"I'll take a break first, come on!" Xie Qingfeng clenched his fists to all the contestants, glanced at the seven friends in the small team one by one, cheered them up with his eyes, and jogged all the way to the second floor.

"The mystery and challenge are about to begin. Don't stand stupidly, hurry up and find your stage." Zhou Huajian smiled and raised his hand, and the remaining 14 contestants immediately ran to the cooking area in unison.

There are five neat rows of cooking operation tables, each row exceeding ten meters in length, and there are three player operation tables, which add up to 15 positions.

The 14 contestants who are about to enter the new round of competition, corresponding to the red names embroidered on the chest of the apron, came to their respective cooking tables with nervousness and excitement.

"Look at your sides." Cao Kefan opened his hands and pointed to both sides. "The best ingredients are on the left, and the best kitchenware equipment on the right. This is the top kitchen that chefs dream of."

Zhou Huajian continued: "In the last game, we have examined you all the ability to cook with limited ingredients and utensils, but this mysterious box challenge is the time to truly test your creativity.

In this round of Mysterious Box Challenge, we will not only limit your main ingredients, other auxiliary ingredients and ingredients, etc., but we will designate the distribution. You can only use the ingredients and ingredients we provide to create a creative dish that satisfies us."

The Mysterious Box Challenge is an old event in the competition. The contestants have had relevant knowledge from the previous five competitions. The only thing they are curious about is how difficult the ingredients provided this time will be.

"In this game, no one will be eliminated, but we will choose the best piece and the worst dish. The best performer will enjoy a new privilege that can dominate the game in the next round. The poor performer will be relegated to the pending zone."

As soon as Cao Kefan finished speaking, Liu Yifan said: "This round of competition is very important, because the next round is the elimination stage. The player with the worst performance in this round will enter the PK extra game with the two worst players in the next round.

One of the three players will be eliminated by PK. I think none of you will hope that the next round will be your last stop.”

The PK extra game is the gates of hell, with a chance of elimination of up to 30%, which is a nightmare for the players.

"The express train I got in this round doesn't look as good as I thought. If I make a mistake in the next round, I may also face the risk of elimination."

Strictly speaking, Xie Qingfeng's direct train privilege can only be considered half, which means that the worst player in this round will be avoided and there is no need to be relegated to enter the pending zone.

But there are two relegation places in the next round. If Xie Qingfeng performs poorly, he will also enter the PK extra game.

The 14 players in the cooking area are very clear about these competition rules, and they also know that in the next round, in addition to two players entering the PK stage, two team leaders will be born to lead the next team competition.

These two games are risky and rewards, which can be regarded as a coexistence of good and bad fortune.

"Okay, please hold the box now. What ingredients are waiting for you? I'll count three times and you'll know if you open it." As soon as Liu Yifan said, the atmosphere on the court suddenly became tense.

There is expertise in skills and careers and hundreds of attacks!

The contestants present are not absolutely strong. They all have their own ingredients or basic skills that they are good at cooking, and they also have their own shortcomings and deficiencies.

If the ingredients in the mysterious box are the type that a certain player is best at, even if the overall strength is worse than other players, he can gain innate advantages. If the players with strong overall strength are unfamiliar with the ingredients in it or are not familiar with it, their strength will be greatly reduced.

This is a game that looks fair and is also unfair.

When the contestants hugged both sides of the box with both hands, Liu Yifan began to count down the reading: "Three...two...one, open it."

The moment the wooden box was opened, a loud voice sounded on the field. Some contestants were so happy that they could not stop seeing these ingredients, while others looked miserable.

Because, the main ingredient is "salmon"!

Salmon belongs to the Atlantic salmon species. It is commonly known as the sauerk and is one of the most precious fish in the world.

Its characteristics are that it has small scales and few thorns, the flesh is orange-red and beautiful, the meat is tender and delicious, the taste is refreshing and smooth, and it is very attractive in all aspects.

It can be eaten raw directly by sliced ​​and cooked into delicious dishes. It is one of the top fish that is most popular among people.

However, wild "monsterfish" is produced in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The main production areas are some waters in Alaska and Canada in the United States. Russia and RB also have a small number of wild "monsterfish".

The waters of China are far from the Atlantic Ocean, and salmon has rarely appeared on the dining table since ancient times.

Even in this era, the salmon that ordinary people come into contact with are all "fake salmon", and merchants sell Pacific salmon such as "rainbow trout" with a "salmon" hat.

(In August 2018, the group standard of "Raw Salmon Eating" proposed to list rainbow trout as salmon, which triggered widespread market debate. For this reason, the Consumer Protection Committee held a "consumer hearing" on August 21, 2018, and the conclusion is no follow-up so far.)

The Atlantic "monsterfish" and the Pacific "rainbow trout" have similar appearance and flesh color, so it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them.

However, salmon are cold-water fish. The difference in sea water temperature and living environment will cause a big gap in the meat quality of salmon.

The "salmon" in the Pacific region, both in terms of price and taste, is far inferior to the salmon produced in the Atlantic Ocean, with muffin as the main representative.

Salmon is the main fish ingredient in Western food and is one of the most expensive fish in the world. For the 14 local Chinese contestants present, it is a very unfamiliar ingredient.

Among the eight major Chinese cuisines, there are basically no related classic dishes.

These contestants were able to advance to the top 15 in the country, which proves that they all have excellent personal cooking skills and have also been exposed to some high-end ingredients.

But this is not absolute!

For example, Mei Tao, who came from the countryside, was at a loss for this kind of fish and didn't know how to start.

If you use such expensive fish, cook a pot of fish soup or slices of fish without giving it to three judges to taste it, Mei Tao himself feels it is a waste of resources.

For an excellent chef, his job is to upgrade the ingredients and highlight the characteristics of the ingredients themselves as much as possible with his own cooking skills.
Chapter completed!