The queen must start from the head

Chapter 239 God of Cookery Contest
Yuyang City is the base camp of the God of Cookery family.

The location of this family is located on the middle boundary line of Yuyang City facing south from the north. According to the Fengshui pattern, it has the momentum of being grand and majestic, and it can gather Fengshui fortune.

The entire God of Cookery family lived in congregations, and their family buildings were like gorgeous palaces, and these palaces gathered together formed an extremely magnificent royal city.

The venue for today's God of Cookery Competition was arranged in the vacant lot cleared out of Wangcheng.

There are 1 operating display stands on the competition field, and stands on the periphery of the field are set up step by step.

This level of competition is different from the open food halberd, and not everyone can watch it if they want.

Either a contestant takes you in, or you pay for a ticket yourself.

This kind of rule is consistent with the martial arts competition that Wushuang City held in the Xianfan Martial Arts Field before.

After Mu Lian followed Li Mei into the arena, she found a seat on the third-floor stand and sat down casually. Then, she watched her disciple submit the God of Cookery invitation and was arranged to be next to an operation display stand.

As the sun gradually rises, more and more chefs come to compete with the God of Food invitation.

Seen from afar on the playing field, there were a bunch of dots of white figures, shaking from time to time on the field.

About half an hour later, the patriarch of the God of Cookery family walked out of the gate of the royal city holding a golden spoon-shaped scepter, followed by countless members of the God of Cookery family.

I saw the patriarch of the God of Cookery family holding up the scepter in his hand and shouting loudly, "Since ancient times, the king regards the people as his heaven, and the people regard food as their heaven! My God of Cookery family pursues the supreme way of food as our mission." My own responsibility, the road of the esophagus is not alone, there are Taoists in Yuyang City! Today is the God of Cookery Competition held every ten years. On behalf of all the members of my God of Cookery family, I would like to thank all the contestants who came here! May the Dao of Food, Eternal prosperity!"

"The avenue of wishing to eat, eternal prosperity forever!"

As the patriarch of the God of Cookery family finished speaking, all the members of the God of Cookery family behind him shouted this sentence in unison.

At this time, all the people in the stands stood up and applauded.

As for the contestants on the competition field, while applauding continuously, they also became nervous.

This sense of tension became especially intense when the patriarch of the God of Cookery family announced loudly, "This year's God of Cookery competition has officially begun!"

So, what are the benefits of participating in the God of Cookery Competition?

According to legend, when the God of Cookery ascended to the God Realm, he left behind eighteen pieces of golden kitchen utensils that he had used.

These kitchen utensils evolved into artifacts when he ascended.

However, the God of Cookery has reached the peak of the Dao of Food, and everything in his hands is supremely delicious, so he left these eighteen pieces of golden kitchen utensils for future people to use.

At first, the descendants of the God of Cookery also thought about keeping these things for themselves.

But the artifact has its own will and can recognize its master.

And once the owner dies, the artifact will return to its original place.

For thousands of years, there are very few people in the God of Cookery family who can make the God of Kitchenware recognize their masters.

The elders of the clan couldn't bear the pressure of a group of lonely artifacts, so they had to come up with a way to select talents, the God of Cookery Contest.

Through this competition, the God of Cookery family did send out some artifacts, but after the owners of those artifacts died, the artifacts would return to the God of Cookery family.

And these artifacts that have been nourished by their masters can keep alive forever.

At this time, after the patriarch of the God of Cookery family announced the start of the competition, the referees for the first round of the competition had already stepped onto the stage.

This middle-aged man with a shy belly and a fat figure announced the title of the first round of competition clearly: soup.

As his voice fell, ten kinds of the same ingredients appeared in front of each contestant, from which they could choose the ingredients they needed and use ready-made kitchen utensils to make a soup.

Soup, as the name suggests, is a concentrated soup obtained by boiling various foods.

There are too many ingredients that can be boiled into soup.

The most basic broth in cooking is made from animal bones such as chicken bones and beef bones, and there are also delicious broths hung from the bones of rare ingredients.

And in the process of sublimating food, a variety of flavors and secret sauce soups are also indispensable.

After a lot of thinking, many chefs have selected the ingredients they need. At this time, they already have their own recipes in their hearts.

In the stands, Mulian has been paying attention to the performance of her disciples.

Li Mei unhurriedly selected a few ingredients from the pile of colorful ingredients in front of her, then picked up the knives and kitchen utensils provided on the operation display stand, and began to process the ingredients.

After she finished processing the ingredients, some people near her were already cooking the soup.

Some of the chefs possessed different fires that belonged to the spirits of heaven and earth, so they did not use the stoves prepared for them by the God of Cookery family, but showed off their own different fires.

When they released the strange fire from their palms, hung one hand over the fire to heat the pot, and put the ingredients in a fancy way with the other hand, many spectators cheered in surprise.

After all, the scene of cooking with fire in the palm is really cool!
But Li Mei still turned on the stove in an orderly manner, put on a clean cast iron stew pot, put in clean water and the ingredients she had cut, and then covered the pot.

This kind of cast iron stew pot refined by a secret method can keep the freshness and softness of the food and the various moisture in the food to the greatest extent when it is stewed.

A male chef standing next to Li Mei in front of the operating table, while taking out his unique stew, glanced at the simple cooking skills of the woman next to him like an ordinary housewife, with a hint of disdain on his face meaning.

Just this broken pot, put some ingredients and water, can you cook a pot of perfect soup?

The person who sent the God of Cookery post to this woman at the beginning must have been blind, right?
How could such culinary trash be mixed into the venue of this sacred God of Cookery competition?

Li Mei sensed the unfriendly eyes from her colleagues next door, but she had no time to care about him.

At this time, she was fully aware of the heat of the ingredients in the pot and the degree of water evaporation, and then her hands kept grabbing all kinds of spices, throwing them into the pot at a very fast speed, and then covered the pot .

When the contents of the pot were boiled to a certain level, she used a very ingenious method to take out the ingredients that were about to be stewed and affect the taste of the soup, and continued to add new fresh ingredients.

The time for the first round of competition is one hour.

In order to shorten the three to five hours of cooking soup, many chefs have resorted to their exclusive secrets.

Seeing that the game time was approaching, Li Mei slapped the stew pot with both hands and opened a slit, so that the rich soup inside quickly flowed into the empty soup bowl she had prepared, and then added a saucepan on top. Gaiwan.

"It's game time!"

Following the game referee's order, all the chefs put down their actions and waited for the review of the jury like soldiers waiting for the review of the general.

At this time, the huge jury from the God of Cookery family poured into the competition venue in groups of three.

They walked around one chef's display stand after another, tasting the soup made by these people.

A judge picked up a bowl of golden soup, tasted it with a spoon, and put the soup down.

"Thick soup takes time, your soup doesn't have enough flavor."

The chef was dissatisfied.

He argued, "It only takes one hour in total, how can it be enough to cook thick soup?"

The other two judges also tasted the soup with a spoon and gave their own comments.

One person said, "Not only is the taste of your soup not enough, you also added basil leaves at the end of the soup, which destroyed the original taste of the soup. It's a failure!"

The chef's face changed when he heard the words, and he put a small basil leaf. Is the judge's mouth so tricky?

Can you taste it too?
Another person also said, "Besides, when you stewed the soup, you didn't layer it properly. Look for yourself, is there any sediment under the thick soup?"

As soon as the man finished speaking, the chef immediately slid the soup with a spoon, and sure enough, some sediment rolled up from the bottom of the soup.

Now the chef himself has nothing to say.

After the three judges looked at each other, they gave the result of "unqualified" at the same time.

That meant the chef was out in the first round.

Other chefs also suffered from the vicious comments from the judges.

"When your soup is stewed, the heat is uneven. You didn't use the stove, but you used a different fire, right? That thing can only be used for stir-frying, not for stewing soup. Your soup is unqualified!"

The chef who received the "unqualified" evaluation was completely confused.

Judge, is your mouth so tricky?

Can you taste the uneven heat of my stewed soup?

"This soup is not good, the taste of the vegetables is too strong, and the cooking time is too long, instead it has a bit of bitter taste, it is unqualified!"

"In this soup, the bones are the taste of bones, and the meat is the taste of meat. Young man, your skill in handling ingredients is still not in place! Go back and practice for a few more years. Unqualified!"

The young man burst into tears when he heard this.

Judges, do you know that I have practiced knife skills for ten years!
How could I not be able to handle the ingredients, it's because your mouth is too tricky, okay!

Facing the cunning and harsh judges, the chefs were on the verge of a formidable enemy.

Many chefs who were declared "disqualified" left sadly, while the chefs who managed to stay became more careful.

It seems that these people from the God of Cookery family will not easily let them touch the golden kitchen utensils left by the God of Cookery.

If they want to reach the top in this God of Cookery competition and get the top ten positions, they will probably have to use their strength in the next two games.

Because only the top ten can enter the territory of the God of Cookery family, go to the hall where the artifact is enshrined, and see if they are destined for the artifact.

At this time, Li Mei, who had been standing quietly waiting at the table, finally welcomed the three judges.

The three of them stopped in front of her and asked her to remove the tureen from the soup.

One of the old judges was not very optimistic about the soup when he saw the lid on the soup bowl.

Because the soup just out of the pot has heat, the covered bowl will have heat rising, condensing into water vapor, then slipping from the bowl and falling back into the soup, affecting the original taste of the soup.

However, the moment Li Mei unveiled the bowl, the three judges were completely shocked.

What did they see?
This is a bowl of crystal clear clear soup.

The soup water is mixed with three wonderful colors of lavender, light blue, and light gold.

The three colors complement each other, which is exquisite.

On the surface of the soup, they didn't see water droplets that condensed into water vapor, but instead saw small, transparent, crystal-like beads.

They are floating on top of the soup, as if playfully playing in the colorful lake.

Curly white hot air slowly rises from the bowl, wafting an elegant and charming aroma.

This bowl of soup is no longer just a bowl of soup, but an extremely exquisite work of art.

The three judges looked at this scene, and they couldn't bear to use the spoons in their hands for a while.

It was Li Mei who reminded, "This soup needs to be drunk while it's hot."

One of the judges made the first move when he heard the words, spooning a mouthful of clear soup into his mouth.

The moment the soup entered his mouth, he felt that his taste buds were about to explode!

Delicious, incomparably delicious!

The essence extracted from vegetables and meat bones is perfectly blended together. The just right spices, on the basis of the taste of the original ingredients, elevate these tastes to several levels.

The freshness at the end is the finishing touch, finding a wonderful breaking point for this bowl of soup with rich taste and distinct layers.

At the moment when the umami burst out, he felt that he was swimming freely and comfortably in a bowl of delicious sea made of soup!
OMG!

This bowl of soup is absolutely delicious, absolutely supremely delicious!

When the old judge slowly woke up from the intoxication, he realized that the two people beside him had already divided the bowl of soup completely, leaving him not even a drop of soup.

The old judge's face darkened immediately.

These two little bastards, old man, I only tasted a spoonful of soup!

Are you so impatient?Can't you leave some for the old man!

The most disgusting thing was that a boy still licked his tongue and said, "This female chef is right, the soup must be drunk while it is hot to taste."

"This soup is not bad, I give it excellent." Another person also spoke.

"Excellent." The young judge licked his tongue and said.

The old judge nodded, "This soup is really good, and I'll give it an excellent too. Young people, continue to perform well in the next round."

Seeing Li Mei nodding her head in thanks, the old judge's face was calm, but he said in his heart, when the next competition is over, I will be the first to come to your place to taste the food.

This girl really has two brushes in her hands when she cooks.

After the first round, there were less than three thousand chefs left on the field.

The members of the God of Cookery family sent people to clear away the redundant consoles.

Soon, the referee who presided over the second round of competition came to the stage.

He announced the topic given in this round of competition - meters.

Meter?
Many chefs present were taken aback after hearing this.

Isn't this rice the staple food we usually eat?How did it become a dish?

What should m do?
Boiled first and then smashed, then fried in oil, braised in braise and steamed, or spicy hot kang with smoke?

The chefs were lost in thought.

The competition time for this round is still only one hour.

They must think of a suitable recipe as soon as possible, and then do it quickly.

(End of this chapter)