"Derpy, if you want to kill fish quickly, you have to practice knife skills first. ”

"How do you practice knife work?"

"When Master first taught me, he told me to play with the knife first, and when I had nothing to do, I would hold the knife in my hand and play with it like my own hand, and then I could start to practice cutting, chopping, sawing, pulling, chopping and other techniques. ”

Ivan: "......"

Play with knives like your own hands?

Could it be that this is a legendary martial arts exercise?

So is this realm considered to have a knife in the hand or no knife in the hand?

Ivan couldn't help but think of those descriptions in Gu Long's martial arts novels.

Not to mention, he felt that what Tie Niu said still had some truth.

For a chef, knife work is not only the face, but also directly affects the beauty and taste of the dish. Therefore, practicing knife skills is a necessary prerequisite for becoming a good chef.

But it is not easy to really practice knife work, especially if you want to reach the level of Iron Bull, it is even more difficult.

It seems that the reason why many chefs have not really passed the knife work is that they have not reached the realm of "having a knife in their hands but no knife" as Tie Niu said.

"How do you practice?"

"You practice like this. ”

Tie Niu casually picked up a chopping knife and began to play with the knife.

That's the real showmanship.

I saw that the heavy chopping knife began to roll, spin, and jump in his hand, but the handle of the knife could not be out of his control, even if it flew high, Tie Niu didn't need to look at it, and when he stretched out his hand, the handle fell into his hand again.

It's really dazzling.

Seeing that Ivan couldn't help but worry about Tie Niu: what if he missed? Can his hand still remain?

"You first practice with the heaviest chopping knife, and when it is a little easier, you change to a lighter knife practice, and the more you practice, the lighter it gets, and then you come back and practice from light to heavy. Until you have practiced any knife to the ground, you can try to practice blindfolded. ”

Ivan: "......"

Do you want to practice blindfolded?

Do you still want hands?

But to his surprise, Iron Bull actually closed his eyes, and the knife was still flying, rolling, spinning, and jumping in his hand......

The knife was like it was in his hand, and it never hit the ground.

Ivan really took it.

"Senior brother, is that what Master taught you in the first place?"

"That's not it, Master just taught me to play with knives and practice knife skills, but I always can't practice well, and killing fish is slower than your current speed, so I am always whipped by Master with a stick. I was ruthless and came up with such a method of practice myself. ”

"Look, I have a lot of scars on my hands!"

Iron Bull raised his right hand in front of Ivan, and it was indeed covered with scars of varying shades.

Ivan: "......"

You're really lucky that your hand is still there!

He couldn't help but think, is it really worth it to risk losing his hand in order to practice this knife work?

He admired Tie Niu a little bit, a simple man.

This kind of extremely risky knife practice is estimated to be fearless only for this kind of single-celled person.

In modern times, even if everyone knows this kind of practice, it is estimated that few people are willing to try it, and even fewer can persevere to the end.

For example, Ivan himself, he couldn't help but want to retreat.

If he really wants to pay the price of his hands, he would rather not practice this knife work.

At this moment, Tie Niu said again: "Derpy, let me tell you how I practiced at the beginning, lest you hurt your hand." ”

Ivan was overjoyed.

It is said that failure is the mother of success, if you can build your own success on the failure of the iron bull, then you can, so at least you don't have to pay the price of your hands.

Iron Bull began to teach him the simplest knife flowers.

But even so, Ivan still didn't dare to try.

Looking at the cold and glistening blade, he was still instinctively timid.

"Senior brother, can I blunt the knife and practice again?"

Tie Niu was stunned for a moment.

Hey, why didn't I think of that in the first place?

Still Derpy smart.

"Yes, but you'll have to buy your own knife. ”

Ivan was relieved to hear this.

As long as you can practice with a blunt knife, it doesn't matter if you spend some money, anyway, you already have a way to make money.

It's just that in this way, the practice of the basic skills of knife work has to be postponed again.

"Senior brother, where can I buy a knife, and how much money does it cost to buy a knife?"

As soon as he entered the dungeon, Ivan was sent directly to the back kitchen of Qinlou by the system, so he was completely blind to Jinling.

"You can buy it at the grocery store nearby! If it's just for practice, you don't need to buy a good knife, it won't cost much silver, what, Derpy, don't you have any silver?"

Ivan: "......"

I was cleanly thrown into the dungeon by the system, where did I get the money?

"Nope. ”

Iron Bull gave Ivan a sympathetic look.

He thought to himself, Derpy is good, but he didn't expect to be poorer than me.

"That's it, you practice with me first, you don't have to leave the knife in your hand at first, you don't need to buy a blunt knife. ”

Another piece of news that made Ivan happy.

It seems that although this iron bull has no scheming, he is not stupid, and he also knows the truth that the difficulty has to be increased a little bit.

What happened next proved it.

Tie Niu first found an extra-large bone chopping knife weighing four or five catties and began to teach Ivan basic exercises.

Ivan soon discovered the subtleties of Iron Bull's moves.

Generally speaking, good knife work is reflected in the control of force, accuracy and speed, and accuracy and speed are improved on the basis of force control.

In the eyes of many people, chefs use knives mainly to control the force with their arms and wrists.

Including Ivan thinks so.

Now his perception was immediately turned upside down.

In the set of moves that Iron Bull taught Ivan at the beginning, the moves were not complicated, but the way of exerting power was completely different from what Ivan imagined.

"The toes grasp the ground, the heels are lightly raised, the waist should be straight, the lower abdomen is tightened, the force is sent up from the toes, through the waist to the arms, and then the arms drive the wrists and fingers to exert force, so that the force can be stable and accurate. ”

Don't look at Tie Niu, who usually doesn't talk much, but when teaching Ivan, the words are extremely accurate.

Ivan tried the first straight slash a little, and immediately noticed the trick.

In the movements taught by the Iron Bull, the whole body is like drawing a bow, first accumulating strength, then exerting force, and finally the strength of the whole body is concentrated on the knife and bursting out.

Indeed, this way of exerting force is not only accurate and stable, but also much stronger.

Ivan believed that even if a cow came to him now, he would have the confidence to cut it with a knife.

He also finally understood why the iron cow fillet fish could be flattened, the ingenious way of exerting force, coupled with the force control at will, could not be difficult for him.

It's a pity that Ivan is still too far from that realm now.

"You practice this straight chop action first, and when the force is stable, then practice oblique chopping and horizontal chopping, and then use other movements to practice force control. ”

Obviously, Iron Bull's whole set of movements is gradual.

Ivan couldn't help but ask, "Senior brother, was this sword technique taught by the master?"

"Oh, Master taught some of them, but most of them I figured it out myself. ”

Ivan was dumbfounded.

Wow, Tie Niu is simply a master knife worker hidden in the market!

Alas, it's a pity.

Such a master knife worker was buried in the market!

It is no wonder that this method of knife practice has not been passed down, and later generations of chefs did not know about it at all.

And it's no wonder.

If a knife master like Tie Niu is put in the future and posted on the Internet with a small video, he can quickly become an Internet celebrity and become famous.

But in this era, he can only be a little person who no one pays attention to, with a meager salary to survive, and then disappear into the vast sea of people.

Earn big!

I didn't expect to be able to learn such a wonderful knife technique by chance doing an ordinary task.