Jamie's Dream School | Jamie Oliver's Knife Skills

I'm gonna show you a bunch of skills that you'll have for the rest of your life but I want you to be good at okay namely the knife and quit cooking I'm not gonna say nothing oh my days Derek okay what I'm gonna do but in some unit and you'll be oh you don't realize that oh my open the best day on waistline is where all my wounds stopped prematurely so we'll sprinkle the law we done okay guys very quickly try and keep the chitchat down take a little bit each over cookie everyone needs to try this who hasn't tried this come on then Khalid yeah so you like the stir-fried yeah okay how much do you pay for a stir-fry when you're gonna get a takeaway five or four large one welcome to the world of being out of cook for yourself look after yourself and save yourself money one pound twenty per portion okay right do you know of course if you buy the food you know where it comes from okay you're not eating a load of old scrote or dodgy old stuff as well okay also how long did that take me from start to finish five minutes can any of you go from home to get a takeaway and back home again and eat it quicker I'm sorry I'm saying it's a wish okay so forgive me for being bossy but am i quicker and cheaper than a takeaway right would you like to be would you like to be quicker and cheaper than a takeaway let's join the club I'm going to teach you the three methods of chopping today you may well cut yourself badly and scar yourself for life if you don't listen to me as your friend okay are you gonna listen to me yeah okay these skills you will learn today will set you up for life right this eight nine ten inch chopper right right you need to be able to use this right this is ninety percent of your cooking life okay so this is important yeah when when you go to shops or you go and look on websites and stuff like that I may show you knives what do you notice they're shiny they're shiny when they sell it when they're selling you a kid what does a kid look like Oh your big one bread knife newer ones are different nice there's like 1012 knives here right rubbish that is all you need in your world in your world at your level of a great great home cook that's all you need that for ninety percent of time that for five percent of time that's a parring knife use act just for veggies taking ends off top and tailing right and then a serrated knife for carving bread you know slightly more awkward things that need a bit of like jag right but that's not that's not a graceful knife that's helpful that's an everyday thing this this is everything okay regardless of how quick I go it makes no difference to what I do the reason I don't cut myself is because at all times forever my fingers are nowhere near the blade right so notice what do you notice about my hand listen what are you here what do you hear someone say it what are you here bee bee you're doing every every expressive word bar the one I'm looking for what's this tap this this is listen this is tap Chopin okay this is rock chopping and this is cross chopping three cuts of course there's more this will get you out of all trouble for the rest your life now the good news is I can make you as good as me on cross chopping in 45 seconds right you will be as good as me today when you go home in 45 seconds just listen to me hand at the end right and then it's that easy very very easy right it's safe your fingers are never ever in the way look it's safe it's the first thing I taught my kid at 8 years old right also it's not just a knife and chopping did you see me doing that yes it's like a plasterer with this movie cement I've been to this know if it starts to spray over here ok I promise you that within 1 minute you will be as good as me on that that's not bad going is it so let's just show you cross chopping I took the herbs off this is for garnish at the end but the stalks people from away don't all right so you can just chop them up like that to start with and then hand goes on sure ok you must always have sharp knives so that's your cross shopping right now I'm just going to slice it off this is not any particular this is this is just basic this is ginger fragrant very good for you very good for your stomach health-wise really good I'm just notice I'm just just chopping these garlic up any old way keep your hands out the way once you get it small then we can go into cross chopping yeah thank you and you but you basically stop when you're happy if you want it chunky you go chunky if you want it small you go small obviously the difference between chunky and small is purely texture and obviously the smaller tops the more flavor you're gonna get out of it now I'm gonna just shut talk you through this process and then you're gonna do it and I'm gonna go around this room I want total focus you've got to really earn my trust today because you know ultimately if I'm a teacher and one of you gets stabbed in my class I'll get the sack guys also notice I'm tap just to use it you can use this board it's like an artist and a palette you know you can make it nice and cute it you know when you're working you know you want to be organized in your head so have a bin on your right work from left to right unless your left hand and you work the other way around let's go into another one so that was what method of chopping was this good brightest buttons the next one let's guess what this next one is I want you to all get down here right and just move around in your own time and you look at how my fingers are working can you all see what I'm doing notice the big problem is right and I've learned through cutting myself is sometimes you forget you do it safely but you forget your thumb and your thumb pops out and I guess and it gets crunched oh right and we can sew it back right - all always keep the thumb at the back and that won't happen always keep the fingers in right now the idea is well see this my thumb is secure here right and I'm bringing my fingers back like that but my fingers are in yeah now the speed in which I pull this back won't depend on the speed no no it's not not not cuz cuz I won't want you to go fast you will not go fast today you'll go at a nice pace right but what I'm trying to say is we're not if I go like that and I and I and I pull my fingers back quickly you get chunky bits yeah but if you want fine bits you pull it back slowly okay now listen see at the end it's a bit vulnerable here it's moving around when things feel vulnerable it means you're gonna cut yourself right so that's a bit wobbly right so if something's round and it's wobbly what can I do to correct that just take the end off like that then it's flat that's one thing and just look after one bit instead of okay okay and it's one ball now flap onto the flat side that's tap chopping okay I'm gonna take one bit of pepper one bit of yellow pepper now listen if I try tap choppin I probably could make it work but it can you see it snagging it's pushing down and that's because the skin is quite tough so to be safe for now fingers are still in thumb still out the way I'm rocking right and I'm not rocking up here because then you will take your fingers off gentle gentle and that is that's going to go through nice things with skin no problem right nice this is rock chopping right I'm gonna rock chop this muck mushroom because it's a little bit soft okay and chilly this if this would be rock chopping as well you add as much chili as you want when I'm in my kitchen look Hayden you're right I could be going super quick I can look at every one of you in the eye I can look at every single one of you around the kitchen because I know what's going on in my hand and by the way I didn't take my blade anywhere above this knuckle it was always within that no matter if it's high or low cucumber courgette or pepper your hand just goes up with it cross chopping hands on top guys just take a second to look at yourself and see how good you are right now um Henry crack on brother just show us this is after like two minutes of chopping he's chopping like he's he's chopping like a real chef right that's a good tip well done fantastic job now you can move on you got class today when did you do that how many steak okay lovely everyone can you look this way everyone please explain what you just done to the class had the knife at least and I was doing a quick shot and then I wanna feel you down it to go with stubble of you okay so if I if I start doing a go raving on the end of a cliff would you come with me really oh god I wish I was 16 again guys guys as I said you will never ever cut yourself if you don't put your finger near the blades never ever write the plays once you've done your cross chop then we're going to get the courgette and do the tap chop yeah not touching you well it's only a quarter use your fingers to stabilize this if it's really wobbly then you just take the edge off and make it flat carry on carry on over-delivering guys guys this is British British school children can do this in half an hour but look how organized you are I'm really proud of you all I would say is pull your hair back next time otherwise you end up with like a bit of a hair in your dinner now look over here on my man that's it when you finished your dish bring it up to me you got it all right it's brilliant everything is there apart from salt and acid now try it now mix that up in front of me right now mix it up right and it's just you got training a pallet to hit those notes now try it it's called that's called seasoning yeah and slightly less honey next time you get where I'm coming from that's so good you would pay money for that yeah yeah you really impressed me really impressed me I'm absolutely over the moon can you believe you're doing this can you believe you can do it this world go on come on yes yes come on let's go come on come on let's do it how's your tossing yes that's it yes yes yes yes yes look at that dude I mean apart from all the old Juicery on the outside but are you not proud of that yeah man would you pay money for that they want to hurt Emily right the moment of truth yeah yeah actually no no no don't worry about that the meat I can tell is cooked beautifully as is the veg the textures perfect the flavour slightly to touch is very good I'll pay for it yeah eat it slightly too much honey yep not enough line just a bit more line to cut through yeah mix it up now and have another go mix it up properly anyone else got let's finish come and see me anyone else got their spring up again presentation really good the balance of flavor we'll see you try slightly lacking in soy sauce you know but that's why you got try it mix it all up with that I'm so proud of you you did a great job and technically you look the business nice one off you go listen I don't want to be under the mm I don't come into teaching you thinking that I know better but from a personal experience I thought that you guys were brilliant today I thought you focus today I think you surprised me today I'm so proud of you right now I really mean that not one of you did a crap job the negative and it's a negatives are so important in cooking and frankly life right I'm proud of you've all done a great job quite a lot of you there was only about two right it was one of them that was spot-on seasoning and what I mean Lee what I mean yeah let's give him a fair there was very subtle difference between his and yours it's because he obviously tasted it unless it was a mistake or his instinct he went right it's the chili there there was enough chili there right okay the soy sought is there enough salt there okay the honey not too much to it you guys just just hit the seasoning and the acid a little bit more and you can really pimp your ride also having the bravery to have the pan really screaming hot gets you this charred meat that we want you know so listen for your homework today I mean it's going to be in the fridge at the end of school come and get your homework it's the same recipe for you to go and cook at home and I want you I want you to be proud of yourself and go and show your people

Channel: DreamSchool

Views: 4,682,773

Rating: 4.8063822 out of 5

Keywords: Jamie Oliver, Jamie's Dream School, Dream School, lesson, lessons, 4OD, channel 4, 4 on demand, knives, chef, skills, kitchen, basic, cooking, cookery, cutting, chopping, slicing

Id: 5z_d0soK1cI

Length: 18min 26sec (1106 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/vdubclub65]

Cool guy.

[u/piratecalvin]

I love stir fry and he makes it look super easy. I guess really it is. I should try making it more often.

[u/SutekhRising]

I've watched this video several times. Great skills. Made this dish for my girlfriend and she was amazed at the taste.

[u/danafawn]

I can watch Jamie Oliver chop a phone book!