Long Xiangtian has made sufficient preparations regarding the knife skills for making Wensi tofu, and the next step is to prepare the soup base.
Long Xiangtian kept adjusting the taste of his soup, but he never succeeded in making it taste the way he wanted, so he was very anxious.
Meanwhile, news came from the other side. He had learned that several very capable young officials would participate in this competition.
This invisibly brought greater psychological pressure to Long Xiangtian, because the chefs he had met before knew what type of dishes the other chefs were suitable for or good at.
However, these new chefs are all very capable, but I don’t know much about them.
Long Xiangtian felt that the road to winning this competition was even more distant.
But the fat man told Long Xiangtian not to be discouraged. After all, Long Xiangtian was still a very experienced chef, and those young chefs could not match Long Xiangtian in terms of experience.
He had decades of cooking experience before his rebirth.
Decades of accumulation are the best precipitation for a person.
In the process, I also gained a lot of things, which are exactly what those young people do not have.
The reason why they receive such high praise is because they can receive the best education and training.
They have never experienced any failure, so they can only follow the steps to make things. This is Long Xiangtian's craftsmanship.
But it was achieved by constantly summarizing experience and lessons from failure again and again.
In actual combat, things will not be as smooth as cooking in normal times. Various situations will always arise, so Long Xiangtian will have more advantages in this regard.
Because Long Xiangtian’s cooking skills were accumulated through continuous failures.
Once he encounters a problem that has occurred before in actual combat, he can solve it without hesitation.
The young chefs follow the most perfect steps step by step, and if there is a mistake in any step, they will be very panicked.
If something goes wrong, Long Xiangtian will always try to make up for it based on the existing situation. If it cannot be made up for, he will start over.
But young chefs don’t do this. As long as they have food, they will start over again. This is not thrilling and very rigid. It will also seriously affect the quality of the dishes and the preparation time.
When I thought about this, I actually felt a little calm. After all, I had a competitor, but I found that the competitor was not particularly strong.
This is also good news for Long Xiangtian. Next it depends on Long Xiangtian's preparations. Wensi tofu has been made successfully.
Long Xiangtian spent a long time trying to decide on another stir-fried dish, and finally decided to make a stir-fried seasonal vegetable dish.
Although the dish looks simple and many people would not order it in a restaurant, it is indeed a dish that every restaurant makes.
It is not easy to cook vegetables well. First of all, the cabbage should be put in the pot, using light force and accurate timing.
Then keep it crispy and put it back into the pan. After a few seconds of stir-frying, you can serve it immediately.
This dish is not about the complexity of the ingredients used by the chef, but about the chef's control over the heat and other aspects in actual operation.
Only by precisely mastering all aspects of the technique can you present this dish most perfectly.
Lack of technical skills and practical operation in this area will lead to the failure of this dish.
Although you can't tell much difference in appearance and taste, the difference in this dish lies in the subtleties.
The reason why I chose this dish as my stir-fry is because it is a dish that can best demonstrate my skills.
This is not just about operational techniques, it also reflects a chef's experience and sophistication.
The fact that Long Xiangtian was able to come up with this dish also showed that he really took this competition seriously.
The flavoring of this dish all depends on the starch sauce at the end, but there was a disagreement with Fatty and the others about the preparation of the starch sauce.
Long Xiangtian insisted on using a lighter sauce as the final seasoning, but others wanted to make a stronger sauce so that the whole dish would not seem so monotonous.
Long Xiangtian uses a light sauce in the hope of preserving the most original flavor of the vegetables, giving diners a chance to taste the original flavor of the vegetables.
After all, there are still a lot of people who like to eat vegetables, so it can provide some better taste.
What both of them said made a lot of sense, but neither of them could convince the other, so there was a big disagreement on the final decision on the sauce for this dish.
However, Long Xiangtian and Fatty took a look at these three dishes together.
Finally decided to make a slightly lighter, but not too light condiment as a seasoning for the vegetables.
Because first of all, the first dish, Wensi tofu, is a soup, so it is very light.
If this dish is still so light, and the third dish suddenly jumps to the heavy-tasting Maoxuewang, it would feel like the gap is a bit too big.
So they want to give the judges a chance to go step by step.
In this way, not only will the order of the dishes be more appetizing, but the taste will also be more refreshing.
There was less than a day left before the chef competition. I lay in bed at night but couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
Tomorrow, a very serious test awaits me, and if I cannot succeed in this test, I will suffer.
I believe that everyone in the restaurant will be emotionally affected.
They all tried their best to see themselves win the game.
I seemed to see myself in the competition that year. I was eager to win, but I didn't have much ability to interfere with the outcome of the game.
I can only rely on the final score of the judges. I hope the judges can give fairer scores this time and no longer have this prejudice against me.
If it weren't for Zhao Ziru's support, he wouldn't have achieved such good results back then.
Now Zhao Ziru can't help him anymore. Although he doesn't know in his heart that Zhao Ziru helped him back then, but as it stands now, he really doesn't have any shortcuts to take in this competition, and he doesn't have any connections to take care of. He can only rely on the relatively fair scoring of the judges to win.
Long Xiangtian was not particularly nervous, because he had made the most thorough preparations.
If he really has the strength, it must be a problem of his performance on the spot, or the other opponents are too strong.
The catering industry has undergone tremendous changes in the past decade or so. It is unknown how many experts have devoted themselves to researching and developing Yilong Xiangtian.
But he knows that there are definitely many people who can do this. After all, chefs in the catering industry rely more on their love for this job.
Long Xiangtian is not particularly nervous about tomorrow's game. On the contrary, he is a little unable to sleep because he is looking forward to tomorrow coming soon.