After lunch, the majority of the chefs also find somewhere to take a break and rest. They need to conserve their strength for the dinner time crowd.
The kitchen hands and trainee chefs also went off to entertain themselves, take the opportunity to catch a catnap, gather in groups to gossip, or hide under an inconspicuous corner of the wall and gamble. The content that you are reading now was stolen from prosperous food translations. Please read this content from the original translators to avoid seeing these messages.
The disciples of the chefs were all hard at work practising their skills.
Yuan Zi practiced his knife skills on a radish. Er Gou practiced various knife techniques. Only poor Xiao Wu had to continue to do all the chores that seemed to be never-ending.
Aiyo! Wen Rou could not understand why chef Zhang could not be nicer to his disciple. In her past life, Xiao Wu is so miserable, and in this life, he was still stuck being a kitchen hand!
Wen Rou shook her head, and could not help feeling a tinge of pity for Xiao Wu.
"Rou Er, come with me." Wen Shouzhen had a cup of tea, and asked Wen Rou to follow him. It seemed as if he is going to teach Wen Rou how to cook.
Wen Rou entered the kitchen with Wen Shouzhen. Seeing that Shi Tou was cleaning the stoves, Wen Shouzhen called out, "Shi Tou, take a rest. Let Rou Er handle this!"
"Shifu, then I will take my leave." Fang Dashi looked at Wen Shouzhen, and looked at Wen Rou. He understood immediately. Shifu wants to teach Wen Rou how to cook. Although he is the disciple of Wen Shouzhen, he is not a family member. Today, his daughter is here to learn, and he better not interrupt them. This content is originally translated at prosperous food dot com. Visit our website and help to fight web piracy.
"Father, why did you ask Brother Shi Tou to leave? Why not teach both of us at once? It would be much easier!" Wen Rou looked at the back of Fang Dashi as he left, and she could not understand.
"This kid had learnt a lot from me. Stop dawdling, today I will teach you the most basic knife skills!" Wen Shouzhen picked up a knife, and begin explaining to Wen Rou.
"Knife skills, as the name implies, is the technique of cutting ingredients. The person who cooks use the knives cut the ingredients into a certain shape. What shape the food is depends on the needs of cooking and eating, “Wen Shouzhen said.
He pick up a potato, and with “sha sha!” sound, the potato skins are cleanly cut off.
“For example, this potato can only be steamed if it is not cut with a knife. After it is cut, the new shape is not only convenient for cooking, but also makes it convenient to eat. Smaller pieces of the potato make it easier to absorb the flavour of the dish, heat evenly and easier to cook.”
Saying this, Wen Shouzhen cut the potato again. The potatoes were cut into four evenly spaced pieces.
“After cutting, the surface of these ingredients became rough, especially for raw materials with a smooth surface. This makes it easy for them to stick and paste to one another, and have strong adhesion. After heating, they can keep the moisture in the ingredients, and make the dishes fresh and palatable."
"If you cut them, the ingredients can be formed in a variety of different ways. These changes can increase the varieties of dishes and make the dishes colorful."
"In addition, after cutting the ingredients, beautiful knife patterns and patterns can be formed to increase the flavour of the dishes."
"Even the waste ingredients could be made useful. If your knife skills are good, you could make up for the defects in the lack of shape. This allow you to save on raw materials!"
"Therefore, knife skills are very important for cooking any dishes."
Wen Shouzhen explain and demonstrate the knife skills. Along the way, he the four quarters of the potatoes were sliced, shredded, chopped and carved.
Wen Shouzhen's movements are very smooth, like the clouds flowing in the sky.
Wen Rou watched with her eyes and memorised it in her heart. In her past life, she had often seen her father's knife skills. In this life, her father's knife skills are still as awesome as ever.
"This knife skills could be divided into 12 categories: Cut, slice, chop, spilt, smash, twist, tick, beat, twist, spin, scrape. The most often used are the cut, chop and spilt."
"Today I will teach you how to cut." Wen Shouzhen picked up another potato. With a knife in one hand, and a potato in the other, he indicated that Wen Rou should come close to see the knife work.
Wen Rou walked closer and opened her eyes wide. This content is stolen from our website at prosperous food dot com. Please help us prevent content privacy by reading it on our website.
“Cut, it seems simple, but in fact there are many things to learn."
"Straight cut: The left hand presses the ingredient, and the right hand holds the knife, cuts it straight. The focus is on the blade, and you should control the strength so that the strength you used to cut each slice of potato is uniform."
"When you are highly proficient in it, you may speed up and forms a 'jump cut.'”
Wen Shouzhen explained while demonstrating. His left hand held the potato steadily, and his right hand holds the knife.
The he cut downwards rapidly, constantly moving his left hand backwards, while the knife hand constantly moved forwards. Each slice of potato was consistent in thickness, length and shape.
"Rou Er, come, you try it!" Wen Shouzhen said and passed the knife to Wen Rou.
Wen Rou picked up the kitchen knife. Her hands were trembling.
She had seen and used this tool many times in her past life. But this is the first time in her present life that she had held a knife, and she dare not to use it to cut food.
In the chef battle with Chef Gao, Wen Rou did not touch the knife at all. Instead, all the knife work were left to Fang Dashi. For latest chapters from the original translators, visit prosperous food translations.
Would her knife skills from her previous life cross over into this life with her? Or does she have to restart again from the bottom of the ladder?
If her previous life's knife skills are still with her, then she would give her father a fright.
Wen Rou's heart was heavy as she picked up the knife. It was as if the knife in her hands is as heavy as a thousand jin. She hesitated and did not use it to cut the potato.
"Rou Er, do not be afraid! There is no one else here. Just give it a try, and cut slowly." Wen Shouzhen encouraged her.
Wen Rou's eyes seemed to be sharper, and she glanced at her father. She bit down on her lips, and nodded her head.
But her hands were still shaking.
Wen Rou closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She calmed down. Then she began.
The potato in her hand seemed to become hotter. Although it is slippery, it did not slip out of her hand.
Wen Rou begin to cut the potato. This content is stolen from our website at prosperous food dot com. Please help us prevent content privacy by reading it on our website.
The first piece of potato she cut was wafer-thin as a piece of paper, and the surface of the potato is smooth.
"Rou Er, that's great!" Wen Shouzhen praised her.
Wen Rou relaxed and calmed down. The anxiety she felt on the first time she used the knife in this lifetime had completely disappeared.
The potato in her hand, the knife, the cutting board seemed to be her old friends. The feeling, the size of the knife, the sharpness of the knife, all these felt so comfortable in her hand.
"Sha sha sha sha!" Wen Rou regained her confidence. The skills of her past is still here!
Wen Rou cut faster and faster, and did not wait for her father's encourage. The potato in her hand spinned around, and looked as it is in one piece. But after spinning the potato, it broke apart into finely slice pieces.
Wen Shouzhen could not believe his eyes!
He opened his mouth, but no words come out.
"Father, Father!" Wen Rou put down the kitchen knife, and gentle used the chopper to gather the slices of potato and put them on a plate. She waved her hands in front of her dad's dumbstruck face.
"Rou Er, come here, try it again!" Wen Shouzhen could not hide his glee. He picked up a picked a piece of cucumber and passed it to Wen Rou.
"Father, you want this to be cut into slices?" Wen Rou tidied the hair on her ears and grinned.
"Cut into threads. Do you know how to do that?" Wen Shouzhen heard Wen Rou's question and immediately increased the difficulty.
"I try!" Wen Rou control her breathing and carefully picked up the knife.
The she suddenly act, and a continuous rhythm sound out on the cutting board.
This cucumber is fresh and crisp. Under Wen Rou superb knife skill, it is quickly cut into pieces and changed into filaments.
Wen Shouzhen was so shocked that he shook his head in puzzlement. Then he walked around the kitchen and took out some other ingredients for Wen Rou to cut.
In a short while, Wen Rou was surrounded by cut green pepper, potato chips, lotus root, cucumber, pumpkin, chicken, fish, and so on.
Wen Shouzhen looked at Wen Rou. He was very pleased and could not help laughing in delight.
"Father, we have cut so much food, including the potatoes, chicken and fish etc. What should we do about all these food?"
"Silly girl! Do you still need to ask? We bring these foods home to eat! All these are unwanted ingredients, it is a waste to throw them away!"
Wen Rou："……"
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