How many times have you cut your finger with a knife in the kitchen?
Have you always wanted to chop with a knife like those chefs on the tv?
Do you crave to learn the dark arts of the ninja?
Then read on...
I make a lot of food, if you follow me you might have noticed ;0)
One of the most useful things that a friend taught me and no it wasn't the don't touch your nethers after chopping a habanero was how to use a chefs knife without cutting yourself and in the process chop really fast!!!
It's really simple and once you learn you will become a chopping machine.. a chopping ninja!!
So let's go. Firstly you will need a big, heavy, sharp chefs knife. Like so
Now this is quite simple but best demonstrated by seeing so I have made a couple of videos! The end of the first being the most ninja
Essentially you want to hold your fingers pointing down to the veg, making a 'wall' for the knife to slide down. This way nothing is in front of the blade but the veg.
And to demonstrate in a better way here are a couple of short videos.
And one more for the lolz!
Let me know what you think! And remember.. You are ninja now.