It would seem, well for a problem – to cut cabbage! But when you will be engaged in it closely, suddenly it will become clear, as ways a set, and not so it is simple - to cut cabbage that it turned out equal, thin, and hands remained are intact. Of course, the skill which is result of experience is in this case necessary.
It is required to you
- - head of cabbage;
- - big cutting board, wooden;
- - knife with a wide edge, sharp.
Instruction
1. Take a dense head of cabbage, remove a topmost leaves, wash up it and remove if necessary outer defects of a head of cabbage: black specks, cuts and other. The taste of a ready-to-eat meal is affected first of all by a cabbage grade. For salting cabbage, for example, take late-ripening varieties, juicy, firm and crunchy.
2. Cut cabbage in half. It is possible to make it differently, but it will be more correct to cut it from cabbage stump. If to cut on the other hand, cabbage at the shredder will break up to leaves, and to cut each leaflet separately – irrational waste of time and forces.
3. Then cut halves cabbage a fork still in half, and in need of a quarter it is possible to cut still in half so that cabbage shaving was 5-7 cm long. Try that segments of cabbage weren't scattered, and remained dense.
4. Holding with a hand of forks from cabbage stump, begin to slice the free end thin strips 3 mm wide. Wider strips will longer need to be cooked or fried, or they will be longer fermented.
5. It is necessary to slice cabbage sometimes in large volumes, for example, when it is made sour for the winter. Devices for fast cutting of cabbage are constructed still by ancestors, you use some of them and today. But in the modern house it is possible to meet more modern devices more often - a special grater, the slicer or the food processor. All these devices allow to cut products thin straws, to regulate thickness of cutting and as a result accelerate process of the shredder of cabbage. In all cases it is necessary to prepare cabbage for the shredder at first. Cut it such pieces which will conveniently crush on a special grater or to lower in a reception opening of the combine.
6. If you slice cabbage in the combine, cut off previously cabbage stump that a rigid part didn't get to the crushed cabbage. It is necessary to realize that the shredder in the combine will make result less standard. It is the fastest way, and rather it suits for cutting of cabbage for suppression or in borsch.