Apartment Therapy Tagged: knife skills

Word of Mouth: Tournée

Tournée (tour-nay): Literally, French for "turned." In culinary terms, this describes a specific method for preparing and presenting vegetables by cutting them into uniform oblong shapes. If y...

Technique: How to Cut a Butternut Squash

When faced with an oddly-shaped and rock-solid butternut squash, it can be hard to know just where to begin. Happily, no mallets, cleavers, or jigsaws are necessary. All you need is a sharp chef's kni...

Cooking Beyond the Recipe: Change the Size of the Dice!

Here's a simple way to play around with flavors and textures in a favorite recipe: change the size of the ingredients when you're chopping! What does this do? Read on......

Knife Skills: Keeping Your Knife Sharp

Once you've gone to all the trouble of sharpening your knife, the next step is keeping that way! This is easy to do and only takes a few seconds. Here's how......

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

Knife Skills: How to Mince Garlic

Some folks will tell you that the best way to mince garlic is with a garlic press! A garlic press is certainly handy, but if you don't have one or just feeling like doing it the old-fashioned way, he...

Knife Skills: How to Hold Your Knife

When it comes right down to it, the best way to hold your chef's knife is the way that feels the most comfortable to you. But if you're looking for a little more control and speed in your cutting, he...

NYC Events: Free Knife Skills Demo, and Other Hands-on Classes

Whenever we encounter someone who likes cooking but doesn't quite love it, one of two things is almost certainly true. Either they're not cooking with a sharp knife, or they don't really know how to u...

How To Dice An Onion: The Video

We're rolling ahead with video: it's time to start showing you all some basic techniques and we'll start with the onion, that pungent bulbous bundle of flavor, so essential to so many cuisines. ...