"The winner of this competition is Chef Ye Chui!"
Just when Sister Han was thinking about her palace stone-baked eggs, the competition between Ye Chui and Walter was over. Unsurprisingly, Ye Chui won the final victory. The braised beef with the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup was so mellow and fragrant that it was absolutely a rare delicacy. The three judges were deeply intoxicated by this dish.
Of course, Walter's vanilla American steak is also delicious, but the taste is a little worse. It's not just a difference in taste, but something that is hard to describe. If I must describe it, it is the background, the background of a dish.
There is no doubt that the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup used by Ye Chu contains many impurities. Those impurities can be completely removed using Walter's molecular cooking, making the taste of the dish purer. In a dish, those impurities do not have any extra value and may even affect the taste, but when the dish is really cooked, those impurities play an indispensable role.
This is the beauty of imperfections, the heritage left over from the creation of a dish to its gradual decline; purity does not represent true deliciousness.
When the concentration of perfume reaches a certain level, it will smell bad.
This is a truth.
Walter coughed a few times, looked at Ye Chui with some disappointment and said, “Is my molecular cuisine really the wrong path?”
Ye Chui looked at Walter's extremely bad face. He didn't know that Walter was suffering from a terminal illness, but he could feel the loneliness in his eyes. Ye Chui thought for a moment and said, "It's not entirely wrong. Some dishes may be more delicious if they are made using your so-called molecular cuisine, but this is definitely not suitable for most dishes, not to mention the profound Chinese cuisine."
Walter looked thoughtful: "I see... Chef Ye Chui, if I have the chance, I really want to taste the food you make."
"My Manhan Building welcomes you, Walter, at any time." Ye Chui invited with a smile.
He didn't know Walter's specific situation, and he had never watched the popular American TV series "Chef" that described his life experience, but he could feel that this bald middle-aged man had a special temperament. That temperament was very attractive.
This game is over.
When Ye Chui left the competition venue, Han Yuyan, Lin Wei, and Chen Tian came up to congratulate him. Han Yuyan then proposed a dish he had just thought of to Ye Chui: "Master, please lend me the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall sauce."
Ye Chui: “…”
He paused for a moment before saying, "Are you sure you want to make the dish you said?"
Han Yuyan nodded hurriedly: "It must be delicious, right?"
"That method... I've never seen it before." Ye Chui was the God of Food in his previous life. If there was a cooking method that he had never seen before, it must be very strange and even beyond Ye Chui's imagination. He looked at his second apprentice, "Are you sure?"
Han Yuyan nodded hurriedly: "Since we can't win anyway, it doesn't matter if we give it a try, right?"
Ye Chui: “…”
He knew how precious Buddha Jumps Over the Wall sauce was. However, seeing that Han Yuyan was so serious, Ye Chui was embarrassed to disappoint her. Anyway, it had come to this point... So Ye Chui handed a bottle of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall sauce to Han Yuyan and told her to use it carefully.
Han Yuyan chuckled a few times, and then everyone walked towards Han Yuyan's examination room together.
When they arrived at Han Yuyan's examination room, Tian Xiaodu and Qin Yiyue's competitions had already ended, and they came over to cheer Han Yuyan on.
Both of them won the game.
Qin Yiyue's match was nothing special. His opponent was not very strong, so Qin Yiyue won easily. But Tian Xiaodu's match was a bit difficult. His opponent was French singer Sophie Marceau, and the competition was about bacon.
This is a cooking method that Tian Xiaodu has never been familiar with.
Sophie Marceau is going to make a bacon tart, a kind of snack. Although the name has the word "tart" in it, it is actually a pie. The crust is made of flour wrapped with butter and salt. It must be frozen first, then warmed up, and slightly fried bacon, milk, eggs and seasonings are added in the middle, and rolled into a pancake shape. Put it in the oven to heat it up, and a unique bacon pie is ready.
The meat is fragrant and tastes refreshing.
The pine branch smoked meat made by Tian Xiaodu is a typical Chinese cooking method for smoked meat. The main ingredient for this method is pine branches. It is best to use freshly picked pine branches with a few pine needles, because the fragrance of the pine tree is what you want.
The pork must be cooked first, not overcooked, only half-cooked, and the oven is heated up. Put the meat on the grill, and then cover the charcoal with a thick layer of pine branches, and black smoke will immediately come out of the pine branches.
Regular pine branch smoked meat needs to be smoked for ten days, but the current competition time is only two hours, so naturally some new cooking methods are needed. That is to cover the lid of the oven, so that the thick smoke from the pine branches can continuously wrap the pork, thereby speeding up the time for the pine scent to enter the barbecue, and at the same time, the half-cooked pork can be fully roasted.
Pork is boiled first and then roasted, which gives it an unusually wonderful taste. In order to keep the pork tender, the oven must be opened to release air every five minutes, and some water and salt must be evenly sprinkled on the surface of the pork.
After a full hour of smoking, the surface of the pork has turned black, and the smoked meat is ready.
Take the bacon off the grill, wash it carefully, cut it into thin slices, and add some sauce to it. The bacon with a strong pine aroma is ready.
Rosin is different from the fragrance of flowers. The fragrance of flowers is ethereal, but rosin is real. The fragrance seems to exist in reality and makes people feel relaxed and happy.
But the beauty of pine fragrance is not something that people from other countries can appreciate. Among the three judges this time, two were American chefs and one was a Japanese chef. As a result, the Japanese chef chose the smoked meat tower as the winner, while the two American chefs, after some discussion, all chose pine branch smoked meat. Tian Xiaodu won this competition, but it was obvious that his victory was very reluctant.
"Next time I won't choose food that I'm not good at." When seeing Ye Chui, Tian Xiaodu said as if he was still a little scared.
Dong Youyou said unhappily, "That's not necessarily true. If your opponent is a beautiful woman next time, you might even have to cook the dishes that she's good at, you pervert."
Because Tian Xiaodu once misunderstood that Dong Qian was interested in him, Dong Youyou still holds a grudge against her... (~^~)