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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.
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.
Sadly, it looks like Mia's restaurant (Mia - from Season 2 of Top Chef) has gone out of business.
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.
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.
Watching Living with Ed and he has our microwave. Our absurdly TOO MUCH microwave. It's not energy efficient. What a crock!
Design Star:
Will may not be Mr. Hosty Host, but he did the absolute best job last night of all 3 contestants. The judging was BAD.
I agree - I think that he could learn to be a better host but I'm not sure that, Kim, for example, can learn to be a better designer.
Todd is at least interesting. I would have loved a finale between Todd and Will.
Actually, I think that they work well together and a show with that team would be good.
I agree. Will's room was the best. Todd is definitely the most dynamic, but I worry that his "concepts" might override giving people what they actually want. I fear he could wind up being a potential Hildi from Trading Spaces. Not as ridculous as her, but along those lines.
Kim bores me. I know they think she's a natural host but I just feel blah when I watch her. And her design ability is just average for me. I don't think she'd wreck a room, but there's no wow factor at all in any of her designs.