"Welcome to the final of the 7th Folk Chef Competition Individual Competition. Here, on behalf of the organizers, contestants and all staff, I would like to thank you for your strong support over the past few days!"

In the commentary seat, Liu Hua kicked off the final passionately, and warm applause and cheers rang out of the audience.

"I believe that through the competitions over the past few days, all of you should have learned more about food, and at the same time, I have also discovered many favorite dishes and admired players. Maybe many players failed to advance for various reasons, but it is undeniable that they all have their own specialty dishes. So, after the competition, you might as well take the time to taste them yourself. Maybe there will be unexpected gains."

After Mu Mu joked, he got to the point, "Get back to the point, I believe everyone was already guessing the rules of the finals before the game. After all, the first and second rounds of the individual competition are very different from previous years. However, in fact, the rules of the finals are relatively simple and very consistent! Next, I will introduce the rules of the finals to you.

First of all, everyone should see three additional workspaces in the middle of the stadium. The structure of each area is exactly the same as that of the team competition workspace, without any change.

Secondly, next to the three work areas, there is a food area for players to choose cooking ingredients, but there are not many types of food, and it is roughly divided into meat, poultry, eggs, aquatic products, vegetables, beans, grains, fruits, medicinal and food-free products, and condiments.

Among them, except for seasonings, there are no more than ten other categories of choices, and they are all common ingredients, such as chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef, and mutton. There are no expensive or rare ingredients at all. In other words, there are some in the vegetable market and some in the ingredient area. If there are not in the vegetable market, there will be no food in the ingredient area.

Finally, the contestants selected these ordinary ingredients and completed the cooking, and then scored by ten professional reviewers and ten audiences drawn on the spot. The winner of the highest score is the chef god of this year, and he also received a cash reward of 500,000 yuan!"

"It's that simple?" As soon as Mu Mu finished speaking, the audience shouted.

"No, this is not simple!" Liu Hua said with certainty: "Everyone should know that among the three contestants participating in the finals, there are Mr. Huang, the well-known winner of the five-time chef God; there are Master Du Wenlong, the leader of the Food City, the winner of the 6th Chef God Competition; and a young chef who rose like a comet, crossed five levels and killed six generals, and had super strength, Master Chen Chong! It can be said with certainty that the three of them are definitely at the top of the Golden Tower in our Longjiang Food World!

In this case, I believe that the more you use top-quality ingredients, the harder it is to distinguish the subtle differences. Therefore, relatively ordinary ingredients can test their respective cooking skills."

"I still don't understand!" someone shouted loudly.

Liu Hua was not anxious and asked slowly, "So, if you give everyone a piece of beef now, what kind of dish will you think of?"

“Boat beef with potatoes!”

"Spicy beef onion!"

"Stir-fried beef with celery!"

“Boiled beef!”

“Braised beef!”

“Beef Stew!”

“Spicy beef!”

"Baked! All! Beef!"

"Hahaha.."

…

As Liu Hua's voice fell, the audience immediately became excited, and everyone started to cheer and laughed.

"I just heard an audience member say 'grilled whole beef'." Liu Hua smiled slightly and said, "I only said to give everyone a piece of beef, but I didn't say to give everyone a beef."

"Hahaha..." The audience burst into laughter again.

"However, since that's the case, I have to remind everyone that the dishes you mentioned ignore one point, that is, the beef itself.

For example, beef brisket, it is the loose and soft muscle mass on the beef abdomen closest to the beef ribs. This meat has tendons, meat, butter flowers, which is more suitable for stewing soup.

Beef tendon meat refers to the thigh muscles of beef. According to the difference between the front and rear legs, it is divided into the front and back tendons. The tendons are the same in the shape of flowers. The braised beef we often eat is the part that contains the tendons, which are moderately hard and chewy."

Liu Hua took a breath and continued, "There are many parts such as this. Take beef brisket for example. In addition to the part I just mentioned, there is also the meat between the ribs, which is also called beef brisket, but this part of the meat is thinner, has no tendons and less fat, which is suitable for braising.

If you really want to make all the dishes you just reported, the number of beef parts involved is definitely not a simple matter. Therefore, this is the meaning of the final. Cooking it out of ordinary things will determine success or failure!”

Indeed, it is a must-have to make ordinary ingredients. And to be honest, with the strength of today's three contestants, it is impossible to stir-fry with beef and steam with fish. This is too simple! Even if you do it to the extreme, it will still be the same!

Crazy...

The audience burst into warm applause, admiring the clever design of the final rules.

"Since that's the case, let's welcome three players into the venue!"

As the words fell, the light of the whole audience dimmed, and the spotlight shone on the entrance channel, and the three players who followed the audience moved slowly.

The first person is not the old man in the imperial court, but the tall and cold-faced Du Wenlong. The second is the old man in the smile and energetic, and the last is the young and dark-skinned Chen Chong.

Kakka..

As the three arrived at the competition area, the music of the entrance was approaching, and the dim lights slowly became brighter and everything returned to normal.

Perhaps it was the detailed introduction of the competition rules by the two hosts before, which indirectly highlighted the extraordinaryness of the three contestants, or the competitions over the past few days were too intense and the end was only left with the three people in front of them, etc.

In short, the backs of Chen Chong and others are undoubtedly shining in the eyes of the audience, with a full look of kingly style and admirable.

However, someone soon noticed something strange, that was, among the three, Chen Chong had a "silly, big and thick" kitchen knife on his waist.

Logically speaking, players can put kitchen utensils in the work area in advance while preparing in the backcourt under the supervision of staff. There is no need to bring them with them when entering the venue, which will affect the shooting effect.

Not only were the audience confused, but even the two hosts were the same. They quickly communicated with the console, but the console said that even the general manager in the backcourt was not clear about what was going on.

There is no way, the console can only communicate with the photographers on the scene immediately, so that they should not take pictures of the knife while shooting, so as not to affect the overall playback effect of the TV station.

Of course, these are things that the organizer needs to consider and have nothing to do with the on-site competition process.

On the field, Chen Chong, Du Wenlong and Mr. Huang took their positions separately, touched the kitchen knife on their waists without any trace. After feeling the familiar coldness, they quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

This knife is naturally not a magic kitchen knife or a "rust knife" that needs to be used in the competition. It is very ordinary, with moderate weight and appropriate size, and is extremely easy to chop things. It was used to slaughter fish heads, but now there is another bone chopping knife he uses.

Since he knew that Du Wenlong's identity was not clean, he would naturally not take it lightly, so as not to see those strange and unexplained events in the first two rounds of the game.

However, the only thing Chen Chong couldn't understand was whether the feeling of fatigue that suddenly appeared after the last team competition was related to Du Wenlong, after all, the latter was not present at that time.

"Maybe he's been hiding in the audience?"

Chen Chong thought about it this way, but directly denied it. If this is true, Zhao Si, an ordinary person, should have been hit, and it is impossible for him to advance to the second round.

In short, the feeling of fatigue is still an unsolved mystery.

This small change caused several cameramen on the scene to worry about making mistakes, and fewer close-ups of Chen Chong were given to Chen Chong. The director also gradually ignored Chen Chong, resulting in the most common appearances on the big screen were Du Wenlong, Mr. Huang, audience, host and the on-site environment. Even if Chen Chong's close-ups were occasionally called up, they were just a flash in the pan.

You should know that the screen on the big screen and the screen broadcast on the TV station are synchronized. Whoever appears the most frequently will naturally gain more popularity.

Unfortunately, the audience did not notice this change, and Chen Chong himself didn't care even if he knew it. Because he didn't like to show up at all.

His eyes were round at the audience slanted above. In the crowd, he saw many familiar faces, including Luo Feng and others from Wang Jiang Pavilion, Wang Xing and others from the Dashi Dynasty, Shen Ruyun, Gu Shangsheng, Liao Changming, Zhu Zhiguo, Zhou Jian and so on, as well as some customers who could not name but had eaten in their own restaurants today, probably the foodies in the group.

When he noticed his gaze, those familiar faces smiled with friendly smiles, and did not show any loss or dissatisfaction due to the setbacks of the previous few days.

Maybe this is food culture. You are a little slim about winning or losing, and learning is the fundamental one.

In addition to these people, Chen Chong also saw Li Shenghui in the audience, who sat quietly in the crowd, without any sorrow or joy.

Chen Chong felt indescribable about Li Shenghui. Although he was implicated by Du Wenlong in the second round of yesterday, the answers he wrote were wrong several times, but in general, if Li Shenghui had not voluntarily withdrew from the competition, he would have probably spent a lot of effort to solve the dilemma.

"What a pity, if he was a businessman in the food street, he would definitely be a good person." Chen Chong sighed secretly, and after signaling to Li Xiang and others, he withdrew his gaze and no longer was affected by the messy thoughts.

"I guess the staff had already introduced the rules of the competition to you in detail before entering the three players, right?" Liu Hua asked.

Upon hearing this, Chen Chong and the old man nodded, but Du Wenlong did not say anything.

The two hosts and the ten judges below didn't care about this, and knew that Du Wenlong had such a cold personality and was taciturn. As long as he didn't object, he would be accustomed.

"Since that's the case, please prepare for the three players, and the competition is about to begin!"

As soon as Liu Hua finished speaking, Chen Chong and the other two stood tacitly at the entrance and exit of the work area. The big screen above popped up a timer, which showed an hour, which means that the final will end within an hour, which is twice as long as the last round of the team competition!

This is because the team competition is a team-up of three people, and all the steps of the individual competition can only be completed by themselves.

"Attention! The last round of the individual competition of the 7th Folk Chef Competition..." On the commentary stage, after receiving the director's notice, Liu Hua and Mu Mu looked at each other, and then they announced in unison: "Start!"

"Come on, Mr. Emperor!"

"Come on, Mr. Du! Come on the Food City!"

"The foodie representatives from the second group of foodies come to report, Come on, Boss Chen! Take the chef!"

"Come on everyone! Support you!"

…

As the audience cheered, Chen Chong and the other two quickly pushed the cart toward the ingredient area.

During this process, only professional videographers allow followers. As for the anchors of major live broadcast platforms that are qualified to enter, it is not possible. They can only wait until the contestants return to the competition area before they can conduct interviews and interactions.

After entering the ingredient area, Du Wenlong and Mr. Huang immediately dispersed and selected the materials they needed. As for Chen Chong, he started to wander around aimlessly.

Before the competition, he analyzed that he had not many dishes, and very few could be used in the competition, and it was not outstanding. This also corresponds to the truth summarized by Liu Hua just now. Even if ordinary dishes are made perfectly, it is difficult to stand out from this level.

"Fish-flavored shredded pork, Mapo tofu, exquisite sweet and sour pork ribs, and pickled fish are always too ordinary." Chen Chong stood in front of the shelves of the staple ingredients and remained silent.

Among the dishes he knows how to cook, the "Four Treasures" in the team competition is a top-notch dish, but the quail and pigeon needed for this dish did not appear on the shelf in front of him. Even if it appears, he would not be able to make it again.

Not far away, Mr. Huang and Du Wenlong put a lot of ingredients in their carts, and it was obvious that they decided what dishes to cook.

Chen Chong closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes, a faint golden light appeared in his black pupils. Fortunately, there was no cameraman beside him because of the bone chopping knife, otherwise he would definitely capture this magical scene.

As his eyes fixed the beef on the shelves, a line of text options appeared in the invisible field of view of outsiders.

[For each ingredient selection, 1000 doom points will be deducted. After all the ingredients are selected, 1000 doom points will be consumed again to randomly generate the complete dish. Is the beef locked? Yes/No.]

Chen Chong was startled and quickly chose ‘No’.

‘Lucky and favor’ is a skill obtained after unlocking the title of ‘Default’. After understanding the specific usage of this skill, he decided to leave it to the final to deal with the embarrassing situation of lacking dishes.

But what he didn't expect was that this skill was so boring. Not only would it consume the doom value if you chose ingredients, but it would consume the doom value even if you finally generated the menu.

What's even more terrifying is that after the first use, the consumption base of the second time has become 10,000, and the third time is 100,000. As for the fourth and fifth time...

‘0’ can’t be counted!

It's simply the exclusive skill of the rich!

But he, Chen,...

Very poor!
Chapter completed!