Life is a Game

Jiang Feng, who couldn't understand the tactics, was watching the other contestants cooking in an even more incomprehensible manner.

It's really onlookers.

Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi seemed to be two off-site spectators who strayed onto the stage, sitting on a small bench with their heads propped up to watch other chefs cook, and occasionally moved the stool to make way for Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai.

Other chefs who noticed the status of Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi:?

Look down on us?

Jiang Feng not only watched the excitement, but also discussed with Wu Minqi.

"Qiqi, look at the chef of New York Light. Have you noticed that for so long, he didn't dare to look at Chef Arnold, and he didn't even dare to take a glance." Jiang Feng quietly pointed at the bearded chef of New York Light .

The same bearded man and the same strong man, why are they so cowardly?

"The chef of New York Light is in charge of desserts." Wu Minqi obviously discovered more.

"Dessert?" Jiang Feng couldn't help looking at the ingredients in front of the bearded chef. They were very rich in eggs, meat, vegetables, fruits, and there were some bottles and jars that might be spices, seasonings, or pigments. To be piled up into a hill.

With such a wealth of ingredients, Wu Minqi actually said that he was in charge of desserts.

A high-end word that Jiang Feng didn't understand suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Molecular gastronomy?"

"Maybe." Wu Minqi doesn't understand molecular cuisine either. Under the leadership of Chef Arnold, the menu of the restaurant on the top floor is rough, wild, and primitive. There is no exquisite and elegant cuisine like molecular cuisine.

In Chef Arnold's side, tender and juicy meat, grilled or slow-cooked meat is the essence of cooking.

Among the contestants of the four restaurants on the field, the four chefs of the New York Light are the most stressed.

Teammates like Jiang Feng who are so awesome and start to think about what to do in the finals before the semi-finals start, have never paid attention to the semi-finals at all.

Chef Arnold is the same as above, but it's not that he didn't pay attention to the semi-finals, he didn't pay attention to anyone.

The chefs at the Chinese restaurant knew that they were here to accompany the run, so they had a very good attitude. They just wanted to go back to China to take a look around, and pick up the ancestors at the same time. They compared the semi-finals to a public-funded trip.

The New York Lights are different. They think they can make it to the finals.

As the restaurant with the most expensive dishes in the United States, the Light of New York has been vaguely titled the No. 1 Western restaurant in the United States under the leadership of Chef Arnold in the past two years. After Chef Arnold changed jobs, this title has not changed for the time being. Under the halo of No. 1 in the United States, the bearded chef of New York Light naturally believes that his restaurant will be the favorite to win the championship.

Of course, it is only the favorite to win the championship. No matter how inflated he is, he doesn't think he can be compared with Chef Arnold. After all, at this time last year, he was still the younger brother of Chef Arnold, and he only had to be trained by Chef Arnold and directed to do this and that in the kitchen.

The bearded chef thought he was going to be in the finals.

Taifeng Building and the Chinese Restaurant are the ones who accompany them.

In order to show your talent to the greatest extent, and at the same time prove to the boss that although he is worse than Chef Arnold, you are definitely better than all the chefs in the restaurant. Being the chef is definitely well-deserved. The most important thing is that he has a better temper than Chef Arnold and never scolds the boss. It is better to give him a salary increase next year. The bearded chef made a lot of pre-match plans before the semi-finals.

In the end, plan F was chosen.

They went all out in the semi-finals, won beautifully and advanced smoothly, but in the finals were so-so, lost directly and raised the white flag to surrender.

The bearded chef decided to take out his trump card in the semi-finals, Jedi counter-killer cuisine, grape juice egg pudding.

This is a dish that usually even if the boss puts a gun to his head and asks him to make it, he will have to argue a few words before doing it. It is super complicated and difficult, and it is topped with luxurious molecular cuisine.

In this dish, the grape juice is not grape juice, the eggs are not eggs, the pudding is not pudding, not even the garnish is sauce, and the lemon garnish is not lemon leaf.

This dessert requires a total of more than 60 kinds of ingredients, and it takes more than 5 hours. The cooking process is not like cooking, but like a chemical experiment. There are a lot of measuring cups, test tubes, syringes, and plastic droppers. Every moment needs to be measured, every moment needs to be focused.

The cooking process of the bearded chef is comparable to a chemical experiment, which reminded Wu Minqi of some unforgettable and painful memories in her short college time.

"Fengfeng, have you ever eaten molecular cuisine?" Wu Minqi asked suddenly.

"No." Jiang Feng shook his head. How could he have the money to eat that, "But I think molecular cuisine is quite interesting. It uses visual deception to achieve the ultimate taste enjoyment. It's actually a bit like chickpeas. And those vegetarian dishes Isn’t it all the same? Tofu can be used to look like meat, and it can also taste like meat.”

"But I don't think this looks like cooking or experimenting." Wu Minqi suddenly felt a little thirsty, and after looking around, she found that there was no water on the stools prepared at the cooking table.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Feng asked.

"I wanted to find out if there was any water, but I found that there seemed to be no water on our side, only the judges' side had water." Wu Minqi was a little helpless.

"It's okay, Qiqi, sit here. I'll go to the fruit shop and get you two oranges to squeeze orange juice." Jiang Feng got up to get the oranges.

As soon as Jiang Feng got up, the camera teacher noticed him, and immediately switched the camera to him, following him closely.

Then the cameraman watched as Jiang Feng picked a few oranges and went back to squeeze two glasses of orange juice. He had one for Wu Minqi and one for Wu Minqi, and continued to drink orange juice as if nothing had happened, as if the audience was really watching the game.

Cameraman:? ? ?

Are these two really here to compete?

When Jiang Feng started drinking orange juice, the game had only started for an hour.

It can't be blamed for the slow time passing, the main reason is that everyone is so busy, Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi just sat there doing nothing like the melon-eating crowd. They even started drinking fruit juice and asked Sun Maocai and Sun Jikai if they wanted some fruit juice.

The busyness of others sets off their idleness.

Others' race against time sets off their wasted time.

Jiang Feng only felt that the clock on the big screen was running a little slowly, ticking, and when it was halfway through, he got up and went to the ingredients area to find ingredients and start making phoenix eggs.

The most important thing is that Jiang Feng is a little hungry.

He didn't eat lunch.

I didn't eat much breakfast.

Jiang Feng didn't do anything for the past few days and made soup. He drank lean meat soup in the morning and beef soup in the evening. He drank it for several days in a row. When he saw the lean meat soup he made this morning, he didn't want to drink Quanfeidahua, so he ate two mouthfuls.

I thought it was nothing at first, and it didn't matter if I didn't eat for a day. The most important thing is that when he was picking oranges just now, he passed by Chef Arnold's cooking station. Chef M is such a meat fanatic, no matter what competition he wants to cook big meat, Chef Arnold was frying steak when Jiang Feng passed by.

Fresh, tender and juicy steak with extremely beautiful snowflakes, still fried in butter.

That is called a fragrance.

When Jiang Feng passed by, he almost wanted to go over and ask Chef Arnold for a piece, so that he could taste a couple of bites first.

More than an hour after the start of the competition, the chefs of each group basically started cooking.

For sauces, for cured meat, for pre-boiled, and for steaming.

The aroma of food began to emanate from the stoves of the cooking stations of the contestants in each group.

Chicken, duck, fish, cattle and sheep, and all kinds of poultry and meat compete for beauty.

Jiang Feng was hungry.

He felt that he couldn't sit still like this.

There are still more than 4 hours to the end of this competition. If he is hungry for more than 4 hours, who knows what the final phoenix egg will be.

The program team also did not say that the cooked dishes must be eaten by the judges, and the contestants cannot eat first.

Anyway, he has a lot of time, as long as the preliminary materials are ready, let alone one, 20 copies can be produced within the specified time.

Jiang Feng decided.

He stood up suddenly, so startled that Wu Minqi almost spilled the orange juice.

"Qiqi, let's pick the ingredients!"

"Ah, but I haven't finished my orange juice yet." Wu Minqi thought that Jiang Feng wanted to drink other juices, because the glass of orange juice in front of Jiang Feng had already been drunk.

"It's not juice, let's pick the ingredients for the phoenix eggs. You go to the mushroom section and bring all the very fresh mushrooms and bamboo shoots you can see. I'm getting a few eggs. My aquatic products While picking fish."

Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi divided into two groups and began to choose ingredients separately.

When the two of them first arrived, the cameraman didn't respond and didn't take pictures of them while they were taking pictures of other people. The main reason was that Jiang Feng had a criminal record, and the videographer thought he was trying to get something to eat for himself. When Wu Minqi began to pick mushrooms seriously and picked half a basket of mushrooms, and Jiang Feng was also picking fresh fish over and over again in the aquatic area, the videographer finally said After waking up from Mengchu, he realized that the two were finally about to start the match, so he quickly turned the camera to them.

The ingredients of phoenix eggs are actually very characteristic of Jiangjia cuisine and Tanjia cuisine.

Jiang Feng didn't know if it was because of the limitations of the times. He found that many Tan's dishes and most of the Jiang's dishes he knew so far liked to combine the taste of mountains and the sea.

Delicacy from mountains and seas is the interpretation of delicacies by people in the past, and it is also the helplessness of being unable to gather rare ingredients thousands of miles apart to make dishes because of inconvenient transportation.

Phoenix eggs are a must-have dish for New Year's Eve dinners in the Wangfu, so it is natural to gather delicacies from mountains and seas.

Fresh mushrooms and fresh fish.

When Jiang Feng first learned this dish, Peng Changping told him that the ingredients of this dish are not fixed and very flexible. Meatballs are delicate handmade fish balls made by beating and kneading minced fish meat and very finely chopped mushrooms. The materials of mushrooms and fish meat are not fixed. They can be suitable for river fish or sea fish. There are many kinds, and you can use whatever is good and what is new.

This is a dish that can change over time.

Because the most important thing about this dish is not the balls inside at all, but the layer of fresh and tender egg liquid that is wrapped in the pan when it is about to come out of the pan.

The meatballs provide the umami, and the egg liquid provides the soul.

When Peng Changping was making it, he told Jiang Feng that the most perfect phoenix egg in the legend was the one made by Jiang Chengde, but it was a pity that he had never seen it with his own eyes.

A perfect phoenix egg, it takes only a few seconds before and after the egg liquid is put into the pot to coat it evenly. During these few seconds, the egg liquid needs to be evenly wrapped on the surface of each ball, half-cooked, and then thickened and spooned out of the pot. , During the whole process, the egg skin on the surface of the balls must not be damaged, and there must be no egg liquid left in the pot.

Peng Changping always felt that this was just a legend, because he couldn't do it.

At that time, Jiang Feng wanted to tell Peng Changping that this was not a legend, it was true, because he had seen it with his own eyes. Not only does it look good, it also cooks this piece without stopping even one pot at a time. At first glance, it looks more neat than Jiang Jiankang's fried tomatoes and scrambled eggs.

Of course, there is a reason why Peng Changping couldn't do it, he won't make a big fuss. The big flipping spoon is the unique skill of the Jiang family. Without mastering the real skill of the big flipping spoon, it is very difficult to make the egg skin not break, the egg liquid not stay, and thicken the corn perfectly.

Jiang Feng felt it was time to show Peng Changping the real skill of making phoenix eggs.

He can't be as perfect as Jiang Chengde, at most he can make the egg skin unbreakable, thicken the corn, and it is absolutely impossible for the egg liquid to remain.

But he can show Peng Changping how to use a big turning spoon to finish off the phoenix egg.

By the way, let me show you the thickening skills I just realized this morning.

It's time to let everyone know what real thickening is!

With this in mind, Jiang Feng happily chopped up the minced fish and hummed a little song in his heart.

He was afraid of humming it out and running away and being heard by others.

"Fengfeng, are these mushrooms cut and separated separately or mixed together?" Wu Minqi walked to Jiang Feng with a basin of washed mushrooms.

"Let's separate them separately, I haven't figured out which ones to use."

Wu Minqi:?

Wu Minqi glanced at the big screen behind her.

There are only 4 hours left in the game, and her family Fengfeng hasn't figured out what ingredients to use for cooking.

So now the question is, what was her family Fengfeng thinking when she drank orange juice just now?

Shouldn't this kind of thing be thought out in advance?