"You heard it right, and I said it right." Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Master Hong, don't you want to try frying cucumbers with only oil and salt?"

"Xiao Zhou, you...are you trying to test my speculation skills?"

After all, Master Hong also graduated from a serious chef school. After a moment of thinking, he understood what Zhou Yi meant. However, because of his straightforward personality, he was not unhappy about it: "Okay, then I will show off my skills and let Xiao Zhou have a taste of our craftsmanship!"

Soon, a plate of cucumbers stir-fried with only oil and salt was placed in front of Zhou Yi. Master Hong said with a smile: "Try it, Xiao Zhou. If it doesn't taste good, don't blame me. It was you who wanted to fry it like this."

"Haha, it's really not that delicious..."

Zhou Yi picked up a piece of cucumber with chopsticks, put it into his mouth and chewed it once before spitting it out: "This cucumber is actually very fresh, and the oil and salt are fine. It's just that Master Hong, you don't have enough skill in controlling the heat, and your knife skills are also a bit poor. So it’s not fried well!”

"What, Xiao Zhou, you said there's something wrong with my cooking skills and knife skills? So what's the best? Why don't you fire one and let me take a look?"

No matter how good-tempered Master Hong is, he began to feel a little dissatisfied after hearing these words. After all, in his eyes, Zhou Yi is just a young man who is good at food, and is not a first-class chef. Why should he criticize his cooking skills?

He regarded himself as the number one spoon in Yunshui Village. Zhou Yi's words hurt his self-esteem.

"Okay, then I will fry a plate of cucumbers and ask Master Hong to try them."

Zhou Yi smiled slightly, took the pot ladle, washed it, put in the oil, and cut a cucumber into thin cucumber slices at the same time. After checking the oil temperature, he picked up the cucumber slices and threw them into the pot. In the middle, the pieces actually separated, and not one piece stuck to each other or the pan.

"The knife skills and the technique of controlling the oil temperature..."

Master Hong was dumbfounded. He couldn't cut such thin and transparent cucumber slices. Even if he tried his best to cut out a few slices, it was impossible to cut a cucumber in an instant like Zhou Yi did, and each slice was They are the same thickness and size.

This kind of knife skill is something that every chef dreams of but can't get. It is simply the legendary knife skill, a chef-level knife skill!

As for the precise control of oil temperature, Master Hong has only heard about it and has never seen it with his own eyes, so he naturally has no ability to evaluate it. But as soon as Zhou Yi's cucumber slices were cooked, an indescribable fragrance suddenly hit his nostrils. This is exactly the effect that a chef can achieve by carefully controlling the oil temperature; if the oil temperature is slightly lower, the original aroma of the cucumber cannot be forced out; if the oil temperature is higher, the cucumber will be burnt. The confidence between them depends not only on experience, but most importantly on talent!

"Master Hong, how do you like it?"

Zhou Yi smiled and handed the fried cucumber to Master Hong.

"Uh, let me try..."

Master Hong was stunned for a moment, then picked up a piece of cucumber with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

"This, this is so delicious..."

After just chewing it for a while, Master Hong felt a buzzing sound in his head, and he suddenly became stunned.

Cucumber is the most common vegetable, but it can be compared to fruit! Some children and even adults like to wash a cucumber, hold it in their hands and eat it raw.

This is because cucumbers have a natural sweet flavor that even some expensive fruits don’t have. Apples, bananas, lychees, tangerines, although these fruits are good, they cannot replace the raw cucumbers of childhood... ...

The plate of cucumbers fried by Zhou Yi fully amplified the original taste of cucumbers ten times and a hundred times. When you eat it, it will be full of fragrance and make people feel extremely refreshing.

Master Hong has been a chef for more than ten years and has seen fried cucumbers ranging from 10,000 to 8,000. But he can swear that this is the most delicious cucumber he has ever eaten in his life! This... ...Is this a dish that humans can cook?

After finishing the first slice, Master Hong couldn't stop using his chopsticks. He swept up the plate of fried cucumbers like a hungry tiger pouncing on his food. After finishing the meal, he smacked his lips with endless aftertaste.

"Xiao Zhou, you must be a top chef!"

Master Hong glanced at Zhou Yi blankly and grabbed his arm: "You... how did you do it? Why are your fried cucumbers so delicious? Xiao Zhou ..."

"Master Hong, please don't get excited yet."

Zhou Yi smiled and patted his hand: "Everything in nature has its own unique taste. Cucumbers are like this, tomatoes are like this, even if it is an onion or a piece of garlic, why not? What a chef has to do is not to throw away. Instead of bringing out these natural flavors... Take this cucumber for example. If you add chicken essence and MSG, is it still a cucumber? Why don't we eat chicken essence and MSG directly? Maybe it tastes better. a little better?"

"What I do is to control the heat to bring out the original flavor of cucumber just right. This is my trick."

Zhou Yi looked at Master Hong with a smile. "A true message is a sentence, but a false message is thousands of books." I have already mentioned the points that should be mentioned. How much he can understand depends on his talent and luck.

"Natural flavor cannot be discarded...but should be fully utilized..."

Master Hong murmured to himself as if he was possessed, frowning for a while, scratching his head for a while, as if he had understood something, but also seemed unable to grasp the most important thing: "But, the heat is too difficult to control? And your knife skills..."

"By the way, Xiao Zhou, you...your cooking skills are so good that you can represent our village at the long table banquet!"

Master Hong's eyes suddenly lit up: "Xiao Zhou, if you agree, I would rather work for you as a handyman!"

"Well, I am half a member of Yunshui Village, so of course I will not just sit idly by..."

Zhou Yi smiled and said: "But I have a condition. I will only take action if you agree, Master Hong."

"real?"

Master Hong's eyes lit up: "Xiao Zhou, you tell me, I will agree to any conditions, even if I go through fire and water, I will not hesitate." These words he had heard from listening to storytelling on weekdays, and now he quoted them all to express his determination. .

"Haha, it's not that serious." Zhou Yidao: "I just want Master Hong to keep it a secret for me..."

"Confidential? What do you mean?" Master Hong didn't understand for a moment.

"I am a doctor at Yunshui Nursing Home, not a chef, so I don't want to attract too much attention and cause unnecessary trouble." Zhou Yi smiled and said, "So when the time comes, it will be Master Hong who represents Yunshui Village in the competition. When it comes to Doucai, At the critical moment, I will naturally help you fight..."

"Help me do it, how dare you..." Master Hong was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Xiao Zhou, you mean you said you would cook the food, but you put my name on it? This...

.How can this work? Am I not taking too much advantage?"

As long as Zhou Yi is willing to use his cooking skills, the leader of this long table banquet will definitely be from Yunshui Village. He will naturally become famous and his worth will double. But Master Hong is a kind person after all, and I feel that this is too unfair to Zhou Yi.

Well, I’m really embarrassed to be greedy for God’s merit.

"I just want to help the village. I don't want to be famous and cause unnecessary trouble, so I can't talk about who takes advantage of whom." Zhou Yi said: "But Master Hong, you must keep your mouth shut. If anyone comes to ask you,

You can’t even say that I cooked the food, okay?”

"That's it..."

Master Hong thought about it for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "That's OK! Xiao Zhou, don't worry, even if I beat you to death, I won't say that you cooked the food!"

"A deal?"

“It’s a deal!”

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