The live broadcast life of Lao Linzi in Northeast China

Chapter 210

"Speaking of which, when will the anchor plan to buy a car?"

"Yeah, the anchor should have saved a lot of money, right? Why don't you consider buying a car for B?"

Li Yuan shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't usually have many opportunities to use a car, even if I buy one, I will buy one for my parents first."

In fact, it has been almost half a year since the live broadcast, and Li Yuan has more and more fans in the live broadcast room.

Even if you don’t sell things every month, the average income from rewards in the live broadcast room alone can reach more than 2, and this is still a guaranteed income. During the Chinese New Year last month alone, Li Yuan received nearly [-] in a month reward.

Except for giving some to his parents, the rest has been put in the card by Li Yuan.

Li Yuan usually spends relatively little, and has no other consumption, let alone any bad habits, and basically saves all the money he earns.

This money is hard-won, so naturally it cannot be squandered casually.

The sound of firecrackers slowly faded away, and everyone entered the house under the call of the third child.

In the evening, the third family specially slaughtered a big rooster to entertain the guests, and the dinner was chicken stewed with mushrooms.

With Li Yuan's volunteering, Li Yuan became the chef in charge. Although the third master felt that it was not good for the guests to cook, he couldn't hold back Li Yuan and finally compromised.

At this time, Li Yuan was handling the big rooster that had just shed its feathers with a bone cutter.

"The chopping of chicken nuggets is also very particular. Everyone pays attention to it. When chopping the bones, it is best to cut them cleanly and cut them off with a single knife. Otherwise, the hidden chicken nuggets will easily have broken bones, and it is easy to break your teeth when eating."

Li Yuan put the processed chicken on the cutting board.

Not in a hurry, Li Yuan touched the chicken's bones with his hands first, then picked up the kitchen knife and quickly chopped towards the chicken.

but……

What people didn't expect was that after the first cut, he was ashamed in front of the live broadcast room.

After cutting it with a knife, instead of cutting it off, the kitchen knife got stuck on the bone of the chicken.

Studio.

"what's the situation?"

"What did I just see, did the host just make a mistake with the knife?"

"Didn't you just say that the knife technique for cutting chicken is very important? It failed so quickly?"

"Haha, once in my lifetime, I actually saw the anchor's lack of cooking skills, haha!"

"It's been a long time... No, I must record that wonderful moment just now!"

"So, what happened just now?"

Li Yuan had already pulled out the kitchen knife at this time, and looked at the blade towards his eyes, only to see that there was already a section of curved white edge line on the blade.

When this happens, it means the knife is blunt.

Fortunately, the kitchen knife was not broken, but after looking at the blade of the kitchen knife, Li Yuan also found the reason for the mistake just now.

Li Yuan: "It's okay, this kitchen knife is too blunt, so I didn't cut it to the end."

Studio.

"The kitchen knife is blunt?"

"Is there a new knife?"

"Isn't this a bone chopping knife? Why can't it be chopped?"

"There's no such thing as being so particular about bone-chopping knives. Everyone in the countryside uses a knife to work."

"Then go and buy one."

Li Yuan: "It's no big deal, just grind it out, there's no point in buying a new one."

After finishing speaking, Li Yuan entered the house, asked the third master for a millstone, and then came to the kitchen again.

In rural areas, basically every household has a millstone.

Because everyone uses a kitchen knife for cooking, it is not as fine as the exquisite household division, so the wear and tear on the kitchen knife will be greater, so sharpening the knife has naturally become a common practice.

And the whetstone in the third master's house has been dented a lot, and it looks like it has been around for a long time.

Studio.

"Does the anchor want to sharpen a kitchen knife?"

"This whetstone looks like this, is it still useful?"

"The anchor wants to sharpen his own knife? Can it work..."

"Isn't it just sharpening a kitchen knife, what's so difficult about it?"

"Not difficult? Grinding kitchen knives is a handicraft! In the past, there was a special profession as a knife sharpener. How can this not be difficult!?"

"That's right. When I was young, I often heard the voice of the old man shouting 'sharpen the knife and scissors', but I can't hear it now."

"Really, I've heard of it too!"

"Now the kitchen knives are replaced after they are stewed... how can they be sharpened?"

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Grinding kitchen knives is indeed a technical job, and the industry of sharpening scissors and kitchen knives is one of the old crafts, but it is not as difficult as everyone thinks."

Li Yuan remembered that in the traditional cross talk "Selling Cloth", there was an opera-like yelling, but now it has long been inaudible.

And the long shout of the old man sharpening the knife only existed in Li Yuan's memory.

"Household kitchen knives become blunt after a long time, so they need to be thinned. In Chinese, they are sharp. As the saying goes, they are fast."

"Steeling a kitchen knife is actually a very particular thing. The first thing to do is to see whether the steel on the knife edge is soft or hard. Different hardness requires different grinding wheels."

"If it is hard, you have to use a grinding wheel, and if it is soft, you have to grab it with a knife, and then use a whetstone to sharpen it. The tool for whetting the knife is a long iron rod with horizontal handrails at both ends. A high-quality steel shovel is used to thin the two edges of the knife and sharpen it. But now... the shovel has basically disappeared.”

"It just happens to have this opportunity, and everyone will learn it after a while."

Li Yuan first soaked the whetstone in water to wet it, then took out the kitchen knife he was holding just now, and cleaned it with clean water, including the oil on it.

After the whetstone completely absorbed the water, he took out the whetstone again, but Li Yuan was slightly surprised when he saw the whetstone.

"I didn't expect this whetstone to be a sandstone. This sandstone...is very rare now."

Studio.

"It's so troublesome to listen to the anchor!"

"Is it that complicated?"

"Sandstone? Are there different types of whetstones?"

"Otherwise? What should it be?"

"It's just a whetstone. Is there anything else to say?"

"Is there any significance to the whetstone?"

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Of course, in fact, from a certain point of view, any sandstone can sharpen a knife. The common sharpening stones are generally page granite, and quartz is also good, but this kind of sharpening stone is usually more difficult. See, and siltstone and all that."

"However, among the whetstones, sandstone is the best, and the sharpest and most durable blades are also sharpened. This kind of whetstone is not easy to produce gaps."

"In fact, this sandstone is a kind of sedimentary rock, which is formed by the accumulation of stone grains on the river bed through water erosion and accumulation over thousands of years."

"Sandstone is a matte stone that does not produce light pollution due to light reflection, and is also a very natural anti-slip material."

(End of this chapter)