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This video is 13 minutes long and covers just about everything you need to know about knife sharpening.

Knife Sharpening – The most amazing home videos are here

Chef Garde Manger demonstrations key points on how to select a quality knife, sharpen, proper grip, what the other hand should do and how to practice safely with no fear of cutting yourself. Chef John Gargone also proves his methods …

Note that the chef uses two different sizes of chef knives. The 5″ for peeling the onions and cleaning up the ends and the 8″ for cutting the onions into thin slices. The bit about using a slicing motion and …

Keep those fingers on the helping hand folded and out of the way. Some chefs insist that the index finger of the cutting hand be placed along the top of the spine to keep the blade perfectly vertical….

The visual on how to Julienne a pepper and thinly slice basil is a good watch.

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Notice that the chef’s knife choice does not have a Granton edge and that the potato slices stick to the blade….

This video demonstrates how to use a steel to maintain the sharpness of the cutting edge. Not emphasized enough in the video, however, is the necessity of applying a more acute angle on the steel with Japanese style or Asian …

This video demonstrates the major differences between a traditional, Western-style, chefs knife and the Santoku, Japanese-style chefs knife. Also a quick explanation of how to hone your chef knife edge to maintain the cutting edge….