Taste of Asia @ Home Carrot Tree Garnish Advanced Cleaver Skills

Attractive Carrot Tree Garnish, used to surround and decorate dishes. Only for those who are confident in their Cleaver Skills. Make cuts slowly, sliding knife back and forth, keep other hand away from the blade!! The finished garnish can be seen in Part 3 of the Sweet and Sour Sparerib clip. Thanks for watching and look for the upcoming Holiday Sale at tasteofasiaathome.com, the complete professional wok set including cleaver, sauces and dvd!!

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Howto & Style

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• Chinese Cooking
• How To

[jui49]

XyelleX - actually you are right, after I did this one I got the whetstone out and touched it up!!

[AESamuel]

That's very pretty, I think I will have to try this (very slowly!)

[jui49]

@AESamuel Slowly is the key when learning this. Keep your other hand as far back as possible and use a back and forth motion with the cleaver so you are not using a lot of forward pressure in case the blade slips. After a while you will get the hang of it. You may go through a few carrots but that is half the fun. Good Luck and let me know how you do!

[XyelleX]

knife isn't sharp enough...

[soulfly7112000]

Very cool technique and video, but I will agree, you need to sharpen that knife up a bit. Steeling that hard will destroy the edge, and scraping the blade on the cutting board will destroy the edge. Thanks for the video!

[flyinganal]

you shouldn't need to push that hard to cut carrot. sharpen that knife up, bro.