Welcome back to another cooking video, I’m
Chef Devaux and today I’m going to teach
you how to make a Daikon, something like this,
into a Net, so something that looks like this.
I hope you enjoy this video and let’s get
going!
Alright so you start, take a Daikon and you’re
just going to cut the top off it and then
just cut a block about 12-centimeters long.
There we go.
Okay, and now you’re going to need to clean
the Daikon, just take the skin off, and for
this I’m just going to cut it off in one
motion with a knife.
You just jig it up and down and you slowly
feed the Daikon into it, just like this.
I’m not using any force at all, this is
an extremely sharp knife and it’s important
to have a sharp knife to make this garnish.
There we go, removed the skin.
Place the knife about one to two millimeters
off the edge of it, and then you want to cut
in one third deep.
There we go, and then where the cut ended
you turn it and you find the cut where it
ended and you go again one to two millimeters
deep from the last cut and you cut it in a
third again.
One important thing you have to know if you
have to angle your knife slightly so the heel
of the knife needs to go slightly to the right.
I’m exaggerating this turn so you guys can
see what kind of movement I’m talking about,
but move it slightly to the side.
There it goes in and then find the end of
your cut which is just there and then the
end of the last cut is there, because we’ve
gone all the way around, and so now you want
to make sure that you cut one to two millimeters
away from both of them and you’ll find this
is a slight angle, like I was talking about
before.
You just continue going around, you find the
end of the cut you just made and the end of
the last cut and then you just make sure you
miss them both by one to two millimeters.
This is a fast forward of what you’re going
to do.
Alright, so there we go.
Now you take your block and you hold it with
your fingers on either side and then you start
cutting into it and with your index finger
on top you slowly feed it into the knife.
You have to have an extremely sharp knife
for this because if it’s blunt you’re
going to be pushing way too much.
Here I’m not even pushing at all, I’m
just jiggling the knife up and down and softly
turning the Daikon into it and it just cuts
through.
If you want this same knife that I’ve got
here then click on the link on the top left
corner of your screen, if you don’t want
that and you want to learn how to sharpen
a knife to the extreme point then click on
the link on the top right corner of your screen.
Alright, so once you’ve cut enough of the
Daikon radish into a sheet, then you just
lay the sheet out on the board and you add
some salt over it.
What the salt does is it pulls out all the
water and makes the cells of the vegetable
more flaccid and it becomes more flexible.
I’m just going to turn it over very carefully
now because it’s still brittle, you can
see a part broke on the end there already.
I’m going to add some more salt, just cover
it properly and you will want to leave it
for 15 minutes so the salt has time to act.
Leave it alone once you’ve added the salt
and come back to it in 15 minutes.
Alright so here we go, its 15 minutes later
and it’s super flexible now, you can play
about with it and it won’t really break
apart.
I’m just going to separate it here so you
can see what we’ve got.
You see it’s a beautiful net now, look at
that, is that not the most awesome garnish
you’ve ever seen?
If you present this to your friends people
are going to be thinking how in the hell did
someone do this.
Okay, so I’m just going to rinse off the
salt with some water, but it is important
not to leave it in the water too long because
otherwise the cells will absorb water and
become rigid again.
Alright so here we go, you can just separate
it out and you can play with your Daikon radish
net, awesome!
Look at that, that’s just amazing!
If you show this to some friends or you feed
them something that’s got this as a garnish
they just are not going to believe that you
cut that out of a vegetable.
That’s how to make a Daikon Net, now you
can make this with a lot of other vegetables.
You can use carrot, cucumber, pretty much
anything that’s long and you can cut into
a sheet, you’re good to go.
Give it a try and try this with some vegetables
and see what happens.
This is a very interesting garnish to apply
to a lot of dishes, so I would like to hear
your input how you would put this on your
food to make it more interesting.
Leave your ideas and comment below and I will
be sure to read it, and also if you want to
see some more of my garnish videos, I made
a lot of other interesting garnishes, then
click on the top right corner of your screen
right now to go to my website and you’ll
see more of them.
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Thank you very much for watching, see you
guys next week.
Goodbye!
