Chapter 244 Rotating five-color ingredients (4000-character chapter!)(1/2)
What exactly is there a problem? This is a common doubt among all viewers.
"Damn it! I found the cause of the problem."
After a moment of silence at the scene, a small young man suddenly stood up from the audience and pointed to the competition area below excitedly, "Let's take a closer look at what's on the table!"
"Uh...Isn't this clear at a glance, ingredients, woks, stoves."
"I understand. He wanted to say that there was nothing but these three things on the table!"
“Nothing…”
"No seasoning, no oil, no bowl, no chopsticks, no cutting board... Damn, there is not even a spatula or a stir-frying spoon? How do you fry this?"
"Do you still remember the prompt given by the male host at the beginning of the first round?"
"hint?"
"Well, he said: It's the same missing!"
"I missed the same thing.. The first round was a knife skill, but the eyes were missing.. The second round was a spoon skill.. I understand. This is a frying spoon that is matched with the wok."
"Why did I suddenly feel that the difficulty of this last stage has been several times higher than before!"
"Yes, if you want to stir-fry the ingredients you had cut before without a stir-frying spoon, you can only use a flip frying pan instead of a spatula or a stir-frying spoon to turn the ingredients. In three minutes, to be honest, if I had a spatula, I could only stir-fry potatoes and carrots in three minutes."
"That's right, in this case, you have to stir-fry five ingredients, and at least two or more ingredients in the pot should be stir-fried at the same time!"
"What I'm considering is how players should turn the ingredients in the pot. I'm afraid they'll mix them together after turning them. You should know that the ingredients are of different natures, and it's impossible to cook them at the same time."
"It's so difficult, it's really hard..."
"What I think is different from yours." In the audience, a girl broke the depressing atmosphere and pointed to many players who were spinning in place, grabbing their hair, and even more so, she had already walked out of the field silently, obviously intending to give up the game.
Everyone was stunned by this scene, and then as they looked at it, they saw the problem. Someone suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard that he was thumping and burst into tears.
…
On the field, Chen Chong understood the rules of the game and quickly came up with a solution, not too panic.
However, he wanted to laugh out loud now and was holding back, but he was almost unable to bear it.
Because Jay Chou...
The latter grabbed half a potato in one hand and a piece of beef that was about the size of his palm in the other hand, and shed two lines of tears silently. Such a large piece of ingredients was almost impossible to cook thoroughly within the specified time, especially potatoes and carrots.
Sure enough, the competition was fair. Those who were cheating in the first stage all regretted it so much that their intestines were blue at this time.
Chen Chong quietly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't do such stupid things, otherwise no matter how skilled he was, he would be unable to make up for the truth.
Ding! Player No. 101 gave up the competition...
Ding! Player No. 470 gave up the competition...
Ding! Player No. 221 gave up the competition...
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Soon, there were more than twenty people in the stadium who chose to leave without any idea of trying. They seemed to understand that it was a waste of effort and time, so it would be better to leave early, so as not to make a joke after the game began.
However, apart from them, most people still think that they are still possible, including Jay Chou.
In this regard, Chen Chong could only look at his nose and his heart, and selectively turned a blind eye to avoid laughing and affecting the game later.
Of course, there are some people who are in the first stage, who are indeed good at knife skills and are also very serious in handling ingredients. Judging from their thoughts, they should have been thinking about how to cook the five ingredients within the specified time.
"Please pay attention to the competition, the countdown is 10..9..8."
As Liu Hua's voice sounded, the atmosphere between the venue suddenly became tense. The audience wanted to see how the contestants cooked ingredients in a wok without a stir-frying spoon, and also wanted to see all kinds of funny moments of those unlucky guys. So while they were nervous, they were mixed with hope.
“2..1..The competition begins!”
As the last word fell, all the players' first move was to turn on the stove and adjust the firepower to the maximum. But unfortunately, this integrated stove fully considered safety at the beginning of the design, so the maximum firepower is equivalent to the small fire of the restaurant stove.
It is worth noting that the integrated stoves of restaurant stoves and household stoves are different. The fires of restaurant stoves are as spectacular as rocket jets and are not comparable to other stoves at all. In other words, the small fires of restaurant stoves are equivalent to the medium fires of household stoves and the large fires of integrated stoves.
Therefore, the stove is not as unbearable as I imagined
Chen Chong reached out and approached the bottom of the pot with his palm, felt the heating process and the temperature distribution, and gradually determined his plan.
Compared to Jay Chou’s style that you can’t cook at a glance, these beef shreds, potato shreds, carrot slices, tofu cubes, and fish fillets do not have this problem. They are small in size, have a large heat area, and have fast heat transfer. What’s more, they are easy to cook!
Therefore, the problem Chen Chong faces is how to cook the five ingredients as evenly as possible, without sticking to the pan or improving the taste level.
However, it is difficult to meet these requirements without the assistance of any seasoning and fried spoons.
However, it does not mean that it is impossible. As long as the method is properly prepared and the characteristics of the ingredients and the pot and stove are fully utilized, Chen Chong is still confident to do it.
When the temperature in the pot reaches about 50%, he quickly put the cut shredded beef into the pot. At the same time, he held the handle of the pot with his right hand, and used the power of his wrist to rotate the wok regularly in a clockwise direction. Then, he shaking the wok, drive the shredded beef inside to rotate together.
This technique is called a shredding spoon, which keeps the beef shreds moving and non-stick to the pan, heated evenly, and increases the brightness of the shreds on the surface of the shreds when the wok is rubbed with the beef shreds.
At the same time, the inertia generated by shaking the spoon will create a gap between the shredded beef and the wok that is difficult to observe with the naked eye, laying the foundation for a small spoon or a large spoon.
Although the classification of spoon skills is not as numerous as knife skills and is so fine, each of its techniques can be coordinated and converted to each other, and the variability is very great. There is no fixed or coordinated statement. As long as it is suitable for ingredients and cooking techniques, it can be used in a mix and match.
"In order to eliminate the contestants, the organizer really does anything to set traps everywhere." Chen Chong muttered while shook his spoon.
Don’t think that the problem of “cutting vegetables and blinding your eyes” and “losing the pot and missing spoon” is the core of the competition. In fact, some details are also devastating.
For example, the first trap...
The first stage of the knife skills competition makes people mistakenly think that as long as the ingredients are cut at the specified time, they can pass the test smoothly. In this way, when the accuracy of the ingredients cannot be guaranteed, some people will naturally replace them with roughness.
What's the result?
Most of the cheating people have indeed passed the test, but they have basically declared that they missed the second round.
As for the second trap... it is the ingredients!
When everyone's attention is attracted by how to cook the ingredients, the ingredients become a stumbling block to success.
Potatoes, carrots, tofu, beef, and fish. On the surface, potatoes are the most difficult to cook, followed by carrots, beef, tofu and fish.
The organizer did not provide a plate, which means that the fried dishes could not be transferred out during the stir-frying process and could only be left in the pot.
Therefore, from a subjective point of view, frying potatoes first is obviously the most obvious choice. Start with the ingredients that are the least easy to cook and slowly add other ingredients.
However, if you really do this, you will fall into the trap, because the potatoes that have not been soaked in water have a high starch content. Without the assistance of oil, they will definitely stick to the pot, forming a rough crust at the bottom of the pot, and it will get darker and darker.
Therefore, in this case, the result of the second ingredient being put into the pot can be imagined, either standing with starch or being heated unevenly and cannot be cooked for a long time.
"Ding! Player No. 125 chose to leave..."
Chen Chong raised his eyebrows slightly, because Isn’t the 125 player the unshaven uncle on his left hand?
"Crazy, what's it?"
There was a metallic crossover sound and a scolding sound from the left. Chen Chong turned his head and saw that the eliminated contestant still had the wok on the table, turned around and left.
The stove was still on and was turned off by the staff. In the wok, the potato shredded potatoes covered most of the wok and could no longer move. They could only watch it get darker and exuded a pungent burnt odor.
Chen Chong shook his head, saying that he would come from whatever he said. He just said that potatoes could not be the first to be put into the pot, and someone was caught.
"Ding! Player No. 238 chose to leave..."
"Ding! Player No. 482 chose to leave..."
"Ding! Player No. 341 chose to leave..."
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Electronic sounds are getting more and more dense, and more and more people are being eliminated. Although Chen Chong is not sure why these people are eliminated, it is not difficult to guess that many of them are the same as No. 125.
Hesit...
The shredded beef in the pot began to emit white smoke, and a faint fragrance gradually spread out, like the smell of barbecue.
Chen Chong's wok was still shaking, and the shredded beef was also shaking, but surprisingly, during this process, a layer of greasy appeared on the surface of the wok!
"It's almost done."
Chen Chong smiled at the corner of his mouth. This was the effect of stir-frying beef first, stir-frying out the butter from the beef, laying the foundation for the next ingredients, and increasing the smoothness of the surface.
Then, he poured the shredded potatoes into the pot...
During this period, Chen Chong still did not stop shaking the pot, so after putting the shredded potatoes into the pot, he soon began to rotate with the shredded beef.
The only difference is that the shredded potatoes do not follow the shredded beef, but the two ingredients rotate together in a way that is one up and one up. The shredded beef is on top and the shredded potatoes are on bottom, which is clearly divided.
The reason why Chen Chong can form such a strange pattern is that he has a very good grasp of the rhythm and the center of gravity of the two ingredients. Then, before putting the potato shreds into the pot, he slightly increased his strength and used inertia to push the shreds of beef upwards, leaving enough space for the potato shreds to rotate.
As long as the center of gravity of the two ingredients are adjusted to the same rotation center, the force of the beef shreds sliding downward will be offset by the force of the potato shreds pushing upwards, and then the shaking rhythm will be controlled to form this magical scene.
Of course, if you don’t have a deep foundation in spoon skills, it is difficult to do even if you say it simply.
Chen Chong can do it, of course, because he has the help of memory experience in his mind. In addition, he has shown off many things when cooking, oh no, he has turned a lot of spoons, which has long formed muscle memory.
The staff members on the side had their eyes glowing, as if the food was not the ingredients that were turned in the pot, but a hollow rotating gyro. With the strong blessing, they seemed to never fall down.
However, her shock had not lasted for long, and she saw the former falling down the shredded carrots again, and after the same change before, it became a three-color hollow gyro.
"Oh my God..." She not only muttered to herself, but also looked at Chen Chong in disbelief. The latter had a relaxed expression except for a little sweat on his forehead.
"This guy...monster..."
To be continued...