Chapter 13: Are there any shortcuts?

How fast do professionals kill fish?

There seems to be no conclusion on this issue, but the kitchen of Ivan's hotel once had a skill competition, which was better than killing fish.

For a fish, from scaling, to dissecting the abdomen, removing the gills, removing the internal organs, and then cleaning the head and tail, the fastest record in the hotel is about 30 seconds, and as for Ivan himself, it is almost 40 seconds.

He had just roughly estimated that it should only take about 20 seconds for Iron Bull to kill the whole fish.

That's a little too fast!

But Tie Niu said that this was just slow motion!

So how fast is he if he does it with all his might?

Ivan wanted to know this, but it wasn't the time yet, because Iron Bull said that the fish hadn't been processed yet.

"This fish is used to make squirrel fish, so it must be deboned, beaten and salted first. ”

Squirrel fish.

Another piece of information popped up.

Ivan didn't know if the information was valid for his mission, but he kept a note of it.

He seemed to understand why the quest was set up in Jinling.

Squirrel fish and soup dumplings are all classic dishes of Jinling cuisine.

As one of the four representative dishes of Suzhou cuisine, Jinling cuisine, which was called Jingsu cuisine in later generations, is the most particular thing about knife work.

The knife work requirements are particularly delicate!

He began to understand the reason why the system set the task copy in Jinling, it turned out that he wanted to borrow Jinling dishes to hone my knife skills!

Ivan finally figured this out.

After removing the fishy line and cleaning it slightly, Tie Niu flattened the knife again, and gently pushed it back along the belly of the fish, and the whole fish was divided into two halves at once, leaving only the tail of the fish connected.

He continued to use the flat knife technique, slashing and pulling on each of the two slices, and the whole backbone and belly of the fish were immediately neatly removed by him, leaving only the pink and white flesh.

Very cleanly picked.

The action is still so sharp.

"Now it's time to hit the wheat ear flower knife. ”

Iron Bull's words seem to have increased.

The so-called wheat ear flower knife is a kind of food processing knife.

During processing, the oblique knife method is used to cut parallel oblique knife lines on the surface of the ingredients, and then the raw materials are turned at an angle, and then the straight knife method is used to cut parallel straight knife patterns that cross with the oblique knife patterns.

In this way, when the ingredients are heated, they are curled into the shape of ears of wheat.

In the processing of ingredients, the wheat ear flower knife is a commonly used one, such as the processing of kidneys, squid, etc., and the squirrel fish happens to be processed with the wheat ear flower knife.

Iron Bull once again showed off his miraculous skills.

I saw that he slipped his knife and began to use the oblique knife method to cut on the fish.

Brush brush brush, knife after knife...... Ivan was dazzled by it.

Before Ivan could react, he finished beating a fish's flower knife.

The most important thing is that when the iron bull slipped the fish to Ivan's eyes, Ivan saw that the fish meat had spread out at this time, showing a uniform meat and grains the size of chopsticks, and only the fish skin was connected, and the fish skin was not damaged at all.

That's a little too even, isn't it?

Even if you use a ruler to measure and cut, that's just it!

"Good knife work!" Ivan couldn't help but praise.

It's a heartfelt admiration.

Such a knife work, Ivan is ashamed of himself.

For Tie Niu, a complete Guiyu was considered complete, and he began to explain to Ivan the precautions in his work.

"Master's squirrel fish is a must in Jinling, not only the girls in the building like to eat, but also the guests must order, so you have to kill a lot of fish every day, you have to learn as soon as possible and speed up. ”

Ivan couldn't help but ask, "How many do you have to kill?"

"Forty or fifty at noon, three or four hundred at night. ”

Ivan: "......"

No wonder the system sent him here to practice Shuitai kung fu, the daily consumption of this squirrel fish alone is not much less than the signature dish of the hotel where he is located.

It seems that this Qin Lou business is very good!

Tie Niu said again: "I'll teach you to kill fish first, and leave the wheat ear flower knife and pickling to me in advance, otherwise if the flower knife is not good, the master will beat people." ”

Ivan: "......"

If you don't fight well with a flower knife, you will be beaten?

Isn't it, then Zheng Fat is so violent?

He had long heard that in ancient times, apprentices were in a terrible position, inferior to slaves in front of their masters, and now it seems that this should be true.

He also found that this iron bull has a good heart.

So he said, "Senior brother, you can kill one more at a normal speed and show me." ”

He was curious to know how fast the Iron Bull could kill the fish.

"Good. ”

Tie Niu happily agreed, and fished up another guiyu from the fish pond.

Ivan began to count the seconds silently in his mind.

Next, he saw a pair of fast hands that looked like electric motors.

Brush brush, pat the head and scrape the scales, less than four seconds.

Cutting the back of the fish, removing the internal organs, and removing the gills of the fish, four times quickly, another four seconds.

Flick the knife, chop the head of the fish, for a second.

Slice fish maw, remove fish bones and fish bones, a total of three times, three seconds.

In about twelve seconds, a fish has been killed, and with the time it takes to clean it, it won't take more than fifteen seconds in total.

Ivan served.

Such a fast and precise killing of fish, no one in the chef he knows can do it.

He was even more sure that the Shuitai Kung Fu and knife work in the mission were learned from Tie Niu.

"Senior brother, how did you do it?"

"Just practice. ”

Ivan: "......"

Just practice more?

Familiar?

But the system only gave me a month to complete the task!

No matter how much you practice, you can't practice like this!

You've been practicing for three years!

Depressed, he couldn't help but ask, "Senior brother, is there a shortcut?"

If there is no shortcut, then he will fail in this mission.

Let's not talk about whether he can learn to pour soup dumplings, he can't complete Shuitai kung fu and knife work alone.

There must be a shortcut!

But what made him even more depressed was that Tie Niu shook his head.

It's over!

Ivan realized that something was wrong.

From the point of view of the whole task, the learning of soup dumplings, if you find the right door, should not be difficult, but Shuitai kung fu and knife skills need time to hone, if there is no shortcut, the task will not be completed in a month.

There are definitely shortcuts!

He didn't believe that the system would give him an impossible task.

So where is the shortcut?

Ivan was puzzled.

Iron Bull began to urge him: "Derpy, come, learn to kill fish with me first." ”

He picked up another kitchen knife and handed it to Ivan.

Ivan: "......"

Is this really trying to make my name stand up?

He was a little deflated.

If he couldn't find a shortcut, then he couldn't complete the task at all.

But does deflating work?

It doesn't work.

He had no choice but to take the kitchen knife and prepare to learn to kill fish.

He can kill fish, but it's a little slow.

"Senior brother, you watch me kill one first, and then instruct me. ”

He tossed his kitchen knife first.

The kitchen knife is just an ordinary kitchen knife, the kind made by the blacksmith by hand, and it is no different from the one used by Tie Niu before.

He grabbed a cinnamon fish from the fish pond and began to kill it according to his usual experience.

Nearly 40 seconds later, a fish was killed.

According to Ivan's own judgment, the quality of killing fish should be fine, but the speed has not improved, and even because the knife is not in his hand, it is still a few seconds slower than the original.

"Derpy, you're okay with this fish, but it's too slow, so you'll have to find a time to practice the basics. ”

Iron Bull gave his assessment in a timely manner.

Basic training!

Ivan's eyes lit up.

Is that how the shortcut came in?