
Soft Grip Handle - Soft grip handle with rubberized tpu enhances leverage while the non-skid base ensures stability during use. Cut cheese, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and more 7 Interchangeable Blades - Rust resistant stainless steel retains razor sharpness for crisp, smooth cutting and grating. This cheese slicer is destined to become the favorite among all your home kitchen tools Storage container lets you hold prepared vegetables in the Vegetable Cutter until you are ready to begin cooking. Built-in chop lid lets you cut foods directly into the 2L collection tray without the mess of a knife and cutting board. Stainless Steel Vegetable Slicer - Let you julienne, chop and slice vegetables with ease. Just remove the seeds and white pith, cut into manageable and uniform portions, stack and cut into matchsticks.īut what about leafy vegetables? If they are cut into thin strips, is that julienning too? Well, if the strips are longer and thinner than a matchstick, the more proper term would be chiffonade. Some vegetables, like bell peppers, cannot be sliced the way you would carrots and eggplants. Then, stack the slices and cut into matchsticks. With the fingers of one hand pressing down the stack of carrot slices, start cutting into strips as thin as the slices.Īs with the carrot, start by thinly slicing the eggplant. Take several slices, as many as you can conveniently manage, and stack them. After the skin has been discarded, slice the carrot thinly - about an eighth of an inch or thinner. Carrots, for instance, usually requires peeling.
If the vegetable needs to be peeled, start by peeling it. Besides, what kind of cook doesn’t possess the most basic knife skills? This, then, is how to efficiently julienne vegetables with a knife and cutting board.
It will probably take less time to do the job manually and you’ll have only a knife and a cutting board to clean afterward. But if you’re just julienning a piece of carrot, do you really want to bother taking out the machine, snapping in the correct blade, washing, drying and then putting everything back again? The fastest, most efficient and most convenient way is to use a food processor. It’s simple enough if you think about it but there is a tedious way and an efficient way to do the job.
When a recipe calls for julienned vegetables, it simply means that the vegetables are cut into “matchsticks”.