VincentBeek
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Any knife skill takes practice. Al lot of practice. Just keep at it trying to improve over time and your brain will make the connections.
question about vegetable cutting technique
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Any knife skill takes practice. Al lot of practice. Just keep at it trying to improve over time and your brain will make the connections.
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^^ that and perhaps the advice to start slow and focus on precision, speed comes with time.
i dont understand how do you move the knife towards your guide hand without lifting it off the board do you move the heel of the knife up and then move it towards your guide hand by scraping the board with the tip ?
See above.
More seriously, everyone who does G&G is a wizard. They do a guillotine, and then the knife is magicked 2 mm to the left by their unnatural sorcery. That’s the ‘glide’.
More seriously, everyone who does G&G is a wizard. They do a guillotine, and then the knife is magicked 2 mm to the left by their unnatural sorcery. That’s the ‘glide’.
please take a look at his explanation is this how you are supposed to move the knife laterally ?
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nonoyes
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Dull knives. I’ve noticed that g&g cuts better especially for things like carrots or peppers using any IKEA “air bnb” chef’s knife. 1) there’s leverage for tough things like carrots and 2) the angled start to the cut means a small section of the edge starts to slice into a small portion of the pepper skin, kind of like scissors cutting paper at an angle. Once the slice is begun the rest of the knife follows more easily. It is then a simple matter of pulling the pepper slices apart (if they were not by some miracle already sliced clean through by the knife).
Why don't you post a video of how you're doing it, and we'll critique from there. This thread is already 2 3/4 pages longer than it should take to explain this.
Between the explanations and videos provided, you've been given every tool outside of the Patrick Swayze Ghost treatment. At a certain point you just need to practice. For hours and hours, followed by more hours. No explaining, video walk through, or 1/12 scale model will be able to teach you what grabbing your knife and attacking some product will.
juice
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It's the current forum trend, bro
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I think it's the same person. Seriously.It's the current forum trend, bro
I didn't want to be the first to publicly jump there, but 30 posts in a thread on how does rock chop had the same bells ringing about 20 posts ago.
juice
Doesn't even buy knives
Yeah, I'd been wondering as well - same person, copycat troll, or just very similar?
It's absolutely the same person. Look at their post timings.
They both post at all hours of the day and night, but their consistency in posting sprees inbetween other but in super tight gaps, is way too much to be coincidence.
I just looked briefly, and noticed one minute where they both posted, but it's mainly one posts for awhile and stops, the other starts within the hour and posts for awhile then stops, and suddenly the other is posting again. Fit me for my tinfoil hat I guess, but it seems fairly clear...
They both post at all hours of the day and night, but their consistency in posting sprees inbetween other but in super tight gaps, is way too much to be coincidence.
I just looked briefly, and noticed one minute where they both posted, but it's mainly one posts for awhile and stops, the other starts within the hour and posts for awhile then stops, and suddenly the other is posting again. Fit me for my tinfoil hat I guess, but it seems fairly clear...
Come on, that’s no fun.
More seriously, I used to G&G back in the day. But those days are so long past that it seems like a totally alien movement to me now.
who is the same person? if you are talking about me i have never been to this forum before !!!!
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Just use this ancient and superior method and device
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@r0bz,
The lads are starting to have fun at your expense. As of this writing you've posted 33 times in this forum, all within this thread. You started with a reasonable question, one that many newcomers have some difficulty with at first. But consider:
The lads are bored. Corno has everyone inside and pretty much stuck at their computers. They're supposed to be working from home but they would rather save the world from neophyte knife users and are effing off on company time. So you ask the question. They answerexd the question. Several of them answered the question. And then you had the audacity of questioning the answers. And again. You kept getting more answers and you kept questioning the answers. And then you committed the cardinal sin - you brought in videos.
"The guy on this video says you're wrong - what do you think?" x10. The lads don't like this. You remind them of another poster that does this ad nauseum. And rather than simply leave things alone they are seeing who can be the wittiest. And that is where you're at.
If you're serious about learning some lifetime knife skills it can't be an academic exercise. Go to the store and buy some insurance, a bunch of carrots, a thing of celery, a few onions and a composter. Get out your best knife and go through some of the classic knife cuts. If you still have questions, vid yourself and ask about it. Most will have basics things come together quickly. Cut more, watch less.
And BTW you're way to concerned about what the knife is doing. Using the claw grip, keep the side of your blade against your knuckles to cut. If you're bleeding from the top, you're lifting the knife too high. If you're bleeding from the side, you're not holding the blade vertical. If your thumb is bleeding it's not tucked in properly. Stick with up and down, up and down and you can't cut yourself.
The lads are starting to have fun at your expense. As of this writing you've posted 33 times in this forum, all within this thread. You started with a reasonable question, one that many newcomers have some difficulty with at first. But consider:
The lads are bored. Corno has everyone inside and pretty much stuck at their computers. They're supposed to be working from home but they would rather save the world from neophyte knife users and are effing off on company time. So you ask the question. They answerexd the question. Several of them answered the question. And then you had the audacity of questioning the answers. And again. You kept getting more answers and you kept questioning the answers. And then you committed the cardinal sin - you brought in videos.
"The guy on this video says you're wrong - what do you think?" x10. The lads don't like this. You remind them of another poster that does this ad nauseum. And rather than simply leave things alone they are seeing who can be the wittiest. And that is where you're at.
If you're serious about learning some lifetime knife skills it can't be an academic exercise. Go to the store and buy some insurance, a bunch of carrots, a thing of celery, a few onions and a composter. Get out your best knife and go through some of the classic knife cuts. If you still have questions, vid yourself and ask about it. Most will have basics things come together quickly. Cut more, watch less.
And BTW you're way to concerned about what the knife is doing. Using the claw grip, keep the side of your blade against your knuckles to cut. If you're bleeding from the top, you're lifting the knife too high. If you're bleeding from the side, you're not holding the blade vertical. If your thumb is bleeding it's not tucked in properly. Stick with up and down, up and down and you can't cut yourself.
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juice
Doesn't even buy knives
Mmm, I wonder why?
I don't think anyone minds the answers being questioned as long as the questions have a solid basis and aren't just "whataboutism."
Well, for a small subset of "anyone," anyway.
