The Taste of an Oyster

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Know Your Knife Cuts

From chiffonade to batonnet, bend your vegetables to your will.

superior knife skills. Third, the chef has to have the ability to present the offerings artistically. As with chefs of other cuisines, a sushi chef also needs to understand textures and flavors of various ingredients and how they...

Never make a dish to serve for guests that you have never done for yourself. Now learning a good roast chicken is a skill that you will be very glad you put time into. I extol Anthony Bourdine’s, others like different...

You might get more replies if you post this on the Midwest board. That said, Ivy Tech has a culinary program, so you might want to see if they have any sort of knife skills classes. Perhaps they even offer something along the...

tradition. By this, I mean not from Asian schools of cooking, which approach knife skills as a whole `nuther ball of wax. The Knife Merchant is a guy in San Diego who sells all manner of kichen cutlery. Offers a wide range of high...

The same place has been recommended to me both by an instructor at Tante Marie’s and one teaching Knife Skills at CCA — Columbus Cutlery at 358 Columbus (across from the Stinking Rose). This is the place where...

. The other day I saw my roommate mincing garlic with my knife, and I’m pretty sure she has no knife skills to speak of. I was terrified watching her fingertips get so close. I don’t care if she uses the knife, but I...

so assumes you already have good knife skills. And even if you do, you’re going to gravitate toward knives that are the most similar to what you’re used to using. Not a bad thing, but there’s nothing wrong with...

It is a conundrum, but forcing cuts with dulled, horrible (and usually serrated) knives at Mom’s house has almost cost me a finger or two in the past, and I have really good knife skills. I am thinking sharp, but...

Oddly enough, but great all the same, European Country Antiques in the Huron Village neighborhood of Cambridge has a highly skilled "knife sharpening" guru-(not advertised) www.ecountryantiques.com-617.876.7485

it tuned (possibly a selection of steels – coarse, fine, diamond coated, ceramic). Sharpening frequency depends on your knife skills, quality of the blade, and how well you’ve learned to use the steel. If you handle...

I would say that if your knives are performing well through your own efforts, you shouldn’t need to take them to a professional. A couple of years ago I took a knife skills class and sharpening was part of the lesson...

I’ve also been using one for about 10 years. I’m not sure what sort of damage you fear, but you’re more likely to mess up a blade trying to learn how to sharpen a knife by hand or taking it to someone less than...