is extremely difficult to grasp.

Even if it is the same ingredient, the taste of the same ingredient varies depending on the climate, temperature, humidity, and light of the place where it is produced. Even if the ingredients are made in the same origin, the taste of the ingredients varies depending on the climate from year to year.

The difference between one ingredient is very small, and it doesn't even feel obvious, but when twenty or thirty ingredients are combined, the difference is huge.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to get the balance between the nine fillings.

Even Old Man Wei, after he was old and his energy declined, he didn't cook this pastry again.

Xun Yun's Jiumiao buns are naturally not as good as Old Man Wei's, if it was really the Jiumiao Buns made by Old Man Wei back then, then needless to say, the champion must be his.

Even if it is far inferior to the Jiumiao buns made by Old Man Wei, the Jiumiao buns made by Xun Yun should not be underestimated.

In addition to grasping the balance of the filling, the production method is also very difficult.

The practice of Jiumiao buns is somewhat similar to Sixi steamed dumplings.

They are all separated into cavities and different fillings are added.

But the Sixi steamed dumplings are open, and the filling is put directly on them, while the Jiumiao buns are sealed, and the filling is wrapped inside.

The difficulty of such a production can be imagined.

In addition, Sixi steamed dumplings are four kinds of fillings, while Jiu Miao buns are nine kinds of fillings.

Because of its special wrapping method, if you don't know it, you can't learn it if you want to.

It was precisely because he knew the difficulty of Jiumiao buns that at this moment, Gao Dian saw Xun Yun making this pastry, and his heart suddenly became solemn.

If it was ordinary pastry, he probably didn't care so much.

But Jiu Miao Bun...... I had to make him care.

Soon, Gao Dian withdrew his gaze and stopped thinking about it.

All he has to do now is to start making peace.

Because it may have been a long time at this moment, the flavor of the lily has almost been extracted.

When mixing the noodles, the hydrosol of the lily flower is added separately, and the lily-flavored lard is extracted.

The dough that comes out in this way has a strong fragrance of lilies.

It's a pity that this fragrance is only now so obvious.

When it is fried in the oil pan later, the flavor will become lighter, and there will be no such fragrant taste.

After kneading the dough, Takanori sets the dough aside to rise, and then he begins to prepare the ingredients for the filling.

If you look closely, you can find that the lily cake made by Gao Dian today is different from what he made before.

There are several types of ingredients alone.

Speaking earlier, a pastry is not about the more ingredients, the better. And once there are many ingredients, the difficulty of making it is even more difficult.

This is Gao Dian's own improved formula, and it is the formula he has improved again after becoming a special first-class pastry chef.

According to his idea, this time he added several ingredients to the filling.

It can be said that the lily cake made by Gao Dian now and the lily cake learned in Hu Dekun's hands before are completely two pastries.

This change also means that Gao Dian has really stepped out of his own way, rather than blindly learning from his predecessors.

Why is a first-class pastry chef so good?

It is because the special first-class pastry chef has walked out of his own way and walked out of a different scenery.

It is difficult to surpass predecessors by blindly learning from them.

Only by embarking on your own path can you surpass your predecessors.

Gao Dian got this recipe for lily crisp very early, and even accompanied him all the way to fame, and won for Gao Dian many times in competitions or competitions.

Therefore, Gao Dian has a special feeling for this pastry.

After he became a first-class pastry chef, he spent a lot of energy on the lily cake, just to improve it so that it could keep up with his own progress.

Time flies very slowly, this is for the audience, some people watch it and find it boring, and some people watch it with relish.

For Gao Dian and the other contestants, time passed quickly, almost in the blink of an eye, a few hours passed.

In this round of the competition, everyone made pastries that were very complicated and slow, and they achieved the point of excellence.

The noodles made in this way are also not tasted on a daily basis.

After all, who spends hours on weekdays just to make a pastry?

Diners, on the other hand, are mostly reluctant to spend hours waiting for a pastry.

It is during the game that this happens.

Someone has already finished cooking and is judging at the judges' office.

The judges felt so happy that every dish was so delicious that they were so intoxicated that they didn't want to wake up.

They are all foodies, and they treat food a little differently than ordinary people, and if it weren't for that, they wouldn't be foodies.

It is precisely because of love that I embarked on this path.

Of course, because of the love of food, the proportion of fat people among all these people is relatively large.

For them, there is nothing happier than tasting a good meal.

Even Yu Jinghong, who is the most poisonous tongue on weekdays, is quietly enjoying the delicious food at the moment, and has not started the attack of her poisonous tongue.

This kind of food, even if she wants a poisonous tongue, she has nothing to say, she feels that there is nothing to find fault with.

in the audience.

Wei Qiaoyi was not surprised when she watched Gao Dian make lily cakes, because in her cognition, the only pastries that Gao Dian would take out this time were lily cakes.

To her surprise, Xun Yun actually took out the Jiumiao buns.

Wei Qiaoyi also knows how to make this pastry, and at the same time, she makes it much better than Gao Dian.

However, in this kind of competition, she didn't dare to take out Jiumiao buns.

Because this pastry is so difficult to make, she is afraid that she will make a mistake when she takes it out herself.

You must know that once there is a mistake in the difficult pastry of Jiumiao buns, the entire bun will be ruined.

Xun Yun dared to take it out, which made Wei Qiaoyi a little admired.

Of course, Xun Yun himself is confident, otherwise, he would not have come up with this pastry.

It's just nine wonderful buns...... Gao Dian's hope of winning has become smaller again.

Hu Zheng, who was sitting on the other side, looked a little strange at the moment.

He thought that Gao Dian would come up with some earth-shattering pastry, after all, it had reached a point where it was the right choice to come up with a powerful pastry.

However, Gao Dian took out the lily cake!

Hu Zheng did not look down on this pastry, and the lily cake was also his father's representative pastry, and it was one of his best pastries.

The problem is that Gao Dian's lily cake was still learned from his father.

However, it is not the full version that is learned, but the castrated version.

Although it is also a lily cake, the lily cake that Hu Zheng made yesterday is even more powerful than Gao Dian's lily cake.

He has been immersed in this pastry for many years, and the lily cake made in this way also lost to Gao Dian.

Now Gao Dian is making a castrated version of the lily cake instead, isn't this self-defeating?

Of course, Hu Zheng is not stupid, from Gao Dian's initial actions, he knows that the lily cake made by Gao Dian is different from the version that his father taught him before.

Hu Zheng thought that this should be Gao Dian's own improved version.

This is normal.

Generally speaking, after becoming a first-class pastry chef, that is, after finding your own path, you will sort out what you have learned.

Some pastries will also be changed to give them their own style.

Such a change is generally referred to as "improvement", but it is not really an improvement. I say this just for the sake of sounding good.

If you want to improve, where is it so easy.

Some people even change the recipe, but instead of improving it, they make it worse.

So for Gao Dian's peculiar cooking method, Hu Zheng didn't find it strange.

It's just that he doesn't think that Gao Dian's changes can surpass his father's secret version.

You know, his father is a master pastry chef, and his secret version of the lily cake is very famous.

"Perhaps...... He doesn't have any other pastries! ”

Suddenly, such a sentence popped up in Hu Zheng's mind.

He suddenly thought it was possible.

Gao Dian is too young, and the time to learn art is very short, he makes rapid progress, and there is little time to stop and precipitate.

In fact, he was able to get to this round, which has been beyond many people's expectations.

It's not impossible that he ran out of his favorite pastries.

Thinking of this, Hu Zheng felt a little sorry for Gao Dian.

If Gao Dian was given a period of time and let him settle down more, maybe the result would be different.

Now, he may not really be able to win.