Chapter 170 "Skillful Use of the Wheat Flower Knife"
The three Red Team members walked into the kitchen with ingredients. The Red Team had been working for nearly 10 minutes. Liu Yifan, who was in charge of the Supervisor, seemed very dissatisfied with the speed of the Red Team.
"Blue Team, put down your ingredients and answer me, what problems did you encounter and why you will be behind the Blue Team for a full 15 minutes under the same conditions."
Liu Yifan's severe scolding and questioning, the three Red Team all looked like dirt, Yang Wei explained with a lack of energy: "We have an ingredient that we can't buy, so..."
"What materials can't be bought? It takes so long to waste?" Liu Yifan interrupted him.
"Nine-story tower."
"If you can't buy it, have you discussed with your companions and can you use other ingredients instead?"
"This..." Yang Wei was speechless for a moment. This question had been slapped in the face outside, and now he didn't have the courage to speak it out at all.
It's so embarrassing!
Liu Yifan saw the clues and did not hold on to this problem anymore. He looked at the ingredients and said, "Fast-frozen dried tofu and quick-frozen chicken are all quick-frozen foods. You need more skills to make up for it. I hope you can think about how to make up for it."
Yang Wei chose a large supermarket, and this kind of local chain shopping place rarely has fresh ingredients, and basically it is mainly frozen ingredients.
Because frozen and refrigerated ingredients are more convenient for transportation and storage.
"We already have preliminary ideas and will do our best to make up for it. I believe that with the strength of our team, we can solve these problems." The most important thing in the game is that morale cannot be left behind, and Yang Wei is very clear about this.
On the one hand, this answer is to listen to Liu Yifan, but more to cheer himself and his teammates.
"Okay, I hope you can do it. Take your time and prepare to start. You are 15 minutes behind the Red Team. You need to speed up the progress." Liu Yifan reminded.
"Okay, OK!" Yang Wei nodded repeatedly, and ran to the Red Team cooking area on the left with the ingredients.
The Red Team has just started washing vegetables, and the Blue Team has already entered the chopping board processing stage with the advantage of 15 minutes ahead.
Liu Yifan walked up to Xie Qingfeng and asked, "Team Blue, how do you divide the labor of your products?"
There are three contestants in three courses. One contestant can choose one contestant to be the chef, the other two are responsible for cooperating, or one person can be responsible for one dish throughout the process, each doing its own as a three-person competition, and they can also cooperate and match together in the early stage, and then separate in the later cooking stage.
There are many ways to divide the labor, each with its advantages. Which one will be more suitable for your team depends on the control of the two captains.
Xie Qingfeng had already done the division of labor and replied: "Our distribution method is 21. Fang Liuguang is responsible for the whole process of the old Shanghai crab. He is the best at this dish. I cut and match the other two dishes together with Wu Xiaomei. I am good at knife skills. Later, the hot processing is processed and then made separately. I will be responsible for osmanthus meat. She mainly sells squirrel mandarin fish."
"This division of labor sounds quite chaotic. I hope you can control the rhythm well. The game time must be enough. Don't be too impatient. You must focus on quality." Liu Yifan reminded the three of the blue team, and then came to the red team on the left.
"Yang Wei, tell me about your work arrangements."
The three dishes of the Red Team are Huai'an fried tiger tails, Yangzhou boiled dried shredded silk and Taiwanese three-cup chicken. Yang Wei had already arranged staff and briefly said: "Our three dishes each have a chef responsible for cooking, but during the entire production process, the three of us will help each other.
Later, I was responsible for the three-cup Taiwanese chicken, Yu Xiaoting was responsible for cooking dried shredded shreds in Yangzhou, and Fan Xiaobing was the chef of Huai'an's Husband. This is a dish that all three of us are familiar with."
"It's very good, just follow your pace and remember that quality is the first priority." Liu Yifan's reminder was very good. The quality of the dishes was indeed the biggest problem they had to face.
Both the Red and Blue teams entered the kitchen, and the most important second half of the game began.
The Blue Team is divided by 21. Xie Qingfeng gave Fang Liuguang enough trust to let him complete this dough drag crab alone. He and Wu Xiaomei were responsible for the other two.
First of all, in terms of knife processing, Wu Xiaomei was responsible for cutting ingredients, and both main ingredients were handed over to Xie Qingfeng.
The most difficult knife skills are squirrel fish. Xie Qingfeng decided to make this dish a flower knife first, and then hand it over to Wu Xiaomei, and then he would deal with the osmanthus meat by himself.
Squirrel fish needs to change the fish meat into a wheat ear flower knife, that is, cut the whole piece of flat fish into long strips of about 3 cm, with the roots constantly connected to the fish skin.
After the two slices of fish are cut, the tail is lifted downwards, and the strips of fish will spread out one by one, like a cluster of wheat ears full of wheat.
The specific tooling method is three steps:
First, after the mandarin fish is slaughtered, the scales are removed and the internal organs are cleaned. Place it flat on the cutting board and the knife is inserted from under the shark fins on the gills, and the fish heads with gill wings are cut out on both sides.
The fish head's mouth is upward on the cutting board, and pat it with the back of the knife to stand firm and stand for use.
Then start to deal with the fish body, enter from the separation point of the fish head, follow the middle large bone in the middle of the fish back to the tail, and cut the fish into two pieces of meat and a middle large bone in the middle.
Remember that the fish tail cannot be broken here. The cut should be about 5 cm away from the fish tail fin. The cut shape should be three pieces together.
Then turn up the fish on one side, carefully cut the middle and large bones in the middle, leaving only two pieces of fish on the tail.
The last step to killing fish is to get rid of your stomach!
The fish meat on one side was placed behind the tail, and the kitchen knife went down diagonally to scrape off the two sides of the remaining fish belly, and the two small bones with small bones.
Just stick to the bones and don’t cut off the whole piece of fish belly.
After the ingredients are modified, the second step is to put the wheat ears and flower knife.
The method of the wheat ear flower knife is "one tilt and one tilt". First, the blade body is tilted by 35 to 40 degrees, and the knife is cut from the tail to the fish neck. The depth of the knife just touches the fish skin, and it cannot be cut off. The interval between each knife is about 2 mm.
The function of the oblique knife is to extend the ingredients, such as cutting off 2 cm, 3 cm, or even longer slices.
The thickness of the fish meat is not enough, and to reflect the shape of the wheat ears, you must have an oblique knife.
After all the oblique blades are in place, then use the straight knife with the blade down vertically, with the spacing of two millimeters to turn the fish from slices to silk.
Pay special attention here: the straight knife and the oblique knife are crossed lower blades.
Although two knifes can also cut out the fish stockings, the silk will not be attached to the fish, and only one piece of fish skin will be left after signing.
However, if all you need is fish shreds, instead of wanting a wheat ear flower knife, you can use a parallel cutter.
Chapter completed!