Culinary Knife Skills
Summary: Culinary knife skill techniques are one of the first things you need to master to work in a professional kitchen or just take your cooking to the next level. A large part of a commercial kitchen's operation revolves around their daily prep; there is no quality prep without efficient and accurate knife skills. This HD video series will start with the basics, like how to set up your cutting board, hold your knife and basic skills like dicing and julienne. The series then moves into more advanced prep techniques, along with tutorials on how to sharpen your knife, butchery, and basic meat fabrication. "Knife Skills - HD" was formulated as an extension of SCS Episode 1| Basic Knife Skills, an audio lecture coving this subject. It is highly recommended that you listen to this lecture before watching these videos. As this is on ongoing series, if you have any request for new knife skill technique videos, please leave them in the comment section below.
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- Artist: StellaCulinary.com
- Copyright: Jacob Burton, 2011
Podcasts:
How to fabricate chicken lollipops.
How to break down a chicken in under 60 seconds.
How to butcher an airline chicken breast.
How to breakdown a whole chicken into eight parts.
How to sharpen your knife using a water stone.
How to properly sharpen your knife using an oil tri-stone.
Dice & julienne technique used in Asian Cuisine.
How to prep and clean frisee, a bitter green that is commonly used in European Cuisine.
Cut citrus segments free of pith and seed; commonly used as a garnish or addition to composed salads.
Peel, seed and slice melons for a fruit platter.
How to peel, slice and dice a pineapple.
Properly slicing mushrooms
How to peel and mince garlic.
How to quickly and efficiently peel a carrot.
How to peel, slice and mince ginger root, a common ingredient in Asian cuisine.