Chapter 26
Lin Tieniu doesn't care at all about people's gazes. His eyes are on other people's faces. He can look at them as he pleases, and he won't lose a hair.
In the face of doubts and ridicule, the best way is to slap your face back with practical actions, and the more swollen the better.
He looked around the side dish table. In addition to some commonly used spices and condiments, there were only some vegetables common in northern winter, including Chinese cabbage, potatoes, onions, green onions, radishes, celery, peppers, etc.
A clever woman can't cook without rice. Even though he has master-level cooking skills, he can't make 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 had been washed, in his eyes, there were still traces of dirt on the skin of the potatoes, which did not meet his hygienic requirements for ingredients.
In fact, he is not a particularly pretentious person. If this is a big pot dish in the cafeteria, then he will not be so demanding. After all, even if he asks, others will not be able to do it so strictly and meticulously.
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 master chef.
Seeing his face focused on washing potatoes, most of the workers in the kitchen were a little surprised. Only a few chefs in the canteen showed a thoughtful expression, including what they usually like.
What a stupid idiot.
Wan Yuhua looked at Lin Tieniu solemnly. Others may not have seen the trick, 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 retain the original taste of the ingredients. During the collection and acquisition process of each ingredient, it will inevitably be contaminated with various foreign matter impurities, the most important of which is dust.
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Therefore, among all kinds of cooking skills, in addition to 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 thing to make a good dish.
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As for this premise, basically 99% of chefs cannot do it, or fail to do it.
Judging 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 that had been cleaned by Lin Tieniu with some disbelief. There was basically no trace of water on the skin, but the color was bright yellow, giving people a very fresh feeling.
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In a daze, he seemed to smell the scent of the fields.
At this time, seeing those new-looking potatoes, everyone's eyes began to look a little more serious, no longer looking like they were joking, and they even started to look forward to it.
Lin Tieniu didn't pay attention to what other people were doing. During his years of studying cooking in the magical space of the system, he had developed the habit of devoting himself wholeheartedly to cooking.
After washing the potatoes, he turned his attention to the knife holder next to the chopping board. For any chef, the importance of knives is self-evident.
Looking at the mediocre kitchen knives on the knife rest, he secretly muttered to himself that if there was a chance in the future, he would still have to find someone to make a few good knives. Otherwise, he would look like a master of cooking and lose his status.
I wonder if there are chef knives for sale in the system store?
While this thought flashed through his mind, he picked up a kitchen knife that looked more pleasing to his eye from the knife rest, then walked to the chopping board and stood in front of it.
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 the kitchen.
Is this a coincidence? Or did you really see it?
Lin Tieniu didn't know who the kitchen knife in his hand belonged to. He weighed the knife slightly, got used to the feel of the knife, and then started playing with flowers.
I saw the kitchen knife seemed to have grown legs in his hand, rolling up and down and flying, and several knife flowers blossomed in the air.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes and raise their hearts, fearing that bloodshed would accidentally occur.
But how could Lin Tieniu make a mistake? Even if he did accidentally make a mistake, with the strength of his body, the kitchen knife would have been bounced away before it even cut his hand.
This is one of the reasons why he was able to practice his knife skills to perfection.
Suddenly, the kitchen knife that was constantly flying was held firmly in his hand. Under the gaze of everyone, he stretched out his left hand to pick up a potato from the vegetable basket beside him, and naturally pinched it firmly with his index finger and thumb.
He then used his ring finger to flick the two ends of the potato, and the potato began to spin rapidly in his hands like clockwork.
The next moment, he held the kitchen knife in his right hand and peeled the potato. Suddenly, the skin of the potato fell off piece by piece. After a while, a peeled potato appeared in his hand.
This went back and forth, and finally everyone felt that they had just blinked a few times, and all three or four potatoes had been peeled.
This magical scene made them all stunned. Not to mention whether it could be done, they had never thought that potatoes could be peeled like this.
In complete silence, Lin Tieniu placed the potatoes on the chopping board that had been cleaned again, then raised the knife and removed the maximum rectangular shape from each potato, so as to ensure that the final shredded potatoes were cut out.
The length and size are exactly the same.
Of course, if he lowered his requirements a little and only considered the shredded potatoes to be of the same size, he could almost use the entire potato. However, he wanted to make the dish more perfect this time, so he chose to cut it like this.
Moreover, the cut out unused potato pieces can be used again while waiting for the canteen to make a big pot of food, so it is not a waste of food.
Then, everyone only saw a flash of knife light on Lin Tieniu's hand, and they didn't even hear the very familiar sound of chopping vegetables. A small pile of shredded potatoes appeared on the chopping board.
Each potato shred is exactly the same size and length, just like measuring it with a ruler.
By this time, everyone was already a little numb from shock. This knife skill made them unable to say a critical word. It was also the first time that they knew that cutting vegetables could be so beautiful and so magical.
Lin Tieniu put the cut potato shreds into clean water in a basin to wash and soak them. At the same time, he kept stirring in the basin with his hands to soak out the excess starch in the potato shreds.
After there was no starch seeping out of the potato shreds, he picked up the potato shreds and cleaned them, changed a basin of water, added seasonings such as salt and vinegar to the water, and soaked the potato shreds in the water again.
Chapter completed!