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Based on your description, that sounds like push-cutting. The Japanese call this tsuki-giri (thrusting cut). It's a standard technique used with an usuba when cutting vegetables, and it translates well to a gyuto and other hybrid knives.
Here's a quick video of push-cutting a shallot.
Based on your description, that sounds like push-cutting. The Japanese call this tsuki-giri (thrusting cut). It's a standard technique used with an usuba when cutting vegetables, and it translates well to a gyuto and other hybrid knives.
Based on your description, that sounds like push-cutting. The Japanese call this tsuki-giri. It's a standard technique used with an usuba when cutting vegetables, and it translates well to a gyuto and other hybrid knives.
12 hours ago, cutter said:so the video i mention above...
Link?
