Ge Changhe said, "Yang Jungong, don't wait, the old man believes that after the people present have seen Yang Jungong's superb knife work, no one will come on stage to challenge Yang Jungong's cooking skills." ”

Yang Huairen pretended to regret, "In fact, compared to the cooking skills, in addition to the knife work, there are many other aspects, today I just showed the knife work, it is really not enjoyable." ”

"Uh......"

Ge Changhe was speechless, and said in his heart that the knife work you showed didn't know how many people had scared away, you weren't too happy, and you wanted to show something else? Young man, is it really good that you stink such a fart?

Yang Huairen looked around again, like a hero who was proud of the crowd, and saw that no one really had the intention of coming on stage to challenge him, so he said, "In this case, then meet the wishes of Senior Ge and everyone, and then I will perform a stunt for you to make tofu bloom." ”

"What? Tofu blossoms?! ”

Ge Changhe and the crowd in the audience said in unison, everyone is wondering in their hearts, can tofu still bloom?

Yang Huairen enjoyed everyone's expressions very much, he returned to the desk, picked up the last piece of southern tofu to signal to everyone, and then instructed Yang Lotian to find a wooden basin and fill it with water.

Yang Huairen held the piece of tofu nearly three inches square in his left hand and slowly sank it under the water surface in the wooden basin, while in his right hand he chose a delicate knife, raised it for everyone to see clearly, and put it into the basin.

Then he took a deep breath and began to carve tofu in the water.

The wooden basin is not transparent, what Yang Huairen is doing, the people in the audience can't see clearly, guessing that the knife should be used to carve the piece of tofu in the water.

Ge Changhe and Yelu Chara stood on the stage, naturally getting closer out of curiosity, wanting to see the movements of Yang Huairen's hands in the wooden basin.

It's a pity that at the beginning, you could still see the appearance of the tofu in the water, but after Yang Huairen started, the knife cut on the tofu, causing a lot of white powder to emerge around the tofu, and the water in the basin seemed to be foggy, and Yang Huairen's movements could no longer be seen clearly.

Yelu Chara was still looking at the basin of water suspiciously, but Ge Changhe was surprised that his whole heart was about to come out of his throat!

Ge Changhe's knowledge is more than a little stronger than his arrogant apprentice, his cooking skills were learned in the Song Dynasty, and his proudest place is also the knife skills he learned, he naturally knows that carving tofu is different from carving other melons and fruits.

After all, tofu is too fragile, and the requirements for carving technology are more stringent, if it is a normal carving, it is easy to destroy the shape of the tofu, and the tofu crumbs that are cut or dug out during carving will also affect the carver's vision and judgment.

Therefore, when carving tofu, a common way is to put the tofu in water, and use the pressure of the water to keep the overall shape of the tofu from being destroyed by the force of carving.

Despite this, carving tofu in the water is also a very advanced knowledge, and in the field of cooking, it is also a difficult skill to master.

To say that the knife work is more difficult and subtle than that of Chewensi tofu and carved tofu, Ge Changhe feels that at present, it cannot be said so absolutely.

Che Wensi tofu relies on the ability to master the basic skills, in fact, there are not many unknown secrets, that is, relying on a person's continuous practice, after thousands of times of training, you can basically master a skill.

It is difficult to carve tofu, but it can be compared to the situation where Yang Huairen and Yelu Chara tried to carve radish just now, which is to divide what shape the chef wants to carve the tofu into.

If you just carve a relatively simple shape, as long as you are willing to put in the effort and practice, it is not very difficult to do it, such as Yeluchara carving a wolf's head out of a radish.

But carving and simple cutting, the difference is that the carving of this skill, in addition to practice, also requires the chef to have a certain talent and creativity, just like a poet to write poetry, a painter to paint, simple poetry and painting is easy to make, but the popular good poetry and painting, then not ordinary people can make it.

Ge Changhe knew that a chef like Yang Huairen would never be able to fool people by just using tofu to carve a simple shape.

Yang Huairen also said just now that he was leaving a trick for himself, just to show what he wanted to show if the ordinary people who didn't know how to do it couldn't tell which was better than the other.

Since this is the case, Ge Changhe is even more sure that what Yang Huairen is carving at the moment is definitely much more exquisite than the knife work used to make Wensi tofu.

Ge Changhe's jaw almost dropped, and there is another point that the people who watch the excitement don't understand, this point is that when Yang Huairen carves tofu in the water, once it starts, the water in the wooden basin gradually becomes turbid, from Ge Changhe's point of view, it is impossible to see the tofu clearly through the naked eye.

He couldn't help but marvel, in the case of not being able to see the tofu that was not below the surface of the water, Yang Huairen was just carving the tofu by the feeling in his hand, what kind of realm is this?

When Ge Changhe was thinking wildly, the onlookers couldn't see the situation in the wooden basin clearly, and they only had doubts in their hearts.

I saw Yang Huairen's expression was serious, his eyes were burning, and his left and right hands were moving rapidly at the same time, and suddenly he stopped, with a smile on his face, and then he raised his head and said to everyone, "It's done." ”

"Woo......"

Everyone let out a sound similar to relief, and Yang Huairen also carefully put down the knife in his hand, and slowly dragged the carved tofu from the water with his left hand.

Everyone still remembers that the shape of the tofu before it entered the water was a cube, but now after Yang Huairen has completed the carving, it has become a sphere.

If you look closely, maybe it's not close enough, but you can't see any other changes, and the surface of the tofu that has become a sphere seems to be smooth, but there are no other patterns.

Everyone speculated, what is Yang Huairen carved? Cut a square tofu into a round tofu, is there anything about this?

With a confident smile on his face, Yang Huairen instructed his apprentice to take a black-glazed porcelain bowl, and he carefully cared for the tofu ball, and slowly placed the tofu ball in the middle of the black-glazed porcelain bowl.

Ge Changhe seems to understand this a little, and Yang Huairen's use of black-glazed porcelain bowls is to set off his works with strong color contrasts.

Yang Huairen walked to the front edge of the ring with the porcelain bowl, trying his best to let the onlookers see clearly, and then said with a serious attitude, "Everyone can be optimistic, the magical moment is coming soon!" ”