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myLot reputation of 83/100. tawny_24 (221)   ranked 969 out of 8,636 in cooking 3 years ago

Remember that movie with Gina Davis and Samuel L. Jackson where Gina was a spy with amnesia? There's a scene in the movie where she still doesn't know who she is but she's cooking dinner and all of a sudden she is mowing through carrots and other vegetables with a knife like a john deere combine.
What about you? Can you mince an onion so fast you don't have time to cry? Or do your chopped veggies look like victims of some horrible accident? Have you lost any fingers? Or do people watch you slice peppers into matchsticks and want you to give them lessons?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 99/100. cutepenguin (4884)   ranked 213 out of 8,636 in cooking   3 years ago

I'm pretty good with a knife - I did take lessons in school - but not so good that it's noticeable. basically, it's a quick and neat process.


myLot reputation of 83/100. tawny_24 (221)   ranked 969 out of 8,636 in cooking  3 years ago

I'm slowly but surely improving my skills with a knife. I've gone from "wow are those...carrots?" to "wow this is a pretty good looking plate!" I'm not that fast yet, but it has been some time since I've had to start over because everything is drenched in human blood!


myLot reputation of 99/100. cutepenguin (4884)   ranked 213 out of 8,636 in cooking  3 years ago

heehee. It just takes practice and patience.

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2. myLot reputation of 94/100. UpsideDownPineapple (531)   ranked 2,698 out of 8,636 in cooking   3 years ago

I don't have many practice hours under my belt, nor do I have any formal training, so I try to take things pretty easy when I have a knife in my hands. I want to get better at it though, if only because it looks cool. :)


myLot reputation of 83/100. tawny_24 (221)   ranked 969 out of 8,636 in cooking  3 years ago

Oh I know. It is such a great feeling to be in the kitchen with your friends when you are cooking and seeing thier recaction when you can mow through stuff with a big knife. One of my homegirls always says to remind her not to make me mad. I love it. One day I hope to be a wizard at chopping veggies. Plus it looks all cool and stuff to be standing there sharpening your knife with a wand sharpener. Some of my friends are a little on the nerdy side, and they play around and joke about the whole wizzard wand thing. Oh the joy of gamenight.

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3. myLot reputation of 97/100. wiccania (2950)   ranked 295 out of 8,636 in cooking   3 years ago

I'm capable of cutting and chopping veggies fairly neatly (though not perfectly) and without chopping off my fingers. However, I wouldn't say I have great knife skills. To do chopping that is quite uniform, I have to take my time -- one carrot would probably take me 10 minutes or more. But I could do it if I had to. It still wouldn't be perfect, but it would be passable. So either I do it in a reasonable amount of time with imperfect results, or it takes me an hour or more to prep the vegetables and they're closer to perfect/uniform. I prefer to go with speed unless it's something where neatness counts.


myLot reputation of 83/100. tawny_24 (221)   ranked 969 out of 8,636 in cooking  3 years ago

I have definitely gotten faster at chopping with practice, I think that if it still took me that long to chop carrots I would just say screw it and never eat them again. But baby carrots don't need any chopping at all and I do use them to sate time. Carrots are the hardest thing in the world to cut up.

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