Since 2016, the Butterfly Crisp Skills Competition has been held for the fifth time, and each competition site is not only a skill competition for the contestants, but also a big test for various brands in the baking industry. Through peer competition, butterfly crisps, which are representatives of Shanghai's characteristic tourism food, have also been inserted into the wings and waved a unique style.
At noon today, the works of the first batch of contestants in the "Fifth Butterfly Crisp Skill Competition" have been baked and marked and neatly arranged on a long table covered with white cloth. The judges held the scoring board and judged them one by one.
It is reported that the competition is divided into two events: team competition and individual competition, with gold medals, silver medals and creative gold medals, silver medals and other awards. There are two competition forms for prescribed projects and creative projects. The prescribed items require contestants to bring prefabricated dough within the standard of 50 grams of weight, and bake 50 grams of butterfly crisp on the spot, a total of 12 groups.
The reporter noted that this batch of butterfly puff pastry is mainly divided into two categories from the appearance. One kind of surface is flat, and the difference between the edges and surfaces in texture and color can be slightly seen; the other is undulating. "The most traditional butterfly puff pastry is actually this kind of flat, the taste is not easy to break; another kind of although it looks bad, but the taste is very loose, so there are many consumers like", a judge told reporters, when scoring, they will also pay attention to the craftsmanship used by the contestants, as well as the uniformity of the color on the surface of the butterfly puff pastry, such as the selection of flake butter, it will be simpler in the production process, but the texture level of the finished product will have an impact, and the color of the surface reflects whether the contestants are in place when brushing egg liquid and rolling sugar.
At the same time, the skills competition also has a competition of creative projects, which are special in taste, innovative in creativity, and even brain-opening. At the scene of the competition, the booths of each participating brand are like a sea of butterflies, colorful, and the shape, color and size of the "butterfly" are different.
For example, the booth of lao Xiangzhai "crossed" to the old Xiangzhai tea shop in the first year of Xianfeng. The mini butterfly puff pastry on the mini plate on the table is carefully baked by the chef, only the size of a fingernail cap; looking along the "lawn" made of green coconut paste, the eyes are full of colorful butterfly puff pastry flying all over the booth, full of aroma and dazzling.
"This mini butterfly puff pastry is salty, unsweetened and, although small, also has 256 layers of puff pastry. What is considered is that it can not only facilitate people to 'bite one', but also avoid the problem that butterfly crisps are easy to drop chips", xu Jindian, the sixth generation of heirs, told reporters, participating in the five butterfly crisp skill competitions, the butterfly crisp category launched by Lao Xiangzhai has also slowly expanded from only one original flavor to matcha, green onion, cheese, pine nuts and a total of 7 flavors. In the future, mini butterfly puff pastry is also expected to meet the general public in the form of bulk weighing.
At the booth at the International Hotel, Wu Jianglei, deputy director of Fansheng Cake House, brought a new butterfly puff pastry that is not for sale, including dark chocolate nuts, Japanese sugar grapefruit, toffee coconut and white chocolate raspberry. He told reporters that this series of research and development stems from the task of entertaining state guests during the first CIIE. Because of the need to maintain the size and shape of the butterfly puff pastry, so when baking, the pastry chef will put a circle on top of the dough to control, and then screen after baking; and also spent a lot of thought on the choice of taste, such as white chocolate is sweet, adding sour raspberry to blend.
However, because the surface of the series of butterfly puff pastry is embellished with easy-to-melt Favna chocolate, before the product packaging is broken, everyone will have to wait a while to buy this butterfly puff pastry that once entertained state guests.
"Since 2016, through the competition, Shencheng enterprise butterfly crisp process, creativity, taste, packaging and other aspects have made great progress", Gao Kemin, executive vice president of the Municipal Food Association, said that butterfly puff pastry is one of the snacks that can best represent the characteristics of Shanghai culture, hoping to improve the overall production skills of Shanghai's food industry through the competition, set off a boom in learning skills and skills in the Shanghai food industry, thereby improving the training of high-skilled talents and enhancing the overall strength of Shanghai's characteristic tourism food. Promote the steady growth of the industry economy.
Finally, let's take a look at the winners and companies that are freshly baked this evening
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai