I was watching a cooking video on YouTube a while back. The cook was making Korean Curry with Chicken. She gave viewers some good tips during the course of the video, such as chopping all the vegetables in similar sizes so they cook at the same time. But she kept doing one thing that set my teeth on edge: she was using her plate as a cutting board for all the vegetables she was putting into the curry.
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| Respect your knives and they will work hard for you. (Jeff Quackenbush photo) |
Do not, under any circumstances, use a glass or ceramic plate as a cutting board. I cringed every time she sliced her veggies on a glass plate in front of the camera. This will dull your nice knife a lot faster and if you make a habit of using a plate as a cutting board, you will ruin your chef's knife. There's also a danger of slippage which will increase the risk of cutting yourself. Please use either plastic cutting boards
or a butcher block cutting board
. I own both. |
| Color coded plastic cutting boards helps keep germs separated. Tammy Quackenbush photo |
Plastic cutting boards (which sold in different colors so you can easily segregate the dairy, meat and veggies/fruit) are good if you're going to someone's home to help cook a meal or a church potluck. They're easy to clean, just thrown them in the dish washing machine when needed.
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| Yes, I love my butcher's block cutting board enough that it usually accompanies me for all my cooking videos. Jeff Quackenbush photo |
My butcher block usually stays at home (unless I'm filming a video), and takes a little, gentle maintenance. It gets a good hand wash and rubdown with food safe mineral oil
from time to time to keep it camera ready.
Now that is a pet peeve I can understand and sympathize with. I always use a cutting board.
ReplyDeleteI don't have too many pet peeves when it comes to food but I couldn't pass this issue up.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Nice blog. I watched a few of your cooking video clips... nice! I really like it. I'm following now.
ReplyDeleteI always find people's pet peeves very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI once gave a new colleague (as in, we had only been working together for two weeks) a birthday present of a slab of expensive chocolate which was delightfully wrapped in see-through cellophane. I thought, why cover that up, and just attached a pretty ribbon and a card. When I gave it to her, she freaked out at me saying that her pet peeve was people who don't wrap presents. I looked at her like she was insane, thinking: "You're lucky you even got a present and I don't thinking I'll be going to the trouble of giving you one again!" Sheesh, right. :-)
Anyhoo, I usually chop small things like fruit directly on the plate with a small knife, and worry more about damaging the patina on the plate than myself. But yeah, chopping boards are a must for knife wielding cooks who value their fingers.
I'm one of those cooks who likes my fingers very much! :)
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