delicious little cook

Chapter 23 The third young master wants to pick a chef

After counting the number of people correctly, everyone was led to the yard where yesterday's competition was held, but the difference from yesterday was that the masters had already taken their seats, and Director Wen and the stewards were standing at the side of the spectator seats, and the ingredients behind were also prepared up.

Under the guidance of the mother-in-law, the cooks and cooks kowtowed to the masters first, and after standing firm, Mama Pang came out to read the list.

"Mengmei, Shi Ping, Xiang Wen, Bai Kou, Shen Dong, Lu Doudou. The six of you were the top six in yesterday's competition. You are exempt from the test today. You are allowed to watch."

Everyone in the kitchen was taken aback by this unexpected surprise. It was Bai Kou who reacted first and walked out of the queue first, and then the other five people stood up together and stood in a row again to salute the masters. Then, under the instruction of Mama Pang, , Standing on the other side of the auditorium, not standing with the chief executive and stewards.

The rest of the people were the same as yesterday, taking roll calls and drawing lots. According to the number drawn, they stood behind the small stove with the same number, and went to get their own ingredients in order to start cooking.

Nearly 30 people squeezed into the same venue to try their cooking skills. The space for everyone's activities is much smaller than yesterday, and today is hotter than yesterday, and they can sweat all over just standing still.

It's nice not to have to go to the end of the game.

Bai Kou and Lu Doudou stood together, they hooked their fingers together, secretly looked at each other and smiled, feeling relaxed.

The cooking time is still only half an hour, and everyone cooks simple and fast dishes. After some tasting and scoring, the list of [-] third-class chefs is finally settled.

Except for the six people who were exempted from the test, the masters selected the remaining ten people, of which six were old people and four were newcomers.

In general, there are ten newcomers, six old people, seven women and nine men.

It is a brilliant idea to exempt the top six from yesterday's competition today.

In the third-class kitchen, there are more newcomers than old people. If the old people want to rely on the old to bully the newcomers, they have to weigh it.

Sixteen cooks and cooks lined up again, stood in front of the spectator seats and saluted the masters. Mama Pang stepped forward and announced a new news.

After lunch, the third-class chefs will compete again in the kitchen, and the only winner will become the third young master's chef, so the third young master will choose the title.

Mama Pang just finished speaking, and the sixteen third-class cooks and cooks below were in an uproar immediately. Everyone's faces were full of surprise, and everyone's eyes were instantly focused on the grandchildren. On the young master's body, there were all kinds of fanatical emotions in his eyes.

The grandson Gu Yun sat upright, completely motionless, but his eyes calmly swept over the sixteen people, not paying a lot of attention to anyone.

Everyone knows how hard it is to serve the young grandson of Duke Ye's mansion. He despises the unpalatable food made in the kitchen and runs to the street to eat. Opportunity, to choose a chef!

Grandson, if the young master with the most noble status in the mansion can serve him closely, it will be of various benefits in the future!
Bai Kou quietly clenched her fists, trying to calm herself down, and began to plan in her mind what kind of food to please the third young master in the afternoon based on her shallow experience, so as to increase her chances of winning.

If you want to see the Bai family's recipes handed down by generations of the royal chef Bai family again, serving the third young master as a special chef is a shortcut to achieve your goal.

Mama Pang didn't give the third-class cooks much time to recover their composure. After announcing this decision, she signaled Wen Gushan to take them back. Lunch time was approaching.

For the rest of the eliminated, there are other women watching over them, and they go back to the small courtyard where they live together, prohibiting them from talking with others, watching them pack their clothes, together with the twelve people who were brushed down yesterday, They were all sent out of the mansion before lunch, no one knew where they would be sent, and those old chefs had been in the mansion for many years, and now they all had families, and they didn't know what their families would do with them.

When they went out through the back door, the crying sounded all the way, and everyone working in the kitchen compound heard it, but no one dared to put down their work and go out to see them off.

This heavy atmosphere didn't get better until the crying disappeared. Anyway, it's a happy event for the third-class chef to have fresh blood, not to mention there will be a competition after lunch, who wouldn't want to be the third-class chef's chef.

First-class chefs have the right to be in charge of the spoon, but second- and third-class chefs do not, but the professional chef competition is only limited to third-class chefs. It is absolutely impossible to say that other chefs and cooks are not envious and jealous.

No matter how uncomfortable I was, the lunch of the masters was more important, so the lunch time was finally ended peacefully.

After the girls from each house and courtyard took away the food boxes, a little girl under the Da Furen came over to send a message, asking Wen Gushan to arrange for someone to open all the cooking rooms in the courtyard and clean them up, so that the third-class cooks could cook with any cooking skills. Make an afternoon snack.

"Our young master is eating snacks in the kitchen today."

After the little girl finished the last sentence, she turned and left proudly.

Immediate action was taken in the kitchen. The third-class cooks and handymen didn't have time to eat lunch. They prepared basins, buckets, rags and brooms, and the four stewards took the keys to open all the locked cooking rooms one by one.

Bai Kou was surprised to see that the largest single cooking room in the courtyard turned out to be a brick kiln-style oven, suitable for baking.

At first I thought that such a big oven looked fresh, but after thinking about it again, it wasn't anything to be surprised about.

There are so many Yi people from all corners of the country in the capital. In order to solve the permanent residence problem of the Yi people, the imperial court even built a special Yirenfang. It has a large population and a prosperous business. There are a lot of rare goods from overseas. The first stop in the capital is Yi. Renfang, if you want to eat unique delicacies, the various restaurants and restaurants in Yirenfang will definitely have surprises.

It is so strange that there is such a big oven in Duke Ye's mansion, the imperial kitchen of the imperial palace also has one, and all kinds of delicacies with barbarian flavors have long been included in the home-cooked menus of wealthy families.

However, it is not rare to have an oven, but it is really rare to be so dirty that it is difficult to clean.

A nice big oven is covered with cobwebs. How many years has it been since it was used! ?

Bai Kou didn't dare to breathe the air that had been dusty for several years, and now she didn't have time to clean such a big oven. It would take a solid day to sprinkle water and remove dust, and then she had to clean the charcoal in the oven. , Check whether the chimney is blocked, then put firewood in again to start a big fire, use high temperature to sterilize the baking room, bake something casually, check the integrity of the oven, especially if there are any potential safety hazards.

It will take several days to complete this whole set of steps, and the stewards also know that the oven will not be able to be used in the next competition, so they just ask the handyman to roughly clean up the cobwebs and sprinkle the ground to remove dust.

After the cleaning was completed, the lunch time passed. The first and second class cooks and cooks had nothing to do, so they waited in the corridor outside the kitchen gate, and when they saw the third young master coming, they hurriedly informed everyone in the yard.

(End of this chapter)