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"Hojo, Tasho, the textbook says that if a tomato is cut into a flower, it is considered a small success in slicing.

Specifically, cut tomatoes, who of you can do it? "Liu Xing couldn't help asking.

"This..." Tian Suo showed a smile.

"You don't even know how to do this. Have you ever seen someone cut a tomato into a flower? Isn't this the basic skill of a Chinese chef? Chinese and Japanese cooking exchanges involve cutting a tomato. Chinese chefs basically cut a tomato into a flower." Right." Miyoko Hojo said.

Liu Xing said: "So, who of you will give me Kangkang!"

"It's not easy!" Miyoko Hojo went to the chopping board, picked up a kitchen knife, sharpened it a little, then quickly cut into a pile of thin slices, and then rolled the tomato slices. Yes, it is a rose.

"There is another way..." Tian Suohui used the method of flattening the peel, took a smaller kitchen knife, and peeled the tomato skin and flesh in circles, from the head to the place without breaking, and then turned the tomato skin inward The circle is tightly enclosed, and after forming a circle, it forms the shape of a flower.

"..." Liu Xing couldn't help but feel powerless to complain. At first, he thought he was a swordsman who could pretend, but it turned out... This is really the foundation, only he can't.

"Tian Suo's knife method is to roll the material with a flat knife, or to rotate the material. The blade enters the material, and it is pushed and rotated by hand to cut out layers of skin-like slices. This is actually not suitable for you to learn now. , because it is not easy to wear an anti-cutting device." Miyoko Kitajo commented, "First of all, a high-experienced knife worker will not cut off.

In addition, you also need to be careful not to hurt your hands, the movements are delicate and gentle, and if you make a slight mistake, all previous efforts will be wasted. "

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"Hehe, it's actually similar to peeling fruit." Tian Suohui said modestly.

"Even if it's peeling fruit, not many people can cut it beautifully.

What's more, tomatoes are much harder to peel than apples and pears. "Miyoko Hojo said, "Your basic cooking skills are underestimated!" "

Tian Suohui quickly explained: "No, no, Hojo, you are the one who is particularly good at basic skills."

"You, you are very good!" Kitajo Miyoko continued, "It looks a bit stupid, but in fact, you are a very clever and brainy chef."

"Stop, stop! Commercial nonsense is prohibited! What I want to ask is, as a novice, which one is the right way to practice slicing into tomatoes!" Liu Xing asked.

"In terms of practicing slicing, mine is more valuable. If you can cut a flower, your knife skills are basically fine, and the knife skills of intermediate chefs are nothing more than this.

In addition, most of the knife skills in the kitchen are actually straight knives.

You can cut a tomato and cut a flower, and the straight knife skill is basically considered a graduation.

After that, other knife skills can be learned faster. "Hojo Miyoko analyzed.

"Hojo, I like you so much!" Liu Xing was suddenly excited, and patted Hojo's arm.

"You, you... what nonsense are you talking about?" Miyoko Kitajo blushed.

Liu Xing quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was too excited, thank you for your guidance, there is no other meaning."

"Hmph!" Miyoko Hojo looked a little arrogant.

Tiansuo, who was watching secretly, almost turned cold, and subconsciously pinched the kitchen knife. After hearing the conversation, he put down the kitchen knife in his hand, and his expression changed from solemn to relaxed.

"That...tomatoes can not only be cut into flowers." Tian Suohui thought for a while, "It can be cut into shrimp or crab shapes.

In the past, it seemed that some of the top ten Yuanyue graduates showed off their knife skills for cutting tomatoes at the school. "

Let’s practice with tomatoes first. This is not because of the difficulty of cutting tomatoes. On the contrary, cutting tomatoes into thin slices is actually a test of knife skills.

It can be said that to be able to cut a tomato well, for example, to cut it into the shape of a flower, basically the knife skills have reached a certain level.

Because tomatoes are soft, and the difficulty of cutting thin slices is far more difficult than that of radishes, winter melons, and cucumbers.

If you can cut tomatoes into thin slices, it will be relatively easy to cut hard vegetables such as radishes, winter melons, and cucumbers.

Even, it is not impossible to challenge meat cutting!

Generally novices do not practice with tomatoes, on the one hand because it is not the easiest ingredient to get started, and on the other hand, tomatoes are actually not the cheapest ingredient.

Materials such as radishes and wax gourds are often used as ingredients for beginners to practice knife skills. The main reason is that the prices of these ingredients are usually relatively cheap.

You can get a lot of experience in slicing, dicing, and dicing.

It is easier to practice with more expensive ingredients after you have a certain amount of experience.

Under normal circumstances, knife skills training starts with novice ingredients that are harder to cut, and it is not easy for all the juice to come out.

Cucumbers, lotus roots, wax gourds, pumpkins, potatoes, etc. are all such ingredients for practicing hands.

Then gradually move to softer ingredients, such as tomatoes, tofu, and meat.

Cut the cheap ones first, and the ingredients that can be remedied if they can’t be cut well. This is usually the case with winter melon and radish.

As the experience became richer, I gradually began to practice with more expensive ingredients.

For example, meat cutting is generally done after cutting a large amount of ingredients before practicing with meat, because the price of meat is not cheap.

Normally, slicing, chunking, dicing is not difficult.

After that, the difficulty of shredding suddenly increased.

After that, Ji (pronunciation [jī]) knife and knife technique, carving dragons and painting phoenixes on the surface, and even pretending to be able to carve exquisite characters with ingredients, the difficulty suddenly increased.

For the time being, Liu Xing still didn't dare to think about the state of a big guy pretending to be a level swordsman.

But...cutting a tomato into a flower seems to be a goal that can be gradually approached and achieved through hard work.

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