The Cheat Emperor of the Culinary World

With Liu Yunong’s personal demonstration, Fu Yu’s learning process continued very smoothly.

Even though Fu Yu already possessed advanced personal brewing skills, he couldn’t help but marvel when observing Liu Yunong’s operation.

Truly amazing!

When comparing the two, one can only say that each has their unique strengths.

Though different, their levels are quite comparable, allowing for mutual learning and progress together.

Particularly, Liu Yunong’s practical experience in cooking far surpasses Fu Yu’s, which is evident from her knife skills.

When it comes to modifying the ingredients, they must be cut into uniform thickness and length, regardless of whether they are julienned, sliced, or cut.

Clean and tidy, they must not stick to each other.

When making these cuts, attention must be paid to the shape of the primary and secondary ingredients, ensuring they’re cut appropriately. Usually, the secondary ingredients should complement the primary ones, and be smaller, to highlight and set off the primary ingredients.

In this aspect, Liu Yunong excels, which is very suitable for the cooking involved in stuffed dishes.

Since stuffed cuisine focuses on the shape of the vegetable cuts, not paying attention to the method of cutting the main and secondary ingredients will make it difficult to achieve the desired final appearance.

However, it’s not without faults either.

Fu Yu felt that when modifying the ingredients, attention should first be paid to the cooking method of the dish.

For methods like stir-frying or quick-frying, which use high heat and are done quickly, ingredients should be sliced thinly or finely.

For methods like stewing, braising, or simmering, which use low heat and take longer, with more broth, the pieces or chunks of ingredients should be bigger. If too small, they may disintegrate during cooking, affecting the quality.

By doing so, the requirement for controlling the heat will be significantly reduced.

However, given Liu Yunong’s current skill level, these small issues are inconsequential.

Culinary studies continued.

Fu Yu began to cook dish after dish, mimicking what he learned.

Liu Yunong occasionally gave pointers from the side.

Actually, once one can make stuffed cherries, other stuffed dishes become much easier.

After all, the most challenging part of stuffed dishes is the ”stuffing” itself.

Now Fu Yu is becoming so adept that everything is getting more manageable.

Because of increasing proficiency, Fu Yu started trying to hollow out a little more of the cherry flesh to allow more stuffing.

After all, the taste of cooked cherries is not as flavorful as the stuffing.

Liu Yunong quickly worked on stuffing while keeping an eye on Fu Yu’s operation.

After watching for a while, Liu Yunong noticed something was off.

Fu Yu was clearly using too much filling.

Noticing this, Liu Yunong was momentarily stunned: Is Xiaofu doing this unintentionally or deliberately?

Previously, the control over the filling was very precise.

Liu Yunong didn’t immediately voice a reminder but silently watched Fu Yu work.

Sometimes teaching an apprentice is like that; the master can’t chew up all the knowledge and experience and feed it to the apprentice.

Sometimes, the apprentice also needs to explore and operate by themselves, hit walls, and fail, to summarize experiences and find methods to break through.

The saying ”The master leads into the door; cultivation is dependent on the individual” carries this meaning.

And it seems Fu Yu has his intentions regarding controlling the amount of filling.

Because the stuffed cherries that followed did not show any damage on the surface, and the meat stuffing had significantly increased.

Plus, after removing the pits, Fu Yu clearly hollowed out extra flesh.

How could this not leave Liu Yunong in shock?

The meaning of this is already quite clear: Fu Yu not only learned how to make stuffed dishes but also became proficient in a short learning time, and is even beginning to surpass himself!

Thinking of this, the shock within Liu Yunong’s heart is simply indescribable in words!

This Xiaofu is truly...

...

Fu Yu is still focusing on his cooking practice.

Liu Yunong inadvertently slowed her hand movements while watching.

Her heart was filled with emotions.

How long has it been?

How long has it been since she felt such a special pride and satisfaction?

It turns out that taking on an apprentice is such an accomplishment!

After all... someone who can execute cooking so perfectly is an apprentice she personally trained!

At this moment, Liu Yunong suddenly felt a sense of pride and honor.

No wonder people around are willing to take on apprentices.

At this moment, Liu Yunong suddenly had some understanding of those colleagues who widely accept apprentices...

Especially Wang Yulong, who stays with her in the same kitchen every day.

No wonder Chef Wang has seemed as though experiencing premature menopause these days, snapping at the slightest provocation, with all the fire directed at his apprentice, Liu Zhangpeng.

Thinking about it, being with such a talented young chef like herself, and having apprentices compared, it must really be frustrating...

Thinking of this, Liu Yunong couldn’t help but cast a very sympathetic glance at Liu Zhangpeng.

Actually, Liu Zhangpeng is already quite excellent; otherwise, she wouldn’t have transferred him to assist Wang Yulong at the branch, as his helper.

Wang Yulong seems to be a bit too harsh with his apprentice; it seems, she should find a chance to appropriately advise him, considering Liu Zhangpeng’s feelings.

After all... not everyone is a genius.

Thinking this, Liu Yunong couldn’t help but glance at Liu Zhangpeng again.

But...

This glance, in Liu Zhangpeng’s eyes, was like a bolt from the blue, making him shudder.

Shock!

Liu Zhangpeng turned pale with fright.