Are you looking to up your cooking skills at home, or just enjoy learning about culinary techniques? Well then you’re at the right place 🔪👩🍳
I have so enjoyed taking you along my culinary school journey, teaching you new skills and techniques. Now I want to hone in on the key skills I learned and teach them to you at home. 😊
To kick things off we’re starting with the foundationals, and knife skills is at the top of the list!!
Here are the key elements I talk about in the video:
Blocking - squaring off all 4 sides of a round vegetable (feel free to save the scraps and repurpose them in other ways!!)
Planks - large rectangular squares stemming from a blocked veg that sets the stage for the size cut you’re aiming for.
Batonnet - a square edge rectangular block that is 1/4 of an inch along each cube side and about 1/4” x 1/4” x 2 1/2”
Med dice - batonnet cut into even cubes, 1/2 inch all sides
Julienne - a thin rectangular strip about 1/8” x 1/8” x 2 1/2”
Brunoise - a small fine dice stemming from a julienne, 1/8” cube
Knife: Damascus steel santoku from @7thdragonknifeworks
FlavorsByAle
Holy shit this is exactly what I needed
heavenandrene
I've been looking for cooking 101 type content to level up my cooking skills! Very excited for future episodes. Great stuff 👍
Moonditch
Thanks for going to culinary school and making this channel to teach us so we don’t have to 😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
agaproductions
Girl I was with you when we were practicing diced potatoes in every video for almost a month. Look at you now, I could almost cry 😭
AwsomeIam
Look how she pivot right into her next channel. Love it!
stevemill
i remember when you started culinary school, i would watch ALL of your videos which was only a few at the time and look how much you’ve grown! you graduated culinary school and now your using your platform to teach others what you know!! i’m so proud of how far you’ve come. keep it up😇😇
ayline.santana
Ah, this brings me back to September of 2007 when I first stepped through the doors of culinary school.
Couldn't help by notice that tourner knife on your cutting board.
Knife Skills are so important but back when I was at school, they were very uptight about EXACT dimensions and the amount of stress of that and tourneeing potatoes did some serious damage to me mentally.
I only wish I had had an instructor as calming and understanding as you, Alessandra.
Love your videos and keep up the amazing work! 💜
plumdizz
I love this idea for a series because obviously it’s not gonna be you know like going to a culinary institution, but it will help so many people who either we’re not taught how to cook or who are looking to up the skills. They already have in cooking and so nice to just see people focusing on stuff like that you know being real and honestly she went to school. She just graduated and she wants to share and help other people. I love that.
JWJWJWJW
Thank you for breaking this down. I've been struggling with knife cuts like crazy and this seems to help me out a lot. 😌💕
meme
This is precisely what I need. My knife skills are horrible. Part of it is due to hands and shoulders that do not work very well despite nice sharp knives I look forward to my knife skills getting much better and you are always an inspiration
petitecherie
I love so much, I've been here since the beginning, I'd live to see FULL LENGTH videos from you!!! We all would!
Luca.Bruschetta
Did anyone else feel immense relief watching these videos, which demonstrated how much practicing was done to learn these knife skills? I constantly struggle with cutting potatoes so the cubes are uniform.
elizabethsmithakaelizabeth
FINALLY!!! Everybody does cooking but nobody does details!! ❤❤❤ Am excited to be part of your community and learn a bunch💐
misspetersburg
Oh man!!!
Knife skills and Vivaldi “Winter!”
SO GREAT!!!
tpalmer
I’m obsessed with her energy, and her professionalism, love love love this.
britneykey
Congratulations!!!!🎉🎉🎉 This is very helpful thanks!!
gabbo
I honestly can’t think of anything online I’ve been this excited about in ages!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
happysmith
i’m so unbelievably ready for this series ❤️🔥
morganbarlow
You have no idea how much i love watching your videos you NEED your own show ❤❤❤
