Dare to cook

Chapter 32 Farewell My Concubine
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Yao Yu saw Misaka Mie again in the competition venue.

There are not many female chefs in the culinary art world, and even fewer good-looking ones.

With Misaka Mie's appearance and... the headlights around it, among this group of contestants, it is like a marquee in the dark, especially eye-catching.

Yao Yu just watched for a while, and found that at least a dozen people came forward to strike up a conversation with Misaka Mie.

"I said, you don't have a crush on her, do you?"

Seeing Yao Yu looking at Misaka Mie from a distance, Yang Rui said in a low voice.

Yao Yu shook his head and said:

"Don't underestimate her, her culinary skills are higher than yours. If you meet her in the next competition, you have to be careful."

Yang Rui looked disbelieving and said:
"Can you pinch and count? How do you know that she has better cooking skills than me? Even if she beat 32 Chinese chefs in a row in Tokyo."

"This kind of record, I can also do it, young master."

"Believe it or not, anyway, I reminded you." Yao Yu didn't explain further.

The existence of the system must not be exposed.

It was impossible for him to tell Yang Rui that he was using the [Culinary Detective] skill to find out about Misaka Mie.

According to [cooking scouting] skill feedback, Misaka Mie's cooking value is lv7 (26012), while Yang Rui's cooking value is lv7 (25316).

Although Yao Yu can only see the overall level of Misaka Mie's culinary skills, but cannot judge her level of Chinese cuisine.

But even so, Misaka Mie's strength has already surprised Yao Yu.

……

In the stadium, the contestants arrived one after another.

Soon, the second round of individual knockout rounds will begin.

After the first round of elimination in the morning, there were only less than 800 chefs left out of the original two thousand.

The venue for this knockout round is on the third floor, divided into four areas: A, B, C, and D.

Nearly [-] players will be divided into four areas to compete simultaneously.

Yao Yu and Mu Shaoran were assigned to Zone A to compete, while Yang Rui and Misaka Mie were in Zone D.

After following the staff to the competition area, Yao Yu was taken aback by the battle in front of him.

What appeared in front of the contestants was no longer a simple chopping board stove, but a full set of back kitchen workbench.

The back-shaped kitchen workbench is composed of four parts: a sink, a chopping board, a double-burning gas stove, and a kitchen waste storage box.

On top of the workbench, the event organizers also assembled smokers and smoke exhaust pipes.

It can be said that except for the steamer, oven, and refrigerator, the organizers of the event have brought in almost everything that can be used in the kitchen.

Four competition areas, [-] people, [-] sets of kitchen workbenches, and [-] ingredients!

All the preparations are just for the one-ring knockout competition.Such a generous investment is staggering.

Mu Shaoran who followed Yao Yu said:
"It is said that the organizer originally prepared 200 sets of kitchen workbenches, but unexpectedly, there were less than [-] people who passed the first round of tests, and another [-] sets were temporarily withdrawn."

A contestant gasped when he heard this:
"The ex-factory price of a brand-new kitchen workbench is more than 8000. The organizer got a thousand sets at once. How much does it cost?"

Yao Yu said:
"Of course it's impossible to buy it out of your own pocket. It includes the original financial resources of the Kitchen Association, temporary rental, and sponsorship from manufacturers."

"Don't forget, behind the celebrity competition are the Celebrity Chefs Association magazine and the Chinese Chefs Association."

"With their py trading method, it is not a problem to attract hundreds of millions of sponsors for a famous contest."

The player was still surprised and said:
"That's amazing. Tsk tsk, those people from the Kitchen Association are getting more and more powerful."

Several people were talking, and each found their own workbench according to the number.

After all the players were in place, the emcee came forward with a microphone and said:
"Everyone, the topic of this competition is - Farewell My Concubine!"

"You have an hour and a half to cook this dish. The ingredients and seasonings for the competition are already in the cabinet under your workbench."

"Please note that in this competition, all contestants can only use the condiments provided by the organizer. Any contestant who uses their own condiments will be directly disqualified!"

"Now, the game begins!"

Farewell My Concubine is a traditional famous dish in Xuzhou area, and it is also a classic dish in Xuhai cuisine!

To make this dish, there are two main ingredients - chicken and soft-shelled turtle.

"Chicken" has the same pronunciation as "Ji", and soft-shelled turtle is soft-shelled turtle, similar to "bie".

Therefore, in order to commemorate the Overlord of Western Chu, the people of Xuzhou named this dish Farewell My Concubine.

……

As soon as the master of ceremonies finished speaking, the contestants quickly dug out the ingredients from the cupboard.

Yao Yu knelt down and opened the cupboard to take a look, his lips twitching slightly: Oh, the turtle given by the organizer is still alive!

Logically speaking, cooking a Farewell My Concubine in an hour and a half is not a big problem.

But if preparations such as washing and cutting vegetables, slaughtering and processing soft-shelled turtles have to be included, then the time is not enough.

Fortunately, the organizers are not too outrageous.

Otherwise, if they throw another live chicken and let them kill the chicken and pluck its feathers on the spot, it will really drive the contestants crazy.

Yao Yu took out all the ingredients and seasonings, and he had to deal with the soft-shelled turtle first.

Killing a soft-shelled turtle is actually not difficult, just turn this thing over so that its belly is facing upwards.Then when it sticks out its head and wants to turn over, chop it off with a knife... it's Ami Tofu.

In addition, there is another way to tease the turtle with chopsticks.

The turtle bites the chopsticks and then pulls its head out, then raises the knife and drops it.

After Yao's executioner Yu ruthlessly killed the turtle, he quickly took a large pot of water from the water table and put it on the stove to boil.

While boiling the water, Yao Yu cut open the turtle's abdomen with special scissors, took out the internal organs and other things, and cleaned them.

Note that after beheading the soft-shelled turtle, all the blood in its body should be drained immediately.

Otherwise, the taste of the soft-shelled turtle will be very fishy, ​​and eating this kind of soft-shelled turtle will also affect your health.

The method of Farewell My Concubine is not complicated, but the selection of materials is very particular.

Originally, this dish was cooked with wild silky chicken and wild soft-shelled turtle.

But now the ecological environment is not as good as before, so chefs use ordinary silky chickens, free-range hens and reservoir turtles instead.

The ingredients provided by the organizer are not bad.

The soft-shelled turtle with meat weighs about two catties, and the silky chicken provided weighs about 800 grams. The ingredients are very professionally selected.

Clean the soft-shelled turtle and put it aside, Yao Yu then processed the chicken.

Take out the internal organs of the silky chicken and clean them, except for the chicken liver, the rest are all discarded.

Then, chop off the two chicken feet, and then stuff the two chicken wings crosswise into the chicken mouth to fix it so that it can be concave during the stewing process.

After the water boils, the soft-shelled turtle has to be soaked and scalded, and then the rough skin of the soft-shelled turtle is scraped and cleaned.

After the soft-shelled turtle is scalded, prepare two pots of cold water.

Blanch the silky chicken and soft-shelled turtle in water for 5-7 minutes.In the process of boiling, also add scallions and ginger to remove the fishy smell.

At this time, you can take the time to wash and cut ham slices, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, green vegetables and the like.

After the soft-shelled turtle and silky chicken are blanched, they are ready to be minced chicken.

Making minced chicken is a very crucial step.

Whether the dish "Farewell My Concubine" can be done well or not mainly depends on the quality of the three ingredients: turtle, silky chicken and chicken mince.

The soft-shelled turtles and chickens on site are prepared uniformly by the organizer, and there will be no difference in quality.

Therefore, no matter who it is, if it wants to stand out in this dish, it has to work harder on minced chicken.

(End of this chapter)