Jing Guoliang beckoned Chen Kai and Jing Mengwei into the kitchen and looked around.

"Your kitchen is pretty clean. ”

Chen Kai said with a smile: "No way, where I work, I will be in a better mood to clean up."

Moreover, if there is a lot of oil, the smell in the air will affect the judgment of the nose, and it may also be contaminated with the dishes, which is always bad. ”

Jing Guoliang turned his head to Chen Kai and said with a smile: "It seems that without me supervising behind, your requirements for yourself are not low." ”

Chen Kai glanced around the kitchen and said to Jing Guoliang, "Master, is it still the old rule?"

Jing Mengwei interjected beside her, "What are the old rules?"

Jing Guoliang didn't answer the question, but nodded directly: "Go ahead." ”

Chen Kai stared, picked up the kitchen knife, took out a huge white radish from the side, pressed it on the board, and cut it with a brush.

The white radish in his hand was round and chubby, with a total length of about 30 cm, Chen Kai let his mood and attention reach the most concentrated state, and his eyes were fixed on the tip of the knife.

The cold light flashed on the blade of the kitchen knife, lifting, chopping, pushing, pulling, and with one knife, a paper-thin radish slice was cut off.

Chen Kai's eyes didn't blink, his upper body didn't move like a sculpture, only his wrist, and his right forearm was moving back and forth at a very fast speed.

Jing Mengwei muttered in a low voice in the back: "It's so fast!"

Chen Kai's attention at the moment was completely on the radish in front of him, and under the concentration of his eyes, he felt that the momentum of the whole person was different.

Jing Guoliang, who was standing next to him, slowly said to his granddaughter: "This child's kung fu has gone further than before. ”

I only heard Jing Mengwei ask in a puzzled tone: "Grandpa, Brother Chen's eyes when he was chopping vegetables felt different from when I cut them, and they felt very sharp." ”

Jing Guoliang sighed: "Hey...... How can I be willing to let you practice like that, do you know that before Chen Kai practiced knife work, he practiced his eyesight for a whole month alone.

Our chefs practice eyesight, in fact, it is similar to the practice of ancient archers, as the old saying goes: learn first not instantly, see small as big, see small as big, see small as small.

This means that the first thing to do is to practice not moving your eyes and always keeping your eyes focused.

Then practice the sharpness of the eyes to the details, and see the small things as big in the eyes, and the small things as macroscopic in the eyes.

Only when this is done can you enter the preparatory stage of learning knife work.

If you want to become a really good chef and finally reach the highest level of cooking, this is only the most subtle level of work. ”

Chen Kai was now engrossed, not disturbed by the surrounding sounds in the slightest, and in his eyes, the radish in front of him had also changed a lot.

The distance between Chen Kai's blade and the front and back is less than a millimeter, and with such a fine distance, Chen Kai can see the entry point of the knife tip clearly.

Under this extremely delicate operation, the wrist force is used in an orderly manner.

Chen Kai quickly cut this radish with a skillful straight knife technique, holding the radish with his left hand, and the blade of his right hand was close to the first joint of the middle finger of his left hand straight down, and the blade was evenly penetrated.

The center of gravity of the blade is always maintained at the point of contact between the blade and the radish, and the momentum is like a bamboo.

After more than ten seconds, although Chen Kai's expression never changed, sweat began to ooze out slightly on his forehead.

Finally, Chen Kai slashed down with the last knife and let out a sigh of relief.

Jing Guoliang stood next to him and said to his granddaughter: "Xiaowei, go up and see how many pieces there are." ”

Jing Mengwei nodded obediently and walked to the front of the board.

Chen Kai's nerves suddenly relaxed after he was engrossed, he stood there to adjust his breathing, and turned his head to see Jing Mengwei, who happened to meet his eyes.

Jing Mengwei seemed a little embarrassed, her little face turned red, gave Chen Kai a sweet smile, lowered her head and began to light the radish slices.

"Ten, twenty, thirty...... Three hundred, three hundred and ten......"

When Jing Mengwei was slender, she only gently flicked the thin white radish slices and quickly clicked the numbers.

Chen Kai knew it in his heart, and he didn't bother when he stood next to him.

After a moment, Jing Mengwei raised her head, with surprise in her tone: "Grandpa, Brother Xiao Chen's radish has been cut into three hundred and forty-one pieces, and there is no gap or break at all!"

The corners of Chen Kai's mouth raised, and Jing Guoliang stepped forward, twisted a piece of cut white radish slices with his fingers, pulled it out of a pile, and held it under the light.

This piece of white radish, round as the moon, thin as cicada wings, transparent and transparent, like a piece of art under the light, obviously because it is cut very thinly to have this perfect effect.

Jing Guoliang nodded: "Thirty centimeters and more than three hundred and forty pieces of finished products, you have improved." ”

Chen Kai smiled and said, "Master, I practice every day. ”

Jing Guoliang nodded with satisfaction, but still refused to let go: "If you don't practice every day, I'm afraid Xiaowei will surpass you." ”

When Jing Mengwei heard her grandfather say this, she stuck out her tongue next to her:

"I can't practice every day, and I am often told by my grandfather because I am lazy, such a long white radish, I can cut more than 280 slices is the limit, and there is no way to compare with Brother Xiao Chen. ”

Chen Kai smiled and said, "It's still the master who feels sorry for you." ”

Jing Guoliang thought for a while on the side, and said slowly to Chen Kai: "Okay, the warm-up is over, let's talk about it, what do you think is wrong with your cooking recently?"

As soon as Chen Kai heard the master ask about serious things, his face was also straight:

"Just like Master said, it's mainly about the taste, and I always feel that I am cooking different dishes, and I don't have a clear feeling of making different flavors. ”

Jing Guoliang nodded: "That means that you have made a lot of progress than before, otherwise, an ordinary chef, let alone a clear flavor type, I am afraid that even the order of the main and secondary flavors can be wrong." ”

After a moment of contemplation, a determined expression appeared on Jing Guoliang's old face: "There is no way, tonight, I will accompany you to try it." ”

Chen Kai said in surprise: "Master, you have been traveling for a long day today, let's try again tomorrow." ”

Jing Guoliang shook his head: "It's all here, I'm also very interested in knowing your current level, don't talk nonsense, go and tune it." ”

Chen Kai hesitated a little and nodded.

Taste tasting, generally speaking, is the chef tastes the seasoning, and the chef tastes whether the dish he has made meets the standard taste of the dish itself according to his own experience, which is also a kind of taste tasting.

However, Chen Kai knew in his heart that today the master was going to accompany him to distinguish the subtle differences between the twenty-four flavors of Sichuan cuisine.

It is said that it is a taste test, but in fact, the master wants to use his tongue as a standard to help him find the absolutely correct flavor and seasoning ratio.

Mix a bowl of sauce, Jing Guoliang tried the taste once, if it is right, it is the perfect standard, Chen Kai kept this blending ratio firmly in mind, in case it is wrong, then it can only be adjusted and tried again.

Chen Kai thought to himself, if he didn't grasp the nuances and always couldn't satisfy the master with the sauce, it would be troublesome.

Even if all the 24 flavors passed the master's taste test at one time, it would have to be adjusted as many as 24 times, and subtle mistakes were almost inevitable.

If you repeat and correct it again and again, I'm afraid that the time will be delayed until very late.

But looking at Jing Guoliang's serious and resolute expression, Chen Kai couldn't say anything anymore, only his heart was full of emotion.

"Master, let's start with the sweet fragrance that is not too pungent. Chen Kai proposed.

Jing Guoliang nodded, and Jing Mengwei found a stool from the side for her grandfather to sit down.

Chen Kai turned around, took out a clean small porcelain bowl from the edge of the board, and confirmed the matching method of sweet flavor type in his mind.

Sweet flavor type, as the name suggests, is characterized by pure sweetness and fragrance, with white sugar or rock sugar as the main condiment.

Due to the flavor needs of different dishes, it can be accompanied by suitable food flavors, supplemented by various candied fruits, cherries and other fruits and juices, peach kernels and other nuts to form.

There are a variety of preparation methods such as honey sauce, sugar sticky, ice juice, and sugar sprinkling, but you need to pay attention to the dosage.

The sweet flavor type is suitable for all kinds of fresh fruits and dishes with white fungus, fish crisps, peach oil, broad beans, red vetch and other raw materials. Such as fish crispy soup, rock sugar white fungus, preserved peach in ice sauce, sugar sticky sheep's tail, honey sauce tomatoes, etc.

Chen Kai took out the sugar bag from the side, lit the fire, boiled the pot, and poured five spoonfuls of sugar into the pot.

As the temperature rises, the sugar gradually boils into a sugar solution.

Chen Kai scooped the sugar solution into a small porcelain bowl with a spoon, and then added about four spoonfuls of water and stirred well.

"Master, let's try this syrup first. ”