Chapter 370: He actually emptied the Michelin kitchen!
"Creative baby food?"
Xiao Xue Zheng repeated these six words, his brows twisted into the shape of a "川" character, and his handsome face showed an unprecedented solemnity.
Ask him to negotiate and acquire a company with a market value of tens of billions, and he won't even blink.
But now, when he was asked to make a small baby food dish, he felt like he had received an impossible task.
He had been into the kitchen only a few times in his life.
The last time I made the heart-shaped fried eggs, I barely managed to complete it under the dual guidance of Sister Li and the teaching video.
Now, not only does it have to be made on site, but it also has to be nutritious, delicious and creative?
Isn't this putting him in a difficult position?
Shi Runrun looked at his face as if he was facing a great enemy, and the little flame of gloating in her heart couldn't help but emerge again.
"How's it going, Mr. Xiao?" She deliberately leaned forward and blinked. "It's not too late to quit now. Just say... our little princess can't leave her father, so Daddy has to stay home with her."
She even thought of an excuse for him to withdraw from the competition.
Hearing this, the man raised his eyelids and glanced at her coldly.
That look seemed to be saying: Do you think I, Xiao Xue Zheng, am the kind of person who would run away from the battlefield?
"Isn't it just cooking?" He snorted coldly, trying to save face. "What's so difficult about it?"
As he spoke, he picked up his cell phone and called Mr. Liu, the Michelin three-star chef he had hired to be responsible for Shi Runrun's nutrition during pregnancy.
"Teacher Liu, please come to the study right now." His tone left no room for doubt.
"I need you to train me to be a top-notch food preparation master within three days."
Teacher Liu on the other end of the phone was obviously confused when he heard this request.
Train a kitchen novice into a top master in three days?
This is harder than getting him to compete on MasterChef.
However, facing the boss's order, he did not dare to raise any objection and could only agree to it.
So, for the next three days, the kitchen of the Xiao family villa became Xiao Xue Zheng's exclusive battlefield.
Shi Runrun originally thought that he would learn seriously like a good student, starting from cutting vegetables and kneading dough.
But she still underestimated this man's "unconventional" nature.
On the first day, he called Teacher Liu to the kitchen without learning any specific cooking techniques.
Instead, ask him to compile all the ingredients suitable for babies, from vegetables and fruits to meat and seafood, and report to him on the nutritional content, efficacy, best combination, and possible allergic reactions of each type, into a detailed PPT.
He listened very carefully and, from time to time, asked questions that even Teacher Liu found tricky.
"For this broccoli, blanch it for thirty seconds or one minute?"
"Is this salmon from the deep sea of Norway or the Faroe Islands?"
Teacher Liu broke out in a cold sweat after hearing his question.
He felt like he was not teaching a student how to cook, but defending his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Nutrition, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The next day, Xiao Xue Zheng still did not take action.
He asked Teacher Liu to make all the complementary food recipes he had learned throughout his life.
Then, like a food critic, he would take only a small bite of each dish and make sharp and sarcastic comments based on the presentation, color, taste, creativity and other aspects.
"This pumpkin puree isn't golden enough, which means there's something wrong with the pumpkin's origin and the amount of sunlight it gets."
"The codfish balls are too woody, which means the strength and timing of the beating are not precisely controlled."
"And this vegetable pancake, the shape is too childish and lacks artistic beauty."
Teacher Liu stood aside, listening to his "nitpicking" comments, and felt that his career had suffered an unprecedented insult.
The third day was the night before the competition.
Shi Runrun thought, he should finally practice it himself, right?
As a result, the man directly "kidnapped" Teacher Liu and his entire team of chefs to the kitchen.
He moved a chair and sat at the kitchen door, directing them like a supervisor, simulating the process of tomorrow's game over and over again.
"The lighting! The lighting is wrong! The lighting at the competition venue is cold. You have to consider the color of the ingredients under different lighting!"
"Time! Pay attention to time! From preparing the ingredients to serving them on the plate, everything must be done to the second! No delays are allowed!"
"And you!" He pointed at a young chef arranging a dish, his brow furrowed. "The angle of the mint leaves you're using for garnish is wrong! They should be pointing upwards at a 45-degree angle. This way, they can reflect a positive and energetic spirit!"
Shi Runrun hid at the corner of the stairs, looking at the man who was giving orders at the kitchen door with high spirits, and was completely speechless.
She finally figured it out.
This man never thought about doing it himself.
He wanted to turn the competition venue into his personal baby food concept launch conference.
…
On the day of the competition, the venue was packed with people.
All the major media outlets in Beijing were pointing their cameras at the entrance of the stadium, waiting to catch the eye of the hot topic.
When Xiao Xue Zheng appeared at the scene, wearing a well-tailored Armani haute couture suit and escorted by a group of bodyguards, all the flash lights lit up crazily.
His handsome and cold face formed a very sharp and incongruous contrast with the ordinary fathers around him who were wearing aprons and looking nervous.
"Oh my god! He's really here! And he's dressed like he's going to the red carpet!"
"What's that box he's carrying? It looks so classy! Could it be kitchenware made of gold?"
The game begins.
All the contestants rushed to the food area and began to pick ingredients in a hurry.
Only Xiao Xue Zheng walked slowly to his own operating table.
Instead of going to the food section, he opened the silver metal suitcase he brought with him, which looked very valuable.
Under everyone's curious gaze, he took out rows of labeled, vacuum-packed, and cleanly processed ingredients from the box.
Organic carrots irrigated with Alpine spring water
[Australian Kobe beef raised listening to Mozart's music]
[Non-GMO sweet corn genetically modified by a Nobel Prize winner]
…
The label of every ingredient sparkles with the brilliance of money and technology.
The audience and judges at the scene were all stunned.
This is not a competition.
This is clearly a show of wealth!
The following cooking process was an eye-opener for everyone.
The other fathers were busy cutting and stirring vegetables, sweating profusely.
Xiao Xue Zheng simply gracefully pressed the switch of another, more advanced-looking, fully automatic smart food processor he had brought with him.
He put those top-quality ingredients into the machine in a precise order.
Then he folded his arms, stood aside leisurely, and watched the machine complete all the work automatically.
He looked so calm, as if he was not a contestant but a specially invited inspector of the competition.
Half an hour later, when other fathers were still worrying about how to arrange their baby food.
Xiao Xuezhen's work has just been released.
It was a plain-looking bowl of beef and vegetable puree.
However, it was served on a Hermès platinum plate.
Next to it, an "S" shape is decorated with top-quality caviar.
“S” stands for victory.
When he brought this work to the judges' table, the entire arena fell into an eerie silence.
The judges looked at the complementary food in front of them, which was full of the "RMB flavor", and looked at each other in confusion. For a moment, they didn't know how to comment on it.
"Ahem... Mr. Xiao," an older female judge said, clearing her throat in an attempt to break the awkward silence. "This complementary food of yours... looks... very special. Could you share with us your creative concept?"
Finally, it’s time for the part he’s best at.
Xiao Xue Zheng picked up the microphone and showed a confident and calm smile that only appeared at a press conference.
"My work is called Light of the Future." He spoke slowly, his voice low, magnetic, and full of persuasiveness.
"Its core concept is precise nutrition and data-driven feeding. Our team has scientifically calculated the proportions of every gram of food thousands of times to provide babies with the most balanced nutrition—not too much, not too little, and just the right amount. The cooking temperature and time are also perfectly controlled to ensure zero nutrient loss."
"As for its taste..." He paused and looked at the judges' table with a compassionate look.
"I believe that for a baby whose taste buds are still in the early stages of development, excessive seasoning is a burden and also a harm. Therefore, I retain the most authentic flavors of the ingredients. This is the most original respect for life."
His creative ideas, which were full of business terms and philosophical speculation, confused everyone present.
Everyone was confused, but also felt that it seemed very impressive.
Finally, after a fierce ideological struggle, the judges gave an unprecedented score.
Taste: 3 points. (Because it really has no taste)
Creativity: 10 points. (Because creativity created with money is still creativity)
Nutritional value: Inestimable. (Because they don't understand how nutritious those high-tech ingredients are)
In the end, Xiao Xue Zheng barely made it to the next round in an extremely strange way.
After the competition, the organizers immediately announced the second round of competition items.
When Xiao Xuezheng, who had just been feeling complacent about his wonderful performance, saw the six words "DIY handmade toys" appear on the big screen, the smile on his face froze instantly.
He subconsciously glanced at his hands, which were only capable of signing checks and typing, and fell into deep thought.
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