[BL] The Film Emperor's Daily Live Cooking Broadcast

95-First Round Results

Soon, everyone started to get busy. Cooking soup was actually not difficult. The difficulty lay in getting rid of the rankness of the duck meat and the temperature and time control.

A large number of seasonings were neatly placed on the shelves in the last row of the testing site. Many of them such as onion, ginger, garlic and rice wine, could be used to remove fishy smells.

Since there had been no cooking wine before, Ruan Tang had used scallion-ginger juice to remove the fishiness. So, most of these contestants also continued to use Ruan Tang's old style. After pounding the scallion and ginger to extract the juice, they applied it to the duck meat to remove the fishy taste and smell. Only a few people added a small amount of rice wine to further remove the fishy smell and enhance the taste.

Ruan Tang took notice of a girl named Zha Panpan. Although her movements were slow, she had special ideas. For example, she made a few cuts on the duck leg to let the duck meat absorb more flavor. At the same time, she used a small knife to carefully remove the fat from beneath the duck skin. Obviously she knew that the fat was where most of the duck's rank smell came from.

By the time she'd finished preparing the duck, the other contestants were already waiting. Zha Panpan put the processed duck legs into the pot without any rush. She then added the pieces of shallots, ginger slices and the appropriate amount of salt. After filling the pot with water, she let it boil over high heat, skimming the floating scum. She then slowly simmered it over low heat.

All contestants used the same kind of soup pot. There was no speculative method of using a pressure cooker to stew the duck. Many simply threw the duck inside and they were done, but the girl ingeniously found a clean cloth and used it to seal the lid of the pot, trying her best to prevent the steam from escaping to make the duck meat tenderer.

Ruan Tang nodded slightly, thinking that this girl was a good seed.

Sure enough, although it took a long time, her method to get rid of the fishiness was the most successful. All ten of the off-site judges accepted the bowl of duck soup and gave her very high marks.

64 people failed to get more than half of the votes from the off-site judges and thus they entered the danger zone. The so-called danger zone meant that the three main judges would taste their soup and decide whether they would stay or leave. Actually, according to the rules of the 1st round, there were still 72 people to be eliminated, so it was quite possible to directly eliminate all 64 contestants who entered the danger zone.

The 64 people in the danger zone, all anxiously stared at the three judges, hoping that they would leave one side of the net open. It couldn't be ruled out that some of them do have some potential but that there was still room for improvement.

These three judges had observed their cooking methods just now and so they had some impression of their skills. Ruan Tang and Ge Lao each chose seven people to stay. Some of them have very solid basic skills, but they made some mistakes. There were also some who were clever and brilliant, but unfortunately their basic skills had yet to be perfected. They could all be counted as good protects. Ruan Tang felt that they could be given another chance.

At this point, the number of contestants remaining in the field was 122, which meant that at this stage, 22 people will be eliminated. The situation of the 14 people who had just escaped elimination by the skin of their teeth had turned even more precarious.

"Next, we shall start the last test, that is, the combination of ingredients." As Ge Lao's words fell, several small robots stopped in front of the contestants, holding wooden boxes.

"These mystery boxes contain many kinds of ingredients. You will be given an hour to create a special dish using the ingredients in the boxes. Of course, the taste is the main point of this test." After a pause, Ruan Tang looked at the nervous contestants in front of him. He lit a fire under them, saying, "This last test has a small reward. The top three will get priority in choosing the ingredients in the next round of competition."