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6902141 No.6902141 [Reply] [Original]

How do I learn knife skills? Are there any good videos or is it worth paying $40 for a class?

>> No.6902143

>>6902141

I find that repetitive masturbation improves my grip and chopping skills.

>> No.6902144

Bump

>> No.6902203

>>6902141
Bump for interest

>> No.6902221

>>6902141
Watch some videos on julienning etc, and just practice. No reason to pay. You'll be in a class, so the experience won't be much more personal than youtube.

>> No.6902863

>>6902221
But you could put a class on a resume.

>> No.6902874

>>6902141
$40 for a class? The fuck!
There's free videos on that on youtube. Watch a few of them and then it's excercise after all.
If you only use your chefs' knife once a week, you will never get better.

>> No.6902876

>>6902141
Gordon Ramsay vids on youtube, speed comes with time

>> No.6902878

>>6902141
Depends on your skill level. If you're really green start out by getting used to how a knife handles and look up some videos on how to sharpen them.
Get used to holding food safely, for example when dicing onion keep your fingers and thumb in a claw shape so the knife blade is against your first knuckles.
Keep your knife sharp, it'll make life easier and your hands intact.
YouTube and Google will help but its a matter of practice practice and practice.
Also you will cut yourself a couple of times, happens to everyone.

>> No.6903665

>>6902141

bag of onions and bag of potaties is like $5 breh

>practice bish

>> No.6905348

>>6902141
3 rutabaga practise and couple scraped knuckles and your cordon blue tbh

>> No.6905359

>>6902141
pay the $40 because with the knife skills you learn you'll be mugging people like a master afterwards. You'll make that $40 back before noon

>> No.6905366

grab the knife/tang meeting point like you would the neck of a chicken and make your arm move like a steam engine wheel when chopping. curl your fingers in like you're trying to rip off someone's balls on the hand you use to hold your produce.

there. that's knife skills 101.

>> No.6905385

>>6903665

I seriously cannot even cut a half of an onion without having to stop and take a break because my eyes are burning so bad that I can't keep them open.

What's the secret?

>> No.6905387

>>6905385

Sharp knife

>> No.6905396

>>6905385
cold onions

>> No.6905399

>>6902863

it wouldn't get you anywhere.

>> No.6905409

>>6905385
Keep the core intact

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6905413

>>6902141
learn your knife cuts, a few videos online should be all you need. speed comes over time.

>> No.6905468

>>6905385
Hold your breath without thinking about it, be quick