Chapter 171: A New Career Specialty
Knife skill: use different knife techniques to cut into certain shapes such as shreds, slices, segments, and blocks, so that the dishes made are more flavorful and beautiful.
Heat mastery: the size and length of the fire, according to the recipe of the dish to grasp the weight.
These two things that suddenly came out of the professional expertise made Chihuo dazed for a while.
It's ridiculous to say that Chihuo used to study and research by himself, but the result was nothing more than that.
And now he just watched Chef Abbe cook for a whole day, and then suddenly realized.
Perhaps, this has something to do with his past accumulation, but more importantly, his vision is not enough.
Without Master Abbe's personal demonstration, Chihuo God knows when he will be able to comprehend this.
After these two "proficient" appeared, they also made Chihuo understand a truth.
Perhaps, it is not bad as he thought. His previous "muscle memory (pastry)" was not accumulated from the foundation, but through the pastry recipes he mastered, as well as his cooking heart and cooking skills, he had been hard to accumulate.
The foundation of the Red Fire has never been strong, and it is only now that it is truly revealed.
He's been thinking about the basics of cooking, and I'm afraid it won't appear in the attributes.
It turned out that it was just his own inadequacy, not that it didn't exist.
The mastery of knife work and the mastery of heat completely prove one thing.
Even if it is a basic culinary skill, as long as you reach mastery, then it will become a professional specialty.
"It's the first time this is, not only is it a lack of vision, but it's also a visual obstacle?" Chihuo shook his head and smiled bitterly.
He recalled his harvest of the day, and before he knew it, he fell into a trance.
Master Abbey's fast and steady knife work, as well as his outstanding control over the flames, simply blinded Chihuo.
It is estimated that he is too obsessed with these things, so that he only comprehends the mastery of these two basic culinary skills today.
For cooking, knife work and heat are naturally the foundation, but they are not the whole story.
However, if you reach mastery of the foundation and then learn other aspects, you may be able to touch the class.
"Sure enough, Chef Abbe has been teaching me how to choose ingredients all day today, but I still haven't mastered this aspect of cooking, so it's clear that I'm really missing something." Chihuo couldn't help but think in his heart.
Chihuo decided to continue to study hard, and he has the guidance of a real culinary master. I'm afraid that the phenomenon of accumulation will continue to happen to him.
Of course, today's harvest is not all the work of Master Abbe.
If I hadn't learned a certain foundation of this world's cuisine from Master Roger before, I am afraid that I would not have been able to reap the rewards so quickly.
So, it's really important to accumulate this kind of stuff.
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The next day, Master Abbe said, "Ah Huo, today I will officially teach you knife work and fire. ”
She demonstrated how the dish should be cut in the morning and how the fire should be controlled in the afternoon.
Compared to yesterday, when he spent a whole day teaching him how to choose ingredients, he obviously didn't pay enough attention to it.
No, the same can't be said either.
Chihuo knew very well that yesterday Chef Abbe asked him to watch the cooking for a day, just to let him watch and learn by himself.
Master Abbe explained in detail today, why he cut it so much, why he controlled the fire so much.
He thought that after he realized the two masteries of knife work and fire, his foundation in this area had grown greatly.
However, after listening to Master Abbe's serious explanation, he realized that his foundation in this area was still not enough.
This is a testament to his previous belief that there is no limit to basic skills.
Obviously, there must be a higher level above mastery.
Therefore, we must not be complacent because we have more professional expertise at the mastery level, and there is no end to learning and research.
Then, on the third day, Chef Abbe continued to teach him how to season, which gave Chihuo another professional specialty.
Seasoning mastery: Seasoning is one of the technical keys to the final maturation of a dish. Only by constantly practicing and groping can we slowly master its rules and methods, and skillfully combine them with the heat to cook excellent, fragrant and well-shaped dishes.
When Chihuo comprehended this professional specialty, he vaguely gained a better understanding of the heart of cooking (seasoning).
In other words, in the past, he just forcibly used the heart of cooking (seasoning), but now it is different.
There is no need to mobilize the chakra, he does not need to be too deliberate, he can naturally season his own dishes.
Seasoning is no longer about forcibly seasoning, but about bringing out the flavor of the dish itself, and then turning it into a more suitable taste.
This is undoubtedly a higher realm, and Chihuo has unconsciously grown even more.
However, although the teaching in the past few days is completely teaching the basics, Chihuo vaguely understands something.
At first, Chihuo thought that Master Abbe had taught him these basics, but he just regarded him as a beginner.
However, now he certainly doesn't think about it that way.
Because he always felt that Master Abbe's teachings were too pertinent.
I don't know why, the weakness of my own insufficient foundation was seen through by Master Abbe at a glance.
He was sure that Master Abbe didn't have the ability to read minds.
Chihuo hadn't even cooked anything in front of Chef Abbe, which meant that-
"Is this the instinct of a true cook? I was able to make such a judgment by instinct. Chihuo was amazed by this.
He was also very sure that Chef Abbe did not know internal force at all, and that it was completely dependent on the real instinct of the chef, rather than any external force.
A chef who doesn't know how to work internally and only relies on his own foundation has reached an unbelievable culinary realm, which makes Chihuo admire Chef Abbe even more.
Sure enough, it turned out that Chihuo's judgment was correct.
Day 4......
"Ah Huo, you've learned a rough idea of the basics in the past few days." "Today you don't have to learn something new, but you review what you've learned and try to make your own cooking." ”
Sure enough, ordinary chefs teaching apprentices will definitely not do this.
How can an apprentice be allowed to learn for only a few days, and let him directly start cooking before the apprentice has laid a good foundation?
Obviously, although the details of the red fire may not be completely seen, Chef Abbe does not think that the red fire is completely uncooked.
"Uh...... I guess the nutritional products I gave to Master Abbe exposed some of them. Chihuo was ashamed in his heart.
Only then did he remember that he had given Master Abbe a lot of nutritional products, and a considerable part of them were made by himself.
Obviously, these things were exposed by him.
Chihuo felt that even so, he had not misestimated Chef Abbe's culinary realm.
After all, through those nutritional supplements, you can guess which dishes are made by Chihuo, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
No matter what, he has to practice in peace today, and then pass the test of Master Abbe.
That's right, today's level is a test for Master Abbe.