Chapter 69: The War of Cabbage and Radish (Part 2)

  Jin Yong soon revealed the mystery to everyone.

  He only saw him take out a steamer and a stainless steel can with a strange shape from the toolbox below.

  This stainless steel can is just like a measuring cup used in the laboratory, straight up and down, flat, but with an additional lid, and metal buckles are designed on the four sides of the lid, which can be tightly fixed on the lower can body. On the top of the lid, there is also a hollow metal ring.

  Jin Yongbo puts the previously wrapped bok choy into this stainless steel can, pours in the high soup prepared beforehand, then tightly closes the lid, and takes an iron wire from the center of that metal ring...

  When everyone was looking at it in confusion, Jin Yongzhu picked up the lid of the steamer, and under the lid, there was also a metal ring.

  "Is he going to hang the sauerkraut jar inside the pot?"

  Upon seeing this, the crowd of Huaxia people suddenly felt enlightened. Zhou Yi also nodded in agreement, although he possessed the all-powerful idle person system and was proficient in all cooking-related skills, but when it came to this particular technique - Silver Craftiness, even the idle person system didn't have it, Nan Bangzi really had a unique approach on the stove.

  By suspending the jar in a stainless steel pot like this, it can ensure that the jar does not come into direct contact with the pot body, and there is air between them; then just heat the stainless steel pot evenly, and transmit the heat through the air to speed up the fermentation process of the pickled vegetables.

  On the other hand, if you heat the container directly with ordinary methods or steam it with water, it is not fermentation but direct cooking of the cabbage, and what comes out is not kimchi.

  This method of making 'fresh' kimchi is really unique and interesting.

  As expected, after Jin Yongrui hung the pot in the steamer and put it on the fire, he adjusted the flame to a low fire and started heating. However, during the heating process, he was not idle, but instead had his hands close to the pot body, gently pushing the steamer, sometimes rotating clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise. Every five minutes or so, he would extinguish the fire, let the pot cool down, and then continue heating it on the fire again.

  He performed the operation without wearing heat-resistant gloves, as if he was not afraid of being scalded. He seemed like a seasoned artisan who had been baking biscuits for a long time, and his hands were probably tempered to withstand extreme temperatures.

  It took about twenty minutes for Jin Yongzhu to remove the steamer, take out the jar, and put it directly into the small quick-freezer beside him without waiting for it to cool down.

  Korean kimchi fermentation, two steps. The previous step was fermentation, but this step is quick freezing and storage. Using a sudden drop in temperature to lock in the flavor of the fermented cabbage, while also using this step to bring out the perfect balance of spicy and sour flavors in the kimchi!

  Five minutes later, Jin Yongzhu took out the kimchi and put it into five small glass bowls. From a distance, the kimchi in the bowls was white with a hint of yellow, its color and fragrance flowing together like top-grade "cat's eye" jade, so appetizing that just looking at it made one's appetite surge.

  Park Chi-soo snapped his fingers, and two Korean sisters placed five glass bowls on two fine porcelain trays, swaying their hips and singing "Collecting trash, dumping trash", dancing towards the five judges.

  "Honorable judges, please savor this freshly made baek-kimchi carefully. This was originally a kimchi delicacy that could only be enjoyed in the palace of my great Goguryeo kingdom. Every time it was served, palace maidens would present it with dance..."

  "With an air of pride, Pak looked at Zhang Zhao and said: 'When you all taste this kimchi, you will definitely feel like you are traveling through time and returning to the palace of our great Goryeo Kingdom. Please, help yourselves...'"

  The representatives of various restaurants under the stage all sneered at them. It's just that the sticks will make a fuss about these things, and the popular music scene is also dominated by stick combinations, but the previous dish actually made a sister combination, should it be called the youth bubble kimchi combination? Not afraid to laugh off people's big teeth.

  However, the three Chinese judges led by Feng Huoyan did not have a smile on their faces. This dish of boiled cabbage came up, and Feng Huoyan and Chang Aiguo, who had tasted all the best flavors in the world and were known as the king of gourmets, suddenly changed their expressions.

  This kimchi is indeed cooked to the extreme by Jin Yong. Without even eating, just smelling it with your nose, the aroma of fresh shrimp and the sweet and refreshing scent of the cabbage itself wafts up, this Jin Yong's grasp of flavor has obviously reached a state of perfection.

  "Although I don't want to admit it... but it's really delicious..."

  Yang Caizi savored the dish, first picking up a piece of pickled cabbage and putting it in her mouth. Instantly, the fresh, spicy, salty flavor filled her mouth, as if exploding on her taste buds; following that, the cabbage seemed to melt like pastry, dissolving instantly on her tongue, releasing a fresh, sour, slightly bitter sea salt flavor, which just as she was about to frown, harmoniously blended with her saliva and transformed into the purest shrimp flavor.

  The hardest to get is that when the fresh shrimp flavor is about to disappear, the unique sweetness of Gao Li Huang Xin Bai Cai finally comes, unifying all the previous flavors and turning them into an extremely rich and mellow aroma, which actually calms down her already accelerating heartbeat.

  "This..."

  Yang Cai was suddenly speechless. She had been very disgusted with Park Ji-soo and had prepared to make a big fuss, but in the end, she was betrayed by her own tongue and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's so delicious!"

  Yang Cai dares to swear as a journalist and judge that this is definitely the best kimchi she has ever had, and even the second-best dish! Perhaps only the Sanmei tofu she had at Yunshui Mountain can suppress this kimchi...

  "It's really delicious, this score......"

  Feng Huoyan and Chang Aiguo exchanged a glance, both old men shaking their heads with wry smiles. People like them, who are big shots in the culinary world, would not go against their conscience when giving scores. But if they were to score fairly, this Korean palace-style boiled white cabbage dish would be a perfect score!

  The boiled white cabbage cooked by Jin Shui has reached the ultimate, whether it's the cutting skills, techniques, flavor or the clever ideas inside, they have all reached the peak, and even if others want to pick on them, they can't find any fault.

  In the eyes of the two old men, Zhang Zhao was probably going to lose this time, and this was a result that they could not reverse.

  "Full marks!"

  Two judges from Korea first showed a perfect score card.

  "Full marks! Full marks! Full marks!"

  What made the representatives of various restaurants in Chudu city drop their jaws was that the three judges from Huaxia side actually held up full score cards!

  The conference hall fell silent, and all eyes turned to Zhang Zhao. Although these people were old colleagues and rivals in the same industry, they didn't want Zhang Zhao to be forced to close down either. If that really happened, the entire Chu City food industry would lose face.

  But everyone is still very familiar with Feng and Chang, the two old men. Since they have made a perfect judgment, it means that Zhang Zuo's kimchi is indeed flawless, and this time he can only admit defeat...

  Among the whole scene, only Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yi remained calm. Zhou Yi glanced at the five kimchi dishes in front of the judges, nodded slightly: "Not bad, only such opponents, such dishes, can barely match brother's pickled radish."

  He doesn't need to eat it; he just needs to smell the aroma floating in the air to know that Jin Yong's kimchi has reached the ultimate level.

  It's just a pity that Jin Yongzhu, a chef who can be called a genius, encountered the "Dong Xiaowan's Pickled Vegetable Jar" and the "Extreme Original Snow Pig" pickled in it, and encountered the current culinary god!

  The pickled radish of Zhou Yi has surpassed all worldly things, it's a wonderful thing that should only exist in heaven.

  Is there still suspense compared to heaven and earth?

  P.S: Did I win? Was this slap hard, very hard or extremely hard? Hehe...

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