My name is Jose Montoya and I’m the executive chef at the Houston Food Bank.
I’m going to demonstrate how to cut vegetables and fruits safely to the kids.
First of all, you are going to grab the knife firmly,
and you are going to grab your product with the palm of your hand,
and your fingers are going to have to be tucked back a little bit.
You are going to have to cut one part of it just to hold your product firm.
Then you are going to slice slowly, like that, holding it with your fingers so it doesn’t move.
Now if you wanted to do dicing
you are going to have to do strips
and then you are going to do across.
Now if you want to have mangos into strips,
you just want to leave them like that,
it actually cuts better when you cut upside down.  So that it doesn’t slip out.
Here we got a yellow squash.
This one is very easy to cut because it is very soft.
So you are going to do pretty much the same thing.
You are going to cut both ends and put them to the side.
This one you can cut different ways.
You can do, depending on what you are going to use them for,
but you always have to remember to keep your fingers safe by pulling them away from the blade.
Remember the blade is always very sharp.
You have to cut away from you, always away from you,
pushing the knife forward,
Now if you want to cut different cuts you are going to have to split it.
And if you want to do dicing you are going to do the same thing.
You are going to push the knife away from you and the fingers have got to be away from the blade all the time.
Let me show you different ways of doing like Julianne style vegetables
Your fingers have got be away from the blade by pulling them away, always away from the blade.
Now you got three different kinds of vegetables being cut into different shapes.
Remember, always try to keep your fingers safe as you can.
