As the saying goes, "If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools." If you want to practice knife skills well, you must first have a good kitchen knife. It doesn't need to be expensive, but it must be sharp.

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Back then, when I was practicing knife skills, the main materials I used were potatoes. Cutting potato shreds. During that summer vacation, my family ate potato shreds every day. Now, I don’t even understand why my parents like eating shredded potatoes so much and let me cut them every day. Although there were many complaints at the time, today's knife skills are still attributed to this.

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Of course, cucumbers are also acceptable. Cutting cucumber slices and shreds are both good ways to practice knife skills. Once you practice to a certain level, you can even cut coir raincoats and cucumbers.

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In addition, the editor thinks that carrots are difficult to cut, maybe because they are hard.

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When slicing chili peppers, you should pay attention to cutting them in half or peeling them apart, and then put the skin facing out and the flesh on the cutting board. The purpose of this is to make the pepper skin smoother, so be careful not to cut your hands.

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There is also a cutting method, the knife is sliced ??horizontally. There is a famous dish in Yangzhou: blanched dried shreds. The editor has also practiced slicing the white stems horizontally and then cutting them into shreds, but I was embarrassed and the cutting was not good enough.

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