Second-grade ingredients were not so easy to find. Fortunately, Gu Zheng had accumulated a lot of experience in finding second-grade ingredients. He knew how to find them and could avoid detours.
Gu Zheng accepted the challenge to make duck blood and vermicelli soup. The main ingredients were duck and vermicelli. The ducks raised in the wild were basically garbage grade, and some of them were even poisonous. Few poultry raised in the wild could reach low-grade. Most of them were low-grade, and a few of them were garbage. However, it was hard to find second-grade ingredients. It all depended on luck.
It was not easy for any ingredient to reach second-grade. The classification of ingredients in the immortal world was very strict. Take the duck as an example. As long as the wild ducks had eaten the feed, even if it had only eaten it once, its grade could only be low-grade at most. It could never reach second-grade again.
Don't be fooled by the word 'secondary'. This was the classification of the Immortal World. On Earth, secondary was already a very good existence. It could be seen from the few secondary ingredients that Gu Zheng found. Whether it was the ice spring mineral water from the Alps, the seaweed salt from Peru, or the oil from Fujian, they were all the best of their kind. They were the best of the best.
Second-grade ingredients in the immortal world were almost equivalent to top-grade ingredients on Earth. Therefore, if one wanted to find such ducks, one could not go to the market or even the farm. There was more hope in the mountains or the farmers.
In addition to the ducks, the other main ingredient was vermicelli.
Vermicelli was the best. The vermicelli in that shop was very good. It was a low-grade ingredient. Without the vermicelli, Gu Zheng would not even give them 50 points.
Gu Zheng wanted to do better than them, so the vermicelli had to be of a higher grade. Low-grade vermicelli was not bad. After all, the sweet potatoes were underground. As long as the pesticides did not seep into the ground, there was no need for chemical fertilizers, or there was only a small amount of chemical fertilizers, low-grade sweet potatoes were easy to grow.
Low-grade sweet potatoes and low-grade underground water could be used to cook low-grade vermicelli.
However, it was difficult to make the vermicelli into second-grade. First of all, the place where the sweet potatoes were planted could not use any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Like the ducks, once these ingredients were used, the grade of the sweet potatoes could not reach second-grade.
There was only a one-grade difference between low-grade and second-grade ingredients, but it was very difficult to cross it, especially in the current environment.
After careful planning, Gu Zheng first came out to find vermicelli.
To be exact, he was looking for raw materials to make vermicelli. He knew that there was a green base near Hangzhou. However, strictly speaking, it was not a base at all. It was a research center that studied the improvement and modification of some crops. The land there did not use any fertilizers or pesticides. Gu Zheng's father had an old friend who worked there. He was the deputy director and they had a good relationship. Gu Zheng had been there several times before.
After he left the house in the morning, he went straight here.
The base was not large, but the management was very strict. The things here were not for sale. If it were not for Gu Zheng's connections here, he would not even be able to enter the gate. There were as many as six security guards guarding the gate, surrounded by walls with cables. People who did not know would think that this was some kind of prison.
It was easy to do things with connections. Gu Zheng originally just wanted to see if there were any second-grade sweet potatoes here. Even if there were not, there must be low-grade sweet potatoes here. He could take some low-grade sweet potatoes back and enter the chaotic space to upgrade them to second-grade. However, he did not expect that after coming here, it would give him a big surprise.
There was a piece of land here, and the quality of the sweet potatoes planted here was second-grade. Not only sweet potatoes, but also scallions, ginger, pepper, and other auxiliary materials were planted here. All of them were of second-grade quality, which meant that Gu Zheng had found all the ingredients at once.
This was indeed a big surprise.
The deputy director and Gu Zheng's father knew each other in their early years and had a good relationship. Gu Zheng's father also helped him a little. When he heard that Gu Zheng just wanted some sweet potatoes, scallions, ginger, and other things, he waved his hand and immediately someone prepared a bag for Gu Zheng. There were twenty-five pounds of sweet potatoes in it. If he was not worried that Gu Zheng could not carry it, there would be twice as many sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes and other ingredients, a snakeskin bag was thirty pounds. In the past, Gu Zheng would have been very tired to carry it by himself. Now that he had immortal power to improve his physique, it was much easier to carry it.
Twenty-five pounds of sweet potatoes seemed to be a lot, but there might not be many vermicelli.
To make vermicelli from sweet potatoes, first of all, the sweet potatoes must be turned into sweet potato powder. Four to six pounds of sweet potatoes can only be made into one pound of sweet potato powder. In order not to affect the quality of the sweet potato powder, Gu Zheng did not intend to use a machine to make it. He would use the primitive method to grind it, so the yield would be even lower.
One pound of sweet potato powder can only be boiled into about seven ounces of vermicelli. In this way, twenty-five pounds of sweet potatoes can actually get less than three pounds of vermicelli, which was not a lot.
Nowadays, there were many cheap sweet potato vermicelli on the market. There were six dollars, five dollars, and even two or three dollars. These cheap ones that claimed to be pure sweet potato powder were 100% fake. The cost of pure sweet potato vermicelli was more than that. They were basically made with starch and sold as sweet potato vermicelli.
With so many ingredients gathered in one go, Gu Zheng felt a lot more relaxed. With the sweet potato powder and other ingredients, even if he could not find a second-grade duck, he only needed to buy a low-grade duck and enter the chaotic space to improve it. This was equivalent to having a full set of second-grade ingredients.
With these ingredients, this challenge was equivalent to saying that Gu Zheng was in an invincible position. The gap between the ingredients was too big, and ordinary cooking skills could not make up for it. Not to mention that Gu Zheng's cooking skills were not bad.
Another day passed, and this topic on the website became more and more popular. The number of followers had exceeded 100,000. It was the topic with the most attention recently. It might even be the topic with the most attention this year on the Gourmet Channel.
The gap in the voting gradually widened. The number of supporters for Gu Zheng decreased a little. The proportion that thought he could win was now only 30%. The support of the head chef rose to 70%.
In the beginning, the reason why Gu Zheng had such a high support rate was because he had a lot of hardcore fans supporting him. However, Gu Zheng's hardcore fans were only that many. Later on, as the popularity of Gu Zheng increased, he attracted a lot of readers who did not know Gu Zheng. These readers mostly supported the professional head chef. No one believed that a non-professional chef could win in cooking.
With so much attention, even the higher-ups of the website were alarmed. On the third day, which was the day before the challenge, the higher-ups of the website suddenly decided to follow up on this matter in real time. They even put the challenge process on the live broadcast platform and broadcast it live.
This result was not only unexpected to Mumu, but also to the head chef who initiated the challenge. As a result, their company paid more attention to it. Although they still used the original ingredients, they screened out the best from the ingredients to ensure that their head chef won.
With so much attention and a live broadcast, they could not afford to lose. Once they lost, the brand image of the whole company would be greatly reduced, and even the operation of the whole company would be affected.
The head chef who initiated the challenge did not expect that things would become so big.
As for the other party, he was still sleeping soundly. He had no idea that the challenge had attracted so much attention.
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