hey guys I've gotten a ton of requests
on a knife skill video so without
further ado here is the first of
probably a couple knife skills videos so
before I get started I'm gonna do a
couple different vegetables in here I'm
gonna do some onions tomatoes sweet
potato a butternut squash I think that's
it so I know people may not want to
watch all of those being chopped so I'm
gonna link below the kind of the
corresponding time with the
corresponding vegetables so you can just
jump forward if you want to see the
butternut squash or if you want to see
the onions so first let's start with the
onions so there's three different ways
that you can cut an onion you can do
just like a regular dice you can do
slice or you could do a mince and so I
wanted to show you all three of those
variations the first one I'm going to
show you is how to dice an onion so it's
important to know the structure of the
onion so the roots the roots would grow
down from here and the stock would grow
up from here so first step and dicing an
onion is we're gonna take off that stock
end so just cut it from and then you can
just toss this and then we're gonna cut
it in half from the root
you're going to want to peel the outside
of the onion so you're left with kind of
like a Half Dome
okay so caption my two halves the next
is one of the important things for like
whenever you're cutting something is how
you have your hands because you have a
sharp knife you can easily just kind of
chop off your fingers and I have chopped
out of my fingers before it stinks
you don't want to do it but you want to
make something like a claw that's what
they call it the claw and you want to
grip you want to grip the onion with a
claw that way if you cut you're just
gonna kind of like skim the top of your
finger rather than like chopping it all
off I know it's gross but we needed to
get that out of the way because we are
using a sharpening so I've got my half
of my onion I'm gonna take the knife and
just with my hand flat go through it
horizontally and you want to keep the
root stem intact that way and all of the
onion pieces won't go flying everywhere
it also just makes it really easy to cut
so I've got the onion kind of like
different levels cut out in there and
we're gonna flip it and we're going to
cut it this way kind of all the time
using that claw
we've got kind of like an accordion
maybe on this so we cut it horizontally
and then we cut it vertically and now
we're going to cut it into a dice
and then when you get to that root and
you don't have to cut it anymore you can
just toss that little piece aside so
that is how to dice an onion so there we
go perfectly diced onion so next I
wanted to show you how to like thinly
slice an onion the same thing as the
dice we're gonna take off the stock part
and then we're going to cut it in half
and remove that outside layer and then
unlike the dice we're actually going to
take off the root end as well
and then starting with this side not
this side but to this side and then
we're just going to cut from there and
then when you get to this kind of like
last little bit of onion when your
fingers kind of can't grip anymore
you're going to want to flip it over and
then continue cutting there
and there you have it you have to do sex
small perfectly sliced onions which is
perfect for kind of like chopping a
salad or making pickled red onions which
is my favorite and then next let's mince
an onion so same thing we're gonna take
off the stock end cut it in half
peel it repealed it cut this in half and
then you see it's kind of like looks
like a triangle we're gonna want to kind
of cut off the top of the triangle and
then we can mince it from there so you
can just kind of like take your knife
and go in there and cut them out half
dome shape without the bottom triangle
we're going to go through just right on
top and then mince it from here
and then you have really really small
mints of an onion okay next on the
vegetables are roma tomatoes this is
gonna be like a tutorial for when you
want to make salsa really quickly and
you want to cut these bad boys for your
salsa so roma tomato cut in half and
then cut in force and then you're gonna
take one of these sections with your
knife and just carefully remove the
insides
so we have these pieces without the
inside and then we can go ahead and just
dice these so still maintaining that
little claw position cut it lengthwise
and then crosswise
there you have kind of like this perfect
diced tomato that's great for salsa okay
next on the list and this might actually
be the most requested is a butternut
squash because it's huge and it's a
little awkward and it's just like really
hard to cut
so got one butternut squash coming to
peel it first this is my favorite peeler
it's like a Y peeler I'll link it below
but it just makes peeling so much easier
so I've got my peeled butternut squash
the most important thing when peeling
kind of big squashes like this or sweet
potatoes or potatoes is making sure you
have a flat surface and if you look at a
butternut squash it's not really like a
flat surface but maybe the bottom but
you can't guarantee that so the way to
create a flat surface especially on a
butternut squash is to cut it in half so
we're carefully gonna cut it into two
pieces so using your knife and a flat
hand so your fingers don't get in the
way just cut straight down through the
neck so that way you have two pieces you
also have some flat pieces and then
we're also going to take off the top
part as well as the bottom part just to
make things as flat as possible on all
sides and then we're going to go ahead
and start to dice this so since we have
a flat surface we're going to cut
straight down and make like planks out
of this top part
so we have a bunch of planks and then we
just kind of start to chop them you can
do two at a time or just do one each
but you lengthwise and then crosswise
and you can obviously make this dice
bigger or smaller and whatever your
recipe calls for so you have it
perfectly diced a butternut squash so
you continue with the rest of the pieces
and then to do the bottom half because
they're seeds in there we're gonna take
our knife and carefully cut down the
middle and then we can scoop out the
seeds and then dice it from there so you
can take off this part and just cut it
like we did with the top half of the
butternut squash but for the bottom part
you're not going to be it's not going to
be quite as perfect of a dice so you can
just cut it into slices and then cut it
from there
there you go that is how you cut a
butternut-squash so last but not least
let me show you how to cut a sweet
potato it's pretty similar to the
butternut squash but I wanted to show
you anyways so we're gonna create a flat
surface just really carefully and then
since we have a flat surface we're gonna
cut across into planks just like the
butternut squash okay we have these
planks of our sweet potatoes and then
we're just going to cut lengthwise and
then cut it crosswise super easy you get
kind of like a uniform dice of sweet
potato so there you have it there is the
first installment of hopefully many
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