Chapter 249: Promoted to Intermediate Cook!
You should know that Zhao Xiaojing has taken the graduation exam eleven times, and her tutor left directly five of them.
And he didn't fail the first exam, but the three in between and the two times before this exam.
The instructor didn't explain the reason for leaving, so Zhao Xiaojing could only guess based on her own feelings.
After leaving last time, Zhao Xiaojing took out her notebook and looked through the instructors' reactions to the eleven exams she had recorded, focusing on the five dishes that the instructors had left without even tasting a single bite, and carefully compared and reviewed them.
Only then did I vaguely feel that the problem seemed to lie in her overall combination and the quality of the food she served.
At first, she failed the test several times. She thought it was because the dishes had no characteristics and there was no main dish. So she took the trouble to add more dishes to show her skills, focusing her focus and time on two or three of them. She even carved flowers on them, thickened the sauce, and arranged the dishes exquisitely.
But time was limited, and with more time spent on the main course, she had less time for the other dishes. In a hurry, she had to choose simpler and more time-saving dishes. That time, the salad made up almost half of the meal. But when it was served, the overall look was a pleasant color combination, with a balanced mix of meat and vegetables. The instructor took one look and walked away. It was the first time Zhao Xiaojing failed the exam without even trying the instructor's dishes, and it caught her off guard.
After that, she tried to adjust the quality of the dishes and made a table with some rare seafood and expensive-looking dishes, but it also took a long time. She simply changed it to eight dishes, and the instructor took another look and left.
During her last exam, she made several dishes that required a long preparation time but could be served in just 30 seconds of stir-frying. She finished the same ten dishes more than ten minutes earlier.
But the overall look seemed to be quite repetitive, visually unappealing, and the variety of meat dishes was not rich enough. The instructor shook his head and walked away.
From this, she deduced that the graduation exam did not actually require extremely sophisticated and high-end dishes, but rather required comprehensive abilities to prepare a seemingly ordinary table of dishes, such as planning the types of dishes and their taste, time coordination, and color combinations that did not need to be too sophisticated but were visually pleasing at first glance.
Therefore, although the dishes this time are homely, they are actually the result of careful consideration by Zhao Xiaojing. From the types of dishes to the color matching, and the overall combination of meat and vegetables, she has made comprehensive decisions and has practiced them many times in virtual space.
Beer duck and dry pot spare ribs in a sauce-colored sauce; red beef brisket with tomatoes; clear and shiny chicken soup with yellow oil floating on the surface, and corn segments and wolfberries floating on the surface; jade-white lotus root slices garnished with chopped green and red peppers and yellow chopped ginger; golden and oily fried oysters and fried oyster mushrooms with a burnt color that look crispy on the outside and tender on the inside; and simple and light, but exquisitely presented and colorful steamed sea bass and blanched shrimp; finally, a white and blue volcano-shaped blueberry yam with a refreshing and eye-catching color.
There was no duplication of any meat ingredient, the color combinations were quite rich and beautiful, and there was ample time, with the time allocation for each dish being relatively reasonable. Zhao Xiaojing was quite satisfied with the preparation.
The instructor tasted each of the ten dishes one by one. After each one, he would rinse his mouth before trying the next one. His frown slowly relaxed. After tasting the last one, he thought for a moment and pointed at the fried oysters. "Once the oil is hot, turn to low heat and let it slowly set. Serve the other dishes first. Finally, when you heat the oil and pour the sea bass over it, turn to high heat and pour the egg mixture. Stir it twice briefly and serve it with the sea bass."
This was the first time the instructor had commented since the exam, and Zhao Xiaojing quickly nodded in agreement.
The instructor disappeared after he finished speaking. Before Zhao Xiaojing could taste the food, the system prompt sounded.
[Ding~ Congratulations to the host for passing the graduation exam]
[After system evaluation, the current cook level is: 35 (intermediate, ordinary skilled, the maximum level is 100). This upgrade will receive system gold x 1000 and cash x 100000!]
[The system has opened up the intermediate chef's authority, please check it yourself. ]
Finally promoted to intermediate cook! Zhao Xiaojing was delighted.
She was promoted to a junior cook at level 15 before, and she thought she would reach the intermediate level after reaching level 30. She was excited for a while when she was taking the course at that time. However, there was no movement after she passed level 30. She asked the system several times, but the system just said that the time had not come yet.
Zhao Xiaojing quickly jumped to the system page to check the newly added permissions.
As soon as I opened the page, I found that the virtual space module was flashing.
Zhao Xiaojing's mouth widened. When she'd wanted to upgrade her virtual space, Xiaozhi had said the entry-level Chef virtual space lacked many features, so she'd been eyeing the new intermediate-level features.
The elementary level is already so practical, the intermediate level must be even more so.
[The scene cropping and splicing function has been enabled, the splicing scene saving function has been enabled, the step-by-step recovery function has been enabled, and the spatial flow rate function has been enhanced.]
As soon as you enter the virtual space, upgraded functions will appear one after another.
Zhao Xiaojing's heart beat faster and she stared at the function demonstration intently.
The scene cropping and splicing function and the splicing scene saving function, as the name suggests, can crop and splice several different scenes together to form a new scene for use. They can also be saved and used continuously as long as the area is within the current available area.
For example, Zhao Xiaojing can cut out the food scene on the workbench of Gushanfeng Restaurant and then splice it with her own kitchen scene. In this way, she can practice in the kitchen she is familiar with and use the good ingredients of the restaurant.
For example, by combining the rough processing area of Gushanfeng Restaurant with her own kitchen, she can use fresh, unprocessed ingredients and prepare them according to her own preferences, rather than processing them to fit the restaurant's fixed dishes.
Even if the area is large enough, she can go to the vegetable market...
The step-by-step recovery function is like undoing or returning to the previous step. In the virtual space, if she messes up a step while cooking, she can select a specific area or operation and restore it to the level she specified.
However, it is more suitable for making complex dishes, and is basically not used for simple stir-frying nowadays.
As for the increase in spatial flow rate, it is even simpler and more direct. It is directly increased from one minute in the outside world to one hour in the virtual space to one minute in the outside world and 1.5 hours in the virtual space.
After reading the introduction, Zhao Xiaojing couldn't stop smiling.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Just as I was about to check other functions, there was a knock on the door.
Zhao Xiaojing hurriedly exited the virtual space. As soon as she opened the door, Su Yuchen ran in holding a computer.
"Mirror, look!"
Zhao Xiaojing sat aside and watched the video on the computer.
Su Yuchen had shown her the video a few days ago. It was a song that their band had just rehearsed. The song was written by Su Yuchen and was liked by all the band members. Then they spent a month to finalize the general framework and produced a first version of the Demo.
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