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I've been work for 25 years between being a butcher and and classic tread chef! This video is amazing! Reminded me of my frist week in culinary school!
Good video for novices. Keeping fingers outta the way is key! Technique is learned and should be practised every time you pick up a knife. Using the proper knife is also key to doing a great job in prepping your food. Pre chopping all the food before cooking is the best way to organize your cooking process, this is vital to having a perfect meal cooked evenly.
yes! always make sure to sharpen your knife! a blunt knife is far more dangerous because while cutting e.g veggies, your blunt knife could slip off the veggie and injure you.
Thank you. I loved and needed this video. I’ve always wondered how I could get really great with slicing…chopping…etc without cutting my fingers. I already make my family nervous as it is but I’ll be practicing this. Now if you’d do more videos like these…maybe knife sharpening 101. Clearly we need a very sharp knife for this to work. Even though you would think people already know this😂.
I really enjoyed this. I learned a few things that I can apply. Do not know if it is correct to do so, but I use the side of the board with the outer moat to cut meat to allow any juice to flow into, and the flat side for veggies so I can easily invert the knife and use the back to sweep away the waste or product.
Adamast, you should use it! I literally don’t have any special knife skills but still a sharp knife can make your life so much easier! Even if all you want to do is slice a tomato!
BEST SUMMARY: Thinking in your security: - 0:32 How to keep the table - 0:36 How to keep the knife - 1:00 How to keep safe your hand - 1:07 How to keep safe your fingers WITH KNIFE (KINDS OF CUTS): - 1:30 How to cut (movement) - 1:41 How to dicing - 2:34 How to mincing - 3:27 How to chiffonade - 4:06 How to cut in julienne - 5:08 How to roll / oblique cut
Great video. Three additional tips here: 1. Since wrists are at a 90 degree to our body, move the board so the corner that is closest to your knife hand is farther. It will make movement more natural and prevent wrist pain. 2. Use the heel of the knife (part closer to the hand) to cut harder food such as carrots. 3. Use your arm for movement, not your hand. Keep the wrists straight with your arm. It will give you more force, more control and protect your wrist again.
Thank you so, so much! I have always wondered how these techniques work. It looks like a beautiful dance watching someone properly cut/chopping veggies.
I watched this 4 years ago and this week a culinary university visited my school to do a promotion. I decided to volunteer myself to do the cooking demo. The chef complimented my knife skills lol. Too bad I'm not going to that uni
i’m watching this video after cutting myself at work, I work in the kitchen at a pizza / family restaurant and about a month ago i cut my left index finger while cutting with a knife and had to get 7 stitches. it’s fully healed now and lesson is learned. I want to learn how to use a knife safely and this video helps a lot
I'd say claw hand is most important. Sharp knives are great but if you're at a friends house, cooking together, and all they have is dull blades, you don't start sharpening them. So knowing how to keep yourself from cutting off your fingers is very important. ;)
@@justagerman140 You'd be surprised. Also, most knife sets come with a honing rod which usually does the trick well enough unless the knife's blade is pretty damaged/chipped.
Jacob Perez Honing rods don't sharpen blades , they only hone them , honing means you clean up a sharp knives edge and will make the edge last longer . Don't think honing a dull knife will do much
This was SO helpful. I'm one of those people who didn't have a secure cutting board and therefore cut my finger recently (ouch!). I'm trying not to be so nervous while cutting. I think these tips will help!
After 25 years freelancing in the film business I must say this video has great production values. Nice lighting, camera angles and audio: well done! Plus, I learned something about basic knife skills!
This was fabulous. I consider myself a decent cook. I was a personal chef for over a year, but sometimes I love watching “cooking 101” type videos for new tricks as well as things I didn’t know. This video gave me both. Plus her voice was consistent and easy to listen to for me. Thanks for this! So excited to use the new knife set I got for my birthday now!
This is a great video - well done! I highly recommend using a bowl to collect the waste from the vegetables. This would keep your work area clean while you are working and also mean less work cleaning up your work area.
New to this channel. New to the world of cooking. Right now learning to cook seems like an impossible task. I wish I had learned at a younger age. Anyhow, excellent info. Thank you.
When roll-cutting, the point of the knife never comes off the board. If it does, that creates a hazard, as you could well cut into your claw grip. Keep that tip on the board. And keep that blade below your first knuckle. :)
Thank you alexis, this was amazing. It helped more than you think. I, now, always use a small dice cut for my onions when I use them for a Pakistani omelette
Just started learning how to cook a short time ago. This video is really informative, and I feel confident I will be able to work a knife much better, and safer than I otherwise would have! Also, that background music is fantastic.
Yeah. I just use a textured kitchen towel I usually use to clean up most things in the kitchen and dry dishes, which works a hell of a lot better than a damp paper towel and can just be used dry.
Anastasia Varlami they are paper but remember that we have to get rid of waste. We also have to not make a lot of garbage to make sure the environment is clean. There is your explanation.
Been cooking for myself and friends for quite a while but I never really knew how to cut efficiently and my dishes take more time than they should 😅 I'll practice this method from now on, so thank you
I learned this from Gordon correct me in I'm wrong 1st. The knife would be sharp obviously 2nd. Get the knife you are comfortable with, try holding it then if it's easy to use then buy that one 3rd. You only need 3 knives, A heavy duty one for chopping ( the normal knife like the one on the vid ) A paring knife (a small one) for prepping vegetables and a serrated edge knife for chopping and slicing.
Umm, wrong! You don't shop with a cerrated knife, you slice cut. By virtue of the cerrated edge design, that edge can't chop completely through a surface. Hence the back and forth motion with the cerrated edge to completely slice through to the bottom, say on a loaf of bread to get a slice.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I just got a whole set of professional knives. and THIS video is exactly what I was looking for! : ) I can't wait to use them now!
Thank you!! I watched another video and the chef made the vertical incision on the halved onion before making the horizontal cuts... Your way seems a lot safer and easier...🙏🏼
thegreekgod /guys 😂 Gordon Ramsey has a channel on RU-vid and a series called “Gordon Ramsey’s home cooking” check it out and make your own judgements 👍
oh how i wish i had listened back in days back in high school cooking classes i never payed attention and all these years later im so interested in cooking and all this......good thing for youtube videos!
basic knife skills is what I advise beginners to master first. It just makes prepping and cooking much more convenient. As a Chinese Cantonese man, we have the Cleaver which I would recommended to everyone. It has a huge flat head and gives you ability to scoop everything up and transfer into the wok. Very handy tool.
i didn't wanna comment but it might mean something to u ^^ and i should let u know how grateful i am ... i just got a job in a kitchen n have nooo back ground n no degrees or anything.. so today, the chef showed me basics but i needed more practice n memorize some stuff cuz he said that tomorrow i'm gonna cut all veges :D .. so i don't wanna fail n don't want him to have a hard time with me.. lol so thank you thank you so much.. this is so helping! i hope you read this ma'am
Something that they forgot to mention in this video that is enormously important is to check the sharpness of your knife. If your knife is not properly sharpened, you will destroy your products when trying to slice them.
Great educational info! Big help for food industry ! Helping aspiring chef wanna be to be more skillful and learn faster. Slowly but surely common norms but in the kitchen the faster the better! Secret is to practice practice and if you miss the item it will be charge to experience . Learn from mistake then you’ll be better. Thanks for making chefs like easier👍👏👏👏
One finger at the front, two behind it, thumb at behind of the veggies/meat/fruits/anything. Use your thumb as an anchor and slide your three fingers towards your thumb as you cut. Always keep the knife below the knuckle level
