Dare to cook

Chapter 138
After the contestants finished making the dumplings, they immediately started cooking the next dish.

As expected, all four were timed out.

On the third question, Li Xiaosheng spent the most time, 39 minutes.

Chen Li and Lin Qiuye took the least time, taking about 34 minutes.

This means that the number of judges is not large, just making twenty or thirty dumplings is enough.

Moreover, the players are well-trained and know how to allocate time most efficiently and how to process ingredients quickly.

If you were an ordinary person making a meal of dumplings, you wouldn't be able to hold it for less than an hour.

At this time, the fourth question has already come out.

The topic is to cook a duck... ahem, a dish is mainly made of duck.

There are countless recipes for duck meat, but most of them are also time-consuming.

And now the players, what they lack the most is time.

The four players didn’t hesitate.They can only choose the simplest quick frying method to cook duck.

Otherwise, they would not have time to complete the next two competition questions.

What Chen Li is going to cook is stir-fried duck.

Compared with common home methods such as braised duck, beer duck, and steamed duck with flour, stir-fried duck does not need to be marinated for too long, and the cooking steps are faster and less troublesome.

Separate the duck skin from the duck meat, cut into small pieces and marinate for 5 minutes.

When marinating, you can wear thin disposable kitchen gloves, the kind you usually wear when eating crayfish.

Wearing gloves and rubbing the duck pieces continuously can speed up the removal of fishy and odorous smells.

After the duck meat is marinated, heat the oil in a cold pan and add the duck skin.Simmer over low heat to force out all the fat in the duck skin.

At this time, sauté the onion and garlic until fragrant, add the duck meat and stir-fry over high heat.

After the duck meat changes color, add rice wine, light soy sauce, and salt to continue frying quickly, and then add water.

Generally speaking, duck soup should be added at this time.

But there was no time to stew the soup on site, so we had to use water.

The water must be hot water.

If it is cold water, the skin and meat of duck meat will tighten and shrink when exposed to cold water, the meat will become dull and the taste will not be good.

You don't need too much water, just enough to cover the duck meat.

Add a spoonful of spicy red oil, a small amount of sugar, and reduce the juice over high heat.

When the juice is about to collect, pour in some green peppers and stir fry.

And then out of the pot.

A small plate of fried duck is done.

There is nothing difficult about this dish, except that the duck meat should be cut small and evenly so that it is easy to taste.

After Chen Li finished the fourth dish, he continued to work and went to choose other ingredients for the fifth dish.

The fifth question also came out - eat two sea fish.

The competition question is not difficult. Choose one type of sea fish and make two ways to eat it.

The only thing that makes the players nervous is that time is running out.

There are many types of sea fish, including red snapper, flat fish, horse snapper, and horse mackerel.

Chen Li cooks red snapper the most times, so he chooses what he is best at.

After the fifth question is the sixth question - soup and food.

When the fifth question came out, all the contestants guessed that the sixth question must be soup.

Therefore, when Chen Li was cooking red snapper, he set up a soup pot and threw red snapper bones, crabs, and prawns into it to cook.

By the time he finished the fish, there were only 10 minutes left before the end of the game.

but.

Since he stewed the base soup in advance, there was still time.

For seafood soup, add tofu, celery, mushrooms, and various seasonings, simmer for more than ten minutes, then remove from the pot and plate.

Among the four, only Chen Li and Lin Qiuye finished the six dishes according to the countdown timer.

Due to some reasons, Li Xiaosheng and Bai Shijiefu couldn't finish the work on time, so they had to hastily bring out the soup that was boiled to seven or eight minutes to make up for it.

After the six dishes were served, the judges tasted them, discussed them seriously for a while, and announced the final results.

At this time, the electronic screen in the arena lit up, showing the scores of each player.

陈立：凉菜得分9.59、冷荤-9.56、面点-9.47、鸭料理-9.25、海鱼两吃-9.49、汤食-9.56。总分56.92分

林秋业各项得分：9.41、9.43、9.62、9.35、9.44、9.57。总分56.82分

白石介夫：9.37、9.29、9.48、9.28、9.33、8.88。总分55.63分

李箫升：9.32、9.27、9.36、9.31分、9.42、8.92。总分55.6分

The end result is clear at a glance.

With an advantage of 0.1 higher in total points, Chen Li defeated Lin Qiuye and qualified for qualifying.

As for Shiraishi Jiefu and Li Xiaosheng, they are completely accompanying each other in this game.

Judging from the scores, it seems that the scores of all the players are not too high.

That's because the scoring standards of the National League are stricter.

Many dishes that can score more than 9.8 points in the nine major regional qualifiers may only get around 9.55 points at most in the national league.

Both the players and the spectators knew about this before the game started.

So no one complained about the low average score of the players.

But the results presented are still surprising.

Many people did not expect that the winner of this game would be Chen Li.

After all, on the surface, Lin Qiuye, who is ranked 408th on the Jade Food List, and Li Xiaosheng, who once defeated Wei Changge, are both more capable of qualifying.

However, Li Xiaosheng's performance in this game was quite average, finishing at the bottom.

This also made him the first division champion to be eliminated in this tournament.

After the results were announced, Li Xiaosheng's face turned green and pale, feeling panicked with embarrassment.

Although during the game, he realized that he did not do well in some places.

But he has always believed that even if there are some flaws, he will not lose, and it is even more impossible to lose to Chen Li, who is at the bottom of the Jade Food List.

however……

"Slaps in the face come too fast like a tornado." Yang Rui taunted lightly as he got down from the auditorium and passed by Li Xiaosheng.

Yao Yu also glanced at Li Xiaosheng, but didn't say anything.

Just like what he said to Chen Li before the game started, there is no need to waste words with a crazy and rebellious person like Li Xiaosheng.

"Chen Li, congratulations on your victory. I didn't expect you to hide your secrets. The pot of red oil you made during the competition was simply wonderful."

Lin Qiuye walked up to Chen Li and smiled.

But I couldn't see the dejection of losing the game at all.

"You're welcome. I was just lucky and I won by chance." Chen Li shook hands with Lin Qiuye.

Lin Qiuye looked at Yao Yu who was walking over with a smile and said:
"I'm not talking politely. You are the junior of Crazy Yu, and your future achievements are boundless."

Yao Yu and Lin Qiuye have also met a few times, but they are not familiar with each other.

He knew that Lin Qiuye said this to him intentionally, so he smiled and said:

"Lin Qiuye, don't fart rainbows. Lao Zhu will form a game tonight, and come over for a drink tonight?"

Lin Qiuye said with a smile:
"Is it Zhu Xingchen? Since there is a meeting of big brothers, I will definitely join in the fun."

They are all famous chefs in the same circle, and it is inevitable to say a few polite words when they meet.

Yao Yu chatted with Lin Qiuye for a while, and then left the venue with Chen Li and Yang Rui.

After winning the game, especially after defeating Lin Qiuye in the group stage, Chen Li was still very happy and felt a little elated.

Since being on the list, Chen Li has been labeled as "the weakest on the Jade Food List".

During the period, the famous chefs of Yushibang held several parties, but he was not invited.

But this impression of contempt will gradually be reversed starting today.

(End of this chapter)