As a world-famous chef, it’s obvious that
Chef Gordon Ramsay needs to know his way around
a set of knives. But you might not know about
all of his most impressive and most memorable
cooking experiences involving knives, which
is why we’ve compiled a list of Gordon Ramsay’s
top 10 knife moments!
Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Kit
Ramsay may be the best of the best when it
comes to cooking, but that’s partly because
he’s using the best possible tools in the
kitchen. Not content with just one option,
Ramsay reveals his secret trio of knives that
help him create his dishes. The first of them
is a powerful chopping knife to deal with
all the heavy duty prep that Ramsay needs
to get done at work. This is teamed up with
the second knife, a smaller and lighter paring
knife. But the biggest knife of them all is
Ramsay’s prized serrated knife, used for
carving up a main course. Ramsay also has
some friendly tips for anyone going knife
shopping. Apparently, there’s more to choosing
a knife than just grabbing anyone from the
store. He explains that you need to experiment
with picking up and holding knives until you
find one that feels right to you. And of course,
the heavier the knife you can find, the better
your cutting will be.
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Ramsay vs. the Onion
One of many people’s greatest enemy in the
kitchen is the common onion. Trying to cut
up one can result in stinging eyes and start
the waterworks running. However, Ramsay tackles
these little monsters with absolutely no fear.
In a video published on his personal cooking
channel, Ramsay takes the time to demonstrate
how to properly chop up an onion into fine
slices. Ramsay starts off with a life-changing
piece of advice - apparently, if you leave
the root bases of the onion on when you cut
it, the onion juices won’t bleed and make
you cry. Thanks for looking out for us Ramsay!
Things get a little more complicated when
Ramsay demonstrates the proper way to hold
on to the onion, with one of his finger knuckles
leaning out to guide the knife. It looks dangerous,
but it seems to work for him as he slices
into the onion one way, and then cuts along
the other direction to make tiny pieces of
onion. Ramsay completes the task in no time,
all without shedding a single tear.
How To Sharpen A Knife
Ramsay’s already taught us the three most
important knives that we need to buy, but
what if they start going dull after a whirlwind
cooking session? Luckily Ramsay is also a
master of knife sharpening, and he shows the
best way to keep a knife in pristine condition
during a Youtube tutorial. First, he takes
out a knife sharpening steel and says it should
be held as if it’s just a safe tennis racket.
Wisely he reminds his audience to always keep
their fingers behind the hilt of the steel,
avoiding any potential slicing accidents.
Ramsay makes it look easy as he sharpens the
knife slowly, dragging the blade from the
bottom to the top to fully restore it. Then
he starts to amp it up, crisscrossing from
the top to the bottom of the steel and getting
faster and faster with his knife work. Ramsay
is unconcerned about wielding a sharp knife,
however, and instead starts talking about
the dangers of blunt knives!
On the Chopping Block
A lot of amateur chefs just buy their herbs
dried or already prepared from the grocery
store. But not Chef Ramsay. He likes to have
his herbs completely fresh and prepare them
himself, but he knows a way to slice them
up without causing a giant mess and staining
his chopping boards. Ramsay decides to teach
a group of aspiring chefs his ways and starts
off with showing the proper knife skills needed
to prepare chives. He uses his same fancy
finger trick as from the onion tutorial, urging
everyone to use their finger knuckle as a
blade guide and to protect the other fingers.
But he does have a word of warning this time,
begging them to “Please be careful!” He
then begins to cut the chives into extremely
fine slices, without any of the herb juices
staining the cutting board. After he’s satisfied
with the chives, Ramsay moves on to the basil.
He folds the leaves into each other and then
rolls them up, all the while without bruising
the fragile leaves. Then he turns the leaves
into super thin strips with his quick and
precise cutting. His audience was wowed by
Ramsay’s talents, with some shaking their
heads in wonder and mimicking his hand motions
with the knife. We’re pretty impressed too!
Gordon Ramsay Snaps A Knife!
We all know Ramsay for his awesome skills
in the kitchen, but even the king of the culinary
world has to slip up once in a while. On his
television show The F Word, Ramsay was giving
a mouthwatering tutorial on how to properly
cook up brill, a type of flatfish. He gets
off to a strong start, bustling around his
kitchen and explaining the garnishes and sauces
that he will be paring his seafood masterpiece
with. Then, Ramsay shows a step by step lesson
from inside his home on how to properly slice
and break down the raw brill fish. He proves
his knife sharpening skills quickly before
jumping into the fish preparation, cutting
long strokes through the meat to create perfect
fillets. When Ramsay tries to rehash this
lesson in a real-world kitchen, however, things
don’t go exactly as planned. He brings out
a thin knife and explains. He starts playing
around with it to show off just how flexible
it is, bending it against the hard metal counter
in the kitchen. The knife finally has enough
and the blade snaps in half, with part of
it flying off into the air! Ramsay is startled
but laughs it off, and the camera crew can
be heard laughing at the mishap in the background
as well. Luckily no one was hurt, and Ramsay
might be a little more careful in the future!
Ramsay’s Expertise
Ramsay has cooked beside numerous celebrities
on his television shows and invited famous
journalist Kate Silverton to appear on The
F Word for a friendly cook-off. During the
segment, Ramsay is in the middle of adding
some spice to the apples he is cooking when
he starts to chat with Silverton about her
fiancé. Apparently, Silverton’s fiancé
is a security specialist who provides training
for journalists traveling to volatile locations
for stories, and he trained Silverton before
she left for Iraq. Ramsay hones in on the
fact that her fiancé is an expert in his
field, and proceeds to ask her. Obviously
seeing his chance to woo her, Ramsay tries
to show off his own impressive expertise by
chopping up an apple with lightning speed.
While Silverton admits that she does find
expertise attractive, it’s clear that she
isn’t quite wowed by Ramsay’s knife skills.
He continues to rapidly slice up apples before
giving up with a joking, He might not have
impressed Silverton, but he definitely impressed
his viewers.
Ramsay and the Brazilian Chef
One of Ramsay’s other extremely successful
shows is, of course, Kitchen Nightmares. In
the fifth season of the UK show, Ramsay visits
the disastrous restaurant Piccolo Teatro.
Led by Brazilian head chef Daniel, the French
restaurant is in shambles when Ramsay arrives.
Daniel is extremely enthusiastic, dancing
around his tiny kitchen and suggesting his
best dishes for Ramsay to taste test. Ramsay
simply sums up the restaurant with its eccentric
chef by saying, During dinner service, Ramsay
watches in shock as Daniel slowly putters
around the kitchen singing and procrastinating.
The night gets worse and worse until ultimately
Daniel has to be kicked out of the kitchen
and sent home. He refuses to leave the kitchen
and adamantly holds onto a knife, while Ramsay
calmly tries to pry it off of him. They have
a short showdown, with Ramsay asking for the
knife over and over and Daniel holding onto
it until he finally concedes and uses it to
scrape food into the trash. Ramsay has had
enough and decides to take matters into his
own hands by throwing Daniel over his shoulder
and literally carrying him away from the restaurant.
Salmon Slicing Record
As we’ve already seen, Ramsay has some serious
moves when it comes to quickly and easily
filleting fish. But he may have met his match
when he was pitted head to head against Darren,
the world record holder for cutting at least
40 pieces of salmon in one and a half minutes.
In the video, Ramsay meets with both Darren
and a Guinness World Records official to see
who will emerge victoriously, and potentially
create a new world record. Ramsay admits that
he’s not his usual confident self, exclaiming
When the official sets the stopwatch, the
men get to work slicing away at their respective
salmon portions while a crowd looks on. Darren
may have a thing or two to teach Chef Ramsay,
because he breaks down his portion way faster
than Ramsay. Each man had to produce 40 pieces
of salmon, and Darren completes the task in
a mere one minute and twenty-four seconds!
Ramsay, on the other hand, lags behind Darren
and makes a huge mistake by miscounting and
only producing 39 pieces of salmon. While
Darren wins a new world record, Ramsay is
sent home to practice his knife skills a little
more!
Ramsay Sharpening With Stars
As previously mentioned, Ramsay tends to attract
a lot of celebrity visitors. This was the
case when actress and singer Martine McCutcheon
appeared on The F Word with Ramsay. After
tucking into a delicious meal that Ramsay
had prepared for her, McCutcheon admits that
she isn’t the best chef. She doesn’t even
have real plates, only paper ones! Ramsay
decides that she’s in need of some culinary
help, and pulls her into his kitchen for some
education. He chooses to start her off on
a daunting task - how to sharpen a knife.
After first teaching her the proper names
of the equipment, and teaching her that a
knife sharpening steel is NOT used for measuring
rings, Ramsay hands McCutcheon the utensils
and stands behind her to help her out. He
holds her hands and makes her sharpen the
knife despite her nerves, and they even pick
up some speed doing it. He then backs away
and makes her sharpen it with her eyes closed,
which is something that you probably shouldn’t
try at home!
Gordon Ramsay's Own Kitchen Nightmare
What happens when you combine a culinary master
with the queen of comedy? A hilarious and
slightly dangerous demonstration, or at least
that’s what happened when Chef Ramsay joined
up with Ellen Degeneres on The Ellen Show.
Ramsay decides to show Ellen how to cook a
vegan stir fry, and she pitches in with some
of the prep as well. He sounds like safety
is a high priority for him when telling Ellen
to be very careful while cutting the carrots,
and he tries to show her proper cutting technique
on a red pepper. But his safety demonstration
goes amiss when he actually cuts himself while
lecturing Ellen on safety! He jokes that it
will be okay, because. Gross Chef Ramsay!
The show must go on, and Ramsay jumps right
back into cutting up the pepper, only cracking
once to ask for a bandage! Ellen grabs one
for her injured guest, and he continues to
cook in a wok with occasional breaks to stem
the bleeding with a towel. It’s finally
revealed that Ramsay didn’t just give himself
a tiny cut, but he actually cut straight through
his fingernail and took it clean off. To add
insult to injury, Ramsay also exclaims that
he thinks the nail ended up in the stir fry...
maybe not his best meal!
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