Cao Guixiang is still making yellow croaker soup. The yellow croaker is dried in advance and the shark fin is soaked in advance. However, the ham, sea cucumber and abalone are cut and processed immediately.

Qin Huai felt that Cao Guixiang did it on purpose and deliberately did not prepare these ingredients in advance and asked him to cut them in front of him, so that he could see what a higher level of knife skills looked like.

How to say it, it is simple but very difficult.

When cutting shredded radish and sliced ​​radish, these are relatively simple ingredients that are more suitable for practice, the knife skills can be very cool.

It can be very fast, so fast that it cuts out the afterimage. It can also be exaggerated, as if there is a shot to cut into a close-up on the edge of the knife in the next second.

But Cao Guixiang didn't do this when dealing with sea cucumbers, abalone and ham. She didn't cut it quickly and was even a little slow. The cut was not heavy, and it gave people a feeling of being very gentle, just like a beginner. She didn't dare to cut it just now, so her movements were gentle, slow and cautious.

Of course, Cao Guixiang did not have this caution. She gently and slowly processed all the ingredients and put them together. When she looked carefully, she found that the silk she cut out was evenly thick and equal in thickness, and the cut dice were almost carved from the same mold.

Silent knife skills for moistening things.

After processing these ingredients, Cao Guixiang began to chop the shrimp into mud. The movement was still very slow and still looked very light, but the strength of cutting the knife was heavy. The knife was chopped on the cutting board and made a regular sound of chopping meat.

Cao Guixiang explained in time: "Cutting vegetables requires pursuing speed, but not just pursuing speed."

"When you cut the radish, I will tell you that there are still many things that have not been cut, because you were in the stage that you were not yet in the beginning. At this time, what you need to do is to be fast, accurate and ruthless. You need to practice a lot of practice to make yourself proficient. You need to practice speed, be proficient and proficient."

"Of course, you've got started now, but you still need to practice quickly, because getting started does not mean you understand. Getting started just means you can start laying the foundation. As for how long it takes to lay the foundation, I'm not very clear."

"When your basic skills are stable and all kinds of ingredients have been processed, you can start to challenge more difficult things. For example, pure knife skills such as chicken bone removal, melon carving, and even Wensi Tofu, you must start to learn to slow down."

"You must be slow in handling this kind of dish, not only slow in movements, but also slow in mentality. If you are anxious, you can't eat hot tofu, and you can't cook good dishes even if you are anxious. Slow does not mean you are not proficient, but often slow means you are meticulous."

"This is why many masters don't like impatient disciples when accepting apprentices. It's not that they have an impatient personality, but that once they develop this habit, it is easy to have problems. Those who do things slowly and look very tender do not mean they are stupid. Sometimes it may be just that they are more cautious and meticulous."

After hearing what Cao Guixiang said, Qin Huai suddenly thought of Gu Li.

Gu Li's cooking speed is very slow, sometimes so slow that no one around can stand it, and even Tan Wei'an can't stand it. But no matter whether anyone urges you, Gu Li always cooks in this slow state. He has no small problems in cooking, and there are constant big problems.

This is not a scolding him. Many times, the big problem is because he is not good at learning skills and cannot be avoided. However, many small problems can be avoided. Gu Li avoided all the problems he could avoid within his ability, and the rest is pure lack of strength.

Qin Huai asked thoughtfully: "Master, should I slow down the speed a little when I cut vegetables and make snacks in the future?"

Cao Guixiang shook her head and seasoned the chopped shrimp paste and stirred it: "You are not a person with a very impatient personality, and you don't need to change your usual habits for the sake of so-called better. Everyone has their personality traits and habits. No one can do perfection. When your level is high enough, you are perfect."

"Now that your sword skills are just getting started, you can naturally find many problems. But if your sword skills have reached the pinnacle, even if you have too many unreasonable habits and minor problems, others will only say that this is the style of a master."

"Anyway, when I was a chef in Qiu County, my boss praised me like this every day." Cao Guixiang said, cooking oil in the pot, starting to fry shrimp heads, boiling it slowly on low heat, and pressing the shrimp heads while adding oil. "Even if I make mistakes in cooking, I will absent-minded and add less ingredients, the boss will ask me if I have developed a new recipe."

Qin Huai was shocked when he heard this: "Can you still do this?"

Cao Guixiang was dedicated to it, chatting while she was still slacking off her hands. After frying the onion slices and shrimp heads, she kept flipping the spatula. The expression and expression on her face were still the same as when she was chatting.

"Of course, when did I become a chef? To put it bluntly, Qiuxian is a county town. How rich can it have? Eat the mountains and the sea, and there is no shortage of seafood, but many vegetables and seasonings may not be available on the same day. I don't even mention ginseng, deer antler, and bear paw... When I first worked as a chef in Qiuxian, I could still make bear paw dishes. Sometimes I didn't want to buy some high-quality millet."

"The boss at that time was very good and generous. Not only did I have a high salary but also a high salary. At that time, Chiyuan was my son. Every day after school, he would come to the hotel and lie on the counter to do homework. The boss would take some melon seeds, plums, candy, etc. Every time the boss came, he would bring Chiyuan some melon seeds, plums, candy, etc. Later, Lao Zhang and I paid a lot of money for us in the city, and there was no need to say anything."

"It's just that the means are not good. At that time, several restaurants wanted to dig me over, but the red envelopes were stuffed into my and Lao Zhang's hands, and the boss didn't know at all."

"Other restaurants have stumbling on him, and he has not solved the problem with the supply of ingredients. The most famous restaurant in Qiu County lacks ingredients every few days, which really forces me to have no choice. Sometimes I cook randomly, and only Kung Pao chicken is not chicken."

Cao Guixiang used simple words to tell a sinister business war. Qinhuai listened with relish and did not even find that Cao Guixiang had already fried abalone, sea cucumber and other ingredients and put them out of the pot.

It is actually a bit inaccurate to say that it is fried and served. These ingredients are the soup that needs to be filled with yellow croaker. After stir-frying, you need to pour clear soup, dried scallop water and the shrimp oil that just made it boiled to simply thicken and replenish the sauce. In the end, a small bowl was left after cooking in the pot, and the fragrance was overflowing. The soup was thick and golden, and the grains of sea cucumber, abalone, dried scallops, and fresh shrimp were visible. At first glance, I thought it was Buddha jumping over the wall.

The soup was done, and the rest was yellow croaker.

Cao Guixiang cooked another pot of hot frying onion slices, took out the onion slices, and began to drizzle the yellow croaker with hot oil to make the skin of the yellow croaker tighter. He continued while pouring it on:

"Thinking about it now, it was indeed quite outrageous at that time. Being a chef in peacetime was like famine, and there was no one or the other. I would have used this ingredient to make up the numbers and then put that ingredient on top. If the money had not been in place, I would have quit."

"But I really practice cooking skills. Before I became a chef in Qiu County, I was a educated youth in the countryside, and my skills were much unfamiliar. If the boss hadn't had the ability to increase the difficulty for me, my skills wouldn't have been picked up so quickly. In the words of you young people, it was really a way to give me strength."

As I was talking, the oil was finished.

Cao Guixiang poured the freshly prepared 'soup' into the yellow croaker's stomach, sealed it with shrimp filling, spread shark fins, shredded ham and sea rice on the yellow croaker, seasoned it simply and steamed it in a pot.

"Okay, the yellow croaker soup is basically done at this point. It only takes a medium-high heat to steam for a quarter of an hour to get out of the pot." Cao Guixiang said, "Sometimes, I can't blame me for not being willing to make these big dishes. It's really a matter of talking about these dishes. The final cooking process is very simple, but the preliminary preparations are too complicated."

"For these 15 minutes of steaming, it takes 15 hours to prepare."

Qin Huai smiled and said, "Master, it's the same for us to make white snacks. It only takes a few minutes to steam the buns in the end, and the time it took before would be long."

"When my parents opened the breakfast shop, they had to get up at around two o'clock every day."

"Yes, it's great to have this awareness and not afraid of trouble." Cao Guixiang, who is used to fishing and law enforcement, nodded with a smile and continued to cook the next dish.

Qinhuai:...If Zhang Chu had practiced fishing skills with Cao Guixiang more, he would have caught big fish.

The remaining dish Cao Guixiang has been cooked in front of Qin Huai, so she won’t give an explanation. To be precise, it’s useless to give an explanation, because Qin Huai can’t understand it at all.

"Master, then after you quit your job, is your boss still running a hotel?" Qin Huai asked curiously.

From Cao Guixiang's description just now, Qin Huai heard that Cao Guixiang's boss was very lucky.

It doesn’t matter if the boss is a waste card. The employee SSR and his loyalty is very full, so he was taken away throughout the whole process.

"Of course not. Lao Shi didn't open a restaurant at the beginning. He was a fisherman and went out to sea to catch fish every day. At that time, he was poor and had no seasoning to cook and was reluctant to put oil. Lao Shi and other fishermen were steamed in fish and seafood, and they couldn't bear to put oil."

"This method is said to be the original taste of seafood. It's okay to eat it once or twice. No one can stand it after eating it for many years. He wants to vomit when he smells it."

"Lao Shi's family has been fishermen for generations. They have eaten like this since childhood. They dreamed of eating white rice until they were full. After the policy was released, he didn't want to be a fisherman. As others do business, he was not good at doing business, but he was lucky and made a lot of money. At the beginning, he sold seafood."

"Boss Shi originally sold seafood, but after opening a hotel, he could still get stuck in the source of goods?" Qin Huai was shocked.

Compared with Boss Shi, Huang Anyao still has something to do. At least the few bosses will not be stuck in the source of goods in this way.

"Or why did Lao Shi not do business? This is how he is, he is honest. At the beginning, everyone believed everything he said, but he was stuck several times before he gradually learned to do business. But it was because of his honesty that I would be willing to be a chef in his restaurant."

"At that time, Lao Zhang and I had no quota to return to the city. We had wasted several years in the countryside. We saw that our two children were growing up and going to school. Our village party secretary entrusted his relationship to find the temporary worker's job in the timber factory in Qiu County. The salary of the temporary worker was not enough for our family of four. At that time, I planned to borrow money to buy a stall to sell big pot of vegetables in Qiu County, so Boss Shi came here."

"My craftsmanship is very good, but at that time, you said that your craftsmanship is useless. We were in the countryside, but we were famous in several villages. Your grandfather Zhang has a very good carpenter skills. If you don't have money, it doesn't matter, there is no way. The village party secretary has said it out loud. He asked people everywhere to find connections, but he can only find a temporary worker."

"At that time, Lao Shi was also instigated to open a restaurant in Qiu County. He felt that he was a seafood business and would not be cheated if he had a source of goods. As a result, his shop was all ready, and the chef had agreed to quit temporarily. The old branch secretary of your village came to tell us the village party secretary after learning the news. Our village party secretary went to find Lao Shi, and I got a job."

"I didn't expect that I had been working for so many years. The hotel business was so good that Lao Shi stopped doing his own seafood business and stayed in the hotel every day waiting for dinner."

Qinhuai:...

Is this boss Shi a relative with Han Guishan? Why are these two people living such a good life?

Does he also have a Mantaray assistant?

Zhang Chu, who had been sitting on the sofa playing with his mobile phone, heard Cao Guixiang talk about Boss Shi coming to join in the fun, and echoed: "The old man Shi really has nothing to say."

"I asked someone to find a relationship to help me get a temporary employee in a timber factory, but I also introduced a lot of private work. Later, we transferred Chi Yuan and Siyu to the city. He also helped me with the academic qualifications. It is said that they spent a lot of money, but Lao Shi didn't admit that he spent money because he had to say that he had something to do."

Cao Guixiang smiled and shook her head: "What can he do? It's just that the dead duck is stubborn, and it's all like this now."

"This time, Luzon Huang is obviously not his product. It must be the higher quality he bought from others. He must be the new good product he has arrived, and he will sell it to us at the price he has."

Qin Huai was shocked: "Ah? Did Luzon Huang buy it from Boss Shi?"

"Yes." Cao Guixiang nodded, "The hotel closed after I quit. Lao Shi did not have much talent to open a hotel and started his business back. His business has been doing well over the years, not to mention being rich and wealthy, he has made a lot of money."

"On weekdays, I want to make big and good dishes, and the ingredients are all from him. Otherwise, I don't open a restaurant and I don't want to buy a large product. How can I get high-quality good products from ordinary suppliers?"

"Oh yes, Guixiang, when I went to get the goods two days ago, Lao Shi asked me why I suddenly bought so many. I guess he wanted to come to the door for free." Zhang Chu said.

Cao Guixiang said: "Let him go two days late and come back the day when Xiao Qin leaves. Xiao Qin has to practice knife skills and thicken it these days, so he doesn't have time to make three shark fins for him."

Zhang Chu scratched his head: "I really can't understand. Braised shark fins are so delicious. Why does he like to eat three-silk shark fins?"

"Oh, Lao Zhang, when Lao Shi comes to eat, you remember to replenish the yellow croaker money. We paid for the ordinary yellow croaker. He gave two wild yellow croaker weighing 4 pounds. The price difference is too much, so this money needs to be replenished."

Qinhuai:...

Who said that Boss Shi doesn’t understand the worldly ways? Don’t he quite understand this?
Chapter completed!