Of course, people in China do not use only a knife to cook, but it takes a long time. Most people who cook Chinese food-that is, we ordinary people-do cook with only one knife. Chinese cuisine is one of the three major cuisines in the world, which is different from French cuisine and Turkish cuisine. It can also be reflected in the kitchen knife where the chef handles the ingredients. It can also be said that the kitchen knife in China is absolutely different from any kitchen knife in the world, while western chefs often have clear functions and kitchen knives correspond to food, so many foreigners can find more than a dozen kitchen knives in their kitchens. If cooking food is complicated, extensive and profound Chinese food is often a combination of several cooking methods. Among the cooking methods of foreigners, only roasting, frying, frying and boiling are commonly used. It can be seen that the widespread use of western-style kitchen knives does not mean that foreigners have more and better cooking methods than us. We can also cook a big meal with a western-style kitchen knife, but some foreigners can't cook western food with a kitchen knife.
First of all, from the Chinese kitchen knife, the Chinese kitchen knife itself is a cooking tool that can learn to chop, chop, chop, and can be completed with a kitchen knife. Forging is a technical job. Among foreigners' kitchen knives, there are more than a dozen such as boning knife, kitchen knife, fruit knife and pizza knife, but they are also used for chopping, chopping, chopping and patting food.
Bigger, let's look at it from the perspective of Chinese food. Foreigners are curious: Why are kitchen knives not widely used in China? Can you cook Chinese food? Do you know what the temperature is? What is the right amount of oil and salt? In fact, confidently speaking, Chinese food should be the most difficult cuisine for foreigners to learn. First of all, because there are so many Chinese dishes, not even a few chefs in China can say that they can cook all Chinese dishes. Foreigners should be happy to learn how to scramble eggs with tomatoes. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to understand why kitchen knives for Chinese food are not as widely used as those for western food.
Furthermore, from the lifestyle of Chinese and foreigners. If nothing else, let's just cook. China people pay attention to experience and flexibility in cooking. From the "temperature and quantity" we just mentioned, we can see that this is a knowledge that pays attention to experience. Besides the kitchen knife, it sometimes represents our flexible way of thinking. A kitchen knife is versatile. It can cook far more kinds of food than western food. On the other hand, looking at western-style kitchen knives, some netizens once said, "Foreigners are too dependent on utensils (there are all kinds of foreign kitchen knives here), and their mental arithmetic and verbal arithmetic are not as good as those of us illiterate aunts. Simple 13 minus 7 must be done with a calculator. "