Chapter 246: Liuli Pavilion’s Struggle
Compared with the worried people in Liuli Pavilion, Bai Qiyun's actions seemed much neater.
Several knocked-out large yellow croakers lay in front of the young man, waiting for his arrival.
Seeing the way he raised and lowered his knife, Xiang Ling still didn't quite understand what kind of food Bai Qiyun was going to cook next.
"Actually the answer is very simple."
Perhaps the girl stared at her for too long, which attracted Bai Qiyun's attention.
He rinsed his hands, which were bloody from handling the fish, with water.
"It's nothing more than a word riddle of 'it's water but not water'. Just go down according to the meaning of the competition team."
That's right, according to Bai Qiyun's understanding, as long as aquatic products are used as the main body of the dish, and the shape of the raw material itself does not appear in the appearance of the dish, it will be fine.
So he chose raw materials like fish for cooking.
When fish meat is an individual fish, people often pay attention to the taste such as freshness and tenderness.
But when fish meat exists apart from the fish itself, people's requirements for it are different.
Bai Qiyun plans to use the fish meat as the internal duck meat of the roast duck, retaining the crispy texture of the roast duck skin and the satisfying feeling of a little fat, and then supplementing it with the tenderness of the fish meat to highlight the flavor of the dish itself.
In this way, the fish meat can not only appear on the stage of the competition as a part of the seafood, but also be hidden under the appearance of the duck.
Really smell the smell but not see the person.
However, although his idea was good, he encountered many difficulties.
For example, now he doesn't know how to remove these fish bones so that the fish meat can perfectly replace the duck meat.
And because the fat content of fish itself is too scarce, it is impossible to imitate the taste of duck meat just by relying on fish itself.
He simply processed the fish meat and threw it to Xiang Ling who was in a daze.
"Try the same method you used to treat buns."
"ah?"
Looking at the ingredients in front of her, Xiangling was stunned by Bai Qiyun's words.
How should we deal with this thing? Haven't we already dealt with it?
"Don't be in a daze, try it quickly."
Bai Qiyun pushed Xiang Ling's back, urging the girl to move.
His palms were pressed against the clothes, and through the girl's thin clothes, a warm feeling spread to his palms, which was fleeting.
"This time I need you to use elemental power to roast the fish bones while not applying too much heat to the fish. Can you do it?"
Although it sounded like a request that was deliberately embarrassing, Xiangling still nodded and agreed.
However, a few complaints are inevitable.
"Really, it will cause trouble to people."
After hearing the cook's complaint, Bai Qiyun stood there as if he was deaf, calm and composed.
The Eye of God flashed, and a scorching elemental power surged out from Xiang Ling's body and flew to the location pointed by Bai Qiyun.
Because the fish meat is a fish with few bones specially selected by Bai Qiyun, Xiangling's work is not very intensive. He only needs to grill some fish bones that are more obvious but extremely difficult to remove.
As long as these fish bones are too deep, Bai Qiyun is worried that when he picks them out, he will destroy the texture of the fish meat, which will undoubtedly affect the taste, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
The fish bones gradually melted under the full elemental force, and the originally white and transparent bone spurs turned into a puddle of gelatin and blended into the fish meat.
However, during the integration process, its own heat slightly cooked the surrounding fish, causing some parts of the originally fresh fish to change color.
"Huh~ That's enough."
After processing the pieces of fish at hand, Xiangling wiped the sweat stains on her forehead that had overflowed due to excessive concentration.
"Um."
The fish meat was processed, but in addition to the previous problem, there was another difficulty facing Bai Qiyun.
That is the taste imbalance between mountain delicacies and seafood.
Stuffing fish meat into a duck's belly will definitely cause a taste incompatibility, but Bai Qiyun has not yet thought of a good way to eliminate this incompatibility.
"Well, what should I do?"
He held his chin and thought on the chair beside him.
The sound on the stage became more and more intense, suppressing all the pyrotechnics in the venue.
The stage troupe, which was originally serving as a stage presence, now seemed to be taking over the spotlight.
On the other side of the stove, unlike Bai Qiyun and Xiang Ling, the chefs at Xinyuexuan reacted extremely quickly after making a decision.
They decided to present the grandest seafood dish to the competition team.
Fish, shrimp, crab, and all kinds of seafood, they tried their best to put these things into the same dish.
Although there have been some slight deviations in Xinyue Xuan's cuisine in recent years, they are still quite confident in what they are best at. At least there will be no problem of mixed flavors in seafood dishes.
However, the luxurious materials used in Xinyuexuan are still much more low-key than the operation of Liulicing Pavilion over there.
"Chef, is this...really okay?"
"Shut up and work hard."
After being scolded by Chef Lin, the little chef had no choice but to shut his mouth angrily and start working on what was in front of him.
Compared to the other three teams, Liuliting's movements were much more ostentatious.
In front of a group of ten people, an army of radishes half as tall as a man was placed, and the fattest ones among them were used as raw materials.
In front of Chef Lin, a large crystal clear radish was carefully carved into the shape of a girl, lifelike.
That's right, with limited raw materials, Liuliting and his team chose to compete according to the literal meaning of the question.
They can't cook seafood, but their knife skills are as good as anyone else's.
Since the competition team wants a ‘beautiful person’, Liuliting will give them a ‘beautiful person’.
Chef Lin took several pieces of radish, carrot, white radish, and water radish of different colors, mixed them together in various colors, and finally piled up the impressive-looking radish statue in front of him.
Of course, this is also related to the object he is sculpting. The model chosen by Chef Lin is naturally the most popular protagonist in the scene today, Miss Yun Jin.
Mr. Yun's appearance won a lot of applause on the stage, so he naturally took this opportunity to record the most suitable model in front of him.
The statue, which is half a man tall, is very inspiring just from a distance.
"Hmm~ Such a big battle, you are worthy of being a member of Liuliting."
Looking at the people busy carving radishes, Bai Qiyun couldn't help but sigh.
He thought that Liuliting would respond to the question, but he didn't expect that he would respond in such a flamboyant way.
Should I say it or not, I really have the momentum of 'Licai' to take the lead.
However, Bai Qiyun didn't think that the opponent would be able to win with certainty.
After all, this is a cooking competition, and the ultimate competition is taste.
Knife skills only account for a small part of it.
After thinking about it, Bai Qiyun handed the prepared duck to Xiang Ling.
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Chapter completed!