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How important are knife skills really?

>> No.16120519

guess you'd never have to worry about her lorena bobbiting you

>> No.16120526

>>16120491
Very. Besides it be more safe, you're much quicker too.
>>16120519
Kek

>> No.16120546

>>16120491
As a professional cook? It’s like asking if a taxi driver needs to know how to drive

>> No.16120615

>>16120491
zero

>> No.16120621

>>16120546
no one asked you, all chefs are alcoholics and most are also pedophiles, piss off

>> No.16120624

>>16120621
Very based.

>> No.16120635

>>16120491
>How important are knife skills really?
For butchery/presentation: Highly
For speed/efficiency: Not very in the home setting
For safety: MANDATORY. Claw grip allowing the blade to follow the knuckle line is paramount

>> No.16120636

>>16120491
Holy fuck that webm was worse than any isis beheading video I've seen. Anyways
>Sous chef at a place that's considered "fine dining" here in my flyover town
>So desperate for cooks that we just hired some dipshit teenage girl who had only ever worked at McDonald's, and only for a week before she turned in an app at my place
>Knew that it would end bad but chef doesn't listen to any fucking thing I say
>She's trying to cut green onions with about the same skill level as the folks in ops webm
>Try to show her the proper way to use a knife
>Get a five minute lecture about how I'm "toxic" and "mansplaining" when I was a thousand times more polite than when I catch a grown man acting stupid with a knife
>Let her do things the way that seems so right for her
>Cuts her fucking thumb and index finger off ten minutes later
Tldr knife skills are only important if you value your fingers.

>> No.16120641

>>16120491
If you can make even sized cuts without chopping your fingers off in a reasonable time you are fine.

>> No.16120650

>>16120636
>>Cuts her fucking thumb and index finger off ten minutes later
off? like off off?

>> No.16120656

>>16120650
Like her left thumb and index finger no longer exist.

>> No.16120657

>>16120491
You can cook a good dish with low knife skills, but having good knife skills is SO helpful
Cutting vegetables is a pain in the ass, especially if you're cooking many servings at once, so being fast without losing accuracy is really the best thing you could ask for

>> No.16120661

>>16120650
Like I've been cooking ten years and seen all manner of injuries, and sustained plenty myself, and never seen that before. I weep for gen z.

>> No.16120677

>>16120641
>>16120657
Look guys, if you're not professional chefs, you don't need to be able to brunoise an onion in under a minute, but for love of God, learn the right way to hold your knife, the right way to chop, and the right way to hold your non dominant hand. Unless you're lizard people and can grow your fingers back.

>> No.16120692

>>16120621
Not true, some of us are stoners not alcoholics

>> No.16120701

>>16120677
Hit the nail on the head

>> No.16120704

>>16120491
>How important are knife skills
There have been at least several times in my kitchen where I’ve found it useful to cut a thing into smaller bits of that thing, or remove the inedible bits of a thing.
That’s just my anecdotal experience though.

>> No.16120706

Cut the food, not the fingers.

Unless you're getting paid, that's the limit of skill you need.

>> No.16120708

>>16120677
i just have dull knives so I can't cut anything clean off

>> No.16120720

>>16120491
as a professional, very important. as an amateur, way less. it's a nice skill to have because it makes you more efficient, less time spent prepping and cleaner look, but ultimately you don't need it.
But it's not a hard skill to learn, and if you cook regularly it doens't take long to master, so why not? just make sure you have a sharp knife

>> No.16120737

>>16120636
Damn, I have a similar horror story from a time I took a girl I knew in college to an indoor gun range, minus the “toxic mansplaining” bit.

>> No.16120750

>>16120636
I can tell this didn’t happen.

>> No.16120756

>>16120491
Complete meme in a home setting, just like the idea that you need a razor sharp knife and it's somehow safer. Guess what happens if I nick my finger with my chef knife that I haven't sharpened in 10 years? Literally nothing vs possibly cutting my finger off because I sharpened like an autist.

>> No.16120783

>>16120750
You can suck my dick I'm actually traumatized

>> No.16120788
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>>16120491
quite

>> No.16120803

>>16120756
This is the average /ck/ poster, bearing a $300 santoku with some shitty patina that they have never once fully cleaned or sharpened because soap is the devil and apparently every pro chef out there is wrong.

>> No.16120804

>>16120636
>>16120650
That would require cutting straight through bone. Unless you're using a cleaver and a lot of force you wouldn't ever take thumb and index finger at the same time because of how they line up without taking part of the middle as well.

In short, I'm calling bullshit.

>>16120756
Sharp knives are safer because they cut more evenly when you apply additional force. A slice from a dull knife stutters because parts of the blade that have been used more than others cut more slowly, while parts that haven't cut much slide quickly. Also if you cut yourself with a sharp blade it hurts less and stops bleeding faster than the same size cut with a dull blade.

>> No.16120805

>>16120491
I will say medium-important. It's not about looking elegant, but, when I look back on the way I cut carrots before I knew better, as in this webm, I think the tips and tricks of how to process most common foods, honed with experience, I think that's actually quite important for how significantly safer it is. Neater and more functional too, like trying to sautee an onion that's all fucked up because you don't have a fundamental idea of how to slice an onion into uniform pieces that are appropriately sized and shaped for the dish.

Like cutting those carrots there, I'd peel them, chop them lengthwise down the middle, lay the halves face down on the flat side. Large knife with a grip up onto the blade, and chop pieces as needed with steady pressure on the base of the knife. Before I learned to do it like that, trying all sorts of things, knives with serrations, of the wrong size, huge bits flying off onto the floor from the force of a shitty chop, it's a safety hazard start to finish.

Knife skills? Like driving a car I guess. There's a required level of competence for safety's sake, and besides that just no showboating. Easy does 'er, arrive alive.

>> No.16120817

>>16120804
Look, I get what you're saying, it shocked me just as much as it's shocking you, but I'm telling you she managed to figure out how to chop off her left thumb, and, simultaneously, her left index finger with one of our fucking house knives. I didn't take pictures because I was busy calling an ambulance and trying to help this girl not fucking bleed out. I dont know how she did it, okay, but if I were lying I'd come up with something more fucking believable, have a little faith in me anon.

>> No.16120825

>>16120491
This hurts my soul...