Star Food Tycoon

As a knife dish, its main difficulty is naturally the knife skills.

Each chef was provided with a piece of cuboid gypsum tofu with the length of the palm and half the width of the palm as the main material.

The so-called gypsum tofu refers to the tofu made with gypsum liquid.This kind of tofu is soft and delicate, white in color, suitable for making soup.

Of course, it is not particularly good to cut into shreds.

The cutting method of chrysanthemum tofu is to cut the long side with a knife and cut into thin shreds, and ensure that one end of the tofu is not cut off.Cut the support and put it in the broth. Use chopsticks to arrange the short side into a ring shape. The shredded tofu will naturally spread out in the broth, like a white chrysanthemum.

This tofu is not easy to shred, let alone cut evenly and as thin as a hair.This hand shook slightly, not to mention the tofu shreds, the cut tofu was directly stuck to the knife, and the tofu dregs.

In addition, shredded tofu must not be cut off at one end, otherwise it will not be able to form a chrysanthemum shape, then it is not making chrysanthemum tofu, you can try Wensi tofu.

These two points are the most difficult.

Generally speaking, egg tofu is now used in restaurants to make chrysanthemum tofu.

Eggs are made with eggs as the main raw material, supplemented with pure water, vegetable protein, and natural seasonings. The taste is similar to tofu, but it is not tofu, and its toughness is much stronger than tofu.It is easy to shred with egg tofu.

Of course, this can only be used for beginners and ordinary restaurants. If it is a professional chef, it will be a joke to make chrysanthemum tofu with egg tofu.

Chrysanthemum tofu is naturally traditional tofu.If even the main ingredients are changed, what else can it be called chrysanthemum tofu?

Now for the contestants, of course, is the traditional gypsum tofu.The texture is soft and fragile, very sticky to the knife.

No matter what cuisine, that knife skills are essential.Chrysanthemum tofu is the main knife dish, and here are the best young chefs in the entire ASEAN star field, so naturally they all have practiced.

Cutting chrysanthemum tofu may be difficult for other ordinary chefs, but for them, it is a no-brainer.

"Since this is the case, how will the first competition be decided?" Qu Jia, one of the food hosts, who acted as a vase and questioner, asked.

Another host, Li Xin, who is also a well-known food show talker, said: "Of course it can be distinguished. First of all, it is more difficult. This piece of tofu is not one tofu chrysanthemum, but three."

"Sanduo?" Qu Jia asked in surprise, "Isn't it more difficult to cut the knife? If it were me, it would definitely be cut into tofu dregs."

"Of course, otherwise, how can we show that these are the top [-] young chefs in our ASEAN star field." Li Xin said, "We are also careful when testing. First, we will test each person's dishes with special equipment , The thickness and uniformity of the shredded tofu can be detected by the instrument. This will directly brush off the last five hundred."

Qu Jia was surprised again: "So fast?"

"The next step is to taste the soup." Li Xin explained, "The chrysanthemum tofu is not only a good knife, but also the cooking of the broth is very important. The soup prepared by the organizing committee this time is old hen, so this The second chrysanthemum tofu can also be called chicken sauce chrysanthemum tofu. Due to the time limit of the game, it must not be stewed in a casserole on a low heat, but can only be stewed directly in a pressure cooker. The taste of the soup stewed in this way is definitely not as delicious as a slow fire stew .So the chef needs to evaluate other ingredients and seasonings to adjust the taste of the soup.”

"The first batch of Wubaiwei contestants to win, their chrysanthemum tofu will be scrambled, and the judges will taste the soup, and the judges will score one by one. Finally, the lowest score will be taken from the beginning to the end."

"The two contestants with the highest total scores in the first two rounds will be able to taste the entire dish by two special judges." Li Xin said, "The special judges in each round are people with very strong mental power."

Qu Jia nodded.So she understood.The last round is to test its effect on mental power.

After the special judges finish eating these two dishes, they will conduct a mental power test to determine their effect on mental power.

Generally speaking, the dishes made by those who can enter this competition basically cannot have a benign effect on mental power, but they will more or less cause mental power to fluctuate.It depends on who has the most fluctuations.

In fact, does Qu Jia know the competition rules and scoring criteria?Of course she knew.This question and answer is just to explain to the audience who don't know.

Fortunately, the current constant temperature preservation technology is very developed, otherwise, when the judges dipped their chopsticks into the soup and tasted it, the soup would be almost cold.

But what Li Xin didn't mention is that during the game, there are also bonus points.

The extra points are the neatness and beauty of its movements.

But aside from this point, all the audience knows it, and the camera crew also knows it.They're looking for people who can give close-ups.

The first thing to observe is the two perfect scorers during the screening.

Luo Xin and Xia Zheng.

Both of them cut up the hen in a slow manner, put in the seasoning, stewed the soup in a pressure cooker, and then started to process the tofu.

The two also made the scene a sensation at the same time.

They said the same thing almost at the same time.

These two people must cut blindly.

"Blind cut?" Qu Jia, who was in charge of asking questions and being surprised, started screaming again with his eyes widened and his mouth covered.

"These two young people are really amazing." Seeing these two, Li Xin swallowed back the words "Young people are beyond their limits" and changed into a complimenting tone, "In another dish, Wensi tofu, There are quite a few people who can cut blindly. Although the difficulty of chrysanthemum tofu is not much higher than that of Wensi tofu with eyes open, it is much more difficult with eyes closed."

"Is this because Wensi tofu is only cut into shredded tofu, and one end of chrysanthemum tofu cannot be cut off?" Qu Jia couldn't appear to be too ignorant, even without this bit of common sense.

"That's it." Li Xin nodded, "It's easy to shred according to the feel, but it's very difficult to leave one end uncut. Let's see how these two perform."

After Li Xin finished speaking, the images of other people on the big screen faded away, leaving only these two people.

In fact, the culinary talent was revealed from the very beginning. The talents and abilities of these two people are much higher than others. The judges had already had a premonition that the two would decide the winner, so the camera crew had already been prepared for a long time. .

The other chefs also heard Li Xin's words, and they were not convinced, but so far no one dared to apply to the organizing committee for a blind cut like these two.

Without the confidence to win, they don't want to be eliminated in the first round.

At this moment, they could only hope that the two of them would make a mistake, while comforting themselves. There are other competitions ahead, and their strengths lie in other aspects.In this round, let's go through the test first, and then catch up later.

...Luo Xin was very confident and even complacent when he proposed the blind cut.

It is not difficult to cut chrysanthemum tofu blindly, and it can be cut so thin that a needle can go through it. There are very few chefs in the older generation who can do it.According to his father and master, the number of people who can perform blind cutting in the entire alliance star field is estimated to be only five figures.

How many chefs are there in the entire alliance star field?How long have these chefs been famous again?

He can do it at the age of 17. It can be said that at least in terms of knife skills, he has already squeezed into the top [-] ranks in the entire league.

So when someone made the same request as him, he was slightly surprised.

But he didn't think narcissistically that the man was bragging.

Those who can come to this stage are all capable.

Xia Zheng already knew that Luo Xin would propose a blind cut.

Both of them made this request before rebirth. As for making it almost at the same time, it can only be said that the rhythm of their cooking is similar.

This is also one of Luo Xin's courtship rhetoric after the match, the two have a tacit understanding or something.

Xia Zheng felt a little heartbroken just thinking about it.

But this snack stuff can't hinder his cooking state.

After being blindfolded, he quickly cut the tofu into three even pieces, then held one of the tofu pieces and cut them directly in his hand.

"The water knife method is used to cut tofu. That is, every time a knife is cut, the knife must be dipped in water, which can reduce the resistance of the knife and prevent the tofu from sticking to the surface of the knife." Li Xin continued to explain, "Not only that, but every time You must be decisive when cutting and picking up with a knife, and if you hesitate for a while, the shredded tofu will stick to the knife.”

"Now we can see that the two chefs are slow in cutting their knives and very fast in their knives. They are obviously aware of this. But they don't know the effect of the blind-cut chrysanthemum tofu."

Just as they were talking, Xia Zheng and Luo Xin had already cut the first piece of tofu and put it down.At this time, the tofu is still a whole piece, but the lines cut on it can be seen.

Soon, the three pieces of tofu were all cut, and at this time, the pressure cooker was already beeping.

After Xia Zheng and Luo Xin cut the tofu, they both removed the blindfolds decisively to prepare other ingredients for the soup.The two of them didn't even look at the sliced ​​tofu cubes, they looked very confident.

Li Xin praised the psychological qualities of the two of them again.

The time for preparing the ingredients was almost the same. At this time, almost all the participating chefs lifted the lid of the pressure cooker and prepared to adjust the soup.

The water vapor permeated in the thousand pressure cookers enveloped the clouds and mist against the scene of the competition, like a fairyland.Even if it wasn't simmering over low heat, the overbearing aroma of the chicken soup still permeated the air, making the audience couldn't help but swallow their saliva.Some people's stomachs even couldn't help but groan a few times.