Basic Knife Skills

Thank you for your interest in the Basic Knife Skills Training from the UNITE HERE Mid Atlantic Training and Scholarship Fund. This class is from 3-4 hours and can support a class size of 10-15 students. Must have at least 1 year of cooking experience. Students will leave with a basic understanding of knife safety in a kitchen, learn cutting techniques, and will demonstrate these cutting techniques. The key to safety and learning is repetition. Learning blocks for the class are below:

• Sanitation and set up
  
• Knife safety: handling, carrying, cutting, washing
  
• How to safely hand the knife to someone else
  
• Knife sharpening: how to hone with a steal
  
• Cutting techniques: small, medium and large dice cuts
  
• Cutting techniques: rough chopping, slicing, julienne, mincing

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The Culinary Literacy Center at Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, United States

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