Hardcore Chef Dad

In a brief daze, Feng Yifan watched Ning Cheng quickly go to pick up Beng Fei's carrot.

Then the moment Ning Cheng raised the knife in his hand again, Feng Yifan decisively stopped.

Stop, stop, I said you are at home, is that how you practice?

Ning Cheng looked at Feng Yifan with some embarrassment, put the knife in his hand on the vegetable pier again, stood there with his head bowed and said nothing.

Seeing such a scene, Feng Yifan continued to ask: Didn't you watch my cooking video? Is this how you learned from the video? Did I teach you how to chop vegetables in the video? Don't you Do you know to press with the other hand?

Ning Cheng twitched for a while, but still raised his left hand.

It can be clearly seen that Ning Cheng already has a lot of wounds on his left hand, which should be left from practicing chopping vegetables.

He said with some embarrassment: Uncle, I practiced like in your video at first, but then I always, always cut my hands, so I dare not use my hands to cut.

Hearing Ning Cheng's words, Feng Yifan really couldn't laugh or cry.

Are you really giving up eating because of choking?

Ning Cheng asked strangely, Uncle, what do you mean?

Su Jinrong couldn't help explaining with a smile: That is to say, because you are afraid of cutting your hands, you dare not use your hands to cut vegetables. It is the same as if you choked once because of eating, and you simply stopped eating. Isn't it the same? ?”

After listening to Su Jinrong's explanation, Ning Cheng immediately understood.

Grandpa, I understand, but me, I'm just afraid.

Feng Yifan rolled his eyes and said, Are you afraid? Then you still want to learn how to cook? I think you should go home and honestly follow your grandfather to work in the vegetable garden. Anyway, you can be regarded as having a good time. If you don’t want to learn how to drive, you can help with transportation in the future, and you will get a salary every month.”

Ning Cheng lowered his head again after being told this, and fell into deep thought for a moment.

It was obvious that his ego took a hit at this moment.

This is a feeling that he has never experienced in all these years. It is a feeling of being completely underestimated, and even Feng Yifan doesn't want to teach him anything at all.

He lowered his head and felt aggrieved for a while,

Ning Cheng finally raised his head and said, Uncle, I, I really want to learn.

Feng Yifan also raised his head, and looked at Ning Cheng, and at this moment, he saw a drive in his eyes.

Seeing such a momentum come out, Feng Yifan was also secretly satisfied.

Then he said: Okay, since you really want to learn, you should start with cutting vegetables. Knife skills are the basic skills of a cook. If you can't even use a knife well, then you don't need to be a cook.

Afterwards, Feng Yifan walked over, picked up the kitchen knife from the vegetable mound, and picked up the two carrots as well.

Look, now you can't cut vegetables like me, so you have to start from the most basic, hold down with your left hand like this, if you are afraid of cutting your hand, stay away, and then cut vertically like this, Remember to hold the knife firmly, practice the straight knife first, and cut the knife vertically.

As Feng Yifan said, he began to demonstrate, with a vertical knife, one knife, cut down, and cut the carrot into slices.

Then, Feng Yifan piled up the carrot slices, and then cut them into long strips. Finally, the long strips are cut into small cubes of uniform size.

There is no speed in the whole process, just one knife at a time to cut, and the knife is always kept straight.

After cutting, Feng Yifan wiped off the diced carrots on the knife with his hands, and put them on the vegetable pile to show Ning Cheng.

Look, this is a pea-sized diced piece. Have you seen the process of cutting me? You are either pursuing speed now, or you have to hold the knife steadily. Straight knife, so that one knife cuts across the board, first cut into slices, It should be uniform in thickness, and then cut into strips, which are also uniform in thickness, and finally cut into cubes, with uniform size.”

Feng Yifan had taught Lin Ruifeng many times about this process in Su Ji's back kitchen.

However, Lin Ruifeng has a certain foundation. After all, he has helped him make breakfast at home. He also has a certain foundation in chopping vegetables and simple cooking, so Lin Ruifeng does not have as much effort to learn as Ning Cheng.

Feng Yifan handed the kitchen knife to Ning Cheng: Here, I'm fine this afternoon, you can practice here.

When Ning Cheng heard that he could practice here, he was immediately overjoyed: Thank you Uncle, no, thank you Master.

Feng Yifan waved his hand: No, you are not qualified to call me master yet, first practice your knife skills well, remember, if you still can't cut my diced carrots before we go back, then you will Don't try to learn how to cook with me, just go to the vegetable base to work honestly.

Ning Cheng immediately said: Uncle, I will definitely work hard.

Feng Yifan didn't say much, and let Ning Cheng practice there, while he continued to study dishes.

Ning Cheng was very serious, and started to follow the method Feng Yifan demonstrated, first holding the knife steadily, and then cutting straight at the carrot.

When it was time to cut with the knife, Ning Cheng finally realized that things were not as simple as he thought.

The carrot itself is cylindrical, so if the knife is not strong enough, it will slip. If the knife is too hard and heavy, Ning Cheng has no way to keep the knife straight.

As a result, the cuts were cut one by one, either the cuts were biased, or the thickness of the cut slices was uneven.

And just cut half a carrot in this way, not to mention not cutting out a good slice, Ning Cheng also felt his wrists began to feel a little sore.

At the same time, Su Jinrong saw Ning Cheng put down the kitchen knife in his hand and rubbed his wrist.

How is it? Now, have you discovered that the matter of cutting vegetables is not as simple as you imagined? You see that it is very simple for Uncle Yifan, but when it comes to cutting vegetables yourself, do you find it difficult?

While rubbing his wrist, Ning Cheng asked, Grandpa, I think it's very hard to cut the knife vertically, can I cut it in another way?

Before Su Jinrong could speak, Feng Yifan said directly, No.

Su Jinrong then explained: The straight knife is the simplest knife technique. If you can't even master this, how can you learn other knife techniques? There is also this basic skill. You can't bear the pain at the beginning. You can learn how to cook in the future. There are still many sufferings, what should you do?

Feng Yifan also said over there: If you can't bear this hardship, then go back.

Ning Cheng said decisively: No problem, I will definitely be able to endure this hardship.

Afterwards, Ning Cheng went to wash another carrot.

This time, he also specially picked one from the basket, which looks relatively large and not so round on the surface. After washing it, he plans to continue practicing.

Seeing Ning Cheng pick and choose, Feng Yifan didn't say anything, but let him do it.

Cutting the knife again, Ning Cheng thought that the thicker one would be easy to cut, but after actually cutting it, he found that it was not as simple as he thought.

It's still an old problem, the knife will slip when cutting, or the thickness of the cut will be uneven.

Seeing that Ning Cheng cut it for a long time again, one carrot was considered useless, but still not even a single piece was cut out.

Su Jinrong finally couldn't help but reminded: You can't cut like this, you can trim the sides first, trim the carrots into squares, and then slice, strip, and dice.

After being reminded by Su Jinrong, Ning Cheng quickly understood, and went to wash a new carrot to start.

This time, according to the method taught by Su Jinrong, he first trimmed the carrot into a rectangle.

It's just that because of poor knife skills, Ning Cheng spent a long time repairing it, and there was not much left of the last carrot.

Ning Cheng still tried to slice it seriously.

The first piece is still thick on one side and thin on the other.

The second piece, finally, is somewhat decent.

The third piece was not able to hold the knife firmly, and the result was skewed again, and it was still thick on one side and thinner on the other.

...

Ning Cheng just tinkered with it like this, and in the end, there were still two decent pieces left.

Then Ning Cheng began to try to cut into long strips.

Following Feng Yifan's method, stacking the two pieces together, Ning Cheng cut with the knife very carefully.

After making the first cut, Ning Cheng knew instantly that he had to start all over again.

Because with one cut, the thickness of the two slices of carrot sticks are completely different, and the cut will be straight off, one side is thick and the other is thin.

Ning Cheng was really a little discouraged at this moment, didn't he think that it would be so difficult to cut a vegetable?

But after a short period of discouragement, he went to the basket and took out a carrot, washed it and started again.

Just like this throughout the afternoon, Ning Cheng cut over and over again, and the carrots on the vegetable pile really piled up more and more, but he still couldn't cut out the uniform sized carrots that Feng Yifan requested.

The sun started to dip to the west outside, and Ning Cheng no longer knew how many carrots he had cut. He finally cut out a row of relatively qualified diced carrots.

After cutting it out, Ning Cheng was a little excited, and also felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Carefully stacking them together with hands, Ning Cheng raised his head and wanted to say something to Feng Yifan.

But Feng Yifan took the first step: Do you think the little bit you cut is considered qualified?

The excitement in Ning Cheng's heart was instantly extinguished.

He raised his head and looked at Feng Yifan.

Feng Yifan said calmly: Look for yourself, how many carrots have you wasted in one afternoon? But what about the result? Look at the diced carrots you cut out and compare them with the ones I gave you. Do you think you can do this too? Is it qualified?

Ning Cheng lowered his head to look, and compared Feng Yifan's cut.

I found that the diced carrots that I thought were very good were actually far from the regular ones, not only because the size was not so uniform, but some of them were not even small cubes.

Looking at so many carrots that were piled aside and scrapped, Ning Cheng's excitement completely disappeared.

Feng Yifan came over and picked out some carrot slices that Ning Cheng had discarded from the pile that he had discarded.

He took the kitchen knife in Ning Cheng's hand, repaired it very simply, and then cut it into strips and cubes.

To Ning Cheng's surprise, Feng Yifan actually cut out a neat little square.

Putting the knife down, he said to Ning Cheng: See? The things you threw away can actually be used for practice. Starting tomorrow, you have to use all the things you threw away. Remember, the kitchen Don’t allow waste, you must make the best use of everything.”

Ning Cheng was depressed for a while, but suddenly realized that he could still come here to practice tomorrow.

Thank you, thank you uncle, I will definitely come tomorrow on time.

Feng Yifan added: It's better to come in the afternoon, not too early, too early if Ruoruo wants to sleep, your knife skills will affect Ruoruo's sleep.

Ning Cheng nodded and agreed: Okay, I understand, Uncle.

Then he looked at those carrots and asked, Uncle, what should we do with these?

Feng Yifan asked back: What do you think should be done?

Ning Cheng thought for a while and said, Uncle, how about I take it home and cook it for my dog.

Feng Yifan asked seriously: Such a good carrot, why don't you just feed it to the dog?

Ning Cheng was said to be speechless, wondering what else could these cut off people do?

In the end, Feng Yifan said: How about this, you come over at noon tomorrow, I will make these into rice, and you take it back for lunch, since you cut it up yourself, you have to eat it yourself, understand?

Looking at the pile of carrots, Ning Cheng was also a little embarrassed: Uncle, can this be eaten?

Feng Yifan smiled and said, Of course they can be eaten, this is the rule of the kitchen.

Su Jinrong also said: That's right, don't waste it. Uncle Yifan's apprentice has eaten countless ingredients that he cut up and discarded. Only when he eats it himself will he know how to cherish it. He knows that every ingredient costs money. You will practice more seriously.

Ning Cheng had no choice but to nod: Okay Uncle, then I'll come back at noon tomorrow.

Feng Yifan agreed: Well, you go back first.

Ning Cheng said goodbye to Su Jinrong again, then turned and left the kitchen by himself.

Seeing Ning Cheng leave, Su Jinrong looked at his son-in-law and said, It seems that this young boy is your second apprentice?

Feng Yifan nodded and said, Yes, Dad, because Su Ji still needs manpower in the future, we can't let Ruifeng do it all, there must be someone who can help Ruifeng work together.

Su Jinrong couldn't help laughing: Are you recruiting volunteer labor?

Feng Yifan responded with a smile: Dad, I will give them money.

Su Jinrong asked again: Do you think this Ning Cheng really wants to learn? Can he learn well?

Feng Yifan said seriously: I think it should be possible. I asked my parents. After Ning Cheng came back from the town, he really changed a lot, and he worked hard at the vegetable base for a year, which shows that he really wants to It's time to turn over a new leaf, so I want to give him a chance.

Su Jinrong nodded: Well, since you think it's okay, then wait and see.

...

Ning Cheng walked out of Feng's house, and when he reached the intersection, he happened to meet Feng Jiandong and Lu Cuiling coming back together.

He hurriedly greeted the two old people: Grandpa Feng, hello Grandma Lu, you are back.

Feng Jiandong looked at Ning Cheng, and then at the door of the house, and immediately guessed that Ning Cheng should have just come out of the house: Are you here to ask your Uncle Yifan for advice?

Ning Cheng quickly replied: Yes, Grandpa Feng, I have been practicing chopping vegetables under the guidance of Uncle Yifan this afternoon.

This answer surprised the old couple.

Lu Cuiling and her wife looked at each other and said: Well, since you want to learn, you should study hard, don't do those messy things like in the old town, really learn some skills from your uncle, and you will learn more in the future. It can be regarded as having a skill and being able to take care of oneself.

Ning Cheng was taught humbly: Grandma Lu, I know, I will definitely learn from Uncle Yifan.

Feng Jiandong nodded in satisfaction and said, Okay, it's getting late, you should go back early.

Ning Cheng also bid farewell to the old couple, passed by the old couple, and walked home with a feeling of excitement.