Chapter 850 Training Pressure
Looking at the busy chefs, Hao Libao came to Li Yi, stood beside him and said with a smile: "Your assessment project is very well designed and very targeted. I have to learn from it secretly."
Li Yi smiled: "It's not comprehensive yet, you can expand it a little bit more."
“Already very comprehensive.”
Hao Libao looked at the nervous chefs and sighed: "But, isn't the six-hour assessment time a bit short? I'm worried that they won't be able to complete all the projects."
“I didn’t expect them to finish them all.”
Li Yi didn’t take it seriously: “Whether it is a team competition or an individual competition, outstanding personal abilities are required.
Limiting the assessment time is to ask them to focus mainly on projects in which they have advantages, and to test their ability to withstand stress. "
Hearing this, Hao Libao glanced at him with emotion and said with a smile, "You are born to be a boss."
“Eh? Why are you still swearing?”
Li Yi made a joke, then looked at him and smiled, then walked around in front of various stoves.
Although it was a selection process, neither Hao Libao nor Li Yi were particularly strict.
While watching, if they see areas that need adjustment or improvement, they will take the initiative to help the chef improve efficiency and product quality.
"You want to make a honey sauce recipe? Then why not steam it first? The Pipa legs have been processed. They need to be steamed first to restore their original muscle texture and shape, otherwise they will shrink and deform when they are cooked. Steam them first and then Boiling will have a better effect of removing salt, and don’t forget to use alkaline water for washing.”
"Make sour plum sauce? This is okay. You are not a Cantonese chef, right? No wonder, **** and garlic are added to the sour plum sauce. This is the Shunde method. The ratio of **** and garlic should be controlled to one-tenth of the amount of sour plums. Remember to saute it first.”
With Li Yi's guidance, all the chefs seemed to be enlightened, with expressions of enlightenment and gratitude on their faces.
Li Yi reminded them that these skills are very practical. Even if they fail the exam, they will benefit a lot after they go back.
For a time, all the chefs present were convinced of Li Yi's cooking skills, and no one dared to look down upon him in the slightest.
Watching Li Yi wandering around the various stoves, they all looked up expectantly from time to time, hoping to attract Li Yi's attention so that they could give some advice and improve their cooking skills.
The busy time always flies by. Six hours passed by in a flash, and the second round of selection was also over.
After reviewing and tasting the chefs' works one by one, Li Yi asked each chef to preserve the works and wait until tomorrow morning to make a final score based on the preservation effect.
After a night of anxious waiting, at noon the next day, Li Yi and Hao Libao checked the freshness effect of each chef's work, and finally selected 18 chefs to join the competition.
The chefs who were selected were overjoyed, while the chefs who were not selected were upset and felt as if they had missed the grand prize.
Even just participating in this top competition in the culinary world can increase one's worth.
But this is the rule. They are not strong enough, so they can only admit defeat honestly.
However, being selected is only the first step. The next 18 chefs will have to undergo two months of special training.
After all, this is a competition, and the ultimate goal is to win a prize, so a certain strategy is still required.
These two months of special training expanded the eight assessment items into eight aspects of special skills for repeated training.
These training plans were modified by Li Yi based on the imperial training routine. They are relatively targeted, but the results are indeed very good. Even Li Yi himself has benefited a lot.
Just after having the training plan, there was a problem with the setting of the training venue.
He was also needed there, and he really couldn't leave.
Although professional courses can be adjusted to be taken every other day, it will take time to travel back and forth between Jinling and Beijing. In order to save time, Li Yi simply arranged for the chefs to be trained in Jinling.
In this way, he can respond to situations on both sides at any time without delaying things.
But for a team with so many people, it is difficult to find a training venue.
However, with Li Yi’s connections, this problem can be easily solved.
In the past six months, two cities have cooperated with his catering company to hold local food festivals.
Most of the professional and technical personnel responsible for organizing the food festival are graduates of the New Oriental Cooking School recruited by the company.
Liu Xiaoli has signed a cooperation agreement with New Oriental Cooking School to recruit 100 graduates of the school every year, and the number will increase every year.
This can help the school solve many employment problems, so the relationship between New Oriental and Yifei Catering is in the honeymoon period.
Li Yi made a phone call, and the person in charge of the Jinling campus of New Oriental Cooking School contacted him that day and offered to provide a professional classroom free of charge for the participating teams.
Not only that, the person in charge also said that New Oriental Cooking School is willing to provide all the ingredients needed for training for free, and can also provide free food and accommodation, and sponsor round-trip air tickets.
For them, as long as they can be related to this culinary Olympiad, they will make money.
The training process is very boring, but no one dares to relax because the media has already known about it and reported it.
Because Li Yi leads the team, many netizens who have never heard of this event are paying attention to this Olympiad in the culinary world.
Where there is attention, there will be traffic. After realizing that this is a topic with high traffic, the media also began to rush to report on it.
As the media published articles one after another, netizens who saw the articles paid more attention to this event.
Ever since, under the exaggeration of the media, the popularity of this event has become higher and higher, and it has become popular.
After learning that hundreds of millions of netizens were paying attention to this game, the pressure on the representative team instantly increased.
If you don’t get good results after participating in the competition, then you will be scolded to death?
However, this also stimulated the fighting spirit of the participating chefs, and each one became more serious in training.
The greater the pressure, the greater the reward.
If you can get good results in this competition, it will be equivalent to showing your face in front of people all over the country. This is a good thing!
For a time, the chefs all started working hard, competing with each other and working overtime training. They stood in front of the stove for more than ten hours every day, and some even cooked while sleeping.
However, their level is indeed improving by leaps and bounds at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the speed of progress even surprises them.
While they were training hard, Li Yi's professional teaching was also on track.
Li Yi’s teaching does not contain much professional knowledge, but is more oriented towards vocational education.
His teaching content is to teach students in professional courses hand-woven textiles from scratch.
For students in this major, this kind of teaching content is more interesting than various academic courses, and everyone learns with great interest.
Textile skills require a lot of practice. After the early teaching, all students have initially mastered the weaving skills, and Li Yi's teaching pressure has also been relieved.
So, he also had some free time to design the dress pattern to be worn at his wedding to Liu Yifei.
(End of this chapter)