How To Coarse Chop
- December 3, 2007
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It’s the chop of choice for almost any vegetable—from basic oblongs and spheroids, like garlic, onions, and potatoes, to the more irregular oddities, like mushrooms, rhubarb, and sun-dried tomatoes.
You Will Need
- A chef’s knife
- A cutting board
- And a vegetable to cut
Step 1: Wash & peel
Wash and peel the vegetable, if necessary.
Step 2: Grasp knife
Grasp the knife in your dominant hand, holding the handle close to the blade with three fingers: your middle, ring, and pinkie. Curl your forefinger around one side of the blade while holding your thumb on the opposite side.
Step 3: Chop ends
With your non-knife-wielding hand, hold the vegetable firmly on the cutting board close to the area you will cut, and chop off the ends of the vegetable.
Step 4: Cut in half
Cut the vegetable in half with a vertical slice.
Keep the point of the knife on the board and use a steady rocking motion to slice—not saw—the vegetable with the full length of the blade.
Step 5: Slice vertically
With one vegetable half at a time, slice the vegetable vertically into ½” to ¾” slabs.
Don’t worry about being too exact when coarse chopping. This cut is mainly used to prep vegetables for cooking, so their final shapes don’t need to be perfect.
Step 6: Rotate & cut
Give each of the slab-cut vegetable halves a quarter-turn and then slice the slabs vertically into ½” to ¾” pieces until you have a coarsely chopped pile.
The food processor, a French invention, is another way to coarse chop vegetables—just drop in large chunks and whir for about 5 seconds.
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NEED MORE DETAILS ABOUT OTHER WAY OF CUTTING
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