Gourmet conquest starts from the entertainment industry

"Steady, steady, Lao Zhou's knife skills are very trustworthy, and the next thing is to see how he gets a high score. The average score of the four judges is his score for this round. The last competition That's it." Yang Shao also instantly felt relieved.

"Haha, I can start to record videos now." Murong Ruoxue immediately ran to the backstage, changed into a kitchen assistant's clothes, and ran to Zhou Mochen with her mobile phone.

The contestants have their own kitchen assistants, but Zhou Mochen's assistant is probably here to make a joke. Do nothing but record video. Zhou Mochen hadn't planned to use an assistant in the first place.

Zhou Mochen thought about it for a while. If he followed the method of other players and just showed his sword skills, he could indeed get high marks, but not necessarily full marks. There were very few full-score winners for the latter two practical scores in the past. But he is different, he lost the first item to give points, and now what he has to do is to either innovate or play with knife skills.

Innovation is not difficult at all for Zhou Mochen, just copy it. There are so many options to choose from, I don't know what to choose. Multiple choice questions are too difficult.

At this time, all the contestants have also selected the ingredients they want to show their knife skills. There are various ingredients, and Zhou Mochen carefully selected a smooth and beautiful cucumber.

The four judges focused their attention immediately, and the camera accurately captured this scene. The audience was speechless after seeing it. Are they going to give up? Take the cucumber, do you want to cut it into sections, slice it, or shred it? The chances of winning are not great. Yang Shao and the others were also confused. They knew that Zhou Mochen could even cut flowers out of tofu, so why did they choose a cucumber.

Even the players next to him didn't even bother to smile. Not only the assistants are here to be funny, but the players are also here to be funny.

Zhou Mochen ignored the eyes focused on him. Open the knife box and take out your usual kitchen knife. Under the effect of light, the simple kitchen knife highlights its mystery, and the sharp blade makes people shudder. It is warning everyone that it is not easy to mess with.

"Good knife." Yang Caixia was envious for a while.

Zhou Mochen picked up the cucumber, cut out the top and bottom sides, and fixed the cucumber with the top. Then the head comes out with a short section and is beveled at 70 degrees. Cut two points and leave one point. Everything to the end, turn over and fix, cut off with a straight knife, the same thickness. Cut two and keep one. When you're done cutting, take the carving knife out of the knife box. Carve the reserved head and tail of the cucumber, and the carving of the head and tail of the snake is lifelike.

The cucumber was pulled straight away, circled and placed on the plate, and a lifelike boa constrictor appeared in front of everyone. When everyone thought it was done, Zhou Mochen didn't stop his movements. He mixed sauce with light soy sauce, sugar and other seasonings, spread evenly, and sprinkled some minced garlic and dried chili. Ignite the hot oil and sauté the peppercorns until fragrant, remove the peppercorns, and pour the hot oil on top. Wipe the edge of the plate clean, and tap the light to indicate completion.

All ten dishes showing knife skills were completed. The four judges also observed, tasted and even measured one by one. Several people nodded to each other after finishing. Start scoring the players. The highest score for this round is 10 points, and the lowest score is 6 points.

Obviously, Zhou Mochen won the first place in the knife competition with full marks. Seeing the latest rankings, Zhou Mochen clenched his fists as there were still three above him. The highest score is 18 points, and there are two 17 points. Zhou Mochen ranked fourth.

"I want to ask this contestant No. 9. Does your dish have a name?" Yang Caixia asked a question that many people wanted to ask.

"Coir raincoat and cucumber!" Zhou Mochen's cold voice resounded throughout the venue.

"It's worthy of the name." Yan Dongming sighed.

"Haha, I knew it, Lao Zhou, you can do it."

"It's really powerful. Let him make it for us to try later. It looks delicious."

"This can be."

"Oh, this little brother's voice is so nice that I even thought of the child's name."

"This doesn't look like a chef. It's more like a star than a star. Isn't this Hu Ge's younger brother who was very popular a while ago?"

"It's him, I know him even in ashes."

"This little brother's ranking is a bit dangerous."

"Okay, the competition has entered the final competition. The final competition item is cooking, but the main ingredients will be drawn by our president Yan Dongming Yan." Tong Ziyu waved his hand to silence the audience, and began to read the final competition rules.

In the end, the main ingredient Yan Dongming drew was fish. At this time, some people are happy and some are worried. There are many ways to cook fish, such as braised, steamed, pan-fried and so on. The test is the cooking and seasoning of the chefs.

But Li Xin and the others knew that Zhou Mochen had many ways to cook fish. Just don't know which dish he will choose this time.

Zhou Mochen walked to the water tank and fished out a medium-sized mandarin fish. I picked some fruit dices and pine nuts from the ingredients library.

Zhou Mochen removed the scales, gills, fins, and internal organs of the mandarin fish, removed the leather coat on the head, washed it, chopped off the fish head, spread it out, and slapped it flat. Then use a knife to shave off the fishbone on the back of the fish, leaving a short spine at the tail.

After the mandarin fish is deboned, spread the skin down, cut into flowers with an oblique knife, cut four and leave one to ensure the integrity of the fish skin, make an opening at the tail, and pull the tail out from the knife edge.

Then sprinkle the fish body with salt, pepper, cooking wine and wet starch and spread evenly.

Heat up the pan, pour oil, the oil temperature is 70%, dip the mandarin fish with a little starch, fry in the oil pan for a few minutes, the skin is golden, and the fish is cooked, then dip the fish head with starch, put it in the oil pan and fry , fry until golden brown, take out, put the knife side up on the fish plate, and install the fish head.

Put the pine nuts in a warm oil pan, fry for half a minute after the oil is hot, remove them, and put them in a small bowl for later use.

Finally, leave a little oil in the pot, add clear soup, add salt, sugar, tomato paste, and vinegar, boil it, thicken it with wet starch, add hot oil and mix well, take it out of the pot and pour it on the fish, sprinkle with pine nuts and fruit pieces .

"Haha, this is called squirrel mandarin fish. I remember that Zhou Mochen made it." Li Xin knew the name of this dish at a glance.

"Yeah, this dish is delicious." Jiang Yingying also echoed.

"Which dish Master Ni cooks is not delicious?" Li Xin looked at Jiang Yingying speechlessly.

"Well, no, they are all delicious." Jiang Yingying thought for a while and said.

Li Xin rolled his eyes when he heard it.

With the completion of Zhou Mochen's dishes, Murong Ruoxue also returned to the audience seats. Looking at the video recorded on the mobile phone, I am full of joy. As expected, brother Mochen was the most handsome. If the other contestants know her inner monologue at the moment, they will definitely ask you, are you polite? Is this a beauty pageant?

Putting ten dishes together, Zhou Mochen's squirrel mandarin fish is unique. From the perspective of color and shape, the level of this dish has gone beyond the section. Everyone was also very nervous watching the four judges try the dishes. Some shook their heads and some nodded.

Back at the judges' seat, the four of them also discussed with each other. Finally, today's final score is also given.

Zhou Mochen once again won the first place in the last competition with an average score of 10 points.

The final total points leaderboard is also generated at this moment.

The first place Liang Jingyun scored 27 points. The second place and the third place tied for 26 points, Zhang Guangkun and Zhou Mochen.

After seeing the ranking, Zhou Mochen heaved a sigh of relief, finally able to participate in the provincial promotion competition. This time he won't give others a chance to press on his head.

"Our top three in total points have been born. Congratulations to our players, Liang Jingyun, Zhang Guangkun, and Zhou Mochen. They will represent Sioux City in the promotion competition in a month. Congratulations to them." Tong Ziyu announced the final result at this moment.

"Hehe, brother Mochen has caught up." Murong Ruoxue jumped up excitedly.

"Yeah, it's really not easy, just a little bit." Zhang Shao said with emotion.

"As long as I can advance, I think with Zhou Mochen's strength, everything else will be fine." Su Qian said.

Zhou Mochen was silently packing his knives and preparing to leave.

Yan Dongming got off the judges' seat and walked to Zhou Mochen's side. asked.

"What's the name of that dish?"

"Squirrel mandarin fish!" Zhou Mochen replied.

"Well, it's a good job, but it's a pity." Yan Dongming said after thinking about it.

"It's okay, you've already advanced, haven't you?" Zhou Mochen knew what he was going to say.

"Yes, haha, I have already advanced, and I look forward to your next competition." Yan Dongming said with a laugh.

"Thank you." After saying that, he took the box and left.

Seeing Zhou Mochen leave, Jiang Yingying and the others quickly followed. Several people met in the parking lot.

"Old Zhou, it's so dangerous. Fortunately, we caught up."

"Congratulations. It's just that the ranking doesn't match your status."

"It's okay, let them be happy for a while first."

"Are you still open at night?"

"Well, it's closed. I told you in the group yesterday. I'm closed today."

"Have a drink that night. I've been trying dishes for you for a while, and I didn't drink any alcohol."

"You can have this, you must have a drink."

"Okay, I'll treat you to a drink tonight."

"Hey, the miser is willing to buy wine to entertain us. If the wine is not good, I won't listen."

"Just wait. Meet at my house at night."

"Okay, I'll go to the company first, see you in the evening."

"Um"

Several people also went back to their respective homes.

After Yan Dongming asked Murong Ruoxue for the video, he watched it and sent it to his teacher. And inform them of the scores and final rankings of several items.

Qin Zongsheng watched with great interest the scene of Zhou Mochen cooking in the video. Exclaimed.

"The little guy has improved again. It's not a good thing to have shortcomings. I hope he can make up for it."

Then he stopped paying attention. Now that he has advanced, he believes that with this experience, he will know what to do.

Qin Zongsheng's guess was correct. After Zhou Mochen separated from the others, he didn't go home in a hurry. Instead, he went to the library in the city center and searched for all the books on the classification of ingredients and their characteristics. He wants to make up for his shortcomings before the provincial promotion competition.

"Didn't you say that the game is over? Why didn't you guys say anything when you went to watch the game? What happened to the result? I'm so anxious."

"That's right, let us wait anxiously, if the old lady is late, it will be your turn to watch the game."

"Could it be that the ranking is not good and you didn't advance?"

"Bah bah, crow's mouth."

"squeak."

"squeak!"

"I'll go, these two lose the plug and take the bamboo shoots."

"Cough, now I will announce for everyone, brother Zhou, successfully advanced with a total score of 26 points. Haha."

"Really. It's amazing. Brother, this should be the youngest."

"It is indeed the youngest. I went to the official website to look at the registration form. Besides Brother Zhou, the youngest is also 27 years old."

"Hee hee, everyone, watch the video, this game is very interesting."

"Say it earlier, there is a video, please post it quickly."

The diners in the group watched the video with relish, some recorded it by Murong Ruoxue, and some other netizens recorded it, and when they were put together, everyone realized that it was really worth watching, and the Jedi fought back. In the end, it was agreed that it was dangerous. Fortunately, he was promoted.

Zhou Mochen had a simple lunch when he returned home after buying the books. The full concentration in the morning made Zhou Mochen feel a little tired, and it was also because it was his first time participating in a competition, and nervousness was inevitable. So when Yang Shao proposed to drink at night, Zhou Mochen did not refuse. Through the contact over the past month, Zhou Mochen also slowly accepted this group of friends.

Everyone says that the best way to relax is to do what you like, and Zhou Mochen is no exception, but his favorite thing to do is cooking, cooking what he likes to eat. He planned to do things that he had never had a chance to do before due to time constraints, but he had to make preparations in advance.

Flashed into the star beads, found a stove for roasting whole lamb in the kitchen, and directly transported the stove to his own small yard.

Let Zhuzhu find a 1-2-year-old white big-headed sheep on the grassland and slaughter them. Then scald the whole body with boiling water at about 90°C, shave the hair while it is hot, take out the internal organs, scrape and wash them, and then cut a few small openings in the abdominal cavity and the thick meat of the inner hind legs of the sheep.

Then marinate, put scallions, ginger slices, peppercorns, aniseed, and cumin powder into the belly of the lamb, and rub it with refined salt to taste. The knife edge on the inside of the lamb leg is seasoned with seasoning and salt.

Finally, pin the sheep's tail into the abdomen with an iron stick, with the chest facing upwards, and the limbs are hung on the leather with iron hooks, brushed with soy sauce, sugar is slightly cooled, and then sesame oil.

After the sheep are ready, they are placed beside them. Look at the time after two o'clock. After calculating the time needed to roast the whole lamb, Zhou Mochen started to burn the charcoal stove. The charcoal was the fruit charcoal accumulated in the kitchen. After the charcoal burns evenly, put it in the oven and spread it flat to heat the oven.

Then hang the whole lamb belly up into the pre-heated oven, cover the oven mouth tightly, and seal it with yellow mud. Prepare an iron box under the oven to hold the sheep oil that flows out during baking. .

Then I set the time with my mobile phone and counted down to 3 hours and 50 minutes. After all the procedures were completed and waiting for the fermentation time, the sheep was slowly roasting, Zhou Mochen entered the star pearl, and boiled the stewed soup. The goose head, goose feet, duck feet, chicken feet and other internal organs that have been left recently are marinated in a pot. It is best to use them as appetizers.

Do all the preparations. Under Zhuzhu's care, he drank tea, ate fruit, and stayed in a daze.

Zhou Mochen slowly fell asleep in this quiet and peaceful atmosphere. Some time later, Zhou Mochen was woken up by the phone's ringtone.

Zhou Mochen opened his slightly hazy eyes and saw that the whole lamb was almost roasted. So with the marinated lo mei and washed lettuce, the star beads were produced.