Anthony Bourdain Knife Skills.mov

let's start at the beginning the first skill you'll need is this basic proficiency with a knife okay everybody should know how to use a knife it ain't that hard okay onion first of all don't hold your hand like this never like this like this your hand turned your left hand the one holding the object to be cut at a 45 Dee angle and why do you do this because if you're like this you can easily Lop off your thumb or really do yourself some serious damage that's one reason when you're like this the tips of your fingers tucked in like this so the worst thing you can do to yourself is just shave off a little flap there it's a hell of a lot better than a thumb injury okay onion you peel it you cut off the ends I'm looking for like a medium siiz dice okay so you cut it in half position it turn the hand and this is not a lot to expect of anybody to do you run first your guide Cuts in then gently saw through there and then other direction holding your hand the way I told you to there was some jerk off on TV right now selling some really crummy machine that's supposed to do exactly this and you know really after a couple hours of practice you will be able to do it faster practice practice practice practice practice sit around buy a bunch of cheap onions and turnips and and keep cutting cut yourself you know put a bandaid on wait a couple of days try again all right we got our onions that is how to cut an onion remember let us review and turn like this tips tucked under thumb safely away from the blade basically the excruciating pain you feel when you sink a knife into your thumb um a lot of that pain comes from the knowledge that you're really an idiot

Channel: MrBelm

Views: 1,774,673

Keywords: Anthony, Bourdain, Knife, Skills

Id: 4iXtDYOso1o

Length: 1min 59sec (119 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2010