Slice Cucumbers for Greek Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village let's cut and add our cucumber now if you have a the large cucumbers that have the big seeds in them you'll want to cut them and deseed them. You can take even a teaspoon like this remove the seeds from the center these actually are like pickling cucs and they don't have a lot of seeds so I didn't need to do that. But I wanted to show you that and then you would just cut them slice them like so and you'd have these little half moon shapes, it's nice to use a pickling cuc you can use the whole cucumber. And we would just slice it in thin half moons or if you prefer you could just trim the ends and slice it in little circles like this, thats nice also for a salad you can really do your vegetables anyway you like them. Now the way to slice a vegetable you hold it like a with you hand like a claw and if your using a pairing knife you could do like this or with a big French knife you can go a lot faster and you continue like this. You just move your claw down the vegetable and when you hold your hand like this that prevents the knife from cutting into your fingers, your knuckles hit before the knife will cut your fingers so it's a safety thing. You always keep the blade of the knife moving so we'll add that to our salad and now we'll cut our tomatoes."