Kyoku Chef Blog

Learn the easiest way to cut parsley for fresh, clean flavor every time. This guide covers how to wash, prep, and chop parsley properly without bruising the leaves.

Learn how to cut prime rib into perfect steaks using a simple, effective method. Discover why removing the back rib first makes slicing easier, which knives work best, and why switching from a boning knife to a carving knife gives cleaner, more precise cuts.

Learn how to cut spiral ham. Discover a simple, effective way to cut spiral ham with a sharp Japanese knife. Learn how to carve a spiral ham perfectly using a Japanese knife. Step-by-step tips to slice with precision and make your holiday meal look as good as it tastes.

Learn everything there is to know about cutting celery. Explore how to cut celery into sticks, slices and finely chopped pieces, and some tips on how to cut and use celery ribs and celery root (celeriac).

This blog explains what bias cut means in cooking, and which common vegetables are usually cut on the bias. It also explains the differences in biased cut in cooking and bias cut in clothing.

Discover four of the best Japanese serrated bread knives for cutting sourdough bread from Kyoku. These knives are long, with sharp serrated blades, comfortable handles, sturdy, well-balanced blades to give you neat sourdough slices without crushing that beautiful crust.

This blog explains five different ways to cut vegetables. From slicing to chopping to julienne cuts, it explains the five vegetable cutting methods to choose from, which yield different results in terms of look, taste, and cooking requirements. 

For soups, for example, you want bigger vegetable pieces, so you go for chopping. For spring rolls, you’d want fine strips, so you must use the julienne cut. Then there are also slice cuts, mince cuts, and dice cuts, which give you different textures, cooking times, and presentations. 

This blog details how to cut a coconut with a knife. When you have the right coconut cutting knife, you can proceed to employ different strategies for opening the coconut depending on whether it is a green coconut  (fresh, immature) or a brown coconut (mature, harder).

This blog describes the best and most proper way to hold a knife, which is the pinch grip. However, depending on your level of experience with knives (beginner vs pro), the size of the knife in question, and the use of the knife, you can also opt for a handle grip, a fingertip grip, a hammer grip, a thumb-on-spine grip, or even a palm-on-blade grip.

This guide explains the process of peeling and coring an apple with a knife. It explains how the two methods of peeling an apple with a knife, and how to core your apple with a pairing knife.

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