Dare to cook

Chapter 60 Tofu Feast

The referees and judges arrived, and Yao Yu also changed into a white chef uniform and stood in front of the ring.

The white chef's uniform is paired with a half-length apron of the same base color.

Yao Yu's name was also printed on the side of the apron, in jet black, shaped like wild grass, sharp and flamboyant.

This is Yao Yu's exclusive shirt.

He only wears the apron with his name embroidered on it when he has a culinary duel with others.

On the opposite side, Hong Shipu also changed his clothes and took his place in front of the stove.

The stove, audience seats, and judging seats in today's venue are all temporary.

When the two sides of the duel were in position, the chaotic voices in the venue consciously disappeared.

No one speaks anymore.

The auditorium was filled with hundreds of spectators at this moment.

Lu Chenyu, Chen Li, Yang Rui, Tang Ying, and Chu Xinmei who came to the scene at some time all found their seats and sat down.

In order to ensure that the fairness of this duel will not be questioned, the staff of Wanghailou also took a lot of thought when inviting the judges.

After careful selection, Wanghailou invited a total of five judges for this culinary competition.

Among them, the two judges, Ou Xun and Zhang Wuping, are both chefs on the Kirin list.

The remaining three are Powell, Shen Wuliang and Li Lianrui are famous food critics.

Among them, Li Lianrui is from Singapore, Powell is from England, and Shen Wuliang is from Reben.

The reason why three foreign judges were invited was because Wang Hailou didn't want Han Guo to spread "review favoritism" on the Internet after losing, questioning the fairness of the duel.

Of course, even if you do that...

Those who can't afford to lose will still find all kinds of excuses.

At twelve o'clock sharp, the judges began to announce the content of the duel.

Zhang Wuping took out a silk scroll and read out:

"This competition lasts for three hours, and both sides are required to use tofu as the main ingredient and cook a cold dish, a hot dish and a soup dish respectively."

"During the duel, please also keep quiet in the auditorium. Outsiders are not allowed to make noises to interfere with both sides of the duel."

"Now, the duel officially begins!"

The judges announced the rules of the competition, and on the right side of the venue, a staff member lifted the tablecloth covering the ingredients.

In today's duel, the contestants on both sides can only use the ingredients and condiments prepared by Wanghailou.

However, you can use your own kitchen utensils.

After the tablecloth was lifted, Hong Shipu immediately went to the ingredients area to prepare ingredients.

But Yao Yu was not in a hurry.

He first used the [Culinary Detective] skill to explore Hong Shipu's background, and found that Hong Shipu's cooking skill value was lv7 (33344).

Well, this culinary skill value is very high.

It is higher than Yao Yu's level when he first activated the system.It's only less than two thousand points away from breaking through lv8.

Hong Shipu is also the chef with the highest culinary skills that Yao Yu has encountered since the system was restored.

Of course, in terms of culinary skills alone, the seniors like Lu Tao and Liu Zicheng must be higher.

But Yao Yu was unable to ascertain their specific levels.

Because [cooking scouting] can only detect targets lower than your own level.

This is the same as when a game player throws a scouting technique at a high-level boss, only to see a string of "????".

"Hong Shipu's culinary experience is indeed rich, no wonder he can become the chief chef of the Blue House. It seems that this duel must be careful." Yao Yu thought to himself.

Although his current culinary experience is more than 2000 more than Hong Shipu.

But this is not enough to form an overwhelming advantage.

If you are not careful, there is a real possibility of overturning.

Afterwards, Yao Yu also came to the food selection area to choose food.

The ingredients prepared by Wanghailou are very rich.

There are more than a dozen types of tofu alone, and there are hundreds of other ingredients and ingredients.

Yao Yu glanced at it, and directly used [Clearness] to scan all the ingredients.

Soon, Yao Yu had a plan in mind.

He is going to make thousand-layer preserved egg tofu cake, mapo tofu and Wensi tofu.

After thinking about the dish to cook, Yao Yu quickly picked out the required ingredients.

But when Yao Yu was picking peppercorns, Hong Shipu also came over from the other side and grabbed a lot of peppercorns.

The fingers of the two almost touched the top of the pepper.

Yao Yu and Hong Shipu raised their heads, squinted their eyes at each other and said, "You are also going to make mapo tofu!"

At this time, the two on-site commentators in charge of the live broadcast also noticed this.He immediately took the microphone and said:
"Oh, what's wrong? Yao Yu and Hong Shipu chose Sichuan peppercorns at the same time when choosing ingredients! Could it be that they are going to cook the same dish!"

"My God! Don't they all want to make mapo tofu? If so, it's really exciting!"

The sound of live commentary spread throughout the auditorium.

In a duel with free choice of dishes, both sides decided to cook the same dish.

This coincidental collision made the game scene a little more gunpowder.

At this time, Yao Yu also thought of the information that Hu Banjiang had collected for him.

According to the information, Hong Shipu once traveled and studied in Sichuan for a long time.

Now it seems that Hong Shipu did learn his true skills in Shu.Otherwise, he would never dare to make "Ma Po Tofu", a dish that is easy to learn but difficult to master.

but……

Even if Hong Shipu can make authentic mapo tofu, Yao Yu is not in vain.

Because Yao Yu can cook any Sichuan cuisine at the level of lv7 (35000).

And he also has secret red oil in his hand.

As long as he uses the secret red oil when cooking Mapo Tofu, the taste of Mapo Tofu can soar to a higher level.

Yao Yu didn't believe that Hong Shipu's mapo tofu could compare to his own!

After Yao Yu and Hong Shipu selected the ingredients, they returned to their stoves.

Among the three dishes that Yao Yu had to prepare, the tofu with preserved egg was the most time-consuming.

This is a high-end banquet cold dish.

If you want to make the preserved egg tofu, you must first steam the preserved egg, then remove the shell and cut into pieces.

When steaming preserved eggs, pour fish gelatin powder into boiling water and melt it thoroughly in a microwave.

Isinglass powder is a protein gel extracted from fish skin and swim bladder protein.

It is very versatile and is an essential ingredient in making jellies, puddings and mousse cakes.

After the preserved eggs are cut into fine pieces, the melted isinglass powder should be poured on top.

Then, evenly slice the lactone tofu into three equal parts of thick blocks.

On each layer of lactone tofu, there is a layer of preserved egg particles mixed with fish gelatin powder.

Then put another layer of tofu on the preserved egg granules, and spread another layer of preserved egg.

Repeat this again and again, then you can wrap the laid egg tofu with plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator for one hour at low temperature.

After waiting for an hour, put the solidified preserved egg tofu upside down on the plate, pour over the prepared cold sauce, sprinkle with pork floss and chopped green onion.

After Yao Yu wrapped the preserved egg tofu and put it in the refrigerator, he began to cut the chicken breast bone and chicken, and prepared to make soup with ham.

If you want to make delicious Wensi tofu, there are two key points.

One is the need for exquisite knife skills, and the other is the need to prepare a pot of broth with excellent taste.

(End of this chapter)