Liese I pretty much chop onions the way you do. I start opposite the hairy end because I've heard cutting the hairy end is what makes tears but I still have to put my head in the freezer especially when I'm cutting the stinky white ones. To me knife skills just means using the knife the way it was designed, you use your thumb and forefinger to guide the blade as opposed to having a death grip on the handle and you chop with a rocking motion to prevent food from sliding out from underneath the blade.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
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Laga - Aug 30, 2007 4:43:18 pm PDT #1924 of 23273
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Vortex - Aug 30, 2007 4:46:09 pm PDT #1925 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think that knife skills aren't about tricks or whatever. It's more about practice.
Laga - Aug 30, 2007 4:46:53 pm PDT #1926 of 23273
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Once you've got that callous on the inside of your index finger you've got the skills.
Jessica - Aug 31, 2007 3:23:32 am PDT #1927 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I cut onions the way Casey and Sara were doing it -- cut off one end, peel, cut horizontally and vertically towards the poles and then chop down.
Knife skills are partly about practice, but also about knowing how to cut stuff up. Deboning a chicken or filleting a fish are both knife skills, but they're as much about knowing the critter's anatomy than about knowing how to hold a knife.
askye - Aug 31, 2007 3:40:38 am PDT #1928 of 23273
Thrive to spite them
I cut my onions the way Casey and Sara and Jessica do. I'm not that sensitive to onions, so unless I'm chopping a bunch of onions.
I think knife skills are all about learning the way to cut up things and then practicing so that you can do it competently and get uniform results.
My knife skills aren't the best, but I definitely feel comfortable using a knife and I don't worry about getting cut.
sumi - Aug 31, 2007 8:40:01 am PDT #1929 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Sadly, it looks like Mia's restaurant (Mia - from Season 2 of Top Chef) has gone out of business.
sumi - Sep 01, 2007 6:16:01 pm PDT #1930 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 6:16:18 am PDT #1931 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Top Chef: Yahoo Quickfire preview.
Also, over at TWOP, I hear that in a preview for Tim Gunn's new show it says that the season 4 PR designers will be introduced on Tim's show.
sumi - Sep 02, 2007 1:25:37 pm PDT #1932 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I saw the promo and during the premiere of Tim Gunn's new show (premiere's this Thursday) they will introduce the season 4 designers.
Burrell - Sep 02, 2007 8:50:37 pm PDT #1933 of 23273
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Watching Living with Ed and he has our microwave. Our absurdly TOO MUCH microwave. It's not energy efficient. What a crock!