Chapter 34 - Powerful Cutting Skills (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After more than two hours of freezing, this piece of pork belly had become extremely cold.

But to Xu Le, it was still not tough enough.

If it could be frozen for six hours, this piece of pork belly would become as hard as steel and wouldn’t have any deformation when it was cut.

That was the most suitable state for cutting.

Now, the pork belly was not hard enough, which undoubtedly created a lot of trouble for the cutting process.

Xu Le placed the pork belly on the chopping board and picked up the butcher knife.

After taking a deep breath, Xu Le tried his best to calm down.

The requirements for cutting skills of [Pagoda Meat] had reached a terrifying level.

The chef had to cut the meat into two millimeters thick slices along the outermost edge of the pork belly.

The final effect was to make the entire piece of pork belly five centimeters wide and three meters long.

Moreover, he could not stop during the entire process!

What was even more terrifying was that during the process of cutting, if the chef made even the slightest mistake, causing the meat slice to break, then the entire dish would be completely ruined.

Once it broke, the shape of the pagoda could not be formed.

This piece of pork belly required a lot of time to cook and freeze, so every chef only had one chance in the limited time they had.

His only chance!

Once it failed, the [Pagoda Meat] would fail completely.

Xu Le was feeling uneasy when he was about to begin cutting.

He tried hundreds of times in the system space, and nearly half of them ended in failure.

Even later on, his success rate was only about 70%.

“I must not fail,” Xu Le muttered softly.

He placed the piece of pork belly upright and used his left hand to support the meat to prevent it from falling down while his right hand picked up the kitchen knife.

At this moment, Xu Le entered a highly focused state.

Xu Le was still nervous and uneasy when he picked up the kitchen knife.

However, after picking up the kitchen knife, he entered a state of complete focus. No matter what happened, nothing could distract him.

In Xu Le’s eyes, there was only this piece of meat!

He held the knife steadily.

There were no tremors or shaking.

The knife was like an extension of Xu Le’s arm, while Xu Le was like a doctor who was in the middle of a precision surgery. He squinted his eyes and focused on the pork belly in front of him.

Slash!

The sharp blade touched the edge of the pork belly and immediately cut it open.

The thin flesh rolled outwards.

Xu Le’s hands were as steady as iron pincers, holding the meat down firmly. The incision continued to extend downwards.

The thickness of the meat slice was extremely even and was maintained at two millimeters.

Soon, the knife was about to reach the bottom and the end of the pork belly.

Xu Le did not panic and turned the entire piece of meat 90 degrees.

The meat slices that he had cut previously were also moved to the top.

At the turn of the corner, the kitchen knife suddenly turned around and cut out a small arc. It went from horizontal to vertical before continuing to cut downwards.

While maintaining the thickness of the meat slice at two millimeters, there could not be any breakage at all.

At every corner, Xu Le carefully moved the knife.

The director of the program team was also very considerate and turned the live-stream camera to Xu Le.

Millions of spectators watched as Xu Le carefully cut the meat. They were also on tenterhooks.

Swoosh!

He turned the meat 90 degrees again and used the sharp kitchen knife to cut off the meat.

On both sides of the blade, the pork formed rolls.

Immediately after, a piece of meat as thin as a cicada’s wing fell!

Xu Le seemed to have sped up. He quickly completed the first round and entered the second.

His gorgeous knife skills were stunning.