As this infographic points out, holding the food with your knuckles turned in and resting the knife against them is a chef’s secret when it comes to avoid cutting yourself. Once you have that skill down, you can learn to julienne, brunoise and batonnet with the best of them. Since this Illustrated Bites creation is only labeled as part one when it comes to knife skills, with any luck, the site will add more useful knife tricks in the near future.

 

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