Dishes that don’t shine are not good dishes

The First Round (Part 2)

Tony seemed to want to tell some jokes to ease the tense atmosphere of the arena, but unfortunately, he was clearly doing nothing.

Hearing that the topic of the first round of preliminaries was in the box next to it, many chefs’ breathing became short of breath. Although they are called the “group of death”, these first-class chefs have no intention of giving up. Many people are praying in their hearts that Tony can extract a relatively unorthodox ingredient, because only in this way can the relationship between them and the special chef be closer. gap between.

It’s just a pity…

Tony seemed to have sensed everyone’s thoughts, and was not in a hurry to act. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Anna and Yuna at the side. The two girls came to the box, and Anna hugged the box. Yuna reached out and took out a hollow plastic ball from it.

After taking apart the ball, Anna reported the ingredients in non-standard Japanese.

“Your test question is——walnuts.”

Then, the staff wrote the test questions on a large board in different languages.

Walnut? It turned out to be walnuts?

Hearing that the ingredients to be used in the first preliminaries turned out to be walnuts, many people in the venue showed strange expressions. It was not that this kind of ingredients were not easy to make into desserts, but that compared to the ingredients given by other exam rooms— ——Chili peppers in the No. 1 exam room, pickled products in the No. 4 exam room ——The theme of the No. 3 exam room, that is, walnuts. Comparable in difficulty.

Whether in the East or the West, there are many desserts made of walnuts. Not to mention, in China, many families will buy some mooncakes on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Or the type of nut mooncakes with walnut kernels.

This dish obviously meets the test questions, and the desserts with walnuts are among the ingredients in other countries…

“Examination room No. 3 should be the performance show of those super chefs.” Not far behind Xiaoyun, an audience sighed. What he said was not wrong. Walnuts, a frequent customer of desserts, can be said to have been developed to their full potential long ago, and how could a chef who passed the special examination be unable to cook even a mere ordinary dessert?

Xiaoyun heard the audience’s remarks behind her, but she rarely argued with the other party. At this time, she clasped her hands tightly together, and her eyes never moved away from Xie Yunfei’s body from the beginning to the end, “Brother… ”

Feifei and Xiaoyun’s situation is similar, but slightly different from Xiaoyun’s. This week, she often met with Xie Yunfei and watched him improve a few desserts into luminous dishes. Although she was worried, she didn’t think that Xie Yunfei will not get a high score.

The real key is not Xie Yunfei, but the other special chefs who are in the same group as him.

Even a one-star special chef who has just passed the special-level assessment has a certain chance of cooking luminous dishes, and with the acquisition of more advanced cooking techniques and special research on some dishes, this probability will further increase until the final breakthrough Low-star special chef’s limit, cook fifty constant luminous dishes.

Feifei turned her eyes and looked at Neo who was standing at the kitchen table next to Xie Yunfei. The other party is a three-star special chef. Feifei knows that some of the star chefs can cook consistent dishes, but because the types do not meet the requirements for star promotion, or have not yet entered the middle circle, they have not been evaluated. He is a four-star special chef, but if there happens to be a dessert related to walnuts among the constant luminous dishes that the other party can cook…

“It’s so difficult.” Feifei muttered softly.

Feifei was not the only audience who saw the problem. In the press seat below the auditorium, the photographer brother was talking to Lin Mumu about science, “…that’s it. According to the scoring system of previous dessert competitions, there may be a There are several desserts that are close to full marks.”

Lin Mumu was stunned when she heard it. It was the first time she knew that there was such a thing as glowing cuisine in this world. Although she was not a foodie, she still yearned for such cuisine. But in the next second, Lin Mumu’s expression suddenly changed, “In this way, wouldn’t Master Xie have no chance at all?”

“That’s how it is.” The photographer brother smiled and patted Lin Mumu’s head, and set a flag at the same time, “You can also start preparing for the exclusive interview about Lan Feiyu and Luo Dongyun’s special chefs tonight.”

“… Oh.” Lin Mumu nodded. That young man named Xie Yunfei, if he hadn’t gone to interview him himself, might have come and left peacefully like other first-class chefs, but now…

Glancing at other colleagues who had already started writing, Lin Mumu wrinkled her nose, feeling a little sorry. After hesitating for a while, she tugged at the sleeve of the photographer brother, “Why don’t we say something nice to Mr. Xie in the report after the preliminaries are over. Anyway, he is still Mr. Lan Feiyu.” Friends with Luo Dongyun’s special chef.”

Lin Mumu found a passable reason, but the photographer brother didn’t care about it, and patted the other person’s head lovingly, “Yes, you are the one who conducted the interview and wrote the article.”

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The discussion about the ingredients in the No. 3 examination room outside the competition did not affect the chefs in the No. 3 test room. After hearing that the test question this time was walnuts, many chefsThey frowned, but then, they fetched paper and pens, and began to design recipes on the paper. Some of them were impatient, and even got the ingredients they needed from the staff, and began to cook tentatively.

The total time of the first round of preliminaries is four hours, enough for the contestants to try several dishes, but everyone understands that the later desserts are served, the lower the score may be.

After all, although the desserts are delicious, after tasting a dozen or even twenty desserts in a row, they will feel tired and make mistakes in judgment.

However, there were also a few chefs who didn’t move. They or they crossed their arms, or leaned against the kitchen table, or raised their heads, just thinking in their minds, or to be precise, screening the desserts to be made.

Jonathan, Neo, Toyama Shirayuki, and Toyama Kana are all like this.

As for Xie Yunfei, he seems to be the same as these people, but his consciousness has already entered the cooking space, and he is currently improving and reconstructing a certain dish. In the past month, Xie Yunfei once made a special dessert related to walnuts. Originally, if he was divided into groups with no special chefs, or there were not many special chefs, and the star rating was not high, Xie Yunfei might have made a special dessert. This walnut dessert is directly taken out, but the current situation obviously does not allow him to do so…