"It's a small pressure cooker." Lin Kesong's heart surged with joy, and it was rare that Elise would be interested in her thoughts.
"Small pressure cooker?" Elise reacted after being stunned for two seconds, "You added water and herbs to the pressure cooker and simmered it."
"Yes, but time is important, too long the air pressure will destroy the smell of the coriander, so after the water boils I turn off the heat and slowly wait for the air pressure in the pressure cooker to return to normal. During this time, the herbs will mix with the water. Fully integrated." Lin Kesong explained.
Elise pulled the corners of her lips and smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Jessica, do you have any comments or thoughts?" Winston asked.
Jessica shook her head and said, "Whether it's the cake base, the chocolate ganache or even the matcha powder, the amount is just right. The taste is fluffy and not too loose, and the sweetness is accurate. It can be said that this recipe is perfectly reproduced. dessert."
Up to now, it is better to praise each other with an open-minded attitude rather than being picky.
And what she's talking about is "reproduction." That is to say, no matter how well Jiang Qianfan and Lin Kesong's matcha opera cake is, they are just imitating her work.
"Okay! Both of you are complimenting each other, so I can't see any sparks of conflict, it's so disappointing. Please, wait for the next dessert, please don't be so 'love each other' It's gone!"
After speaking, Winston took the card handed by the staff, raised his eyebrows and said, "Aha, this round of voting is very close! A total of thirteen judges voted for Jessica and Jessica. Elise, while Jiang Qianfan and Lin Kesong got the remaining 12 votes! Let's take a look at the total number of votes now! The two Quentin chefs got a total of 70 votes! Chef Jiang Qianfan and Lin Kesong got 75 votes! There are still two desserts left, and the situation is still likely to reverse! No one knows if one party will suddenly make a mistake or perform exceptionally!"
At this time, the staff served them the second dessert, vanilla ice cream hawthorn.
Lin Ke Song looked at the works completed by Jessica and Elise in front of him. On the plate, they have a delicate and delicate aesthetic that belongs to women, and they are elegant and pursue details. Such desserts, no matter what the taste is, just visually give people a very graceful enjoyment.
They dug a small groove in the center of the carrots, and the creamy mashed potatoes were placed on the bottom of the plate to fix the carrots. A red wine glass was leaning on the groove of the carrots, and a few were wrapped inside. Hawthorn with red icing. A few sprigs of mint leaves and chamomile stamens adorned it for a heartwarming look.
"Try it." Elise's eyes locked on Lin Kesong.
It was a test rather than pressure from Elise. She wanted to test whether Lin Kesong's tongue was really that keen. In terms of cooking, she was Jiang Qianfan's shadow, or maybe she had her own ideas.
Lin Kesong swallowed, she raised the spoon nervously, scooped up a hawthorn and put it into her mouth.
She bit her teeth, and there was a crackling sound, and the sugar coating shattered in her mouth, followed by the sourness and astringency of hawthorn, but the sourness didn't last long, and the soft sweetness of vanilla ice cream came quickly Wrap the tip of her tongue.
"How, any thoughts?" Elise asked with her arms crossed.
She didn't look at Jiang Qianfan, but she kept staring at Lin Kesong.
"It's delicious, the icing is just the right thickness, and it's cool enough. You add a small amount of lemon zest to the icing, and the fragrance and acidity combine with the sweetness of the icing to make the icing taste very simple. It has become active. The selection of hawthorn is also perfect, and the center of the hawthorn is hollowed out very skillfully. The taste of vanilla ice cream is also very smooth, and the taste of milk and vanilla does not completely take away the original sour taste of hawthorn, on the contrary, it is combined together , it makes people very appetizing. The most important thing is, I tasted passion fruit in the ice cream... very fresh!" Lin Ke Song commented very seriously.
"It's the crushed pieces of passion fruit. Because the center of the hawthorn itself doesn't have much space, if the passion fruit granules are completely stuffed in, the space will not be enough, and the ice cream cannot be evenly combined with the passion fruit." Liz explained in a gentle voice, "But Miss Lin, what I want to hear is not just praise and approval. We have changed or upgraded this dessert. I wonder if you have any other suggestions for such an upgrade. ?"
After all, Lin Kesong is only Jiang Qianfan's student. Can she really give advice to a well-known chef like Elise
Jiang Qianfan also ate one.
"Chef Jiang Qianfan, you shouldn't be as stingy as Miss Lin to give advice."
"She has the same tastes and opinions as I do, so let her speak."
There was a calmness in Jiang Qianfan's expression, he was very sure that Lin Kesong could say what he wanted to say.
"Okay, Chef Quentin, I'll just say it straight." Lin Kesong's eyes became firm. Today, she is a chef, and she doesn't need to cower in front of the so-called authority. The lemon zest crumble idea is great, I just feel like the timing is a little off."
"What?" Jessica's eyes narrowed.
"Lemon peel is still hot, its acidity will be higher than normal temperature, and it will even bring out a slight bitterness. In order to make each hawthorn evenly coated with lemon peel, you are boiling the sugar coating, while the sugar coating is still in liquid state. I sprinkled lemon zest on it, right? But this time, the temperature of the sugar liquid was not too low, and the lemon zest released more sourness than usual, and also lost its previous elasticity... So when I bite When I iced and tasted the lemon zest, I felt… what a pity…”
Lin Kesong didn't continue talking, because Jessica's face had changed.
"Do you think so too? Chef Jiang Qianfan?"
"You can taste it now." Jiang Qianfan pushed the plate towards Jessica, who was facing him.
Jessica scooped up one too, frowning slowly as she bit off the sugar coating.
She really miscalculated. Although the acidity didn't change much, most people might not care, but she didn't expect to be tasted by this little girl.
"Cross has given us our opinion, Chef Quentin, and you can try our vanilla ice cream, Hawthorn, too."
Jiang Qianfan's voice didn't have any ups and downs in tone, but it seemed like he was winning for granted.
Jessica glanced at the leaf-shaped plate in front of her. The dessert was very concise, just like Jiang Qianfan.
It was a lying down crispy egg cone with a few slices of strawberries attached to it, with mint bits, like a light flower blooming in the soil.
Jessica picked up a hawthorn, and as soon as it was brought to her mouth, she smelled a fragrance.
"Osmanthus?" Jessica was stunned.
"It's sweet-scented osmanthus. We, like you, want to add more flavor to the monotonous icing, so we chose to use sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus to add fragrance. But we only added a little bit, because we didn't want the direction of sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus to dominate, Overwhelms the vanilla flavor in the ice cream."
"And rum," began Elise. "It's quite a clever idea to use rum to add an aftertaste to the icing."
"Rum is Croissant's idea." Jiang Qianfan tilted his head.
Elise puckered her lips and smiled. She didn't expect that she would affirm Lin Kesong again: "What made you think of adding rum when making the sugar coating? Was it inspired by boozy chocolate?"
Lin Kesong pursed his lips and shook his head: "It's not from chocolate, nor from any food, but from the feeling of falling in love with someone."
"What does it feel like to fall in love with someone?" Elise was a little incomprehensible.
"I believe that you must have loved someone. Even if he is far away from you, you will try to get close. Even if he is not looking at you, you can't help but keep looking at him. Even if you know all the possible sacrifices There will be no reward, but I still want to walk side by side with him. It's like falling into a sweet wine, obviously getting drunk and forgetting who I am, but I still don't want to sober up come over."
Elise looked into Lin Kesong's eyes, and for a long time, she turned her face to the direction of Jiang Qianfan.
He never knew what kind of eyes she looked at him with, all her expectations and hopes for him were like a drop of rum in syrup, impossible to take back and impossible to separate.
"This is indeed a very delicate and wonderful idea." Elise's eyes slowly returned to Lin Kesong.
Her lips pursed into a rounded arc, and there was a relaxed feeling in her smile. That is joy from the heart.
"Where's Jessica? Do you have any opinion?" Jiang Qianfan asked.
Although her face was calm, Jessica had to admit her dissatisfaction. Whether it is the ratio of sugar coating, the acidity of hawthorn, and the sweetness of vanilla ice cream when it is melted by the temperature of the mouth, it seems that the sweetness of magma rushing out of the surface conquers the palate, and even the faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus and vanilla complement the aftertaste of rum. It's like an encounter between fragrance and taste.
She couldn't find any flaws.
"It's perfect." Jessica forced a smile.
If there is no comparison, ordinary people will definitely think that Jessica and Elise's vanilla ice cream hawthorn is unmatched, but Jiang Qianfan and Lin Kesong capture everything with a more intoxicating taste.
This round, Jessica knew that the gap would be even wider.
She didn't underestimate Jiang Qianfan, but she knew that she underestimated Jiang Qianfan's eyes.
Not everyone is capable of being his student, let alone partner.