Easy katsuramuki tutorial
Welcome back to another video, I’m Chef
Devaux and today I’m going to teach you
a very simple way to make a Katsuramuki cut.
This is a Japanese trained technique where
you take something like a vegetable, like
a Daikon or a cucumber, and you cut it into
a very thin sheet like this, paper thin and
this is used for a lot of Japanese recipes.
Now if you don’t know what this is, it’s
super difficult to make.
It takes hours and hours of practice to make,
it’s very difficult to cut.
Here’s a little clip of what it looks like
when you’re doing it.
And basically I’m going to show you a technique
today that’s very, very simple and instead
of taking hours to master you can master this
in five to ten minutes.
Now the finished product won’t be as amazing
as this super thin sheet here but it’s still
a usable thing that you can use in your recipes
to make what you need to do with a Katsuramuki
cut.
So let’s get straight into, let’s get
going!
Okay to start off you’re going to neat a
thick tea towel, you are going to place it
on your work bench and then you want to wet
it with some water.
You do this so that the tea towel sticks to
the work surface and doesn’t slide around
when you’re doing the cutting.
Now you want to take two metal skewers and
just place them parallel to each other at
whatever the width of whatever you’re cutting
and then you place your cucumber or Daikon
on here like this and you just want to slide
your knife up and down vertically as you roll
the cucumber along, applying equal and even
pressure to get a nice and beautiful even
cut.
Now this is a very simple technique to learn,
as I said you can learn this in five to ten
minutes easily as long as you have a nice
straight sharp knife.
Now here we’re reaching the end of the cucumber,
the seed core, this you just want to remove
and dispose of.
And then there we go, we’ve got a beautiful
sheet of cucumber made with this technique.
Now if you want to use this in sushi you just
use it as is, or if you want to slice it up
into strings or a julienne then you just put
it on a cutting board and just slice it up
like this to make nice little sticks or you
turn it by 90-degrees to make strings.
Okay, so now you know how to make this simple
Katsuramuki cut.
Alright so there we go now you know how to
make the Katsuramuki cut the easy way.
I hope this is useful to you and I hope you
use it in your sushi recipes or whatever you
need Katsuramuki cut for, and I hope it works
out for you.
Now while I’m still on the subject of Katsuramuki
I want to show you this device.
This is a gadget made in Japan, it’s basically
made to do the same thing as what I showed
you, just it creates a very thin and consistent
sheet of Katsuramuki out of anything really.
If you put it in there it will do it.
Now the only thing is it’s kind of expensive
but it is easy to use, all you do is just
load the vegetable in, bring the blade up
to the vegetable and then you turn and out
comes Katsuramuki.
It is very expensive, like I said the simple
version of this goes for about $300 and the
more expensive version with three different
blades, can do pretty amazing things, goes
for $500.
Now this is way overkill for home use.
For home use just use the technique I showed
you before, and if you own a restaurant this
might be useful for you so I’ll leave a
link in the description below.
That’s basically it, please leave a Like
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Thank you for watching and see you in the
next one, bye!
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