In order to take care of the limited space and the progress of the competition, the seventy-eight players in the knockout round were divided into eight groups to play in sequence, and Jiang Wantong was placed in the second group.
Following Li Ruyue's order, the ten participating chefs from the first group took the lead.
Zhao Mingyu briefly introduced the ten people and announced the start of the game.
Ten chefs from different regions and different restaurants immediately became busy nervously.
Along with the sounds of chopping vegetables and sizzling stir-frying, a fragrant aroma immediately filled the scene, making many mouths water.
Li Ruyue and Zhao Mingyu shuttled around, sometimes interviewing the contestants and sometimes asking the judges at the judges' table. While activating the atmosphere, time passed by unconsciously.
Soon, one dish after another was successfully cooked and sent to the judges' table, where the five judges were asked to taste and score.
Hu Xianlin and others at the guest table rinsed their mouths after eating a dish, frowned and meditated, communicated in low voices, or nodded and shook their heads, and then they picked up the score cards and gave the scores they thought were appropriate.
Out of ten, most people got an evaluation of five to seven, which seems to be relatively average.
Only two got high scores.
One is Ren Yi, the chef of Jiudingxuan. He is chubby and has a rich face. He scored forty-seven points.
The other one is Lin Daying, a chef from a large hotel in another city, who got 43 points.
The ingredients used by both of them are Longxiang pork, but Ren Yi has superb cooking skills and superb knife skills, while Lin Daying is much inferior in comparison. The reason why he can get high scores depends entirely on Longxiang pork itself. tasty.
This is of course the effect that the Liu family, the organizer behind the scenes, wants.
During this period, there was an episode.
When the food of the last contestant in a group was served, the five judges all looked strange after eating.
Hu Xianlin even vomited it all on the plate after chewing it twice.
As the most important person among the five, Hu Xianlin immediately asked No. 10:
"Contestant No. 10, what did you do?"
Answer No. 10:
"Back to Master Hu, what I cook is fried pork intestines."
Hu Xianlin was furious:
"I know this is fried pork sausage, but I'm asking you why this thing has a strange smell!"
No. 10 answered honestly:
"Compared to superficial things like knife skills, ingredients, and heat, I prefer to maintain the original taste of the ingredients."
At the judges' table, the faces of the five judges all changed.
Hu Xianlin asked with a gloomy face:
"In other words, you fat intestine..."
Answer No. 10:
"My fat sausage has not been processed much, so the taste is more distinct."
As soon as No. 10 finished speaking, the five people immediately let out a "vomit" sound and all turned sideways and retched.
Hu Xianlin was so angry that he threw the whole plate of sausages at No. 10:
"Get out! You get zero points, zero points!"
Li Ruyue was startled and hurriedly jumped out to come to the rescue.
Even so, the audience burst into laughter, and even applauded.
The program that was originally dull and boring suddenly became lively and interesting.
On the backstage director team, the angry director was still thinking about how to cut off the remediation, but suddenly he heard a report saying that because of this incident, the ratings actually increased by more than one point, and he suddenly smiled and said:
"Sure enough, everyone likes the original flavor."
No. 10 was blown away as expected, and the ten people from the second group quickly came on stage.
Jiang Wantong was the sixth to take the stage. She was extremely nervous. Standing on the stage, her beautiful eyes were searching anxiously under the stage.
When she saw Zhang Dachuan sitting in the audience, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Dachuan gave her a thumbs up from a distance, which made Jiang Wantong feel at ease.
Li Ruyue began to introduce the contestants' information, and the five judges on the judges' bench had just emerged from the shadow of Fat Sauce.
When Jiang Wantong was introduced, Hu Xianlin, who had originally focused all his attention on Li Ruyue, suddenly sat up straight and his eyes lit up.
He looked at Jiang Wantong with twinkling eyes and showed a meaningful smile, but he remained calm and didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.
After the introduction, the people in the second group started cooking.
Li Ruyue and Zhao Mingyu started to liven up the atmosphere as usual to ensure that the program would not be too boring.
Zhao Mingyu, who wanted to stand out, took the spotlight this time and appeared under the camera. He led the cameraman to introduce the ingredients used by the contestants to the audience:
"This contestant used king crab. It seems that he is going to steam the big crab."
"This No. 12 used blood bird's nest and shark's fin. He should be making soup."
"Oh, No. 13 actually uses Longxiang pork. I can already smell its fragrance. It's so fragrant!"
Compared with Li Ruyue's witty remarks, Zhao Mingyu's introduction was very lame, as straightforward as a primary school student's composition, which caused many people to chuckle.
Zhao Mingyu had no idea and was still complacent about being on camera.
At this time, he came to Jiang Wantong's player seat.
Looking at the ingredients prepared by Jiang Wantong, Zhao Mingyu was stunned:
"Huh? Contestant No. 16, what is the ingredient you are using? Is it seabass?"
Jiang Wantong nodded:
"It's bass."
Zhao Mingyu suddenly curled his lips:
"Sea bass is very common, there is nothing new. Although it tastes delicious and is easy to make, it is extremely difficult to make sea bass have a flavor that is eye-catching compared to other ingredients."
"It seems that our No. 16 player is very confident in himself. Let's wait and see."
…
At the same time, in a private club, Liu Chenghao was enjoying a Thai massage from two young and beautiful technicians.
The bastard Zhao Lei stood aside, holding a tray in his hand with a bottle of Romanticanti from an unknown age.
On the wall in front of the two of them, a huge TV was broadcasting a live broadcast of the Master of Cooking competition.
Liu Chenghao was drowsy when he saw it and was about to fall asleep.
Liu Chenghao didn't even bother to pay attention to such an unqualified and boring stage as the knockout rounds.
As the big benefactor behind the scenes, he will only appear on the scene during the finals.
Suddenly, Zhao Lei next to him suddenly said "ah", waking up Liu Chenghao who was about to dream about Duke Zhou.
Liu Chenghao cursed and opened his eyes dissatisfied:
"What are you whining about? Didn't you see that I want to take a rest?"
Zhao Lei pointed at the TV screen, a little excited:
"No, Mr. Liu, look at this person, does she look like the woman we saw last time at Mingyue Hotel?"
When Liu Chenghao heard this, the shadow of Jiang Wantong flashed in his mind, and he suddenly became energetic and raised his head.
On the huge screen, Jiang Wantong was cooking with her head down, focused and beautiful.
Liu Chenghao stared at Jiang Wantong, gritted his teeth and said:
"It's really her!"
The next second, Liu Chenghao thought of Zhang Dachuan from Jiang Wantong, and then he suddenly understood.
Zhang Dachuan clearly wanted to use his Master of Cooking competition to expand the influence of Liu Jinglong's restaurant.
Liu Chenghao laughed angrily:
"Okay, this Dachuan is really a dog-skin plaster that I can't get rid of. I don't care about him anymore. He actually came to find someone to participate in my Master of Kitchen Competition."
"It's so naive to want to win the championship in a show I sponsor, it's just a daydream!"
Zhao Lei hurriedly said:
"God is really helping Mr. Liu. I think we can take this opportunity to defeat him."
Liu Chenghao looked sideways at Zhao Lei:
"What do you think? Let me know."
Zhao Lei chuckled, hurriedly leaned into Liu Chenghao's ear, and whispered softly.
As Liu Chenghao listened, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and his laughter became louder and louder:
"Haha, okay, okay, okay! This method is good, just do it your way!"
