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:
Seed, slice and dice an avocado.
Clean, slice and dice a portobella mushroom.
Seed, dice and julienne bell peppers.
How to chiffonade, a technique commonly used to slice herb leafs such as basil into hair-like strands.
How to mince parsley.
Properly seed and dice a tomato.
How to properly julienne an onion quickly and efficiently using proper guide hand technique.
How to properly dice an onion.
The most basic of all knife skill techniques, this video will show you how to dice, julienne, brunoise & batonnet.
The three major knife movements that you'll be using for the best knife skills possible.
How to properly use your guide hand for safe and accurate knife skills.
Learn how to hold your knife using the professional pinch grip, which will improve your speed, accuracy and efficiency.
Although simple, properly securing a cutting board with a damp towel will keep you safe and your knife skills accurate.
