Radish is a very suitable ingredient for practicing knife skills. Friends who often cut radishes know that radishes are very tolerant.

It can be sliced, diced, cut, cut, cut horizontally, vertically, and cut by a hob, and it is cheap.

Sell ​​one dollar per pound in the vegetable market, and the supermarket discounts of 50 cents per pound, so it is not enough to pick it up from the farm of a fellow villager.

It is simply the best choice for beginners to practice knife skills.

Although Cao Guixiang bought a vegetable rack for radish, it actually didn't cost much, and the total value it spent was not as expensive as a bowl of old hen soup on the dining table.

That old hen soup is really expensive.

Qin Huai was shocked when he finally drank the soup. He had already eaten a table of extremely fresh dishes. Whether it was braised shark fin or oyster sauce, they were the top luxury meals in the minds of Chinese people.

As a result, after experiencing the baptism of these big dishes, good dishes, and top banquet dishes, he still felt fresh when drinking the soup.

Fresh and mellow, it is the aroma of authentic chicken soup, not the taste of the soup used for cooking with a variety of ingredients.

Before cutting the radish, Qin Huai couldn't help asking what chicken soup was stewed. The answers he got were old hens, pigeons, yao pillars, ham and mushrooms.

It stewed for 6 hours.

No wonder the chicken was spread out with chopsticks. In 6 hours, even a thousand-year-old hen should be stewed.

Before cutting the radish, Qin Huai arranged Qin Luo's afternoon itinerary. The itinerary was very simple. Cao Guixiang packed Qin Luo with leftovers that he had not finished at noon. Qin Huai called Qin Congwen and asked Qin Congwen to drive his van to the city to pick Qin Luo back.

By the way, bring yourself some clothes to change.

As for the original aquarium...

Qin Luo said: Aquarium? What aquarium? I haven't heard of it! There is nothing to separate her from her newly recognized dear grandma.

As for Qin Huai, Cao Guixiang had already prepared a room for him and had all the rooms cleaned up.

Cao Guixiang's family is a standard three-bedroom old house. In the past, one room was lived by Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu, one room was lived by Zhang Zhiyun, and one room was lived by Changqingqing.

Later, when my grandson and granddaughter grew up and went to school, they lived with their parents, and the two rooms were empty. Chang Qingqing's room was relatively small, so it was directly converted into a storage room and a carpentry room, which was used to pile up various debris and tools for Zhang Chu to do carpentry.

When the wood arrives, Zhang Chu will make cutting boards and molds for Qinhuai in that room.

Zhang Zhiyun's room was changed to a guest room. During the winter and summer vacations, Zhang Zhiyun and Chang Qingqing would come to their grandfather's/grandfather's house to live. Who can move in depends on which child can do well in the exam at the end of the semester.

Qinhuai lives in a guest room.

Cao Guixiang not only prepared the room, but also prepared toiletries. Qin Huai's toothbrush and cup were placed on the toilet before Qin Huai entered the door.

It can only be said that Cao Guixiang is very confident in the Tanjiacai seduction method of their master, and their master's method is indeed very useful.

Qinhuai cut radish in the kitchen.

Cao Guixiang moved a high stool and sat on the side to watch, while Zhang Chu stood quietly outside the kitchen and watched.

Qinhuai cut it seriously and it was also difficult.

How to say, although his knife skills are only at the beginning, he has not cut any vegetables during this period. Occasionally, he still has to cut some vegetables and some dried fruits. He has used many knife skills during the Chinese New Year.

You can tell by looking at the proficiency of the knife skills.

Qinhuai is not completely unable to cut vegetables.

But the dish is cut more like a beginner, not as good as many ordinary kitchen veterans. He will probably cut his hands quickly, but it is definitely no problem to cut it slowly and finely.

Cao Guixiang stared at the side, not seeing how long and thick the radish shreds cut from Qin Huai were. She only saw how Qin Huai's hand held the knife from beginning to end.

"No." Cao Guixiang shook her head. As a retired master who has never taught her apprentice, Cao Guixiang's teaching level is definitely not as good as Huang Shengli, and she does not have too many languages.

So she usually gets it right.

Cao Guixiang started her hand, pinched Qin Huai's wrist, and corrected his posture of holding the knife: "I know you must have been used to holding the knife like this for so many years, but this posture is half the result with twice the effort. When the knife is not smooth enough, you will use more force. Over time, your wrists and elbows will not be able to stand it."

"You must make a correction, otherwise you will suffer from the practice of cutting the pier in the future."

Qinhuai tried hard to correct it and slowly cut it.

After a while, Cao Guixiang took action again: "You have to raise your arms. You are now exerting force on your wrists. You can't exert force on your wrists when cutting vegetables, you must exert force on your arms."

"The forearm exerts force to drive the kitchen knife, yes, that's it, your knife edge is slanted inward. When cutting vegetables, the blade, index finger joint and arm should be in the same line. You are a chef in the white table, and your strength is definitely enough. You are just not used to it now. You have to work hard to overcome your previous habits and get used to the current posture."

Not long after, Cao Guixiang stepped forward and broke up again.

This teaching model is very similar to adults staring at children who have just learned to write.

What adults are staring at is not whether the children's handwriting is good or not. No matter how you look at it, it will definitely not look good. It is either crooked and ants crawling, or ghosts drawing talismans inconsistent size.

The adults are watching the child's pen holding posture, holding it bit by bit, keeping it behind for a moment, and if there is any problem, they will start to pull it back.

Qin Huai felt that he was the child now and he could hardly cut vegetables.

Cao Guixiang, an adult who is proficient in swordsmanship, was supervising the situation. Qin Huai only felt that it was wrong here and there, and he had to change it here and there. He would not cut shredded radish after changing it.

Strangely, isn’t he a genius that everyone praised?

Even if Qin Huai is not a narcissistic person, he did not think he was so genius a few months ago. At this moment, he couldn't help asking himself narcissistically.

Why is knife skills so difficult?

Dong Shi, you lied to me!

Qin Huai vaguely remembered that when he asked Dong Shi whether it was difficult to practice sword skills, Dong Shi said:

It’s very simple to get started, it is to study hard and practice hard. When I first practiced, I felt that I was very good and could do anything. The white radish slices can shine through the light, and the cucumbers in the straw raincoat can be cut at will.

But after practicing, I found that the transparent white radish slices are divided into three or six grades. The ninth grade white radish slices are easy to cut, and the third grade is difficult, and the first grade is even more difficult.

The straw cucumber looks very difficult and stylish, but in fact, ordinary people can cut out a rough idea after practicing. The fancy ones are not difficult, but the difficult ones are those shredded meat, diced meat, strips, and minced meat that look ordinary.

The result is now...

Qin Huai looked at the shredded white radish, sliced ​​white radish and diced white radish that he had cut out.

I looked at the samples that Cao Guixiang cut at the beginning when she demonstrated.

Dong Shi, you lied to me!

The ninth-class white radish slices are obviously difficult to cut!

Qinhuai's radish was cut until 10 o'clock in the evening.

It’s not that the radish has been cut, but that Cao Guixiang thinks Qinhuai should take a rest.

Qinhuai is over the age when he can live a life of being able to stay up late. In addition, he has developed a good work and rest for so many years, Qinhuai cannot stay up late than ordinary people.

After a simple wash, Qin Huai almost fell asleep.

In my dream, Qinhuai is a rabbit breeder. He cuts radishes for the rabbits every day to make feed.

Those rabbits have a very grippy mouth. Some want to eat sliced ​​white radish, some want to eat shredded white radish, and some want to eat diced white radish. If they are not cut well, they won’t eat it, they won’t eat it if they are not beautiful, and they won’t eat it if they are not neat.

Qin Huai kept cutting radishes in his dreams almost the same as before. If it were not for the conditions, he would have to sleepwalking in the kitchen to cut radishes.

Maybe because the dream of cutting radish was too terrible, Qinhuai did not wake up early as usual on the second morning and slept until 8 am.

Cao Guixiang didn't call him either.

Zhang Chu watched Qin Huai’s whole process of cutting radishes for one day at the kitchen door yesterday. He felt very sympathetic to Qin Huai in his heart. He was still muttering to Cao Guixiang while having breakfast: "Xiao Qin is exhausted yesterday."

"Normal." Cao Guixiang calmly drank soy milk. "When we were apprentices, we were not tired any day. I remember that at that time, I went to Yongheju to cut vegetables before dawn, and cut them until eight or nine o'clock in the evening before I could go home."

"At that time, there were no street lights on the road in Beiping City, and my home was far away from Yonghe Ju. My parents didn't want to come here to pick me up in the middle of the night, but the eldest and second brothers were worried and took turns to send me home at night."

"Xiao Qin's conditions are much better than mine at that time. He has been a chef in the past few years and he has cultivated the ground when he was a child. His strength has been developed. At that time, I mainly practiced cutting piers. Women's strength is smaller than men's. I have to hang sandbags for one hour a day for two hours, and he has to hang sand for one hour for one hour."

"At that time, my arms and elbows were swollen during the day. I applied a hot towel before going to bed at night, and continued to practice on the second day."

"I don't know how my senior brother practiced basic skills when he was a child. Anyway, my second senior brother and I both cried. I was crying while practicing. I didn't dare to cry too loudly, for fear that I would quarrel to my master, so my master wouldn't want us anymore."

After hearing Cao Guixiang say this, Zhang Chu also remembered the hard days when he was a carpenter when he was a child: "It is true that when he followed his master to work, he was swelling with his arms, and his arms were swollen and he had no strength at all. My senior brother felt sorry for me and said that he would be scolded by his master when he would do it for me."

"It's all done in this way. Some of the opera troupes who sing their voices are so hard that they vomit blood. As long as their throats are not broken, they have to continue practicing."

After recalling the past, Zhang Chu changed his mind and saw that Cao Guixiang had finished drinking soy milk and smashed it. She was obviously not satisfied with her mouth. She quickly poured the remaining ones in the pot for her before continuing:

"But, why do I think Xiao Qin is practicing strangely?"

Cao Guixiang then drank soy milk: "Which kind of weird do you think?"

"Just... it shouldn't be. Isn't Xiao Qin very talented? His big dumplings are so delicious, and he is not a pure novices who have never been in the kitchen. I saw that he could cut them at the beginning, but when it was cut back, I felt that he didn't know how to take a knife."

"Is Guixiang, you feel too oppressive, so you are so scared that you can't take a knife?"

Cao Guixiang:...

Cao Guixiang gave Zhang Chu a angrily glance: "What nonsense is that Xiao Qin's condition was right yesterday."

"If Xiao Qin is a piece of white paper, of course, the faster he learns, the better. But now Xiao Qin is not. Not only is he not a piece of white paper, he is even a very mature and even excellent white snack master. He can do too many things and no one can teach him systematically."

"It is easy to write from 0 to 100, but a person has learned the wrong way to write from 0 to 100. If you let him forget everything, let him write from 100 to 0, how can it be so simple?"

"What Xiao Qin has to do now is to forget all the wrong way of holding the knife before, and start learning again. This process is much more difficult than that of ordinary novices starting from scratch."

"But this is something he must learn. On the first day of my cooking, my master told me that all the small problems and bad habits at the beginning, if they don't pay attention to them or correct them, they will eventually become small insects that can be eaten by the big tree. Although Xiao Qin has many bad habits now, his knife skills are very poor and he has a lot of room for improvement, so he can also correct them from scratch."

"If he is now a mature chef in the red case, it will be difficult to get it back. Unless he finds that his small problems one day lead to major mistakes in cooking, such as if Wenchang chicken cannot fight back, and three sets of duck traps are not included, he will be determined to learn from the pain and can only get it back."

"I haven't expected Xiao Qin to lay a good foundation these days. I just hope to wipe him back into that piece of paper and learn from scratch."
To be continued...