Chapter 592： Learn from scratch

In a short daze, Feng Yifan watched Ning Cheng walk quickly to pick up Bengfei's carrot.

Then when 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 a little embarrassment, and placed the knife in his hand on the Caidunzi again, standing there with his head drooping and saying nothing.

Seeing such a scene, Feng Yifan asked again: "Didn’t you watch my cooking video? That’s how you learned from the video? Did I teach you how to chop vegetables in the video? Don’t you? Do you know you need to press it with your other hand?"

Ning Cheng squeezed 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 have been left by practice cutting vegetables.

He was a little embarrassed to say: "Uncle, I practiced as in your video at first, but then I always cut my hands, so I didn't dare to press and cut with my hands anymore."

Hearing what Ning Cheng said, Feng Yifan was really a little bit dumbfounded.

"Are you really abandoning food because of choking?"

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

Su Jinrong couldn't help but explain with a smile: "That is to say, because you are afraid of cutting your hands, you dare not press the vegetables with your hands. Just because you choked once because of eating, you don't eat at all. Isn't it the same? ?"

Ning Cheng understood Su Jinrong's explanation immediately.

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

Feng Yifan rolled his eyes and said, "Are you afraid? Then you have to learn how to cook? I see you, or go home, and honestly follow your grandfather and work in the vegetable garden. If you don’t 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 said that, and fell into a moment of contemplation for a while.

Obviously, his self-esteem was hit at this moment.

This is a feeling he has never experienced for so many years. It is a kind of completely despised, even Feng Yifan doesn't want to teach him anything at all.

Drooping his head and feeling wronged 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 stared at Ning Cheng. At this moment, he saw a momentum in his eyes.

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

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

Afterwards, Feng Yifan walked over, picked up the kitchen knife from Caidunzi, and picked up the two carrots.

"You are optimistic, now you can't cut vegetables like I did, so you have to start with the most basic, hold it with your left hand, if you are afraid of cutting it, move a little farther away, and then cut it vertically with the knife. Remember to hold the knife firmly, practice a straight knife first, and move it straight down."

Feng Yifan started to demonstrate with one straight cut, one cut, and cut the carrots into slices.

Then, Feng Yifan piled up the carrot slices and cut them into long strips. Finally, cut the long strips into even-sized dices.

There is no speed in the whole process, just like that, one cut, one cut, and the straight cut is always maintained.

After cutting, Feng Yifan wiped off the diced carrot from the knife with his hand, and showed it to Ning Cheng on the dish.

"Look, this is a pea-sized dice. Did you see the process of cutting it? You are not looking for speed now, or you have to hold the knife firmly and use a straight knife, so you can cut it all at once, first cut it into slices. It must be evenly thin and thick, and then cut into strips, the same thickness is uniform, and finally dice, uniform in size."

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

However, Lin Ruifeng has a certain foundation. After all, he did early in his own home. He also helped. Cutting vegetables and simple cooking have a certain foundation, so Lin Ruifeng didn't have to learn so hard for Ning Cheng.

Feng Yifan handed the kitchen knife to Ning Cheng: "Here you are, it's okay this afternoon, you can practice here."

Ning Cheng was immediately happy when he heard that he could practice here: "Thank you, uncle, no, thank you, Master."

Feng Yifan waved his hand: "Don't, you are not qualified to call me a master now, first practice the knife skills, remember, if you can't cut out the same carrots before we go back, then you Don't want to learn how to cook with me, and go to the vegetable base to work honestly."

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

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

Ning Cheng was very serious, and started to hold the knife firmly according to the method Feng Yifan demonstrated, and then cut the carrot straight with a knife.

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

The carrot itself is cylindrical, so when the knife is cut, if the force is not enough, it will slip, and if the knife is too hard and too heavy, Ning Cheng can't keep the knife straight.

As a result, it was cut with one cut. Either the cut was wrong, or the thickness of the cut was uneven.

Besides, after only cutting half a carrot in this way, without cutting out a perfect slice, Ning Cheng still felt that his wrists were beginning to feel a little sour.

On the one hand, Su Jinrong saw Ning Cheng put down the kitchen knife in his hand and rubbed his wrist.

"How is it? Now that you find that just cutting vegetables is not as simple as you thought? You see that your uncle Yifan is very easy to cut, but when you really cut it yourself, do you find it difficult?"

Ning Cheng asked while rubbing his wrist, "Grandpa, I find it very hard to stab the knife like this, can I cut it in other ways?"

Before Su Jinrong could speak, Feng Yifan had already said directly: "No."

Su Jinrong followed and explained: "Straight knife is the simplest knife technique. If you can't even master this, how can you learn other techniques? There is also this basic skill. You can't bear the initial pains, and you will learn how to cook in the future. There is still a lot of suffering, what do you do?"

Feng Yifan also said over there, "If you can't bear the pain, 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 selected one from the basket that looked relatively large, and it was not so round on the surface. After washing it, he planned to continue practicing.

Seeing Ning Cheng's choice, Feng Yifan didn't say a word, but let him do it.

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

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

Seeing that Ning Cheng had been cutting it for a long time, a carrot was considered scrap, but he still didn't cut out even one slice.

Su Jinrong finally couldn't help but reminded: "You can't cut it like this. You can trim the sides first, then cut the carrot into a square, and then slice, slice, and dice."

After being reminded by Su Jinrong, Ning Cheng quickly understood, and started washing a new carrot.

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

Ning Cheng repaired it for a long time only because of poor knife skills, and there was not much left of the last carrot.

Ning Cheng still tried slicing very seriously.

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

The second film is finally decent.

The third piece was not able to hold the knife securely, and it turned out to be too thick on one side and thin on the other.

...

Ning Cheng just repaired it, and in the end it was considered decent to have two pieces left.

Then Ning Cheng tried to cut into long strips.

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

With the first cut, Ning Cheng knew in an instant that he had to do it again.

Because the carrot sticks cut with a single cut are completely different in thickness between the two sections, they are directly offset with one cut, one side is thick and the other is thin.

Ning Cheng was really a little discouraged at this moment. Didn't he expect that cutting a vegetable would be so difficult?

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

In this way, Ning Cheng cut again and again throughout the afternoon. The carrots on Caidunzi were really piled up, but he still failed to cut out the even-sized carrots that Feng Yifan required.

Almost outside, the sun began to shift to the west, and Ning Cheng no longer knew how many carrots he had cut. He finally cut out a row of diced carrots that were considered fairly qualified.

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

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

However, Feng Yifan took the lead: "Do you think you are qualified for this point?"

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

He raised his head and looked towards Feng Yifan.

Feng Yifan said calmly: "Look for yourself, how many carrots did you waste in an afternoon? But what is the result? Look at the carrots you cut out and compare the way I cut them for you. You think you can do it too. Is it qualified?"

Ning Cheng looked down and compared Feng Yifan's cut.

I find that the carrots that I think are already good are actually far behind the regular ones. Not only are they not so uniform in size, but some of them are not even small squares.

Looking at the many carrots piled aside and shredded, Ning Cheng's excitement completely disappeared.

Feng Yifan walked over and picked out some carrot slices from the pile that Ning Cheng had cut through.

I took the kitchen knife in Ning Cheng's hand, repaired it very briefly, and then cut into strips and dice.

What surprised Ning Cheng was that Feng Yifan actually cut out a small square.

Putting the knife down, he said to Ning Cheng, "See? All these you lost can actually be used for practice. Starting tomorrow, you will use all the things you lost. Remember, in the kitchen. No waste is allowed, we must make the best use of everything."

Ning Cheng was decadent at first, but suddenly realized that he could still practice here tomorrow.

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

Feng Yifan added: "It's better to come in the afternoon, not too early. If you want to go to bed too early, your swordsmen will affect Ruoruo's sleep."

Ning Cheng nodded and agreed: "Okay, OK, I know Uncle."

Then he looked at the carrots and asked, "Uncle, what about these?"

Feng Yifan asked, "What do you think should be done?"

Ning Cheng thought for a while and said, "Uncle, if I bring it back, I can cook it and feed it to my dog."

Feng Yifan asked earnestly: "Such a good carrot, just feed it to the dog?"

Ning Cheng was said to be speechless. I don't know what else these cut-offs can do?

As a result, Feng Yifan said, "Well, you come here at noon tomorrow. I will make these for dinner, and you will take them back for lunch. Since you cut the scraps yourself, you have to eat them yourself, understand?"

Ning Cheng looked at the bunch of carrots, but also a little embarrassed: "Uncle, can this be eaten?"

Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Of course I can eat. This is the rule of the kitchen."

Su Jinrong also said: "Yes, you can't waste it. Uncle Yifan's apprentice doesn't know how much food you chopped up by yourself. Only when you eat it yourself will you know how to cherish it, knowing that every food ingredient costs money. You will practice more seriously."

Ning Cheng had no choice but to nod: "Okay uncle, then I will come back at noon tomorrow."

Feng Yifan agreed: "Well, you should go back first."

Ning Cheng bid farewell to Su Jinrong again, then turned around and left the kitchen by himself.

Seeing Ning Cheng leaving, Su Jinrong looked at his son-in-law and said, "It looks like this young boy is your second apprentice?"

Feng Yifan nodded and said, "Yes, Dad, because the future of Su Ji will still need manpower. You 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 voluntary 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 you learn well?"

Feng Yifan said seriously: "I think it should be possible. I asked my parents. After Ning Cheng came back from the town, she really changed a lot. Moreover, after working at the vegetable base for a year, it was hard work, indicating that he really wanted to To reform, so I want to give him a chance."

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

...

When Ning Cheng walked out of Feng's house and came to the intersection, he happened to run into Feng Jiandong and Lu Cuiling back together.

He hurriedly greeted the two old people: "Hello, Grandpa FengHello, Grandma Lu, you are back."

Feng Jiandong looked at Ning Cheng, then took another look towards the door, and suddenly 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 cutting vegetables under the guidance of Uncle Yifan in the afternoon."

This answer surprised the old couple.

Lu Cuiling and her wife looked at each other and said, "Well, since you want to learn, then study hard, but don’t do the messy things like in the town before, and really learn something from your uncle. It can be considered to have a skill to protect oneself."

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

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

Ning Cheng also bid farewell to the old couple and passed by with the old couple. He walked home with excitement.