Summary: Learn some tips and techniques on how to properly chop nuts in this free cooking video clip.
Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years.read more
"Okay, today we are going to demonstrate a a chopping technique and a lot of recipes will call for chopped nuts. So I've got some pecan halves here and it is really based on how small a chop you want to get. It really just depends on the recipe and what you are making. Since I am going to use these cookies, I want these to be in small pieces so that they will be bite size and disperse through the batter evenly. So we are pretty much looking for a size about, like that and I've got a santoku knife here so I am going to start to chop these. Watching my fingertips and pushing those to the knife plate and not moving the knife left or right. Instead just chopping as I go. I'll go back through here and get these just a tiny bit smaller and that is some chopped nuts that is about the right size for a cookie dough. "
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