How to Cut with a Chef’s Knife

Published on Friday, June 3, 2011, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

Don't saw your celery. Don't stab at your sprouts. Cut the way Jeffrey Elliot (who literally wrote the book on knife skills) shows you in this video.

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  • Interesting that he's using one of the new Henckels Kramer carbon chef knives.

  • Definitely a little oversimplified (good luck cutting rounds of a medium or large potato keeping the knife always in contact with the board), and a bit problematic in a time where santokus, gyutos, Chinese cleavers, and nakiris are taking over more and more of the market for chefs knives - push cuts, pull cuts and such are often more useful with these knives. But that IS good technique for...+READ

    Definitely a little oversimplified (good luck cutting rounds of a medium or large potato keeping the knife always in contact with the board), and a bit problematic in a time where santokus, gyutos, Chinese cleavers, and nakiris are taking over more and more of the market for chefs knives - push cuts, pull cuts and such are often more useful with these knives. But that IS good technique for cutting small vegetables with a French or German style chefs knife.-COLLAPSE