Chapter 386

"Full of duck oil Isn't it very greasy? " In the audience, Liu said, looking at the duck meat in front of the judges.

After the two teams of Yuanyue entered the competition, all the college students were arranged to come to New York town for off campus study. When there was a competition, admission tickets were arranged for everyone.

At this time, the dish Paul presented seemed to be a normal western dish. On the plate, there was a piece of golden duck leg, surrounded by mushrooms, small potatoes, green onions and so on

But not long ago, we all saw that this duck leg is still cooked in oil!

"This is" French duck leg with oil seal ". It's not a rare new dish." oil seal "is quite common in French cuisine. If you master the final" frying "temperature enough, you can weaken the previous greasy feeling." You Ji said.

She was originally a player of Yuanyue three teams, but because the three teams have been eliminated, although the competition side has reserved a special viewing area for them, Youji still likes to come and squeeze the ordinary audience with everyone.

"But what does this dish have to do with the title" winter "? If it's duck There are no restrictions in the mature season. If you insist, you can eat it in summer and autumn, which is more in line with health preservation? " Dawo and zhaoer are puzzled.

After hearing this, Shinji Marui put up a pair of glasses and said, "did you two sleep in history class again? This dish, or "oil seal", was originally a way to preserve meat in winter in western cuisine

"Save meat? Keep it in oil? "

"That's right. After slaughtering or death of poultry, the fat part is used to refine the oil, and then the oil is used to soak and cook the meat in low heat. After preparation, as long as the meat is kept out of its own oil, it can be preserved for most of the winter with a little refrigeration." Shaner said.

But now "oil seal" is no longer a means of preserving food materials, but a unique way of cooking. This transformation is very similar to "sushi" in Japanese cuisine!

Obviously, Paul's choice of the direction to solve the problem of "winter" is the way of cooking derived from the ancient way of preserving food materials in winter

At first, Paul divided the fat part of duck meat and put it into the same amount of water to blanch until the water completely evaporated. The duck fat has been "refined" into golden duck oil. After filtration, it is the original duck oil which is the same as duck leg meat that is used for slow cooking.

duck leg meat after just cutting, first use the spice before the salted, in order to save the time of pickling, Paul also used the duck leg meat "massage" way.

After that, put the pickled duck leg meat into its own duck oil, and slowly "soak" the duck leg meat with low heat!

The temperature should be maintained around the boiling point of water, that is to say, the "oil" will not be boiled from beginning to end

In modern cuisine, in fact, the duck leg meat can be ripened more quickly by directly heating the container with duck oil in the oven.

However, for the best taste and taste experience, Paul slowly uses low heat to soak duck leg in oil!

And after cooking, it kept warming up in the oil until the temperature dropped to the point where it was only warm. Then it was taken out and fried in a pan until it had the golden color

The cooking of "oil seal" series is very common in French cuisine, but since it is made by Paul, it is not so simple!

Whether it's the preparation of spices, the mastery of oil temperature, or the "frying" part that shows its skills in the end, it's impeccable No, to be exact, it should be described as amazing.

Finally fried duck leg meat, it seems that there is no greasy feeling!

"It's true that judging from the judges' appearance, it's not only not greasy, but also appetizing..." Liangzi said.

"Yes, it's a long way from sending judges, but it seems that I can hear the crunchy sound of" creak creak "here!" You Ji said to still close ear.

Of course, it's impossible to really hear Otherwise, the judges will be eating too loud!

But when the judges bite the crispy duck leg skin, the crispy taste completely spreads in their mouth, followed by the expression on their faces and the body's instinctive body movements, which reminds us that "the duck skin must be really crispy"!

"First, the duck was scalded in hot oil for two hours, and then the duck was fried in the original sealing oil. How tender would the duck be?" Zhao Er is swallowing.

"It's not just tender! Duck leg meat itself is a relatively active part of duck meat. At the beginning of the curing process, the moisture content of duck leg meat will be reduced. Later, after the duck leg meat is taken out of duck oil, it is specially dried in the oven for a short time, which will enhance the chewiness of duck leg meat. " Yi sehui sees more.

Yi sehui did not attend the "all? Blue" meeting, but stayed at the "ten outstanding" meeting in Yuanyue.

Although Yuanyue three team invited him, but this usually smiling Dean (TAI), obviously ambitious, did not accept the invitation of Yuanyue three team, but hope to have their own team after graduation, and really have the opportunity to enter the competition, and then sign up to participate!In the same way, the one who refused Zhitian xinnai was jiuzhao Ji and Ningning, the kingdom of Ji

"It's more than that! When Paul used to pickle duck leg meat, the pressing method was not only to speed up the curing effect, but also a way of "food massage"! According to his technique, it's normal for pingtian to chew hard. " Shanji Sugiyama of the family of acupuncture and moxibustion broke in at this time.

"Food massage? Isn't that the skill of some ancient families in the circle of Chinese cuisine civilization? President Paul knows that? " Yamaji Marui doubts.

Just as the Shanshan family is now proficient in acupuncture and moxibustion for food materials, there are also some minority inheritance, with the skill of massage for food materials to change the quality of meat!

But how did Paul get this stunt?

This is not something you can learn if you want to learn with an eclectic heart

"I also know some friends who have mastered the unique cooking skills derived from" massage ". Moreover, the Shanshan family also has some scattered ingredients and unique massage skills, but they are not as complete as the inheritance of acupuncture and moxibustion skills, so they are not the main focus of our Shanshan family President Paul's method seems to be different from the unique skill of tuina. It may be some unique skill he has figured out himself, but the principle is very similar to that of food tuina. " Said Sugiyama.

"That makes sense It's not surprising that with the skill of President Paul, he can develop similar unique skills himself... "

Due to the proper marinating, mellow smell of duck oil and Paul's control of the fire at the end of frying, the duck legs don't look greasy. On the contrary, the skin is crisp and the meat is chewy!

Just after Liu Pleiades and Paul also exchanged food, the judges on the other side finally got rid of Paul's "duck leg".

At the same time, "black and white" staff came to Liu Pleiades and asked whether to present the food. Liu Pleiades made a "please" gesture.

Although Liu Pleiades can see some situations beyond the "dark cuisine duel", they all show black and white colors. Even if outsiders enter the "dark cuisine duel", Liu Pleiades also has a feeling that he and they are not in the same painting style

Even Liu Pleiades felt that if he ran into each other now, they would pass by directly

Of course, Liu Pleiades doesn't want to make big news. Now ordinary people are not suitable to know about "cataclysm" and "dark food duel", so they try to avoid "supernatural events" as much as possible.

Several staff members presented the dishes to the judges, but Liu didn't mean to go there at all. Instead, he and Paul "looked at each other face to face" and put each other's dishes in front of each other.

The five judges just rolled their eyes. After all, if you were any caterer, you would choose between "sharing food with Paul" and "paying attention to the taste of the judges". Most of them would choose the former, so they didn't find it strange

In addition to knowing about the "cataclysm" and guessing about some xianzuoweimen, other people didn't pay attention to the visions on the scene. They also understood the current state of Paul and Liu Pleiades as the appreciation of the older generation of culinary masters for the new generation.

No, some people seem to see something!

"Xiao Lin, what's wrong with your hair scene?" Xie Yunlong asks Lin Yi in a low voice.

Most people obviously can't understand why this bald old man, wearing beach pants, floral shirt and Toad mirror, would sit next to speaker Lin Yi of the Dragon chef Alliance

If it wasn't for yesterday, Xie Yunlong tried his hand and defeated a candidate of the "Italian royal cuisine team" in the individual competition, it's estimated that now everyone will question whether the Dragon chef alliance made such an unreliable old man a candidate in order to ridicule other teams!

"What's wrong? I can't see The American barber fair still attaches great importance to the right to hold this event. I've been watching it for a long time, but I can't find out anything wrong. " Lin Yi has some doubts about master Xie's question.

"I don't mean this, I mean by the way! Do you feel that I, or to be exact, we are a little uncomfortable with that boy recently? " Xie Yunlong said, pointing to Liu Pleiades on the field.

"Not to mention that. Don't you think highly of him? I also think this young man is good. His cooking is more mature than a few months ago. " Lin Yi naturally said.

But he didn't realize that there was a trace of impatience in his tone

Because the influence of "Curse" on them is subtle. Unless they face Liu Pleiades like Paul, they will not be aware of the small change in their mentality!

For example, Lin Yi didn't like Liu Pleiades, but he didn't notice that he didn't like Liu Pleiades.

“……” Xie Yunlong also felt this at this time.

But at the same time, I feel that there is a voice in my heart telling me that this is very normal

"It's normal Well Wait Not quite normal It's normal There seems to be something wrong... " Jieyunlong himself also tangled up.Maybe it's because they have lived too long. Just like in folklore, people who are too old and too young can see something that ordinary people can't see. But in this world, folklore is based on the fact that the elderly eat a lot in their life, so they can see something unusual

Of course, the more likely reason is that the essence of "Curse" is the extinct Neanderthals. Xie Yunlong, who inherits all the heritage of the bailuo family, has the heart of "soothing spirit" and has the function of transcendence and comfort for the dead.

The so-called "appeasement for the dead" means that the "creatures" whose life forms have been transformed cannot affect the normal creatures.

Although the life form of Neanderthals has changed, Xie Yunlong's "soothing spirit" is not enough to completely pacify him, but he is immune to the influence of "Curse" and begins to realize that he is "wrong".

At the same time, the judges were also talking. A judge from Michelin, looking at Liu's cooking, asked another yellow judge who seemed to come from the Dragon chef alliance, "Mr. Qiao, do you understand that this" barbecue "has anything to do with the title" winter "? If you can't see it, you can only ask him to explain it. "

Indeed, the dish presented by Liu Pleiades is a kind of "barbecue" that cuts the pork stuffing, steams it in a bamboo tube, and then roasts it with charcoal fire. There is no such dish in Chinese cuisine, and pork is not a winter food in terms of tonic or maturity!

"It's the three friends of the year! Isn't the name Liu Pleiades filled in before also written "Sanyou barbecue" Qiao said.

"Three friends in winter?"

"In our culture, even the three plants that remain evergreen in winter are known as the" three friends of winter ". They are the evergreen pine, the gentleman bamboo and the noble plum."

"Pine, bamboo, plum Bamboo was obviously used before. Now it's the pine plate that carries the barbecue. What about plum

The judge also specially looked at the barbecue in front of him and seemed to want to find the trace of Mei.

"This pork is made from pork's meat, which is also called" plum blossom meat "in Chinese cuisine."

"Wait a minute, I admit bamboo and plum, but is it too far fetched to use pine instead of plates?"

"No, it's not I think that the reason why we use wooden trays is not to mystify, nor to force the connection with "loose", but to avoid the oil from the barbecue oozing out! "

"Yes, usually pork is rarely used for barbecue, because after raw roast, the meat will be very hard and taste bad The pork stuffing used in Sanyou barbecue is not only filled with spices, but also with edible glycerin, which is used to balance the taste and adhesion. However, it is inevitable that oil will seep out after being roasted. If ordinary plates are used, the barbecue will taste greasy, which can be avoided by using wooden trays that can absorb oil. "

"Well, let's have a taste of this" Sanyou barbecue "compared with President Paul's" oil sealed duck leg. "! It's all meat. It's more convenient... "

Each of the five judges picked up a piece of "Sanyou barbecue" with chopsticks or forks and put it into his mouth.

At the same time, Liu Pleiades has cut a small piece of duck leg and put it into his mouth. Paul also put a piece of "Sanyou barbecue" into his mouth

suddenly in the Pleiades of Liu Pleiades, as if he was a baby, curled up in the warm oil, and the warm oil constantly supplied himself with energy and essence.

On the other side, Paul "sees" in his mind the tall pine trees, the straight green bamboo trees and the noble plum trees in the dusk snow of winter dusk. They seem to be fighters fighting against the cold and standing in the wind and snow in the severe winter

One is a gentle package, the other is a fierce sense of conflict

The two opposite dishes in Artistic Conception!

Not only in the "artistic conception", Liu Pleiades also used a lot of "spices" to flavor in terms of spices, which is more offensive than "oil sealed duck leg".

At the same time, in the order of the two, the judges tasted the "oil sealed duck leg" first, and the "oil sealed duck leg" was mellow, crisp and tender, which made the judges feel full. At this time, the pungent taste of "Sanyou barbecue" just "pierced" this layer of fullness, making its flavor have a place to rely on

It has been mentioned before that when "halberds win", because of the need to compare the dishes, usually the taste is pungent and has more advantages.

For a long time, I like spicy food

Liu Pleiades for this cooking duel, has bet everything, even passively will "human recipe" also as a bet!

Therefore, Liu's recipe is naturally "extremely useful for everything". He often eats halberd in the distant moon, and specially chooses a recipe suitable for duel.On the contrary, Paul had not seen Liu Pleiades who "already had dragon pattern jade dragon pot" before, so his subconscious hostility to him was limited.

And the recipe is what he thought before the game. Paul, as a senior, certainly does not choose a specific recipe for some advantages. Moreover, when it comes to seriousness, it is far less than Liu Pleiades!

Although "inexplicably" began to be interested in Yulong pot, and Paul, as a model of cuisine, would no longer look down upon each other when preparing recipes, he did not have the "desperate" posture of Liu Pleiades

Therefore, in the end, although there is a gap between the two people's cooking skills, but in different psychological states, as well as the two sides' recipes themselves have the raw grams to make up for, this gap has been narrowed!

In the end, it should be said that Liu Pleiades is playing at a super level, while Paul is lacking in spirit. In the end, if they are rated by the system, their cooking is at the peak of Lin level, close to dragon level, but not up to dragon level!

After all, even the Dragon chef, not every dish is "dragon level"

Feeling as if Liu Pleiades was wrapped in warm oil, he suddenly remembered the taste of his own food. The power of pine, bamboo and plum burst out in turn, and finally Liu Pleiades was freed from the warm oil.

At the same time, Liu Pleiades opened his eyes with sweat on his head. At this time, he didn't know how long it had been since he tasted Paul's food

However, Liu Pleiades found that the space outside the surrounding arena has been able to see and hear normally!

And the first one I saw, of course, was Paul in front of me. At this time, the other person's face appeared tangled, even slightly painful. His face was also a little pale, and his head was sweating.

"Beautiful, delicious!" Paul finally fainted in praise!

Meanwhile, the results of the five judges have come out

Four to one, Liu Pleiades wins!

The moment the result came out, the audience even quieted down.

So before that, even the students of Yuanyue college, who are half of the friends and relatives of Liu Pleiades, were just expecting as much as possible that their "best in active service" would lose in the hands of the president of the Michelin food Federation

The vast majority of the audience obviously did not think that Liu Pleiades had a chance to win in advance. Even in the most "outrageous" prediction before the game, they only imagined that "germanate team" could drag the individual game in front of "Michelin food Federation team" and get a "1:2" score, and then it was cold in the team game

Of course, even this kind of speculation is denounced as "impossible event" by most people.

But now Liu Pleiades defeated Paul head on!

Not to mention the audience, even the "germanate" players Fortunately, at this time, the cooking of the three groups has been completed, otherwise the glasses of the fourth palace will fall into the pot.

However, the silence was only for a moment, and then the scene suddenly became noisy, not because the audience wanted to figure out how to face the unexpected result, but because they found that Paul fainted after praising Liu's "three friends barbecue"

Now the people of Michelin Food Association and the staff of maintaining order immediately gathered around and examined Paul's situation with all hands and feet.

The result is even more surprising!

Paul fainted because Tired?

Yes, the preliminary result is that Paul's body is normal, but there are signs of overwork and lack of energy!

Well, although this makes the reason of "carelessness" out of the question, you can also force yourself to accept the fact that the famous Paul was defeated by 16-year-old Liu Pleiades by using the excuse of "President Paul is not in good condition and competes with illness".

Even so, no one dares to deny Liu's achievements. At this time, whether it's tabloids or underground gambling, they silently raise Liu's strength prediction by two grades. Although they don't mention that they are equal to the bosses of major food organizations, they are also considered to be at the same level as "far moon myth" Tangdao silver!