Heavenly Gourmet

"Since both of you are ready, let's start the game. This is the funnel. When the funnel ends, the game ends."

Zhang Yuan looked around at Lin Hai and Zhang Yunfeng and spoke patiently.

"no problem!"

Zhang Yunfeng nodded slightly, then looked at Lin Hai: "Are you ready? Let's get started when you're ready."

Lin Hai didn't say anything, just nodded.

Sun Daqian stood up and picked up the whistle: "Then I declare that the Qingfeng Building Chef Competition will now officially begin!"

squeak~

As a whistle sounded, Lin Hai and Zhang Yunfeng's eyes instantly became sharp.

Although Lin Hai was confident that he would not lose to this guy, his many years of experience as a chef told him that he should never underestimate anyone.

Then, Lin Hai took out his own knife from the knife box. After years of precipitation, the light of Lin Hai's knife not only did not dim, but became brighter.

Nice knife!

Definitely a good knife!

“Almost all of these knives are good knives.”

Sun Daqian is a member of the Gourmet Association and has very strong cooking skills. He can almost tell the difference between these knives at a glance.

It is absolutely extraordinary.

"Yes, the blade is bright in color, and under the sunlight, it even emits a hint of cold light. It is undoubtedly a good blade. This kid is so young, but he actually owns such a good blade. I am really enviable."

Zhang Yuan also exclaimed in admiration, with some admiration in his eyes.

"It's useless to have a knife without good cooking skills. Cooking skills are the foundation of a chef. I have seen many chefs cook. Even if the ingredients are good, they can't cook well if they have poor skills. As the saying goes, a good iron must be made with good tools."

Lin Wen shook his head. Although he was a government secretary, he also knew some cooking skills and knew the most fundamental factors in cooking.

"Mr. Lin is right. A blacksmith must be strong himself. If you are not strong enough, even if you have the best knife or the best ingredients, you can't make the food taste like a master."

Zhang Yuan nodded slightly.

"here we go."

Sun Daqian raised his head and looked at Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Hai not far away. Both of them had already started preparing the ingredients.

Although Zhang Yunfeng is a little immature, he has a high level of attainment in Chinese cuisine. He holds a kitchen knife and continuously processes ingredients. Each ingredient is neatly placed on the plate, as if he is creating a work of art.

As for Lin Hai, his knife skills were also very fast. Almost instantly, all the ingredients in front of him were chopped cleanly.

The ingredients needed for boiled beef are not many. The core ingredients are only beef, beef tripe, lotus root, baby cabbage and bean sprouts.

These ingredients are all very common, and Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Hai are both very good cooks, so all the ingredients were prepared almost at the same time.

Zhang Yunfeng frowned slightly. While processing the ingredients, he looked towards Lin Hai. He didn't expect that this guy was so strong that he could tie with him in the early operations.

Lin Hai was observing Zhang Yunfeng while preparing his own ingredients. In his opinion, Zhang Yunfeng's cooking skills were pretty good.

Therefore, the Western pastry restaurant should be able to hand over the business to the other party with confidence.

After finishing processing the main ingredients, the two began to prepare the auxiliary ingredients.

The auxiliary ingredients needed are basically just onion, ginger, garlic, oil, salt, starch, chicken essence, etc.

Although these ingredients give people a very simple feeling, if used properly, even the simplest ingredients can burst out with the most amazing flavor.

"Who is this kid? He can actually match my son's cooking skills."

Zhang Shan frowned, seeming very surprised. He originally thought that this was a crushing defeat, but now it seems that this young man also has some skills.

"Well, I was right, wasn't I? We don't know who will win or lose yet."

Lin Xin also said with a smile, but he did not reveal Lin Hai's identity.

"Cutting means having better knife skills. What really matters is the taste of the dish. If the dish doesn't taste good, even if the knife skills are great, it won't determine anything."

Zhang Shan curled his lips. He had always been outshined at the Guangming Food Fair, and now both sides were betting on these two people.

Therefore, the tense atmosphere is also very serious.

"This chef competition is really exciting."

Zhang Yuan stared at the two people on the platform not far away, smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, now our knife skills are basically the same, but I don't know how the finished dish will taste."

"I think Zhang Yunfeng is better. After all, the Western Pastry Competition is held by the government, and he won the first place. This is much more valuable than the Young Chef Competition."

Lin Wen frowned and spoke to the two of them.

Zhang Yuan and Sun Daqian just responded with a smile. Although their Food Association had official endorsement, it was just a non-governmental organization after all. Lin Wen's identity was different, and they were too lazy to disobey.

But they all know that although the West Point Competition is of high quality, it is not that high.

The Youth Chef Competition is for provincial level participants, especially when Lin Hai single-handedly turned the tide and saved the reputation of Donghai City, which is not something that everyone can do.

So, after hearing about this cooking competition, they also thought that Lin Hai had a higher chance of winning.

However, nothing is absolute, and Zhang Yunfeng's cooking skills are not that bad.

If Zhang Yunfeng wins, he will be the best young chef contestant now.

Then, everyone looked towards the stage again.

After Lin Hai cut the beef into slices, he put it in a bowl, put on disposable gloves, put salt, chicken powder, and starch into the bowl according to the ratio in the Food God Cookbook, stirred it constantly, and finally set it aside.

After cooking the beef, Lin Hai took out a knife from the knife collection and waved it twice casually. A few flashes of the knife appeared, and the beef tripe instantly turned into small pieces.

Every little piece looks exactly the same.

After doing all this, Lin Hai heated up the wok, put the baby cabbage, bean sprouts, and lotus root slices that had been prepared into the wok and started cooking. Lin Hai took out his mobile phone and turned on the stopwatch.

These dishes are all cooked, but it is important to note that they cannot be cooked for too long.

If it's too long, the moisture in the pot and the moisture in the ingredients will conflict with each other, resulting in a weak taste and a lack of the original crispness.

Two minutes later, Lin Hai quickly fished out the side dishes and placed them at the bottom of the bowl as a base. Then, he poured the beef tripe into the hot water that had been used to cook the baby cabbage and lotus root.

"Why would this guy boil beef tripe in old water? Isn't he afraid that the two flavors will mix?"

Sun Daqian was full of confusion. Beef tripe and beef were the core ingredients of this dish, so there must be no mistakes. Once there was a problem with these two ingredients, the whole dish would be distorted.

"Yeah, that's strange, doesn't this guy know how to cook boiled beef?"

Lin Wen also said in a deep voice, looking somewhat puzzled by Lin Hai's behavior.

"It seems that this person only looks powerful on the surface, but in fact he is just that powerful. If we cook it this way, I don't need to say much about the taste of the boiled beef. It will definitely not be delicious."

After a brief silence, Zhang Yuan, who had been silent, finally spoke. Judging from his expression, he didn't seem to be particularly optimistic about Lin Hai.

Lin Hai naturally didn't know these words. He cooked strictly according to the schedule.

He was not stupid and knew that if beef tripe was put into the soup made from lotus root and baby cabbage, the taste of the beef tripe would deteriorate.

But nothing is absolute. The reason why doing so will make the taste worse is that it is cooked for too long, causing the moisture inside to seep into the beef tripe.

However, if you strictly follow the cooking time and take the beef trip out at a certain point when the cooking time is reached, not only will the taste of the beef trip not deteriorate, it will even allow the beef trip to fully blend with the fragrance of the baby cabbage and lotus root.

"Is this kid courting his own death? Wouldn't Niu Baiye be ruined by this behavior?"

"I've never seen anyone cook like this before. It looks like a broken pot."

"I thought the boss of Baiweichu was so powerful, but it seems that he is just so-so. It seems that he is bound to lose this game."

Many people were whispering, and there was a strong disbelief in their eyes when they looked at Lin Hai.

Basically, most of the people who come here have some knowledge of cooking, but the guy in front of me was actually boiling meat in the water used for cooking.

Isn't this obviously courting death?

"Lin Xin, this is the chef you believed in. He looks just so-so, but he could actually do such a stupid thing."

Zhang Shan looked at Lin Hai's series of puzzling actions with some sarcasm on his face. He turned his head and said to Lin Xin: "It seems that I won the bet this time."

Lin Xinliu frowned, as if wondering why Lin Hai would do such a bold thing. In her experience, no one had ever put meat into vegetable soup.

She had tried it before, but the dishes she cooked were terrible.

Over time, she came to believe that cooking soup should never be used to cook meat, as this would destroy the original taste of the beef.

But now...

"I believe in him."

However, Lin Xin did not have any special thoughts, and even believed that Lin Hai's heart was not shaken at all.

Judging from the games in the past few days, Lin Hai must have his reasons for doing this.

With Lin Hai's good hearing, he could naturally hear this. Hearing Lin Xin say this, the corners of Lin Hai's mouth curled up slightly.

No matter what others think, as long as your mother believes in you, that's enough.

When the stopwatch reached five minutes, Lin Hai suddenly took out the beef tripe and set it aside.

After completing all this, Lin Hai glanced at Zhang Yunfeng. At this time, Zhang Yunfeng's approach was completely different from Lin Hai's.

When Lin Hai looked at Zhang Yunfeng, the latter also looked up suddenly, and as their eyes met, a tense atmosphere rose again.

However, since Zhang Yunfeng follows a more traditional approach, he is still cooking beef tripe.

As for Lin Hai, he calmed himself down again. He turned on the stove, and when the temperature of the wok reached a certain level, he picked up the oil bottle and poured three times more oil into the wok than usual.

"Oh my god, is he crazy, pouring so much oil?"

Sun Daqian widened his eyes in disbelief. Logically speaking, although boiled beef uses a lot of oil, it shouldn't be so much oil.

"Yeah, what on earth does he want to do? With so much oil poured in, how can this dish still be eaten?"

Lin Wen was also puzzled. He was very confused about what Lin Hai did.

After the oil boils, Lin Hai quickly pours the ginger slices and peppercorns that he had prepared in advance into the pot.

Chichi~

As ginger slices and peppercorns were thrown into the pot, a fragrance immediately emanated from the pot, spreading in all directions along with bursts of smoke.

After frying the ginger slices and peppercorns in the pot until fragrant, Lin Hai took out the bean paste, scooped two spoonfuls into it, and continued to stir-fry.

The hot oil and the bean paste intertwined with each other, and the boiling in the pot began to gradually dissipate, while the aroma of the bean paste became more intense.

Seeing that the three ingredients were ready, Lin Hai added three bowls of water, and the originally boiling pot now became calm.

The water is constantly being boiled and the pot has now turned brown, which looks very appetizing.

About a minute later, under the action of high temperature, the water gradually boiled, bubbles kept rolling, and finally exploded with a bang.

Lin Hai picked up the marinated beef and put it into the pot piece by piece with chopsticks.

When the last piece of beef was put into the pot, Lin Hai used chopsticks to gently stir the pot to prevent the beef from sticking together.

After seeing that each slice of beef was distinct, Lin Hai took out the cooked beef tripe again and put it carefully into the pot, finally stirring it gently ten times with chopsticks.

After doing all this, Lin Hai let out a breath, turned on the stopwatch again and started timing.

Because beef was added, Lin Hai did not cook it for too long. If it was cooked for too long, the taste of the beef would be greatly affected.

Then he set the stopwatch at two minutes.

At this point, the dish was basically done. Lin Hai freed his hands and looked towards Zhang Yunfeng again.

At this time, Zhang Yunfeng had also started cooking. His cooking process was exactly the same as Lin Hai's. After all, the boiled beef was made according to conventional cooking methods.

This is also a common dish in Donghai City.

So the production steps are not very complicated.

Jingle bell bell~

Soon, two minutes passed, Lin Hai lifted the lid of the pot, and the floating mist burst out in an instant.

This fragrance, like an aroma bomb, quickly spread in all directions.

"What a nice smell! I'm getting hungry just by smelling this."

"Yes, this fragrance seems to have some vegetable aroma. It seems that the owner of Baiweichu is not without skills."

"It seems to taste OK, but I don't know how it tastes."

"..."

Many people smelled this fragrance, and the entire Qingfeng Tower seemed to be enveloped by this smell.

"Your son is still cooking. It seems that the outcome of this cooking competition is still unknown."

With a smile on her lips, Lin Xin looked at Zhang Shan and said lightly.

"Humph, as the saying goes, slow work makes fine work. My son is very strict with every step. He is nothing like that guy who just does it casually. The taste is okay, but eating it is probably another matter."

Zhang Shan snorted coldly, seeming to be unconvinced.

"is it?"

Lin Xin shrugged and did not refute Zhang Shan's words.

Gently sniffing the aroma of the beef, Lin Hai nodded slightly, then picked up the cooked beef and poured it into the large bowl of side dishes that had just been prepared.

Baby cabbage, lotus root, bean sprouts and other ingredients are watered, and the aroma of the vegetables also emanates.

A pot of boiled beef is almost done.

Lin Hai put the pot in place, then sprinkled a layer of chili powder on it, and then spread a layer of minced garlic.

"How can this guy be so fast!"

Seeing that Lin Hai was about to take the final step, Zhang Yunfeng became anxious.

Although there was still enough time, Lin Hai's proficiency in making this dish was even higher than his.

Lin Hai ignored Zhang Yunfeng. He washed the pot, wiped off the moisture, and poured some oil into the pot. After a while, the cold oil began to boil and wisps of oil smoke began to rise.

Lin Hai turned off the stove and poured oil on the boiled beef.

laugh!

When the chili powder and minced garlic are poured with hot oil, that unique aroma bursts out again!

The fragrance is everywhere!

Boiled beef, done!