Dare to cook

Chapter 89
After frying the pancakes, Yao Yu put them on a plate and put them in the microwave to keep warm.

Things like pastries are best eaten while they are still warm.If it is cooled, the taste will be greatly reduced.

In fact, it is better to make the full pancake last.

But several other dishes Yao Yu made were very time-consuming.

In order to avoid being in a hurry, Yao Yu decided to make the pancakes first and put them in the microwave.

After finishing the pan-fried cake, Yao Yu plans to make poached shark fin next.

Shark fins, like sea cucumbers, bird's nests, and dried abalone, usually need to be soaked overnight before cooking.

The organizers are very thoughtful when preparing the ingredients.

The dry ingredients they prepare, including shark fin, sea cucumber, fungus, vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms, etc., are soaked in advance.

When it's time for the competition, if the contestants want to choose these ingredients, they can just use them.

If the contestants do not choose these ingredients, the remaining ingredients will be sent to the restaurant directly under the Kitchen Association for use before evening, basically no waste of ingredients will be caused.

The soaked shark's fin must first remove the fishy smell.

First take 50 grams of onion and ginger and boil it with warm water.

Then put the shark's fin into the strainer (similar to a colander, which is often used when scooping up dumplings and noodles), and then soak the strainer in the onion and ginger water for 15 minutes.

In the process of deodorizing shark fin, you can cut chicken, ham and pork ribs.

Yao Yu cut the chicken, ham, etc., put them into a pot, poured a catty of water and two catties of broth, and boiled them over high heat.

Generally speaking, the popular way to make poached shark fin is to immerse the shark fin, chicken, ham and other ingredients in water and simmer it over low heat for four hours.

The soup made in this way has a mellow and long-lasting taste.

However, this approach is obviously not suitable for use in competitions.

After all, the entire game is only three and a half hours long.

So Yao Yu changed it a bit, changing the low heat and slow cook to high heat and fast cook.

And replace two-thirds of the water with broth.

There is stock to enhance the flavor, and the final soup will not taste any worse.

But in this way, the fish pond cannot be put in too early, otherwise it will be directly cooked by the fire.

……

The soup of {pocketed shark's fin} was still boiling, Yao Yu turned around and processed the ingredients for {Emerald Pearl Abalone}.

Put the abalone with a flower knife and simmer for 10 minutes on low heat.

When cooking, add some salt and stock to taste.

When cooking abalone, mince the peeled shrimp, sprinkle some dry starch, refined salt, and fish sauce to make shrimp paste.

The prepared shrimp paste should be divided into ten equal parts for later use.

Then, wash the dried scallops and put them into the steamer for 10 minutes.

After the scallops are steamed, blanch the rape hearts in the broth.

Then arrange the abalone, scallop, shrimp paste, rape heart and ham, and pour the stock.

Finally, put these together in the steamer and steam for three to five minutes.An emerald pearl abalone is done.

So far, the cooking rhythm of the whole game is under Yao Yu's control.

but.

10 minute later.

When Yao Yu opened the steamer to take out the scallops, his face darkened.

what happened?

The scallops were not steamed?

Do not!
To be precise, there is not much heat in the steamer at all!
This steamer looks brand new from the outside.Moreover, when Yao Yu operated the steamer just now, all the indicators and data showed normal.

But who would have thought that this brand new steamer cannot be used at all!
The kitchen utensils provided by the organizer are actually unusable?
Can you believe this?

Yao Yu frowned.

He suddenly thought of the situation he encountered in the second round of the team competition.

In that competition, the condiments provided to Yao Yu's team by the organizer were adulterated with moldy rice, waste oil and industrial salt.

If Yao Yu hadn't discovered the problem in advance with his system skill [Knowledge of Everything], they would have been eliminated in that match.

I haven't found out what happened last time. In this competition, there was another problem with the kitchen utensils used by Yao Yu.

Could this be a coincidence?

For a moment, Yao Yu had the urge to lift the table to protest.

At the moment of the final, every second counts.

And the organizer actually prepared an unusable steamer for him, which is undoubtedly unfair!

If Yao Yu really made a fuss, he would definitely have a reason.

However, the game is still being played and there is a live broadcast.

If Yao Yu revealed the fact that the steamer was not working at this time, it would be a shame for the big bosses of the famous contest and the Kitchen Association.

At that time, in order to maintain the brand name of the famous competition, the organizers will confuse right and wrong and may not admit that there is a problem with the steamer.

In that case, Yao Yu's rationality will also become irrational.

Yao Yu is not a rookie.

He is very clear that there are deep interests involved behind this huge famous contest.

Celebrity Chef Club, High Level Chef Association, Sponsors...

This year's competition carries the interests of too many people.

If anyone dares to splash dirty water on the "authoritative signboard" of the famous contest, he will become the host's enemy.

Not to mention that Yao Yu was only the top of the jade food list, even if the chef on the Hongmeng list stood up to question the fairness of the famous contest, he would be besieged by many people.

So

Yao Yu can't be reckless at this time,

Can't flip the table.

No matter how much dissatisfaction you have, you must endure it until the end of the game.

After the game was over, Yao Yu protested again, it was not "unreasonable trouble", but understanding the general situation.

At that time, whether it is to appease Yao Yu or to ensure the fairness of the famous competition, the promoters of the famous competition will definitely investigate to the end.

Of course, Yao Yu is not someone who is willing to suffer.

If the results of the investigation do not satisfy him, he is not afraid to make things big.

However, the top priority is that Yao Yu still has to deal with the current game.

"Those people who can only use indiscriminate methods really think that I can't cook without a steamer?"

A gleam of sharpness flashed in Yao Yu's eyes.

He immediately took a large casserole, poured half of the warm water into it, then put the scallops into a small bowl, put the small bowl into the casserole, put the casserole on the stove and simmered on high heat.

Since the steamer cannot be used, and there is no steamer or steamer, Yao Yu can only use the casserole method to steam the ingredients!

Yao Yu thought about it, and removed the other pot of soup that was simmering on the stove, and replaced it with a casserole, and put the wrapped swallow into the casserole to "steam".

Here is an explanation.

At the competition site, the gas stoves used by Yao Yu and Mu Shaoran were both three-burner gas stoves.

In other words, a gas stove can burn up to three pots at the same time.

Yao Yu and the others had to cook five dishes each. A three-burner stove and a large-capacity steamer with three floors were originally enough.

But Yao Yu's steamer was tampered with, so the kitchen utensils he could use were reduced by half.

In this way, Yao Yu has to cook two pots of soup, steam a lot of ingredients, and stir-fry vegetables, and the kitchen utensils are not enough all of a sudden.

in the audience.

When Lu Tao and Lu Chenyu saw that Yao Yu gave up using the steamer and used a casserole to steam things, they immediately felt something was wrong.

At the same time, some people in the live broadcast room also commented:
"Yao Manzi, what is he doing? Abandoning the big steamer and steaming things in a casserole, isn't that out of his mind?"

"If I remember correctly, Yao Yu's Taiping Yan, Pocket Shark's Fin, and Emerald Pearl Abalone are all dishes that require the use of a steamer. He gave up the steamer. Will there be time?"

"Could it be that Yao Manzi's steamer is broken?"

"How is that possible! This is a famous contest, how could the organizer of the contest make such a low-level mistake?"

"What if it wasn't a mistake, but someone deliberately tried to punish Yao Yu? Take a closer look at Yao Yu's face, the entire face of Yu's madman has turned cold!"

(End of this chapter)