[Sca-cooks] Another knife question

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:

>>Ideally, though, for chopping and much slicing (depending on what the
>>item is), the preferred ideal motion involves keeping the point more
>>or less anchored on or near the surface of the cutting board, and
>>sliding it about two inches or so from side to side in a sort of
>>invisible track, while moving the center and heel of the blade in a
>>circular motion that looks a bit like watching the wheels on a
>>steam-driven locomotive.

>Thank you! I have, I think, been using my knives all wrong. I can't 
>quite figure out what you exactly are describing but perhaps I will 
>with some more rereading. This is a chopping motion with a bit of 
>horizontal movement? I'm not quite sure which parts of the knife 
>move and in which direction and which ones don't.
>
>I've never liked prepping my ingredients. This is one reason I 
>bought a food processor. Perhaps improving my knife work will 
>improve things. Certainly something I should do before I invest in 
>better knives, since I want the knives to fit the better motion and 
>not buy for what feels good with  my current motion and then have an 
>improved motion the new ones don't work with.

Now here's a question for you. (Again, sorry about the delay in 
response; I thought this thread was over.)

If I can figure out how to do this, would the Florilegium be 
interested in hosting a couple of small streaming videos (I hate 
streaming video but the file sizes are smaller, MPEG-4 suggests 
itself without my having to subject myself to the indignities of 
Windows Media or Real Media) of, say, my hands chopping an onion?

Adamantius
-- 
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conditions be brought under English rule.  It is in truth not for 
glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are  fighting, but for freedom 
-- for that alone, which no honest man gives  up but with life 
itself."
	-- The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

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