Hold the knife in your right hand, bend your thumb naturally, put your left hand on the food, bend your fingers, and put the first joint of your middle finger in front. If you are left-handed, the other way around. ) Keep your fingers straight and press the vegetables/meat to be cut. Bend your fingers carefully. Correct demonstration:

Second, the practice method

1, direct cutting: Most vegetables are directly cut, that is, vertically cut, which is clean and neat.

2, pushing and cutting: generally suitable for soft food, such as most meat, straight knife down, the shape of meat will be deformed. Push forward and cut down, and you can cut out a neat shape. For example, tender and crisp meat should be cut along the grain, and meat with older texture and more tendons should be cut against the grain (that is, the knife is perpendicular to the grain).

3, push-pull cutting: the cutting method of push-pull cutting is similar to sawing things, suitable for cutting particularly hard things, such as frozen beef and kohlrabi; Or particularly fragile foods, such as bread and steamed bread.

4, iron frame: iron frame is also called iron frame block, the language description is long or columnar food to turn things over and cut them round.

Extended data

The role of a knife maker

1, the raw materials are easy to cook and eat after knife processing;

2, easy to color and taste when cooking, evenly heated, fast ripening, and beneficial to disinfection and sterilization;

3. Raw materials become rough after knife processing, especially raw materials with smooth surface are easy to paste and have strong adhesion. After heating, it can retain the moisture in the raw materials to the maximum extent, making the dishes fresh and delicious;

4. After knife processing, the raw materials can be formed into various forms and kinds, which can increase the variety of dishes and make them colorful;

5, after the raw materials are cut, the shape is neat and beautiful, appetizing, beneficial to digestion and increasing nutrition;

6. After knife processing, the raw materials can form beautiful knife patterns and patterns with different shapes, which can increase the flavor characteristics of dishes.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Knife Worker