Beef tendons, beef shanks, as well as fascia and connective tissue removed from the limbs and joints, are all leftovers from the cow due to their irregularities. They are generally seen as extras at beef stalls, and few people go specifically to buy them.

With a turn of the “Wu Qu Knife” in his hand, the scraps were cut into small pieces of equal size in an instant, making it chewy and very easy to cook thoroughly. This time it was really a race against time.

“What should I do, man?”

Looking at Bai Yuan who was processing the scraps, Ma Mei did not leave immediately, but stood not far away with a thoughtful expression.

The ingredients he chose actually tasted pretty good and had a good texture, but eating too much of them would make you feel greasy. It’s acceptable if they are paired with good meat, but if this kind of meat is the only thing in a dish, it’s not so good.

If it were her, she would definitely control the ratio of the two so that the judges can enjoy the wonderful taste without feeling sick of it.

Instead of choosing all the scraps just for the sake of taste, the special grade assessment will not relax the requirements for you just because the ingredients you use are not good!

After all, they are still young and lack experience!

Chapter 63: Bai Yuan’s occupational disease, what is a top chef?

Bai Yuan didn’t know what Ma Mei was thinking.

Looking at the contestants coming in one after another, he stepped on the blower hard and turned the flame to the maximum.

The next moment, the fattier parts of the scraps flew into the oil pan and were beaten together with the spoon.

This is done by stir-frying over high heat to remove most of the oil from the leftover ingredients.

There is actually another reason why he chose these ingredients, which is to fit the subject matter.

The dish he was going to make next would be overcooked if he used only beef, no matter how high-quality it was! The taste would always be lacking.

In other words, only this beef scraps can perfectly meet his requirements!

“Is this beef being stir-fried for beef stew? But how can you make a delicious beef stew with this kind of leftovers?!”

At this moment, Kikuchi Enka and Kadozaki Taki also came in from the door of the fighting arena after selecting the ingredients. They watched Bai Yuan’s actions and made secret guesses in their hearts.

Bai Yuan didn’t know all this, and even if he knew he was too lazy to explain.

At this moment, his mind was highly concentrated, and he stepped rhythmically on the bellows to control the heat, keeping the temperature in the pot at the optimal level.

Stir-fry out the water and excess oil, add ginger slices, scallion segments, and garlic pieces and stir-fry evenly to remove the slight fishy smell remaining in the beef.

At the same time, during the stir-frying process, the odor in the beef is reduced as the water is discharged.

When cooking beef, the most important thing is to remove the fishy smell. If beef-related dishes have a strong fishy smell, then the dish is a complete failure!

Bai Yuan skillfully puts star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, bay leaves, galangal, amomum, white cardamom, peppercorns and tsaoko into the pot to increase the aroma of the meat and make its taste less monotonous.

Add a spoonful of soybean sauce to enhance the flavor and color. Then, in another small pot, quickly boil a little sugar color and add it to the stir-fried meat for a second color and flavor.

After completing this step, Bai Yuan looked at the state of the beef in the pot, smelled the fragrance in the air, and an accurate value emerged in his mind.

Add a lot of sugar to enhance the flavor, a lot of salt for seasoning, and finally add vinegar from the edge of the pot, and add boiling hot water to cover the beef pot!

The fragrance comes up immediately!

“Oh yeah, I almost forgot about you.”

Looking at the yellow gardenia placed alone on the cooking table, Bai Yuan threw it into the soup pot to add color to the dish and make it look better.

This is the color that has color, fragrance and taste.

Bai Yuan only added sugar, salt, dark soy sauce and sugar color once.

With the perfect combination of super sense of smell and super sense of touch, he can often add enough ingredients in one go without the need for secondary seasoning.

This is also the reason why he can make exquisite dishes, polishing every inch of details to perfection!

After processing the ingredients, Bai Yuan opened the pressure cooker and poured all the ingredients in the wok into it, making sure the soup did not cover the ingredients.

This is called stewing.

If it exceeds the amount of ingredients, it is called stewing.

The two look very similar and have similar methods, but they are actually completely different.

Otherwise there wouldn’t be two names.

In addition to the preparation method, the cooking time also varies greatly.

Traditionally, stewed beef should be cooked slowly over low heat, using time to make its taste perfect. Using a pressure cooker is actually a shortcut, but in a sense, it is also a move to take advantage of technological innovation.

Although the stewed beef made in this way does not taste as good as the traditional stewed beef, it is also a top-notch shining dish.

Because the other details have been polished!

If it is made using traditional methods, it will take at least three hours. That method is suitable for competing with masters, but not for participating in assessments.

In short, complete the assessment requirements first.

Bai Yuan’s eyes wandered around the venue, observing the situation of other contestants. At this moment, most of the cooking tables in the room were already being operated.

There were only a few empty cooking tables. I guess there weren’t enough people taking the special exam. I don’t know what happens when there are usually a lot of people. Will the people who come later not get any cooking tables? !

If you think about it carefully, it seems that this is not impossible. After all, the main purpose of the special assessment is selection.

It is only natural that the latecomers were eliminated because they were slow in choosing ingredients and were not as good as other contestants, which resulted in no cooking tables left!

“Beef, cuttlefish, rice, and cuttlefish ink.

Besides, there’s chicken and beef broth simmering in the bucket pot. Are you going to make Spanish-style beef risotto?”

Looking at the various ingredients in front of him, Bai Yuan immediately guessed what dishes Kadozaki Taki was cooking, and just stood by and talked about it.

“You… that’s right, you’re not at your own cooking station, what are you doing here?”

Kadozaki Taki, who was cooking, was startled when he was suddenly addressed. He then raised his head with some annoyance and was about to curse, but when he found out that it was Bai Yuan who came, he turned around and asked in a bad mood.

“I’ve almost finished it. It will be ready in an hour. Come on, please.

Then there is the Spanish-style beef risotto. It would be better to use round-grain rice, because the proportion of soup in Spanish risotto is relatively high.

A four-star chef once wrote in his autobiography that during his childhood, he tried dozens of types of rice and finally found that round-grain rice could better absorb the soup and make the perfect Spanish stew.

Looking at the ingredients on Kadozaki Taki’s table, Bai Yuan couldn’t help but remind him. He saw this in a magazine and later tried one out of curiosity. He found that round-grain rice does absorb soup better than pointed-grain rice.

The round grains of rice that have absorbed the soup are perfectly integrated with the ingredients used in cooking, both in terms of taste and flavor. This is Spanish rice!

“This is the roundest rice I can buy around here. The others are all diamond-shaped. Who knew that you need to prepare your own ingredients for the cooking test? Ours are all prepared by the organizer!”

Kadozaki Taki curled his lips and sounded dissatisfied as if he was complaining. Logically speaking, the organizer should have asked the contestants for their opinions in advance and prepared all the ingredients in advance to facilitate them to cook on the spot!

The chefs are here to take the cooking test! The most important thing is the cooking skills, not running around to prepare the ingredients by yourself, and then almost not being able to come back because you are not familiar with the terrain…

“The Guangzhou Chefs’ Association has its own considerations, and they give it plenty of time. It’s impossible that there’s no round-grain rice for sale in Guangzhou. It’s just that you haven’t found enough places to buy it.”

Bai Yuan now understood why Kadozaki Taki and the others arrived earlier than him. It turned out that they were just being lazy. Round grain rice was not uncommon. Even if one rice store happened to be out of stock, other stores would definitely have it.

“I want to, but I don’t know the way…”

Kadozaki Taki’s face turned red. In such a big city like Guangzhou, she could only rely on asking passers-by one by one to find a rice shop with great difficulty. She couldn’t understand the map.

She finally found one, but it didn’t sell what she wanted, and she couldn’t spend all her time looking for a rice shop, as she still had to buy other ingredients.

Therefore, her strategy is to buy the ingredients that are in great demand first, buy cheap substitutes for those that cannot be found, and then think of other ways to buy the rest.

“This is a little bit off, that is a little bit off, and in the end it’s a lot off. Cooking is not something that can fool people. You obviously still have a lot of time!

Even if you want to find a substitute, you should do so only when you really don’t have time, or can’t find one, and you have already tried your best.

But the fact is, you arrived even earlier than me, and you must have stayed at the scene for quite a while, and you didn’t even bother looking for it!”

Because he has taught Alice Nakiri for many years, Bai Yuan has developed a teacher’s unique aura, but also has an occupational disease.

He felt very angry when he saw Kadozaki Taki not really taking the food seriously. Cooking is not something that can be dealt with casually!

As he said this, Kadozaki Taki’s face became visibly ugly, but he didn’t know how to refute it. He could only lower his head and let him talk like a child who had made a mistake.

“Forget it, I was just talking too much, don’t take it to heart, just treat it as my fart.”

Seeing Kadozaki Taki’s aggrieved look, Bai Yuan suddenly realized that this girl didn’t seem to be his apprentice, and he had no right to scold her.

After realizing this, his expression became a little embarrassed, but he did not regret saying that because it might change a chef’s life!

If you can listen, you can go further. If you can’t listen, then this is where your life ends.

It is not easy to become a top-grade chef. Even the top-grade chefs in Japan are carefully selected.

“No, you are absolutely right!

When I heard you say about the second round of the Guangzhou Special Examination, I did begin to feel like backing off.

So I was a bit casual when choosing the materials, and at the same time kept telling myself that my failure to pass Guangzhou’s special assessment was not my fault, but the outrageous examination regulations, and because I didn’t know the route and lacked the materials.

In fact, there are obviously many solutions, but I don’t want to…or to be more precise, I’m afraid to try.

I was afraid that even if I found all the ingredients, I would not be able to pass this first round of assessment… that would destroy all the faith I had accumulated so far.”

Kadozaki Taki suddenly raised her head with a trace of tears in the corners of her eyes. This was the first time she was scolded after becoming one of the Ten Greatest of Totsuki. She was scolded for her cowardice and her ridiculous self-esteem. She looked so ugly!

“I understand now.

Escaping won’t solve any problems. I will go buy new ingredients, face the test, and then make the best dish I can!”

Kadozaki Taki looked at Bai Yuan’s face and spoke seriously word by word. Then he looked at the broth boiling in the pot, calculated the time in his mind, and ran out.

“You actually made that Kadozaki-senpai cry, you are really amazing, Senior!”

Seeing Kadozaki Taki jogging out, Kikuchi Enka at the cooking table next to him couldn’t help but stick his head out with a look of surprise.

This was the first time she saw senior Kadozaki cry, and she was scolded to the point of crying. You know, usually she was the one who bullied others!

It’s a pity that the scene was too short and I didn’t have time to take a picture of it. What a pity.

Kikuchi Engo thought with a little regret, and then saw Bai Yuan coming in front of her, looking at her cooking table in silence, and then sighed.

………………

“Private Marseille with red bean paste!”

Kikuchi Enka’s face turned slightly red, she bowed 90 degrees, revealing her plump cleavage, and apologized very sincerely for her mistake.

After saying this, she trotted out of the examination venue to buy the new ingredients needed after Bai Yuan’s well-reasoned analysis.

Bai Yuan looked at her back and couldn’t help but curl his lips, but finally he said that this guy’s cooking was terrible, with all kinds of details problems.

Although it is delicious for ordinary people, it is a complete failure for professional chefs!

It seems that the weakest person in this Guangzhou special assessment is this young girl who has just been promoted to a first-class chef in Japan!

“What’s going on? Did he just make people give up the game with just a few words?”

Several Guangzhou chefs at the surrounding cooking tables noticed this scene and looked at each other in confusion. Because Bai Yuan’s voice was not loud, they really couldn’t hear their conversation.

All I know is that the little girl said something in Japanese, then suddenly bowed 90 degrees, and ran out like the previous girl.

“Dark and evil forces?”

“What did he say to them…”

He swallowed and looked at Bai Yuan who was wandering around with nothing to do. The chefs around him stared at him closely while watching their own dishes, fearing that they would be ruined by him using tricks.

But they were indeed worrying too much. Bai Yuan didn’t say a word the whole time. He just glanced at them indifferently and then walked back and forth.

Seeing that he didn’t cause any more trouble, Ma Mei stopped moving forward to stop him and stood there silently watching him walk around, feeling a little puzzled.

Why is this guy hanging around like an invigilator instead of taking care of his own food?

Just now, he suddenly ran over to talk to the two girls, and they gave up the game, and one of them even cried? What happened?

Not only the chefs around, but also Ma Mei was very curious. However, due to her status, she couldn’t ask. She didn’t know why her brother thought so highly of him and even asked her to take special care of him.

Thinking of her brother who was the head chef at the Tianfu restaurant, Ma Mei couldn’t help but sigh. That guy was good in every way, except that he was a henpecked man.

It would be fine if he was just a henpecked man, but the key point was that her sister-in-law was not a good person at all. She couldn’t tell right from wrong and was useless except for her pretty face.

The two of them had many quarrels over this, and the brother was caught in the middle, feeling unpopular with both sides.

As if she thought of some bad memories, Ma Mei couldn’t help but frown, and after a long time she sighed softly.

“It seems that although there are some people who are trying to take advantage of the situation, there are also real chefs who are trying their best to pass the special examination!”