Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 340
Pei Qiangdong, who took the lead in making trouble, was sent away, and the venue immediately became silent.

However, people kept secretly casting curious glances at Li Xiao, and there were quite a few people who knew Pei Qiangdong.

After all, his eldest brother's reputation in the chef world is quite loud, and he also controls an important supply chain.

Even if you don't know him, Pei Qiangdong, you will know his elder brother Pei Qianghu.

But most of the candidates present really knew nothing about Li Xiao.

Although Cai Rongsheng's behavior seems fair and strict, in fact, a discerning person can tell that he is biased.

Although there has never been a case of a candidate carrying a live broadcast device and broadcasting live during the exam.

However, there are indeed many cases where the normal progress of the exam is affected in the middle of the exam. The normal situation is a verbal warning, and the more serious ones are at most just deducted points.

It really never happened that Pei Qiangdong was directly expelled and banned for three years.

Therefore, candidates with a little bit of brain clearly understood that Cai Rongsheng was favoring Li Xiao, a candidate.

It is to tell everyone that he is already very angry, and he is so angry that he wants to drive out the person who took the lead in making trouble.

Of course, Li Xiao belongs to the kind of person who has brains but doesn't think too much.

Li Bingsheng next to him looked at Li Xiao beside him with complicated eyes.

Now he is more and more suspicious that this guy he has met once is really an uncle of his own family, or even a child born to his father.

Otherwise, as an ordinary person, how could a 6-star chef be so partial?

Without Li Xiao's knowledge, he became someone's illegitimate child.

And he himself was chatting with the audience in the live broadcast room with a smile on his face. After all, he had an absolute score advantage, and in addition to the next few exams, he was sure to win.

Not to mention worrying about him, he couldn't even generate tension.

Today's 5th exam is very fast, and it started under the command of the host.

"The next round of exams is the selection of designated dishes. This year's optional dishes are the following 10."

"Stir-fried beef, beef with egg, mapo tofu, fish-flavored eggplant, spicy chicken, fish head with chopped pepper, braised lion head, vegetarian three delicacies, tomato and egg soup, potato shreds."

After the 10 dishes were finished, the examinees in the audience were not too surprised.

They didn't think the dishes were too simple, after all, the dishes available for each exam would be very simple.

Because this round of exams is still not about how good the dishes are, but whether the basic skills of each candidate are in place, and the simpler the dishes, the easier it is to distinguish the gap between the chefs.

This test time is relatively short, only a short 30 minutes.

So after the host's voice fell, all the candidates ran to the nearby material area one after another to choose the ingredients they wanted.

Li Xiao looked at the material area crowded with people, and didn't rush to join in the fun.

He thought about it carefully before deciding to choose the last two dishes as his test items.

[Potato shreds], [Tomato and egg soup].

The audience in the live broadcast room were a little puzzled when they heard Li Xiao mention these two dishes.

"Is it too easy for the anchor to choose these two?"

"Indeed, I don't think it's too difficult."

"I'm still in elementary school, and my son in the second grade can cook these two dishes."

"Know what you know, the simpler the dish, the harder it is to cook, understand?"

"I don't think the host is worthy of the name. The seasoning just now was a mess and only got 7.5 points. Now I choose these two simple dishes. I know that I don't have any confidence in other dishes before I do this."

"I've said it before, the anchor is a fake, and people will see through it as soon as he puts it on the stage."

"I thought it was really awesome, so the knife skill is a little better, and the rest are all scum."

"It's just that if you have a little skill, you will show off your power everywhere, and you will probably be brushed down soon!"

"Let's save the sunspots upstairs, the anchor is now 2 points away from the second place! If you still get it down, are you going to get it down with your life?"

Everyone in the examination room had almost selected the materials, and a few minutes passed before Li Xiao walked slowly to the ingredients area.

The ingredients prepared by the association are indeed rich enough, even if they are picked by one party, there are still a lot left.

I randomly chose two potatoes of considerable length, three eggs, three tomatoes, and a small strip of green onion.

Li Bingsheng, who also selected materials at the wrong peak, saw the materials Li Xiao chose.

He immediately understood that what the other party was going to do was the last two dishes, which seemed to be the simplest dishes.

He looked at the ingredients in his hand and hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't give up. He put all the ingredients back in their original places, and also picked two potatoes, three eggs and three tomatoes.

After cleaning and peeling, two smooth potatoes were placed on the chopping board.

"Now it's the lovely host again, time to open a little skill class for everyone."

"Many people are not very good at knife skills, so they often accidentally cut the shredded potatoes into potato strips or even potato cubes when cutting potatoes. Here I will teach you a very practical trick."

"When shredding potatoes, it's best to look for longer potatoes."

"After washing and peeling the skin, cut two flat knives on the longer sides so that it can be placed on the chopping board steadily."

"After the flat knife is cut, the finger can be placed against the knife, while controlling the potato to retreat, while controlling the knife to fall, so that it can be cut into thin slices evenly."

"Then lay the potato slices evenly, and repeat the operation just now, and you can get potato shreds with uniform thickness while cutting."

While speaking, Li Xiao had already finished shredding one of the potatoes.

In the live broadcast room at the beginning, don't talk about new viewers, don't take it seriously.

Even those old viewers who have seen Li Xiao's swordsmanship don't think there is much to watch.

However, when Li Xiao grabbed the shredded potatoes on the cutting board with both hands and threw them into the water basin, exclamations came from the live broadcast room.

"I'll go, is this potato shreds?"

"This is cut too thin, it may be thinner than a hair."

"But I've also fried shredded potatoes. It's not that the thinner the shredded potatoes, the better."

"I suspect that the anchor is deliberately showing off, and there is evidence."

"Is this the host's robotic arm? It's cut so finely that it doesn't seem like a single piece has been broken!"

Next to him, Li Bingsheng has also been paying attention to Li Xiao's movements, and when he saw the shreds of potatoes being thrown into the sink, his pupils suddenly shrank.

It's not that he can't cut such thin filaments, but it's absolutely impossible for Li Xiao to do it so easily.

Only then did I realize that Li Xiao's knife skill with a full score just now was actually obtained while hiding his clumsiness.

And he and some viewers also had the same doubts. The potato shreds were too thin, so thin that he didn't know what Li Xiao would do next.

Potato shreds are not as thin as possible, if they are too thin, they will be fried directly.

And without enough volume, the shredded potatoes are not crispy when eaten.

Instead, it will feel a little bit dense, without the crispness of potato shreds.

(End of this chapter)