Most recipes begin with an instruction to cut, slice, or dice ingredients.
The most important fundamental cooking skill you will ever need to know is how to use a knife safely by learning the correct knife skills.
The first video demonstrates the proper grip to hold a chef’s knife:-
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Next we demonstrate the most popular technique any Chef learns at culinary school, the rolling technique:-
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Then we demonstrate how to position your guide hand which holds the food while combining it with the rolling technique.
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Moving on we can now practice the rolling technique by getting used to the rhythm of cutting while using a bench scraper and flour.
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Finally we practice the rolling technique which builds on everything you have learned in the first four videos.
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