Dishes that don’t shine are not good dishes

The National Scholar Peerless and the Peerless Beauty (Part 2)

——cotton, hard, soft.

The three changes of desserts gradually interact with each other as they chew, black sesame and maltose, black sesame and caramel, caramel and maltose, and so on, but there seems to be no end.

Lina couldn’t help closing her eyes, moved her right hand slightly, and scooped up a spoonful of dessert made by Xie Yunfei and put it into her mouth.

Carmen showed a look of surprise and admiration, but she didn’t speak immediately. Just like the views of many special chefs in the auditorium, the “Dragon Beard Crisp Revolution” made by Xie Yunfei is actually a dessert that needs to be tasted while it is still warm, and Carmen couldn’t restrain herself from tasting this dish while it was still warm. desire.

Not to mention Lloyd, his performance may be the most obvious of the four, he even picked up the dinner plate directly, and used a spoon to pull the food on the plate without looking at his image.

As for Huang Chang…

Putting down the spoon, she wiped her mouth with a towel. After Huang Chang pushed aside the bright as new dinner plate, he turned his attention to Xie Yunfei who was standing in front of the judges’ seat.

“Chef Xie Yunfei, this dish of yours…” opened his mouth, as if intending to give a summary, but after hesitating for a moment, Huang Chang shook his head, “Sorry, I can’t give a definite conclusion right now. judgment.”

“This ‘Dragon Beard Crisp Revolution’ is indeed very delicious. In many respects, it is even as good as Lan Feiyu’s ‘Golden Osmanthus’. But I have a little doubt, and I hope you can answer it for me.”

After hearing the words, Xie Yunfei nodded noncommittally.

Seeing his response like this, Huang Chang twitched the corners of his mouth, and at the same time, he did not forget to reach out and pat Lloyd next to him, telling him to stop tasting.

“What’s wrong?”

Unlike Huang Chang, Lloyd was still immersed in the delicious cooking. After being interrupted by Huang Chang, his face was full of doubts.

“Lend me this dessert of yours, and return it to you immediately.”

“Well, yes.”

After hearing this, Lloyd hesitated for a moment, but he seemed to have the same confusion as Huang Chang in his heart, so he didn’t refuse.

In fact, it wasn’t just him. Carmen and Lina also stopped what they were doing and raised their heads in due course, either looking at Huang Chang at the side, or at the young man in front of them.

After Huang Chang took the plate, he asked the waiting staff for a pair of clean chopsticks, and carefully fiddled with him who still had about one-third of the dessert left. At this time, he seemed to have found something. His expression changed slightly.

“This is it.”

As he said this, he took out a somewhat broken translucent object with his chopsticks.

The camera zoomed in, and what appeared on the big screen above the venue was what many audience members had already guessedCaramel plate – of course, due to the heat, the caramel plate at this time has turned into caramel slices only slightly thicker than Chanyi.

But even so, looking at the caramel slices on the big screen, many people in the venue showed expressions of surprise.

“I don’t know if it’s my illusion. I always feel that this piece of caramel is overcooked?”

“Do you think so too?”

“Successfully made caramel should have a very beautiful amber color on the surface and inside, but the caramel slices made by Chef Xie Yunfei turned brown in color.”

“If you just eat that piece of caramel, it should… be very bitter, right?”

…

As the audience said, the caramel slices are not sweet at all, but have a strong bitter taste.

“I understand your idea of ​​putting this piece of caramel into the dessert, hoping to use the bitterness to offset part of the sweetness of this dish that is almost entirely composed of sugar.” Huang Chang stuffed the caramel piece back into the dish, While saying this, he frowned, “But… if it was you, even if you don’t use such a technique, you should be able to control the proportion of sugar, so that this dish has a sweet taste without making it too sweet. People feel tired of teeth.”

Huang Chang’s tone was quite calm, but the content of the words made many people puzzled.

“According to Judge Huang, this dish must be very good.”

“It’s because you didn’t understand, right? What Chef Huang Chang meant was that Chef Xie Yunfei took a long detour.”

“No, no, no, what do you think, Master Xie did this on purpose.”

“On purpose? Adding bitterness to the dessert?”

…

The audience was divided into two factions because of Huang Chang’s words. Even the cooks watching the battle, many of them didn’t understand the specific thoughts of the young man in front of the judges’ seat.

Among them, there is Feifei.

Fortunately, unlike Xiaoyun, Wu Shishi and others who were also puzzled but could only stay in the auditorium, Feifei who was already in the competition venue did not hesitate, and walked lightly to the kitchen table where she knew Yunfei side.

Taking advantage of Huang Chang’s questioning to Xie Yunfei, when most of the people’s attention was not on her, Feifei tiptoed into her mouth the scraps left over from Xie Yunfei’s cooking on the kitchen table. Then, like the four judges on the stage, she was completely captured by Xie Yunfei’s cooking.

“Okay, delicious!”

Feifei covered her mouth, and a blush crept up on her cheeks. She never thought that Xie Yunfei could cook such a dish when he was at such a disadvantage, a dish that was no worse than her own ‘Golden Osmanthus fragrans’.

Can……

Just like what Huang Chang said, even without the caramel plate in the middle, the cooking is already very good.

With this in mind, Feifei turned around and looked in the direction of the judges’ seats.

Xie Yunfei didn’t know about Feifei’s stealing behavior. After hearing Huang Chang’s question, the corners of his mouth suddenly turned to the sides.

When he decided to add the overcooked caramel slab to the dessert, Xie Yunfei had actually anticipated the current situation.

She didn’t keep her secrets, and opened her mouth directly, “Chef Huang, do you still remember the two themes of this afternoon’s culinary showdown?”

“Theme?” Huang Chang pursed his lips.

How could he forget it? After all, it was a task assigned by the master.

Xie Yunfei didn’t wait for the other party’s answer. He raised his hand and made a ‘two’ gesture.

“The first theme, apart from seasonings and spices, the number of ingredients used should not exceed three. At this point, I used three ingredients: maltose, lard and black sesame, and the raw material of the caramel plate is granulated sugar. is counted in the seasoning.”

I didn’t intend to embarrass you in this regard.

Huang Chang didn’t say such words, but sat on the seat, waiting for the second half of Xie Yunfei’s sentence.

“The second theme is the ‘peerless beauty’ proposed by Chef Lina, just like the golden osmanthus made by Chef Fei… Lan Feiyu, which needs to show the ‘femininity’ of women.”

“My ‘Dragon Beard Crisp Revolution’ is somewhat similar to Chef Lan Feiyu’s in terms of production techniques, so you must think that I chose the same routine, right?”

When Xie Yunfei was speaking, the smile on his face became more intense. He suddenly raised his hands and made a cross to the four judges in front of him.

“Unfortunately, all of you—guessed wrong!”