Happy Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 26 Experts watch the doorway, laymen watch the fun

Lin Tieniu didn't care about everyone's eyes at all, his eyes were on other people's faces, and he didn't lose a hair no matter how he liked to look at them.

In the face of doubt and ridicule, the best way is to slap back the face with practical actions, and the more swollen the better.

He looked around the side dish table. Apart from some commonly used spices and condiments, there were only some common vegetables in northern winter on the long table, including Chinese cabbage, potatoes, onions, green onions, radishes, celery, peppers, etc.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Even though he has a master-level cooking skill, he can't cook some dishes that lack the main ingredients. After a little hesitation, he picked up three or four potatoes and walked to the water table.

Although the potatoes on the side dish table have been cleaned, in his eyes, there is still a little dirt on the skin of the potatoes, which cannot meet his hygienic requirements for ingredients.

In fact, he is not a particularly hypocritical person. If it is said that this is a big pot of food in the cafeteria, then he will not be so demanding. After all, even if it is required, it is impossible for others to be so strict and meticulous.

But as long as the dishes are made by him, the standards in all aspects must not be lowered. This is the most basic respect for diners as a culinary master.

Seeing him focused on cleaning the potatoes, most of the workers in the kitchen were a little surprised, only a few chefs who were in charge of the canteen showed a thoughtful expression, which also contained the expression of what they usually like to do. Shouting silly column.

Wan Yuhua looked at Lin Tieniu solemnly. Others may not have seen the way, but he still saw that Lin Tieniu's method of cleaning potatoes was not simple.

In this world, no matter which cuisine it is, it is very important to preserve the original flavor of the ingredients, and each ingredient will inevitably be contaminated with various foreign substances during the collection process, the most important of which is dust. .

Therefore, in all kinds of cooking skills, except for the most eye-catching and famous knife skills, how to keep the freshness and purity of the ingredients to the greatest extent, how to preserve and stimulate the original flavor of the ingredients to the greatest extent, is the most basic way to make a good dish premise.

And this premise, basically 90.00% of the chefs can't do it, or they can't do it.

From this point alone, Wan Yuhua began to believe that Lin Tieniu's cooking skills were not inferior to his.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at the potatoes washed by Lin Tieniu with some disbelief. The surface of the potatoes had basically no trace of water, but the color was bright yellow, giving people a very fresh feeling. .

In a daze, he seemed to smell the breath of the fields.

At this time, seeing those brand-new potatoes, everyone's eyes began to look a little more serious, and they no longer looked like they were watching a joke, and even faintly looked forward to it.

Lin Tieniu didn't pay attention to other people's movements. During his many years of learning to cook in the magical space of the system, he has developed the habit of devoting himself to cooking.

After washing the potatoes, he turned his attention to the knife rest next to the cutting board. For any chef, the importance of knives is self-evident.

Looking at the ordinary kitchen knives on the knife rack, he secretly murmured in his heart that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would still find someone to make a few handy knives, otherwise it would seem that he was too disrespectful as a culinary master.

I don't know if there are chef's knives sold in the system store?

While flashing this thought in his mind, he casually picked up a kitchen knife that was more pleasing to the eye from the knife holder, and then walked to the cutting board and stood there.

Looking at the kitchen knife in his hand, Wan Yuhua's eyes flashed with surprise. It was the kitchen knife he had used for most of his life, and it was also the best kitchen knife in this kitchen.

Is this a coincidence?Or do you really see it?
Lin Tieniu didn't know whose kitchen knife he was holding in his hand. He weighed the knife slightly to get used to the feel of the knife, and then started playing tricks.

The kitchen knife seemed to grow legs in his hand, rolling up and down and flying, and several knife flowers bloomed in the air.

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes and raised their hearts, for fear that there would be bloodshed if they were not careful.

But how could Lin Tieniu make a mistake, even if he really made a mistake by accident, with the strength of his whole body, the kitchen knife may have been bounced away before he could cut his hand.

This is also one of the reasons why he can practice knife skills to perfection.

Suddenly, the kitchen knife that kept flying was firmly held in his hand. Under the gaze of everyone, he stretched out his left hand to pick up a potato from the vegetable basket next to him, and naturally held it firmly with his index finger and thumb. The two ends of the potato, and then use the ring finger to move on the potato, and the potato spins in his hand as fast as it is wound up.

The next moment, he took a kitchen knife in his right hand and peeled off the potato. The skin of the potato fell off in pieces. After a while, a peeled potato appeared in his hand.

After going back and forth like this, everyone finally felt that they just blinked a few times, and the three or four potatoes had all been peeled.

This miraculous scene made them all dumbfounded. Not to mention whether it could be done, they never thought that potatoes could be peeled like this.

In the silence, Lin Tieniu put the potatoes on the cutting board that had been re-cleaned, and then raised and lowered the knife to remove the maximum cuboid from each potato, so as to ensure the final potato shreds The length and size are exactly the same.

Of course, if the requirements were lowered a little and only the shredded potatoes were considered to be of the same size, the whole potato could be used almost completely. It's just that he wanted to make the dish more perfect this time, so he chose to cut it this way.

Moreover, the unused potato pieces that are cut out can be used again when they are waiting for the cafeteria to make big pot dishes, which is not considered a waste of food.

Then, everyone only saw the flash of a knife in Lin Tieniu's hand, without even hearing the familiar sound of cutting vegetables, a small pile of shredded potatoes appeared on the chopping board.

Each potato shred is exactly the same regardless of size and length, just like measuring with a ruler.

By this time, everyone had been stunned to the point of numbness. This knife skill made them unable to say a single critical word. This was the first time they knew that vegetables could be cut so beautifully and miraculously.

Lin Tieniu put the cut potato shreds into the clean water in the basin for washing and soaking, and at the same time kept stirring in the basin with both hands to soak out the excess starch of the potato shreds.

After the potato shreds had no starch oozing out, he picked up the potato shreds and cleaned them, changed the water in a new basin, added seasoning such as salt and mature vinegar to the water, and soaked the potato shreds in the water again.

Then, he began to prepare ingredients such as onions, garlic, and peppers. The overall movement was smooth and flowing, with a pleasing calm demeanor.

(End of this chapter)