Chopping a cucumber – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills

a few simple chopping techniques first
of all how you would chop something like
a cucumber and when they choose a
midsize knife not a big proper chopping
knife a smaller one something like this
or maybe even slightly smaller like a
paring knife
okay now this chopping my wrist is stiff
and my elbow bends but the wrist is
stiff and I hold my knife tightly in my
hand like that okay so moving up and
down I’m going to hit the cucumber now
you see my fingers here they’re on top
of the cucumber and that knuckle is
keeping the knife under control so this
pink that I move my fingers back
determines the thickness of the slice of
cucumber do you see now what you don’t
want to do is put your fingers I like
then you’ll cut the ends so tuck your
ends your fingers in and use your
knuckle to guide the knife just move
your arm up and down your wrist stiff
and then you go as fast as you like
control that let’s go around the table
and that’s how to chop something like a
cucumber now obviously that kind of
chopping you can use for many different
vegetables cucumbers just one example
but it’s a good one