Chapter 440
(PS. First wish all book friends a happy Labor Day, and then the author shamelessly wants to ask for two days off. As a worker, I also want to rest for two days ORZ)
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Miss Luo Quan certainly couldn't see the demons dancing on the barrage. She and the host didn't realize that they had inadvertently driven a car just now.
Xiao Sa's attention was still on Miss Luo Quan's cool set of kitchen utensils, and continued to be curious: "This set of knives is quite rich in variety, is there any statement?"
"Of course there is." Miss Luo Quan nodded, "This is the Seven Star Knife. According to my master, this set of knives came from a craftsman named Luo Xie. Of course, there is no his name in history, but the sharpness of these knives is no worse than precious swords, and according to my master, this set of kitchen utensils has good processing effects on various ingredients. If used well, it can increase the taste of ingredients.
But this time I only brought six, and one is too big, so it is troublesome to send."
"Audience friends, did you hear that? This is the Seven Star Knife." After listening to Miss Luo Quan's explanation, Xiao Sa said to the camera behind him.
Then the photographer immediately stepped forward and gave a close-up of the eight knives on Miss Luo Quan's bag chain. In addition to the six of the Seven Star Knives, there was also a kitchen knife with a green dragon pattern, and a slender kitchen knife sealed in a scabbard that was half an arm long.
After listening to the introduction, Bilibili netizens began to complain again:
"It sounds so unclear!"
"Can it increase the taste of ingredients? Is it true?"
"In the Three Kingdoms, didn't Cao Cao use the Seven Star Knife when assassinating Dong Zhuo?"
"It shouldn't be the same one, but looking at the cold light of the blade, it should be very sharp."
"What knife is not sharp?"
"Seems so."
"I care more about what that big iron stick is for, and how to use it. (Dog head)"
"Don't talk to the people behind, take them all away!"
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In fact, Miss Luo Quan is not the only chef who brought ancestral kitchen utensils. The slogan of this Chef God Championship is to corner the famous chefs of the world.
In this era, the Internet is so developed, a loud name can bring immeasurable value.
As the saying goes, Buddha fights for a stick of incense, people fight for a breath. These masters who consider themselves proficient in cooking naturally want to take this opportunity to show their faces well. In order to perfectly exert their strength, they naturally have to bring their usual things.
As an ancient country with a heritage of thousands of years, any industry will have a long-standing heritage, and these families will also have their own unique secret skills or tools.
Don't look at Japan marketing so many immortals for various industries in the country, what rice cooking immortal, sushi immortal, ramen immortal, compared with these old masters in the country, it is actually just like that.
It's just that these old masters in the country are not keen on marketing, and now young people don't pay enough attention to these old crafts, so that many old crafts are on the verge of being lost.
Fortunately, the country has now realized this problem and has been working hard to inherit it. One of the original intentions of holding the Chef God Championship is actually considering this aspect.
Therefore, before the official cooking competition, the program team conducted a brief interview with every contestant.
Compared with these long-standing and clear cooking families, Miss Luo Quan is equivalent to becoming a monk halfway. Her master is also clear about nothing except a name. What kind of sect and heritage, she doesn't know anything.
However, this does not affect the importance the participating chefs attach to her.
"Boiled Cabbage in Water", as a famous dish that Yipinlou took over from Miss Luo Quan and carried forward, has long been famous in the chef circle.
This time coming to Beijing, the participating masters also went to Yipinlou to taste this dish for the first time.
It is indeed delicious.
However, according to Boss Wu, the boiled cabbage in water made by Yipinlou is not even half as delicious as the dish Miss Luo Quan made at the beginning!
Being able to get such an evaluation, one can imagine how high Miss Luo Quan's cooking skills are.
For these masters, Miss Luo Quan is a strong enemy in this competition!
After the introduction, the preliminary round officially started.
The requirement of this preliminary round is to let the contestants make four dishes, which are snacks, pasta, and two staple foods. The preliminary round lasts for two days. On the first day, the contestants have to cook snacks, pasta, and one staple food.
And the second staple food is cooked on the second day.
The contestants have plenty of time to prepare and produce, ending cooking at 7:30 every night, and then let the public judges and expert judges taste and score together.
Before the preliminary round started, the program team had already asked the contestants about the ingredients to be prepared, so after the competition started, the program team pushed all kinds of canteens up.
Because there were too many people, the scene was immediately as lively as a vegetable market.
The smell is also very like a vegetable market.
Because many chefs pursue the freshness of ingredients, like chickens, ducks, and fish, the program team caught live animals.
Then the chefs started killing chickens and slaughtering ducks directly, and the scene was once very bloody.
Fortunately, the stage prepared this time was large enough, and there were many cleaning equipment. Killing and rinsing separately did not make the scene look too messy.
However, the wailing of poultry one after another on the stage also aroused the sympathy of netizens:
"It's screaming so miserably, I just saw a chicken's throat spurting blood."
"Simply a visual impact!"
"By the way, isn't blood green, am I colorblind?"
"Nonsense, isn't blood always black!"
"Too cruel, I hope to put more chili later."
"Watching the barrage is more interesting than watching the scene."
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Compared with the hot scene of the chefs next door, Miss Luo Quan's side is much quieter.
Although the ingredients she wants this time also include chicken and duck, the requirement for freshness has not reached the point of killing on the spot. It is fine if they are killed within six hours.
She is preparing to make an appetizing material for the first snack, and the main ingredient is tofu.
The soybeans have been soaked, and Miss Luo Quan directly smashed them and started boiling.
Tofu needs several hours to eat now, and boiling soy milk is just the first step.
Because there is only one person, Miss Luo Quan has to use multiple tasks and bow left and right. Just after boiling the soy milk, she has to prepare for the second pasta.
Obviously, this should give people a feeling of being busy, but Miss Luo Quan performed with ease and order. When to do what, it is as if there is an alarm clock reminding her in her heart at all times. Where is there any look of being in a hurry?
Time passed unconsciously until noon. Because the masters were relatively busy, they simply ate some instant noodles or bread and milk for lunch.
Some because they had to pay attention to the heat, they didn't dare to leave the stove at all, and basically ate lunch sitting in front of the stove.
In the afternoon, most of the masters completed the preparation of ingredients and entered the cooking link.
The sizzling sound of deep-frying, the gurgling sound of soup bubbling, and the sound of flames rising are the main melodies in the whole kitchen.
On Miss Luo Quan's side, the tofu is ready. In the afternoon, she also swept a pot of thick soup according to the simple version of boiled cabbage in water.
Then, she picked up a piece of tofu and put it on the cutting board, held the Eternal Spirit Knife, and started cutting vegetables.
Originally, everyone thought that Miss Luo Quan would cut the tofu into square small pieces, cook troublesome tofu or cold tofu with green onions, etc. After all, these are common practices of tofu.
However, the knife skills shown by Miss Luo Quan were one dimension higher than the knife skills required to make these dishes.
I saw her kitchen knife rising and falling on the tofu non-stop. This rhythm was full of dynamics like the rhythm of her music. Because she cut too delicately, if you don't look carefully, you might even think she was cutting in one place.
And she repeated this way of cutting tofu twice. The first time she sliced the tofu, and the second time she shredded the tofu.
But it is said to be silk, in fact, through the lens, you can't see any changes in the tofu at all.
Knowing that Miss Luo Quan turned on the fire, and after putting the shredded green vegetables, shredded winter mushrooms, and shredded ham into the thick soup, this group of tofu spread out on the water surface like ink.
With the constant stirring of Miss Luo Quan's soup spoon, the shredded tofu began to disperse, and finally became clear and countable.
Then, the audience at the scene and in front of the screen were completely stunned:
"Damn, tofu can be cut so thin?"
"I feel like it's about the same as my hair, this knife skill is simply outrageous!"
"I thought Miss Luo Quan was cutting tofu paste, didn't expect it to be shredded!"
"If this knife skill allows her to open a beef ramen restaurant, how long will it take for a cow?"
"Don't know what to say except awesome."
After the pot was started, Xiao Sa, who had been standing on the side for a long time, finally couldn't help but step forward and asked: "Miss Luo Quan, what is the name of this dish?"
"Wensi Tofu." Miss Luo Quan answered without raising her head, "My master said that this was created by a monk named Wensi. The production of the soup base is actually similar to boiled cabbage in water, and there is no special secret.
It mainly tests the basic skills of the chef, it is not difficult."
"What a not difficult." Xiao Sa laughed. As a recommended student of Beijing University, few people have been Versailles in front of him.
The last one was a certain giant who was not interested in money, and this time it was Miss Luo Quan.
It's really not difficult. Miss Luo Quan said in her heart, this kind of knife skill has nothing profound, as long as you spend hard work to practice, you will definitely be able to practice it.
In fact, at her current level, she can't reach the point of cutting tofu so thin, but the Eternal Spirit Knife helped her a lot, and this is something that can't be practiced no matter how you practice.
Although a basin of tofu as thin as hair has already stunned the audience, compared with the pasta Miss Luo Quan is going to make next, it is just a small dish.
The dough has been fermented, and the next step is the dough kneading stage.
I saw Miss Luo Quan raise the big steel stick and keep knocking on the cutting board. The speed was fast and the strength was quite large.
This violent appearance made Xiao Sa on the side feel terrified. He didn't expect that she, who is the most beautiful in the world, would have such a reckless side.
However, the fans in the barrage said it was okay, after all, they had seen Miss Luo Quan's more reckless appearance.
After kneading the dough, Miss Luo Quan started the formal production of pasta.
This time she wants to wrap buns, the meat filling is soup meat that has been frozen into a jelly state. It seems that what she wants to do this time is soup-filled buns.
However, what surprised everyone was that Miss Luo Quan's method of wrapping buns was different from the normal one. She didn't leave a small tip on the top, which looked more like a steamed bun.
In addition, she drew a crescent-shaped knife mark on each bun, but it was not deep, and I don't know what it was for.
Then, she brushed egg liquid on the outside to make the color of the buns look golden and good-looking.
After wrapping, she didn't put the buns into the steamer, but directly fried them in the oil pan.
"Ah this, aren't buns steamed?"
"I must have eaten fake buns before."
"I have a premonition that this bun will amaze everyone!"
"Keep watching, Miss Luo Quan has never let everyone down."
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It is indeed the same as the barrage said, Miss Luo Quan has never let everyone down.
If it were just ordinary soup-filled buns, how could she use them in the Chef God Championship?
What she made this time is the Golden Opening Laugh Bun!
Among so many dishes in Chinese Little Master, there are many glowing dishes with magical effects, but Miss Luo Quan likes this one the most.
Although letting buns laugh sounds outrageous, it is not completely impossible to do.
Of course, like in the animation, laughing out loud is definitely impossible, but it is still possible to simulate it.
To achieve such an effect, kneading, knife skills, and the heat of deep-frying are indispensable. If any one of them goes wrong, this dish cannot be completed.
In fact, this is the first time she has done it, and she has no bottom in her heart. It is not that there is no possibility of failure.
But Miss Luo Quan feels that the Chef God will stand on her side.
The heat of the buns rising and falling in the oil pan has reached the critical point. Under Miss Luo Quan's urging, the program team pushed an iceberg out, and there was a person behind, holding a large basin made of ice cubes.
When the heat arrived, Miss Luo Quan directly used the large colander in her hand to scoop up all the dozens of buns in the oil pan, drained the oil and water, and poured them directly into the ice basin.
The buns were already golden all over, and the knife marks Miss Luo Quan left on the buns had been pulled open because of deep-frying, just like a mouth grinning and laughing.
However, because her cutting strength was just right, the buns were still sealed by that thin layer of dough after deep-frying.
However, after the hot soup and the cold air of the ice basin touched, a magical scene happened.
The laughing mouth on the bun cracked completely, a burst of heat sprayed out from it, and at the same time made a harsh and sharp sound, which sounded like laughing!
More than twenty buns laughed at the same time, this scene really shocked all the audience.
This is simply unscientific! Xiao Sa's mouth was so big that he could swallow a whole microphone, and he didn't dare to believe whether this scene was true or a trick.
"This is one of the unique dishes my master taught me, Golden Opening Laugh!" Miss Luo Quan said while letting the program team's assistant move the buns to the judges' table and give it a close-up.
There is not much time left until 7:30, Miss Luo Quan's three dishes have been finished, and she submitted her work for the first time.
Some people will ask, isn't this only two dishes? What about the other one?
There is another one, no need to cook, just eat it raw.
End of Chapter
