Spraying oil on knife for better food release?

[ditomura]

I was just talking to a chef and he says that he sprays his knife with cooking oil before he has to cut 50 pounds of onions and this helps to reduce the onions from sticking to his knife. What do you think? I’m going to try it out later on when I get home.

 

[stringer]

I was just talking to a chef and he says that he sprays his knife with cooking oil before he has to cut 50 pounds of onions and this helps to reduce the onions from sticking to his knife. What do you think? I’m going to try it out later on when I get home.

Try it out. Tell us how it goes.

 

[ditomura]

No vegetables at home, I’ll try it this weekend after we go grocery shopping.

 

[ditomura]

I just tried it out. I used the avacado oil spray from Costco on a Shibata Koutetsu gyuto. It didn’t make a difference, the onions still stuck to the knife. Although, if I used a pull cut instead of chopping up and down, food release was much better.

 

[Jovidah]

Draw cuts are great... they solve the majority of your food release problems. I'm still surprised at how uncommon that knowledge seems to be.