The freshmen on the stage were talking a lot. The four hours passed by in a blink of an eye. Many people felt that they had not seen anything or learned anything. Zhao Youqian was already over.
Only a few people showed surprise. They also felt that Zhao You cooked too quickly, and if they looked carefully, not all of the dishes presented were famous dishes.
Even a dish like Suzaku Spitfire, which has performed amazingly before, is just an improvement on the old spicy chicken dish from Sichuan Province. Can such a dish pass the rigorous review? Many people are skeptical.
Not to mention that they worship foreigners, but the Yaozhou cuisine industry has always been complicated by internal forces, especially in Yaozhou itself. Their chefs rarely participate in international affairs. Apart from occasionally showing glimpses of surrounding matters, they have a huge influence on the entire cuisine industry. Still those ideas of the Western Alliance.
After all, the culinary renaissance movement started from them two hundred years ago!
High-end ingredients, exquisite cuisine, and careful presentation. It can be said that a considerable part of Yaozhou cuisine is incompatible with this concept.
Even Dongying cooks who were influenced by the Eastern Alliance have much higher requirements for the appearance of their food than real Yaozhou chefs. Although Zhao Youqian's presentation is already quite particular, in their eyes, he can still only be regarded as a commoner. gourmet food.
The only thing that can barely be considered a success is the Orange Lake Crab frozen soup.
However, for real cooking masters, although Zhao Youqian's presentation is not top-notch, it is enough to see. They look at the dish as a whole, and the presentation is only a secondary part. It can't be done without, but it doesn't need to be too much. modification.
Even giving up the taste of food and cooking for the sake of beauty. There are many people in the culinary world who are obsessed with this. Zhao Youqian also used his first class to plant a seed for these freshmen here.
The essence of cooking lies in taste, the form is important, but not that important.
"Do you think Teacher Zhao can pass this three-star examination?"
Most of those who were able to enter Yuanyue had a family background, so they naturally understood how difficult the test Zhao Youqian faced this time was. It was an assessment that few people in history had passed.
Such a character has never appeared in Dongying.
It's a pity that most people can only shake their heads blankly when hearing this question, because it is too difficult for them.
Whether special-level cuisine can pass the assessment, if it is other star promotion assessments, they will definitely give a positive answer without hesitation.
But to pass the three-star assessment...
It’s not like there’s no such thing in history. Even when they came up with real special dishes, they still failed unfortunately.
You can understand the horror of this test.
It requires not only your cooking skills, but also how you solve the test questions on the spot and whether you integrate these things into your cooking.
There is no way to pass if you only do one thing, because the three-star assessment tests the most perfect cook under ideal conditions!
This is also the reason why although no one in Dongying has passed the three-star assessment, there are still people applying continuously. This assessment also allows the chefs who take the assessment to check and fill in the gaps in their entire cooking career.
igo's assessment questions are never untargeted and are definitely aimed at the possible weaknesses of those being assessed.
The assessment of the three stars will be directed towards the person being assessed, the core of cooking.
He is said to be a five-star cook in the whole series, but how do he view fusion, how do he understand it, and whether there are any contradictions in his own cooking skills because he understands too many cooking systems.
This is the reason why Zhao Youqian chose ‘fusion’ as the igo assessment topic at that time.
The reason why Zhao Youqian was so embarrassed was not only because this question contained a wise and foolish side, but also because it happened to hit his own shortcomings.
If he hadn't recently acquired a lot of recipes and been studying how to balance his own cooking system, he might not have been able to come up with the idea of "mutual growth and mutual restraint" about fusion.
But now, he can only wait for the judges' judgment.
Having put all his thoughts into the dishes and cooking, Zhao Youqian's eyes were clear and magnanimous as he looked at the judges not far away.
When I saw the igo staff delivering the dishes, I couldn't help but explain.
“If possible, it’s best to taste the braised bamboo shoots last, and the other dishes don’t matter in any order.”
Hearing this, Fengjian Xuezhi, the old lady, smiled slightly.
"What's the reason why little brother said that?"
Zhao Youqian chuckled lightly.
“Of course it’s to taste the most shocking and complete flavor!”
The other judges nodded. If this kind of food is served at a banquet, it is normal for the order of tasting to be particular.
Because this will interlock the flavors.
Several people who were originally confused about whether Zhao Youqian was really present did not blink, but they already exchanged opinions while their eyes crossed.
Let’s try what Zhao Youqian said first.
The first thing Jiucou Luyuan picked up was the Orange Lake Crab. The soup left a deep impression on him at that time. It is also an ancient tradition in Yaozhou to eat the soup first before eating the vegetables. Naturally, he was the first to appreciate this dish. Let’s start with the frozen soup.
But the feel in my hand today is completely different from last time. If the soup was warm and melted in your mouth last time, then this time when the orange container is in your hand, it is already a piece of Cold.
Showing a trace of confusion, Jiucou Luyuan knocked on the orange, and then the skin of the seemingly intact orange began to peel off and split into eight petals, surrounding a crystal spherical orange ice cube like petals.
It was only then that Jiuzou Luyuan was surprised to find that what Zhao Youqian used this time was not frozen soup, but an ice cube embedded in the orange, and a soup with a faint residual warmth was placed inside the ice cube!
There are white filaments floating on the orange soup surface, and you can't tell whether it is orange meat or crab meat, which contrasts beautifully.
"Why can the soup still be warm in such ice cubes?"
“And the ice cubes haven’t melted yet??”
In the observation room of the Ten Heroes, Si Yingshi stared at the orange ice cube with a bewildered expression.
At the judging table, Kirisenzaemon, who also picked up the orange, showed a look of surprise.
“It turns out to be meringue!”
"The freshly baked and still hot puff pastry fell into the ice to heat up the cold soup, but why... the puff pastry was not seen?"
Stir it a few times with a spoon. The orange lid-like meringue that was taken out of the oven and replaced the lid has disappeared in the soup.
“Try it and see!”
De Fenglei was really interested at this time. Even if some things were explained, they also stared at them with their own eyes, but it was still difficult to know what the taste would be like when combined.
Put a spoonful of warm soup into your mouth, and in an instant, a strong acidity and the umami flavor of crab are swept over you at the same time.
It actually made De Fenglei's hair stand on end like an explosion, as if he was electrified!