Dishes that don’t shine are not good dishes

The Second Round (Ming Dynasty)

About half an hour later, Jonathan served his own food.

“Rainbow soda popsicles.”

Red, orange, yellow, green, pink… Although the number of colors layered in the popsicle did not reach seven, and they were not completely distributed in the order of the rainbow, the judges still clicked on the color light flowing on the surface of the popsicle. nodded.

“It’s a very simple dessert.” It was Hikigu Yukino who spoke first. At this time, she was supporting her chin with her fingers crossed, looking at the popsicle in a round cup in front of her.

“The production steps are indeed simple, but you will understand the taste after you taste it.” Jonathan smiled slightly. Unlike the rude and direct cooking before, standing in front of the judges’ table, his chef uniform has changed back to the original It looks neat and tidy.

He gave a gentleman’s salute to several people, then stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

If it were the five judges in the first round, after seeing that the dessert in front of them turned out to be a dish, they would definitely not even think about it and start tasting it directly. But the judges in the second round, to put it more pleasantly, were reserved.

Several people gave in to each other, and in the end, Hikigu Yukino, who is a lady, started to taste first, while the others were a step behind her.

–cold!

This was the first feeling that everyone felt when the popsicle entered their mouths. It was as if they were at the coldest poles. Even if they just stood there, they would feel as if they could be frozen by the chill penetrating into the bone marrow.

Followed closely by the sweetness of the fruit.

Jonathan put watermelon juice on the top layer of the popsicle. After taking the first bite, he added soda powder to the watermelon popsicle. Because the temperature in his mouth gradually melted, the natural deliciousness was released. The sweet juice soaked the judges The tongue seems to have the meaning of winter and spring, and the greenery returning to the earth.

After the sweetness, it is full of carbon dioxide bubbles formed by the fusion of soda powder and water.

Before tasting, Love had a close observation of the surface and interior of the popsicle, but he did not find any air bubbles. He originally thought that Jonathan controlled the amount of soda powder used to reduce the probability of air bubbles, but now he sees Come……

After eating the first layer of watermelon popsicles in a few bites, everyone turned their attention to the second layer, the orange popsicle made from oranges and lemons.

Similar to the situation of the watermelon popsicle, when they took the first bite, everyone felt the cold first, perhaps because they gradually got used to the temperature of the popsicle, this cold feeling didn’t last long, it just stayed in the mouth for about threeIn four seconds, it is replaced by the sourness of lemon and the sweetness of orange.

Jonathan didn’t seem to add syrup or granulated sugar to the popsicles, so the taste tasted by all the judges can be said to come entirely from the various fruits themselves. And the ingredients provided by Gourmet Research, even if they don’t reach the fantasy level, are much better in quality than those from other suppliers.

Some Love, who couldn’t eat sour, bared his teeth, but didn’t stop tasting. Instead, he finished the second layer of the popsicle faster than the others.

Then there is the third layer, popsicles made of kiwi juice.

This time, the feeling of coldness was reduced again. It could no longer be called coldness, but pure coolness, and the duration was even shorter, only a second or two. After the coolness, it was the sweetness of the kiwi juice, and what the judges didn’t expect at all…bitterness!

Wang Bayi and Hu Jianjun frowned, they looked at each other, and then Hu Jianjun asked, “What did you put in it?”

“It’s just mixed with a little matcha.” Jonathan didn’t hide anything. “I want to use the bitterness of matcha to bring out the sweetness of kiwi fruit.”

“Is the amount of matcha too much?” Wang Bayi continued to ask.

Unexpectedly, Jonathan asked back, “If the taste is not bitter, how can it be considered life?”

“I believe that some of you have already guessed it. The rainbow popsicles I made have five flavors in total, namely sweet at first, sweet and sour next, bitter and sweet afterward, salty which you have not yet tasted, and finally Spicy.”

“These five flavors represent the pure joy when we were born in this world, the hazy love for the opposite sex after entering adolescence, the bitterness of recalling the past after falling out of love, the tears left for this, and the final growth.”

Jonathan stood in front of the judges and explained, and the five judges did not intend to waste time. While listening to his words, they tasted the last two layers of popsicles in order, that is, the salt water popsicles and curry soda that Jonathan revealed the answer in advance popsicle.

A small amount of dragon fruit juice is added to the salt water popsicles, which highlights the salty taste of salt water through the sweetness of fructose, but it doesn’t make people feel very obtrusive, but people can’t help but immerse themselves in it.

Finally, there is the curry soda popsicle made with curry powder. To be honest, before tasting it, even Hikigaya Yukino, who is a Japanese, keeps a respectful attitude towards such a novelty that has already been launched in Japan. Not to mention the other four judges. But after taking a bite with the mentality of trying to eat, the door to a whole new world appeared in front of them.

The curry powder used by Jonathan is obviously not the prepared curry powder provided by the Gourmet Research Institute, but his own formula that was confirmed by the staff. The overall taste is more spicy, even if it is iced, it will make several people sweat profusely.

After eating a popsicle, the five judges didn’t feel any discomfort in their stomachs, which surprised them.

“You should have added other ingredients to the popsicles, right?” David guessed confidently, “Otherwise, the five layers of popsicles would have a temperature difference of several degrees, and I couldn’t even feel the difference in the temperature of the last two layers. in the cold.”

Although the others didn’t speak, they also turned their attention to Jonathan.

Although they are gourmets like the five judges in the first round of preliminaries, David and others don’t know as much about cooking and chefs as Tony and others did before.

However, Jonathan did not intend to hide his technique, and smiled after hearing the words, “I just used a family-handed cooking technique, which allowed the flame, or the power of the sun, to be incorporated into the cooking, and then let the popsicles taste better. Generate hot and cold variety.”

“Is that so?” Love nodded. This somewhat silent writer didn’t ask Jonathan what the connection between the popsicles he made and the “variety of life” was. The blond chef in front of him had already incorporated all his understanding into the cooking.

The gradually changing temperature represents the gradually changing seasons, and the different seasons can also symbolize the various stages of a person, which corresponds to the four words “everything in life”.

——8 points!