Kitchen Knife Skills - Dice a Carrot

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Chris Klien: Hello! My name is Chris Klien, I am the Chef de Cuisine of Acadiana in Washington DC, in the heart of the Penn Quarter. We are here now to do basic knife skills. We are going to need a French knife, a cutting board and like a hands towel to use. We are going to show you how to dice a carrot right now.

First, you need to make sure you peel the carrot and then its clean. Then we are going to take the carrot, be careful you dont cut yourself we are going to show you a very easy way. What we are going to do is start by cutting one thin slice like that, probably an eighth of an inch and put it to the side, that way this will not rock, then you dont have to worry about cutting yourself.

So, since we are doing the small dice, we are going to keep that eight of an inch and we are going to go and cut this in half, so that we can work with it easier. Now, it won't rock because we have cut this flay off. Now, we are going to go down and make our other eight of an inch slices. Those are already an eight of an inch, take the other carrot, slice down, careful.

Once you have those to the side, these will be like your little eight of an inch slices. We are going to take it in, we are going to do a julienne. We will do a fine julienne. The fine julienne is how you are going to get your small dice. Now, if you are feeling really comfortable with your knife skills, you can do two at a time, two flays at a time. If not and you are not feeling stocky and you want to take a little bit more easy, which I can understand. You havent used your knife very much and you kind of awkward with it. Make sure you point your knife off to the side and we will go ahead and make a slice here. One, two, three very simple.

That is what you do for all the remaining slices here. So, you have the slice, eighth of an inch and then you have your julienne. You then you take your julienne move to the side here four or five together, if you are feeling comfortable with the knife, if not just use one, you can use one and you can make this perfect small dice by cutting very small to one. This is going to take a very longtime, so obviously you probably want to do a little bit more.

Make sure your knife is clean at all times, go ahead we are going to take the julienne again and I am going to bunch a few together. I am comfortable, I have done the small dice here. I am going to feel a little bit more comfortable about my knife. I am going to do more dice. That is how we do small dice. Now, we are going to show you how to do a diced celery.

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