Dare to cook

Chapter 82
"Come on, Ouyang Qing, get rid of Crazy Yu!"

"Miss, don't be afraid, we support you!"

"Down with Yao Manzi, eliminate Yu's madman, and eradicate the evil forces!"

Outside the arena, the melon-eaters watching the game were still doing sand sculptures as usual.

Those who didn't know thought Yao Yu had done something heinous.

Listening to the booing and shouting of those people, Yao Yu, who was standing on the stage of the competition, was expressionless.

Forget it.

Too lazy to be angry.

These sand sculptures are just jealous of their talents and beauty in the world on a daily basis.

There is no need to be familiar with them.

While comforting himself, Yao Yu opened the kitchen utensil bag, then... took out the kitchen knife and chopped it heavily on the chopping board...

Hey, I'm still so angry!

These melon skins, the competition is about to begin, can't they be quiet for a while?
After the contestants were in place, the judges and referees also entered the arena.

The matchup rules of the top [-] are the same as the previous two knockout rounds, all three dishes are prepared within the specified time, and then the scores are calculated, and the one with the highest score wins.

The judges were seated, the referee announced the start of the game, and the big screen began to flash.

About half a minute later, when the screen stopped flashing, the topic of the game was also displayed-eating three lotus roots.

Three ways to eat lotus root:

The contestants are required to make three dishes with lotus root as the main ingredient within the specified time.

Among these three dishes, one must be soup.

Moreover, in the process of cooking the remaining two hot dishes, contestants can only choose one of the three cooking methods of frying, frying, and frying.

In other words:

If you have made pan-fried lotus root pancakes, you cannot make fried lotus root balls or stir-fried lotus root.

"Do you cook three lotus root dishes in two hours?"

Yao Yu looked at the rules of the game on the big screen, touched his chin and thought.

There are many ways to make lotus root.

Or fried or boiled, or fried or steamed or cold will do.

But because March and April are not the best seasons to eat lotus root.

The taste of lotus root in this season is too different from that in June of the lunar calendar, so Yao Yu first ruled out the cold and sweet taste.

Yao Yu thought for a while, and decided to make a Cantonese-style lotus root soup, a steamed meat with lotus root powder, and a pan-fried lotus root cake.

Among them, steamed meat with lotus root powder is the main course, and pan-fried lotus root cake can be used as both a snack and a staple food.

Cantonese-style lotus root soup can also relieve greasy and fire, and nourish the taste buds.

Yao Yu believed that as long as he played normally, he would definitely have no problem defeating Ouyang Qing, whose culinary skill value was only lv7 (24807).

When Yao Yu started to process the ingredients, Ouyang Qing, who was on the opposite stage, also thought about the menu.

Ouyang Qing is a native of Shencheng, and his family has an old shop in Hongkou that has been passed down for decades.

Strictly speaking, Ouyang Qing can be considered a third-generation cook.

Her age is actually a few years older than Yao Yu, but she looks very tender.

Ouyang Qing has participated in the qualifying competition twice before. The first time he stopped in the top eight of the regional competition. The second time he was lucky and reached the top four.

She is the kind of player who plays very steadily in the game.

Even in the face of Crazy Yu, Ouyang Qing knew that the chances of winning were not high, so he was not discouraged, and still went all out.

Time passed minute by minute.

Both contestants are cooking in an orderly manner.

Yao Yu was focused and composed.

With his cooking skills on display, the arena gradually filled with aromas.

Two hours passed quickly.

When the competition time is over, the dish passer will enter the arena and serve the dishes made by the contestants on the judging seats.

The judges are all famous seniors in the culinary world of Shanghai.

They had high expectations for Yao Yu's dishes.

Therefore, the three judges decided to taste Ouyang Qing's dishes first.

After all, it’s better to save the best food for last, isn’t it?
Ouyang Qing's three dishes are crispy lotus root box, glutinous osmanthus root and duck lotus root soup.

When Yao Yu saw that Ouyang Qing made glutinous rice, sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus root, he shook his head secretly.

The starch content and dietary fiber of lotus root in this season are far less abundant than those in summer and autumn, and the taste will be "dry" when eaten, which will not bring people the satisfaction of chewing.

So it is not suitable for cold salad and sweets.

Moreover, the sweet-scented osmanthus of this season must also be old-fashioned sweet-scented osmanthus.

Ouyang Qing chose unseasonable ingredients and made an unseasonable dish.

Such a performance will definitely cause her to lose a lot of points.

as predicted.

After the three judges tasted it, they were quite satisfied with her crispy lotus root box and Laoya lotus root soup, giving them scores of 9.67 and 9.73.

But for the evaluation of glutinous rice and osmanthus root, the three judges only gave 8.91 points after deliberation.

8.91 points.

This is already an extremely low score in a large professional cooking competition.

Generally, as long as there are capable players, as long as they are not stupid, the dishes they make can get a rating of 9.3 points or more.

But now...

Not to mention Yao Yu, even the water friends who watched the live broadcast on the Internet knew that Ouyang Qing was doomed.

The ending was not unexpected.

In the end, Yao Yu scored 9.87, 9.91 and 9.89 points for the three dishes and was far ahead, successfully advancing to the quarterfinals.

After the game, Yao Yu packed up his things and went to the next door to watch another game.

Because today the organizer has to select the top eight and top four contestants, so the schedule is very tight.

A total of four arenas compete at the same time, and a game lasts for two hours.

In this way, from eight o'clock in the morning to half o'clock in the afternoon, all the top sixteen matches were finished.

After the round of [-], the staff and players of the organizer have a one-hour break.

An hour later, the quarter-finals began, and the same four arenas played at the same time.

In this round, Yao Yu faced Xu Lin, who was in the same group as him before.

Xu Lin's cooking skills were much worse than Ouyang Qing's, but he had better luck and made it to the top eight.

However, this time she met Yao Yu, and her good luck ended there.

Two hours later, Yao Yu easily won and advanced to the semi-finals.

Xu Lin, Ouyang Qing, and Misaka Mie who Yao Yu defeated last time.

In this Shencheng Famous Contest, the three most outstanding female contestants were all in the hands of Yao Yu without exception.

As a result, Yao Yu was labeled as "destroying flowers with hot hands" by the water friends in the live broadcast room.

At 04:30 in the afternoon, the top four spots in the Shencheng competition area are freshly released.

They are: Yao Yu, Yang Rui, Mu Shaoran, Zhang Pingzhi.

After the final four were confirmed, the battle schedule for the next two days was also posted.

From 08:30 to 11:30 tomorrow morning, it will be Yao Yu VS Yang Rui.

From 01:30 to 04:30 in the afternoon, it was Mu Shaoran VS Zhang Pingzhi.

Then the day after tomorrow, the loser group in the semi-finals will compete for third place in the morning, and the winner group in the afternoon will determine the champion and runner-up.

In the center of the arena, Yao Yu looked at the battle table that had just been posted, and whistled, "Xiao Ruizi, I think you should just abstain tomorrow. This will also save everyone some time."

Yang Rui's face was slightly dark, and his fighting spirit was high:

"Yao Manzi, don't be too arrogant! Are you sure you can win? Believe it or not... Believe it or not, I will put laxatives in your meal tonight!"

"Pfft..."

As soon as this remark came out, the other melon-eating crowd who wanted to watch the excitement suddenly fell down.

(End of this chapter)