Dare to cook

Chapter 191 The Art of Plating

Chapter 191 The Art of Plating

The simpler the dish, the more innovative it is.

Only in this way can you defeat your opponent and win the game.

Yao Yu once remembered that there used to be a chef nicknamed "Mr. Good" who could make caramelized sweet potatoes more elegant than high-end French desserts.

But in that method, sweet potatoes must be ground into sweet potato flour, and then used to make the desired hollow shape, the process is quite troublesome.

Yao Yu didn't intend to grind the sweet potatoes into powder.

Because doing so is suspected of being "off topic".

Once the sweet potatoes are ground into powder, the resulting dish cannot be called shredded sweet potatoes in the strict sense, but another derivative dish.

Desserts, in addition to being delicious, must also look good.

In this round of confrontation, the display of the game will greatly affect the judges' scoring.

After Yao Yu coated all the fried sweet potato pieces with syrup, he began to think about the presentation.

Good dishes should be full of color, flavor and appearance.

For celebrity chefs, plate presentation is an art and a skill that must be mastered.

The same ingredients, the same excellent cooking skills, but the one that is well-presented is often more likely to win the favor of customers and sell at a higher price.

What kind of plate is suitable for holding what kind of food, these are very particular.

In Yao Yu's view, the serving size of a delicate shredded sweet potato is preferably between 450-520 grams.

The plate used to hold the golden yellow shredded sweet potatoes must be completely white, and any plate with a lace background cannot be used.

Moreover, it is more suitable to use a square crimping pan than a flat bottom disc.

Yao Yu evenly divided the shredded sweet potatoes he had prepared into five equal portions, put them on a plate and arranged them in the shape of a hill.

Then, he placed two green basil leaves on the plate, squeezed some milky white yogurt beside the sweet potato cubes, and put a few cherries on the yogurt as an embellishment.

In order to make the shredded sweet potatoes look more textured, Yao Yu also boiled a small bowl of yellow honey grapefruit water, and then carefully poured it on the arranged sweet potato chunks one by one with a small spoon.

Finally, Yao Yu sprinkled some white sesame seeds on the sweet potatoes.

After finishing all this, Yao Yu had to use a clean white tablecloth to wipe off the sugar juice that accidentally splashed on the plate.

After being carefully arranged in this way, a very low-cost shredded sweet potato becomes a high-end delicacy that can be photographed and posted to friends.

After Yao Yu finished arranging the dishes, he asked the food passer to bring his works to the judging booth.

At the same time, Su Tongwei also finished his shredded sweet potatoes.

Su Tongwei's carvings of sweet potato are equally delicate, and the sugar threads hanging on his sweet potato pieces are more densely packed than those of Yao Yu.

The white sugar shreds are covered with golden sweet potato cubes. The freshly baked sweet potato cubes not only exude heat, but also emit bursts of tempting, sweet burnt aroma.

That taste, that color, people can't help but twitch their index fingers when they see it, wanting to eat it.

After the works of both parties were on the table, the judges began to taste.

After tasting for a while, the judges felt that the shredded sweet potatoes made by Yao Yu were even better.

As for the reason, there are two points.

First, the presentation is exquisite enough, not monotonous, and has a sense of hierarchy.

Second, Yao Yu's ingredients are better matched. For sweets like candied sweet potatoes, eating a few more bites will inevitably make you feel greasy.The cherries and yogurt prepared by Yao Yu can be used to relieve the greasy.

After the results were announced, Yao Yu won another game.

Next, Ji Xun, No.5 on the Jade Food List, came on stage.

When Yao Yu played against Ji Xun last year, the contest question he drew was sirloin steak.

Ji Xun is the chef who has the most research on western food on the Jade Food List. In the University City Management Competition, the western restaurant he runs also achieved a very high turnover.

Generally speaking, this is a very beneficial competition question for Ji Xun.

However, because of the lessons learned from Chen Duanrui and Liu Xuanming, Ji Xun didn't take it lightly after getting this competition question.

In fact, this dish is also a dish that Yao Yu is very good at.

On the day Yao Yu went to Lu Garden to look for Lu Tao, because he ran into Li Xungui's crew, he activated the task of [Famous Chef Self-Cultivation].

Because of that mission, Yao Yu agreed to join the crew and starred as Dou Wentao in "Jiu Xiao Jing Hong Lu".

After successfully playing the role of "Dou Wentao", Yao Yu was able to complete the task, and then he got sirloin steak, baked shrimp with cheese, Japanese tempura and other high-end menus.

Without that task.

Yao Yu is likely to lose to Misaka Mie in the Japanese material matchup in the Shencheng Division.

And now, because of that task, Yao Yu has completely mastered the various ways of sirloin steak.

Therefore, at this time, when he competed with Ji Xun for sirloin steak, Yao Yu won again without much difficulty.

A series of duels, ten games, Yao Yu has won seven games in a row.

This brilliant record is shocking.

The audience at the scene sighed with emotion, saying that today was really not in vain.

If it weren't for Yao Yu's challenge, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't be able to see the top ten losing one after another in the Jade Food List.

After all, the higher the chef ranks, the more he cherishes his feathers.

If it is not necessary, they will never have a culinary duel with others in the public eye.

After Ji Xun lost the game, he was not upset.

He smiled and said: "Yao Yu, since I failed to stop you today, don't lose to them in the next three games."

Yao Yu also smiled and said:

"Don't worry. I don't like any of the last three. I definitely won't put water on them."

When Ji Xun heard this, he smiled again, and then said meaningfully:
"Everyone knows that Wuzhongliu is a master of Anhui cuisine, but the cuisine he is best at cooking is the southwestern cuisine of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces."

After finishing speaking, Ji Xun took off his chef's hat and apron, turned around and returned to his seat.

After hearing this, Yao Yu understood that Ji Xun was reminding him.

Wu Zhongliu's debut time is almost the same as Lu Chenyu. In public competitions, he often shows his talents in the field of Anhui cuisine and defeats strong opponents.

Since Wu Zhongliu was on the Jade Food List, Anhui cuisine has been the most popular dish he has cooked in the public eye. Over time, he has left an image of a famous chef who is especially proficient in Anhui cuisine.

Yao Yu had never had contact with Wu Zhongliu before, let alone knew anything about Wu Zhongliu's situation.

If Ji Xun hadn't reminded him at this time, Yao Yu really didn't know that Wu Zhongliu was also good at cooking Yunnan-Guizhou cuisine.

You must know that the food tastes in places such as Yunnan and Guizhou are very different from those in Huizhou.

Huizhou people like to eat a lot of things that smell bad but taste delicious.

In places like Yunnan and Guizhou, there are a lot of minority people, and the food tastes are complicated, and there are many dishes that are mainly spicy, sour and fresh.

If you want to improve these two very different cuisines to a proficient level, it is not easy.

It can be seen that Wu Zhongliu's ability to rank second on the Jade Food List has its own advantages.

(End of this chapter)

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