I am a prep supervisor at one restaurant and a commis chef at another and have been in the industry for over 20 years and I find it so funny that almost every single cut shown in this video I do every day! So if you're really trying to learn in level up in your culinary career pay attention to this video it is very informative and correct. 💯🔪

I got a good tip from a sushi chef a few years ago, Troy and work your knife and board in silence and it will improve your accuracy. It works. Try to avoid any chopping noises if that makes sense. Initially it slows you down but it really does help your skills.

I came to learn how to make everything accessible to chopsticks - I stayed to paper my kitchen walls with radishes. Grate stuff - thanks!

the score of this video is amazing. The song when you’re peeling the cantaloupe was top notch

Ha, the random F-bomb in an otherwise family friendly video gave me a chuckle.

Subscribed!!! I didn’t even noticed that I’ve been watching for more than 30 mins!!! Keep em coming!!!

this is the best knife skill video, i learned so much!

Nice guide! And that gyuoto is gorgeous!

I tried holding knife like you said and its very pleasant and nice! ty very much

You’re a great teacher man! I’ve been getting really into cooking this past year and all I want to do is learn new things now. Just subscribed 🔥🙏🔥.

Other things separating chefs from regular people are unhealthy coping mechanisms and dark senses of humor.

Another good tip for beginner is to cut first a flat bottom for round or cylindrical objects, to prevent from rolling and cutting yourself.

That nakiri knife was a beaut!!

I love these knife skills videos. So interesting and helpful! Also envy-making. I have a Nakiri and this makes me want to replace my euro chef's knife with a Santoku.

That avocado wall was genius, definitely gonna use it the next time I implement avocado in my dish

Big fan of all the knife nerding and great knifes on your website. Make it a habit to always link all the exact knifes used in the video!

Love the kaijin!

I really appreciate your detail in explaining guiding the cuts by leaning the left index finger. There's so much advice out there to guide by moving the tucked fingers of the left hand but if you actually do that at every cut while holding down the food the top layer moves too and everything gets uneven. Your advice to lean the knuckle in and then slowly back, moving the fingertips less often, really made it click for me.

Environment is dope. 💪🏾

"one thing you don't wanna do is scrape the knife" You CAN scrape with your knife just use the back end of it on the cutting board and brush what's on your knife off with your hand so you don't mess with the blade

Great video! Where did you get that guitar knife holder in the background??

Fantastic video. Now I have to start getting some Japanese knives...

In my experience, a Wa handle makes learning precision knifework so much easier. Subconsciously our brains pick up the flats from the handle, giving us a reference to keep the blade at the appropriate angle. This works with longer blades (sujihiki, etc) designed to slice proteins. Want a pretty beveled cut on that skirt steak or a wide, crunchy edge on your tender tonkatsu slice? There's a flat on the handle for that. :) Initially you might need to think about how that handle rests in the palm, but pretty soon your brain will just know what feels right.

I am new to knife skills and want to learn these skills to optimize the time consumed to prepare my meals, should I buy santuku knife you use? or a chef knife? What do you think?

Enjoyed the vid.. what's the name of the gyuto being used?

Wait! Radish (which I love in tacos) and a Santuko knife (which is my favorite kitchen knife)? I guess I’m committed to watching this entire video.

37:52 Chinese cleaver *bam* done 😂

I know quality of chefs from looking at them cutting an onion ! that sums a lot

Going to be honest, I prefer cutting a pepper in half. Some seeds move, but mostly they hold together. Then I pull out the seed bunch and stem together in one motion for each half of the pepper. Usually there are 2-5 stray seeds, but the rest are removed *shrugs* Feels like when moving fast in a kitchen, this is faster.

Nice video. Wondering what size that Santoku is? 18cm? thx!

Hi, I looked up your gyuto and found that it is prone to rust. From my own experience, japanese knives are pretty delicate around citrus and acidic food in general and could rust quickly after cutting. How would you prevent that from happening?

NICE!😏

That’s a fantastic knife. I know vaguely what kind of knife it is but who made it?

Where did you guys get that guitar knife strip?

I would like the link to Owen's video on ... how to cut like a chef. Thanks in advance

What Santuko are you using?

Why are you slicing pepper from the skin side? It's easier from soft side

The snake tattoo is driving me nuts. It is so familiar but I can't quite place it. Is it from a metal album cover?

Are these knives good for a hobbyist who cook for fun or are these products exclusively for aspiring chefs?

at 07:40 and 09:07 the horizontal cuts are useless. Try it. Just do the rest of the cuts. The horizontal cuts add nothing really, and actually make it more difficult to keep it whole.

"Oh yeah, lets have a dinner party and I starve myself and then I'm not hungry by the time I've cooked all the food and I just get wasted 'cause I'm just drinking a bunch of wine" Holy shit, it's me.

Hello there! I come to this video because I want to know if I am over reacting or if indeed I do have a reason to react too. Here's the thing: 1.- I really like knives and cooking and I realized that having a really sharp knife is the number one thing you can do to be really safe in the kitchen. 2.- My girlfriend uses my knives from time to time and then when I go to use them: They're dull. They're dull compared to how, when I sharpen them I can sheets of paper with very little effort. After she cooks It's hard even to cut a lemon. I've shown her many times how to cut properly with a chefs knife but it always goes back to the same thing to the point where I just decided to take my knives out of the kitchen and leave them in my working desk. I watching her cut some stuff on the board and how she just drags the knife against the board and just decided to not say anything about it, forgot to take the knife to my desk after I cooked and I'm admitting defeat, I'm not going to say anything anymore. Now, I never met anybody who cares about knives except for chefs but every girlfriend I ever had don't even have a knife for cooking and sometimes not even a board. So, is it something "normal" people just don't care about or what is it? I use different drum sticks to play different genres of music and even different drums, I put different strings and different pick ups on a guitar to get a specific sound that benefits the project I am working on, I use a pen for calligraphy and a ball point to do everyday writing and so on a so forth and using the right tool for the job you want to do and taking care of that tool: I find it very satisfying and I even dare say that it involves some practice of consciousness and awareness. When you take a decision to carry your process a certain way t can become spiritual practice of sorts and after living in a temple back when I turned 30, this idea became more than an idea an realized this was in fact, how one should carry himself out so: It really pisses me off to have my knives dull, my guitar strings dirty and things alongside those lines. I even take it as a lack of respect because I do put time into sharpening my knives because, as I've come to learn, sharpening is not something anyone can do and it's not because you need this magical, special thing but because it is something so simple that most people don't take the time or the details in needed to make a knife really sharp. It takes effort, it takes practice and for someone to come and just not care...isn't that disrespect? Anyway, I would love to have your feedback so for anybody taking the time to read this: thank you!

You do know we use Japanese mandolin to slice really thin as well

This video would have been worth watching just for the rolling cut on squash.

Thanks for the instructions, I appreciate them. But don't use music, I like to listen to what the knife says.

Inching! In metric shouldn't it be "milling" . Nice techniques, thanks.

I'm guilty of the garlic smash =[

I'm 6ft 5" and squashes scare me! My 5ft mate chases me with them round the store. He put one on my toilet seat once and I had pee in the sink for 3 days.

You look like Mr Beast with long hair and glasses. I am not able to unsee that.

Aren’t you in the band Avatar?

Why is this guy with profoundly average knife skills teaching people ‘advanced’ knife skills

that rocky chopping board is annoying the everliving hell out of me.

Promo-SM 😭

Your cutting board is warped. Too watch it move around when your cutting the veg is not cool. Especially a $400 board. Aside from that, the green pepper, would it be better to cut with the flesh side up instead of the tougher skin side up? Depending how sharp your Gyuto is of course.

Avocado Fruit???? 😢 neither fruit nor vegetale mate . Its a nut !!! 🎉😊

Not bad. But not chef level. I do recommend turning you thumb around so it faces away from your fingers . Then you can walk your hand back.