"Mr. Zhang, are you serious?" Ye Chui looked surprised.
Seeing this, Cleaver Zhang looked even more unhappy and snorted coldly: "Of course it's true. I, Cleaver Zhang, will never go back on my word."
Han Yuyan quietly approached Tian Xiaodu and said, "Big Brother, did he use his golden words wrongly?"
"..." Tian Xiaodu sweated a little, "Speak softly, don't let him hear it... I remember this is a derogatory word? I've never seen it used on oneself."
Ye Chui's face was filled with joy. He took the Zhanxianglai from Zhang the Cleaver and stroked it gently in his hand. He was very comfortable using this knife. When he first saw it, he said it was a good knife. He just didn't expect that this knife had such a great origin and was the king among kitchen knives.
The other three knives in Zhang the Cleaver's hand were also very extraordinary. Ye Chui liked them very much. If he could get these three knives, it would definitely be a very beneficial thing for Manhanlou.
However, these three kitchen knives are obviously very valuable. Ye Chui's net worth is enough to buy one kitchen knife... Therefore, when Kitchen Knife Zhang wanted to compete with Ye Chui in knife skills, Ye Chui was naturally happy to agree.
When those kitchenware merchants saw that Ye Chui, a young boy, was not amazed after seeing Zhang's knife skills, but wanted to compete with Zhang, they all showed very interested expressions.
Of course, most of them felt that Ye Chui, the young boss, was a little too arrogant, and none of them believed that Ye Chui could be comparable to Cai Dao Zhang.
Cai Dao Zhang even raised his head slightly, looking as if he didn't take Ye Chui seriously at all.
Cai Dao Zhang is not a good cook and is only a one-star chef. However, his knife skills are superb. Many people who know him praise him, saying that even a seven-star chef may not be as good as Cai Dao Zhang in knife skills.
Just now he peeled, cored and sliced the apple. Although it was simple, it showed his knife skills to the fullest.
He didn't believe that Ye Cui could be compared to him.
This kid is bound to lose.
Ye Chui had already stood in front of the dining table, and was using his hands to cut the apple slices neatly into pieces. He was about to start cutting them when he suddenly thought of something and stopped.
"What, Mr. Ye, do you want to give up?" Cai Dao Zhang said with a bit of mockery.
"No..." Ye Chui turned around and looked at Cleaver Zhang with a smile, "I just suddenly thought that since it's a bet, if I lose, I should give this chopping incense to you, Cleaver Zhang."
"Oh? Give me the Zhanxiang?" Caidao Zhang didn't expect Ye Chui to say that, and a hint of excitement appeared on his face.
Zhanxiang was his father's last and most proud work, and a priceless treasure to him. For some reason, the knife fell into Mr. Han's collection. If he could get the knife back, it would be a very meaningful thing for him.
His eyes became eager, and he nodded to Ye Chui: "Haha, since Mr. Ye is so kind, I will naturally accept it!"
Ye Chui also smiled. Since it was a bet, both of them should bet something of equal value. Ye Chui proposed to use the incense sticks as a bet to maintain fairness. Of course, the most important reason was: now that he had said this, if Cleaver Zhang lost the knife skills competition, he would have to take out three kitchen knives...
The kitchenware merchants murmured.
They felt that Ye Chui's suggestion to use Zhanxiang as a bet was simply an act of courting death and ruining the family, and no one was optimistic about Ye Chui.
Han Yuyan couldn't help but get a little nervous. She had no idea how good Ye Chui's knife skills were, but when she saw how skilled Cleaver Zhang was, she was deeply shocked. She was afraid that Ye Chui would not be as good as Cleaver Zhang. She felt that Zhanxiang was the most suitable knife for Ye Chui, but it would be a pity to throw it away like this...
Tian Xiaodu, however, looked calm and composed.
When it comes to understanding Ye Chui's cooking skills, I'm afraid even Old Han doesn't have a deeper understanding of them. Knife skills? As a six-star chef, his knife skills are already very good, but in front of Ye Chui, they are just entry-level...
Although Zhang the Cleaver's knife skills were quite good just now, in Tian Xiaodu's opinion, they were still a little worse than those of his master.
It was at this time that Ye Chui finally moved.
The apple slices as thin as cicada wings were neatly arranged on the table. Ye Chui pressed them down gently, and with his other hand held the chopping incense, and "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sounds were heard one after another.
Everyone knows that when cutting vegetables there is a "dun dun dun" sound, which is the sound of the kitchen knife touching the chopping board. However, whether it was Zhang the Knife just now or Ye Chui now, there was no "dun dun dun" sound at all when they were cutting vegetables. All they heard was the "swoosh swoosh" sound of the kitchen knife rubbing against the air.
This is because of the perfect control of the force of the knife, so that the knife uses just enough force to cut the ingredients without touching the chopping board - this alone is something that many great chefs cannot do.
With such control of strength, even if you are cutting vegetables on a person's body, you still won't hurt the person at all!
The most important thing is that there is no need to be cautious at all in this cutting method, and the movements are very casual, which is the ultimate level of strength control.
Just from this point of view, Ye Chui is on par with Cai Dao Zhang!
Caidao Zhang, who originally had a look of contempt on his face, was suddenly stunned on his skinny face and opened his eyes wide.
The kitchenware merchants also all asked in confusion: "Huh?"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
The chopping knife in Ye Chui's hand was flying up and down, but in fact the amplitude of the flying was very small. At first glance, the shadow of the knife kept floating up and down, forming a whole. If it was not clear that the knife was held in Ye Chui's hand, many people would have mistakenly thought that the person cutting the vegetables was not a person at all, but a machine with exquisite control!
It only took a dozen seconds.
Ye Chui stopped the movement of his hands, he gently wiped the kitchen knife in his hand, put the knife back into the box, and then shook his wrist again - the previous ten seconds had required a lot of wrist strength, and his wrist was already a little sore and numb.
“Well, my wrist strength is still not as good as in my previous life… But my sword skills are already 80% of my previous life’s level.” Ye Chui thought silently.
Knife skills are something that partly rely on the body to remember the feeling, but at the highest level, the most important thing is the feeling of cutting vegetables. Ye Chui was reborn into this body. The original Ye Chui had no cooking skills at all, so he had to practice knife skills from scratch. However, with the experience from his previous life, his knife skills reached 80% of his previous life's level in just half a year!
Of course, although it was only 80% of the level of the previous life... it was enough to crush Cleaver Zhang's knife skills.
Han Yuyan was very much looking forward to Ye Chui's knife skills. When he saw Ye Chui leaving the table, he hurried over and looked at the apples on the table. At this moment, where were they still apples? The apple slices that were originally stacked together still maintained their original shape, but if you look closely, you will find that the apples are no longer slices, but shreds!
The apple shreds were neatly put together, maintaining their original stacked appearance. Although Ye Chui's knife cut the apple slices into shreds, it seemed as if it had done nothing, so that the apple shreds remained in their original positions!
“This apple shreds…”
Han Yuyan carefully picked up a strand of apple shreds with his fingers and held it up. Everyone naturally looked at Han Yuyan's hand: it was not wrong to describe it as as thin as a hair. Even people with poor eyesight could not see the apple shreds in Han Yuyan's hand at all!
The kitchenware merchants approached Han Yuyan with surprised expressions, looking carefully at her fingers, their faces full of anger.
It turns out that apples can be cut into such thin strips!
Most importantly, the shredded apples still retain their crispness!
This is enough to show how powerful the knife skills of Zhang the Knife Master and Ye Chui are - only when the two of them have reached the pinnacle of knife skills and cut the apple at an extremely fast speed without damaging the fibrous tissue in the apple, can the hair-like apple shreds still maintain such a crisp texture. If the speed of cutting the apple is a little slower, the apple fibers will be damaged and the juice inside will overflow. Not to mention picking up the apple shreds, I'm afraid the apple shreds will not be able to take shape at all!
But this is not the most amazing part -
"Hey, this apple shreds don't seem to be square, but rectangular..."
A kitchenware merchant with good eyesight suddenly noticed something and shouted.
Others followed suit.
"That's right, this apple shred is rectangular, which means that one of Mr. Zhang and Mr. Ye cut the apple with a smaller cross-section!" Another person also shouted. He walked to the table and picked up another apple shred, looked at it, and then looked at Ye Chu in shock - he had already determined that the smaller cross-section was cut by Ye Chu!
Ye Chui actually cut even smaller sections on the already extremely thin apple slices!
Cutting apple slices is inherently more difficult than cutting apples directly, but Ye Chui's cutting is even more detailed than Zhang the kitchen knife in this more difficult way... Both of them have reached the pinnacle of knife skills, but Ye Chui is better!
Everyone looked at Ye Chui in shock and speechlessness.
Han Yuyan finally felt relieved at this point. He smiled at Ye Chui with an admiring look on his face, and then looked at Caidao Zhang - at this moment Caidao Zhang had been petrified.
In terms of knife skills, he actually lost.
And he didn’t lose to those six-star or seven-star chefs, but just... a teenager
He looked at the stack of shredded apples on the dining table, wanting to retort, wanting to argue, but in the end he could not say anything.
He can't match Ye Chui's swordsmanship!
He originally thought that he had the strongest knife skills, but now he realized how ridiculous he was before. In the eyes of others, the cross-section of the apple shreds cut vertically from the leaves was only slightly smaller than the cross-section he cut, but this slight difference was something he could not achieve even if he spent several years!
This is not just better, it's a world of difference!
He looked at Ye Chui with a convinced look on his face: "I lost. I didn't expect that Mr. Ye has such superb sword skills at such a young age. I just judged him by his appearance... You are the most suitable person to have Zhanxiang!"
"Haha, thank you." Ye Cui smiled and nodded.
Han Yuyan smiled proudly and said to Zhang the Cleaver: "Mr. Zhang, where are these three kitchen knives?" (~^~)