Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 338

After completing the first three relatively complex sauces, the next work is very fast.

Sauté ginger, onion, garlic and onion in an oil pan until fragrant, pour in water and cooking wine, and then add cinnamon star anise leaves.

Pour in oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, honey, two black peppercorns and a little lemon juice.

Li Xiao especially reminded:
"When making this simple home-made teriyaki sauce, you must remember that the ratio of oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, and honey is 1:1."

"Of course, if you like salty or sweet food, you can increase the amount of soy sauce and sugar accordingly."

"The amount of lemon juice must be small. If you don't know how much to add, you can choose not to add it."

Pour all the ingredients into the pot, close the lid, cook on high heat for 15 minutes, pick up the residue in the pot, add a little starch water and a portion of teriyaki juice to complete.

While cooking the teriyaki sauce, Li Xiao immediately started preparing the sweet and sour sauce.

Sweet and sour sauce is divided into new school sweet and sour and old school sweet and sour, two different categories.

Although the 10-member judging panel are all aging chefs, they will probably prefer the old-fashioned sweet and sour sauce.

But considering that most of the audience in the live broadcast room are young people, they obviously prefer the new style of sweet and sour sauce.

Moreover, the new style of sweet and sour sauce does not have a complicated production process, making it easier for people to learn.

"What I'm making next is the new sweet and sour sauce, which will have a fresher taste, but it may not be as strong as the sweet and sour sauce I used to eat, and the layering will be slightly less."

"This sweet and sour sauce will use apple cider vinegar, tomato paste, honey, mature vinegar, soy sauce, starch, and a few drops of lemon juice."

"Of course, if you don't have apple cider vinegar at home, you can use ordinary water."

While talking, Li Xiao poured all the ingredients into a water-free and salt-free pan.

Slowly mixing the contents of the pot over medium heat, this time he didn't use any fancy tricks.

Slowly swirl the wooden spoon in your hand to get all the ingredients together thoroughly.

When the liquid in the pot boiled, Li Xiao finally added a few drops of fresh lemon juice to complete a super simple sweet and sour sauce.

Turn off the heat and pour the teriyaki juice from the other side out of the pot.

Li Xiao calmly pressed the finish button. He looked up and glanced at the time. There were still more than 10 minutes before the end.

Time is not as tight as it was just now, but in the same way, he is already behind many people.

Most people have already completed this round of exams early, after all, many people came prepared.

Most of the candidates brought into the examination room are either finished sauces or semi-finished products that will be used in sauces.

It can be easily completed by heating or adding a small amount of fresh materials in the examination room.

There is no need to start from scratch like him.

After he pressed the finish button, the 10-member jury, which was patrolling around, immediately walked to the workbench.

After taking a closer look at the 5 pots of sauce on Li Xiao's workbench, the ten-member jury looked at each other in surprise.

Gold and silver garlic, sweet and sour sauce, XO hoisin sauce, teriyaki sauce, beef chili sauce.

The slightly more complicated one is the hoisin sauce, but it is not too complicated.

Not to mention a star chef, even a student who just graduated from culinary school.

I am afraid that several types of hoisin sauce with different ingredients and different flavors can be easily made.

But with Li Xiao's previous performances, the 10-member jury did not show any contempt, but each of them became serious.

There is a famous saying in the chef world that the simpler something is, the harder it is to do well.

These seemingly simple 5 sauces, in their view, must have some hidden meanings, and it is absolutely impossible to be as simple as it seems.

Several people put 5 servings of sauces into the plates with five grids in their hands.

Several people held their breath and tasted the sauces in their hands. After eating one, they needed to wash away the taste of the previous sauce with the special tea provided by the venue before proceeding to the next round of tasting.

But after all the judges tasted all the sauces, none of the judges spoke first.

They first looked at each other in blank dismay, then frowned and thought, and started a new round of tasting.

Seeing their cautious actions, Li Xiao was speechless and thought that he was the heir to some great power.

With the right to turn their hands into clouds and turn their hands into rain, as long as these judges say a wrong word, they can die without a place to bury them.

In the end, the judge who came out to reprimand Li Xiao at the beginning came out, and he frowned and asked:

"Here, are you not very good at making sauces?"

After speaking, he immediately felt that what he said was biased, and quickly added:
"My ability to express is not very good. I don't mean that your seasonings taste bad, but it seems a little too bland? No, that's it."

Li Xiao waved his hand:
"It's not bland, I think this kind of sauce is good, very good."

"You can just evaluate according to normal."

The fat judge opened his mouth slightly and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything. He clicked a few times on the tablet to complete the scoring.

The rest of the judges also completed their scoring one after another.

Soon, all 10 people finished scoring.

The scoreboard on the workbench quickly jumped from 48.5 points to 56 points, which means that Li Xiao only scored 7.5 points for this round of sauce preparation.

Although it seems not low, it actually has no obvious advantage over other candidates.

Because you can bring semi-finished products in advance, or even bring finished products directly into the examination room.

Many candidates were able to obtain some pretty good quality sauces through various means.

This has led to the fact that sauce preparation has always been a scoring item, and many sauces are even prepared by five-star chefs.

Of course, the taste cannot be bad, so the average score of sauce preparation over the years has been 8 points, or even more.

This caused all the judges to be very surprised when Li Xiao got a score of 7.5.

After all, he scored a full 9 points in his worst round of exams.

However, the round that should have gotten a high score unexpectedly got a low score.

This is what confuses the judges.

However, the judges didn't say much, and soon another examinee next to him pressed the finish button, and they put aside the matter on Li Xiao's side and walked over there.

Soon, all the exam items in the morning have been completed.

Candidates began to leave the venue one after another and walked towards the dining hall.

The association here will provide a fast meal. Of course, those who don't want to eat fast food can also solve the problem of eating by themselves.

The content of the afternoon exam is to choose 10 out of 2 designated dishes and complete a set of dishes.

Li Xiao didn't bother to walk around for a meal, after all, this place is really far away from the city, and an hour's rest time is not enough for him to go back and forth.

The meals provided by the association are not bad, there are three meat dishes and one vegetarian soup.

The taste crushed Li Xiao's previous university canteen, even far better than some ordinary small restaurants.

After all, it is the site of the Chefs Association, if the food is too bad, it will really hit my face.

After eating, everyone sat in the dining hall to rest in twos and threes, and many people pointed at Li Xiao.

Apparently recognized, he was the one who got the highest score in the second round of exams.

If it's just an ordinary top score, I'm afraid everyone doesn't have much opinion.

However, the problem is that now everyone's total score is only 50 points, and Li Xiao's score has reached a terrifying score of 56 points.

第2名的分数是44分，No.3的分数是43.5分，No.4的分数是43分.
Li Xiao's score of 56 points is 2 points higher than the second place.

The gap is so large that it is shocking. After all, the gap between the 234 places is basically 0.5 points.

However, the 1st and 2nd places have widened the gap of a whole project.

What made everyone even more angry was that Li Xiao was still conducting the test while live broadcasting.

In the case that he didn't put all his attention on the exam at all, he was able to leave everyone behind. This is what everyone fears the most

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(End of this chapter)