Food starts with noodles

The hard part is the first half.

Because of the presence of ribs, when you first cut it, you can't feel whether you have cut the ribs or the spine.

Cutting to the ribs is easy, just cut hard.

But if you cut to the spine, the knife will jump if you use too much force.

The so-called jumping knife is not that the kitchen knife jumps up, but that the knife edge will change direction unconsciously when the force is too strong. Under the action of inertia, it is easy to slice out of the fish at an angle, and even hurt the left hand.

Fortunately, Xu Zhuo's cutting was fairly smooth, and the front half of the fish was half connected to the fish head, so there was not much fish meat actually connected to the ribs.

Xu Zhuo cut it easily.

After all the two pieces of fish were cut out, Wei Junming pointed to the backbone of the fish and said, "Chop into short pieces and make fish bone soup later."

When Xu Zhuo heard this, he immediately raised the kitchen knife in his hand to chop it, but Wei Junming stopped him.

"Xu Zhuo, as a chef, you must cherish the kitchen knife in your hand. The backbone of fish is so hard, chopping this kind of bone with your chopping knife will hurt the edge, so change it to a bone chopping knife."

The chopping knife in Xu Zhuo's hand is the most commonly used kitchen knife, also called Wenwu knife.

The first half of the blade is thinner, suitable for slicing and shredding; the second half is thicker, suitable for cutting some bones with low hardness, such as chicken bones.

But because the chopping knife is relatively balanced, it lacks in professionalism.

Slicing and shredding is not as easy as a slicing knife, and when chopping bones, it is not as good as a more professional bone-chopping knife.

For example, now, facing the hard fish backbone, the chopping knife is somewhat powerless.

If you chop it rashly, it is easy to cause the edge of the knife to curl or the edge to collapse, causing irreparable damage.

Xu Zhuo took a large bone cutter and chopped the spine and tail into small pieces.

Then he took the slicing knife and began to remove the rib fans from the fish.

This is simple. According to the trend of the rib fan, use a knife to cut off the rib fan along this direction.

It doesn't matter if it's thicker.

Then cut off the rib fan and put it together with the fish backbone.

There is no need for Wei Junming's instructions to make fish bone soup, because Xu Zhuo has the skill of making bone soup.

There is no need to blanch or marinate fish bone soup, just add water and start cooking.

There is no need to put any spices, just some onion, ginger and cooking wine.

Because the fish soup has an umami taste, adding spices will cover up the umami taste of the fish bones.

After he boiled the fish bone soup, the fish head here was almost marinated.

Wei Junming brought a large plate, put the chopped pickled ginger evenly on the plate, put the marinated fish head on it, and then evenly spread a layer of chopped pepper on the fish.

After the steamer is boiled, put it into the steamer and start steaming.

"Generally steamed fish head is enough for 10 minutes, but this fish head is too big, and you don't have a special steam box, so you have to steam it for 15 minutes. Remember, time is very important. I can't teach you this, only you can steam it." Figure it out for yourself while you’re doing it.”

Steaming the fish head is very troublesome. If the time is not good, the fish head will either be undercooked or old.

Only the right steaming time can make delicious and tempting fish head with chopped peppers.

After the fish head was put on the pot, Wei Junming turned his attention to the two pieces of fish.

"Xu Zhuo, let's start slicing the fish now. These two pieces of fish weigh a lot. I think it's easier to make salt and pepper fish fillets, and the taste is not bad."

Xu Zhuo didn't have any opinion on the food, he was just curious about how to make it.

"Salt and pepper fish fillets are sliced ​​fish fillets that are deep-fried and crispy on the outside, sprinkled with salt and pepper before serving. The difficulty of this dish is that the fish fillets are too thin and easy to fry, and the fresh and tender taste inside cannot be tasted. .And it’s too thick and can’t be deep-fried, which will cause the fish inside to taste fishy.”

While talking, Wei Junming took a slicer knife and gently sliced ​​a piece of fish meat, about three to four millimeters thick.

He handed the fish fillet to Xu Zhuo to observe.

The thickness of the fish fillet is uniform, and the knife edge is neat. From entering the knife to closing the knife, it is almost done in one go without any pause.

As Xu Zhuo looked at it, he felt emotion in his heart.

This knife is really good, no wonder it is a master of Sichuan cuisine.

When will I be able to do this by myself?

"Ding……"

Just as I was thinking about it, the dog system came up with a notification sound...

Chapter 063 Powerful Skills

"The host earnestly learns knife skills, and inspires special skills—concentrate on learning, congratulations to the host."

Concentrate on learning?

What kind of ghost skill is this?

Xu Zhuo entered the panel and clicked on this skill.

【Dedicated to learning】

When the host concentrates on studying with a high-level chef, there is a certain chance to directly learn the techniques that the other party is using.

[-]. The skills learned are defaulted to the entry level, and the skill level can be improved through repeated practice.

[-]. This skill is passively triggered, and it will only take effect after the host devotes himself to learning it.

[-]. After each skill takes effect, there will be a cooling-off period of half a month.

[-]. The learning techniques must be in line with the host's own development level, and high-end dishes should not be blindly learned.

After reading it, Xu Zhuo was a little confused.

This is the first time a skill has been required and specified.

But it is really good to be able to directly learn the skills of the opponent.

Although the cooling-off period lasts for half a month, but it is worthwhile to learn the opponent's skills even for a month.

Because of Boss Xu's lazy personality, he may not be able to reach the level of entry after half a year of practice.

"Uncle Wei, your fish fillets are really good. The fish fillets are uniform in thickness and complete in size. The fish fillets you make must be very delicious." Now that he has skills, Boss Xu will naturally make good use of them.

"Do you understand? Why don't you try?" Wei Junming felt more and more that Xu Jimin's evaluation of Xu Zhuo was not objective.

What a good boy, he can do whatever he wants. Although his talent is not high, he studies hard.

And not being mischievous, he is simply an ideal apprentice, okay?

Naturally Xu Zhuo refused to do it, and he planned to watch Wei Junming's fish slices to learn techniques.

"Uncle Wei, I didn't see clearly just now, why don't you try cutting a few more slices, I'm always afraid of getting the slices."

Sliced ​​fish is really difficult for beginners to master, and the blade is rubbed down with the left hand, and it is easy to hurt the hand if you don't pay attention.

Wei Junming naturally understood Xu Zhuo, he held the fish with his left hand and the kitchen knife with his right.

"Then I'll take another piece. Look carefully. As long as you master the technique, you won't hurt your hands. Don't worry about it."

After speaking, Wei Junming started to do it.

Xu Zhuo leaned in front of the chopping board, his eyes fixed on Wei Junming's movements.

He really wanted to learn this technique, because after learning it, knife crafting could progress from entry to proficiency.

After Wei Junming finished filling another piece of fish, the system beeped.

"The host successfully stimulated the skill of [Concentrate on learning], and the piece of the twelve knife skills was successfully promoted to the entry level. Congratulations to the host."

"The host has obtained one of the twelve skills of knife skills. The basic value of knife skills exceeds 10000, and he has officially been promoted to [proficient]. Congratulations to the host."

Two words in a row, Boss Xu was elated.

This is too cool!

Not to mention that the skills take effect immediately, and even the knife skills have been promoted to proficiency, which is really a double blessing.

The promotion of knife skills made Xu Zhuo's understanding of knife skills more profound.

"Xu Zhuo, Xu Zhuo, why are you so dazed all of a sudden? Do you understand? If you don't understand, I'll cut you a few more..."

Seeing Xu Zhuo staring at the kitchen knife in his hand, Wei Junming suddenly felt sorry for him.

It seems that the child has been driven into a demonic disorder, and he also said that he does not study hard.

Master, master, you are really wrong this time.

It is really hard to find such an apprentice who studies hard now with a lantern.

Such a good boy, I will definitely teach him all the skills and live up to your old man's expectations!

Xu Zhuo didn't know that he was so dazed.

Wei Junming was already feeling a lot of emotion in his heart, and he made up a bunch of pictures of him studying hard.

Once the skill is acquired, Xu Zhuo naturally wants to try it.

"Uncle Wei, I almost understand it. Let me try cutting it a few times first. If it doesn't work, I'll cut it for you."

Wei Junming nodded approvingly.

Not arrogant or impetuous, humble and virtuous, what a good boy.

Boss Xu grabbed the kitchen knife and easily sliced ​​a complete fish fillet, with uniform thickness and smooth edge.

Wei Junming looked surprised.

Even Jianguo, who was busy washing vegetables next to him, was stunned.

Isn't Xu Zhuo good at slicing fish?

How did it come out so perfect?

Wouldn't it be pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?

Wei Junming was too shocked to speak.

Just now Xu Zhuo obviously didn't know how to slice fish, and even the gesture of holding a knife was wrong.

As a result, the film turned out to be so good once I got started, it's simply...

It's simply a genius!

"Uncle Wei, are you okay watching my movies?"

Boss Xu's expression was calm and peaceful, but he was so happy that he wanted to yell a few times.

The feeling of pretending is so cool!

No wonder those online novels like to write plots that pretend to slap their face, it really is really cool!

It's a pity that there wasn't an aggressive villain to question him just now.

Otherwise it will feel better.

Boss Xu's mind is full of mentally retarded sections of online novels, and various sand sculpture ideas emerge in endlessly.

"Xu Zhuo, don't be dazed, continue, I have to marinate for a while, now it's too late..."

Salt and pepper fish fillets need to be marinated for 10 to [-] minutes. If you want to eat them with the fish head, the time is really not enough.

Xu Zhuo stabilized his mind, and swiftly sliced ​​all the remaining fish meat into fish fillets.

The movement was so smooth that he himself couldn't believe it.

When there is no system, he will not even cook a fish for him.

But now with the blessing of the system, he is like a veteran fish maker.

With a system, you can do whatever you want!

After the fish fillets are cut, Wei Junming puts them in a basin, puts sliced ​​ginger, scallion, five-spice powder and salt to marinate.

Taking advantage of this time, he planned to teach Xu Zhuo how to cook salt and pepper.

Salt and pepper is a commonly used condiment in Sichuan cuisine, and making salt and pepper is also an essential skill for every Sichuan chef.