Very many dream to learn to be active in kitchen a knife, as quickly as professional cooks. First, the ability to quickly cut products allows to spend less time for cooking, secondly, slices turn out more beautiful.
Instruction
1. Independently to learn to cut quickly vegetables, you need huge patience and a sharp knife. Everyone decides for himself what knife in total use is more convenient. Many beginners training choose for work knives with the heavy handle and with an edge from stainless steel. It is possible to acquire an expensive set of knives and to use generally only one of them. Keep in mind that the knife has to be surely well ground - the speed and thickness of cutting of slices directly depends on it. Blunt to quickly knife vegetables it won't turn out - you will only be cut.
2. From whether correctly you hold a knife with one hand and, for example, vegetable - another, the integrity of your fingers depends. If you the right-handed person, then a knife has to be in the right hand. Densely clasp its handle with a palm. You hold with other hand vegetable as it is shown in the drawing. That is the wide side plane of a knife has to touch the bent fingers of other hand almost all the time.
3. Press the cut product densely to a board finger-tips. Their outer side has to be located parallel to a knife blade. Not to be cut, you have to hold fingers only slightly bent, and the knife has to slide smoothly along fingers, but not touch them.
4. Movements when cutting have to be well coordinated. At the same time the tip of a knife has to concern almost constantly a board surface, and the hand in which you hold a knife has to make movements on ellipse type. That is you shouldn't chop vegetable, and quickly cut it. If to chop it, then the knife blade will very quickly become blunted.
5. The hand with which you hold vegetables, greens, meat or fish has to slide also quickly back, how fast you are active a knife, advancing a product. Thus, you influence thickness of slices. Hands shouldn't be strained, otherwise you will very quickly be tired. Wrists and hands when cutting have to be as far as possible weakened.