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Tournee Knife

-The tourne knife also can be called a bird's beak.

-It is used to make vegetables appear to seem like a shape of a football.

-This knife can be used for peeling and cutting small vegetables like any other knife.

- Some common vegetables cut with this knife are potatoes, squash and carrots.

- When most people use the tourne cut the often cut the vegetable down to 2 inches.

-The tourne cut is solely used to make the food look more appealing with the fancy deliCate cutting technique.

- Some people may believe that because of the curved handle the tourne knife can cut much more efficIently than a paring knife

- Using the tourne technique takes a lot of effort and time because it requires tons of peeling.

-When you learned how to cut this well some consider themselves masters.

- This knife when cutting is supposed to be held a certain way to be used correctly.

-The tourne cut is basically you end up with your vegetable having 7 sides and it looks like a football.

- For most people it is difficult to see a 7 sided shape coming out for the final product.

- When starting the tourne cut the very first cut that you make will take off a lot of the vegetable.

-When making the tourne cut the motion of the cut is making a clean smooth round cut.

- When cutting the sides tourne style you should not worry of how much you cutting/peeling off.

- Most people mess up while using the tourne cut when they reach the last cut/7th cut because they overestimate how much space they have to cut off.

- When you finish the tourne cut what you should have/feel is a nice smooth finish.

- If there are ridges when you feel the vegetable from beginning to end then this something you should work on.

-When starting to learn the tourne cut a lot of the vegetable waste because you are not supposed to worry about maximizing the amount.

- It is possible to get two tourne cuts out of one vegetable but this something you do after have mastered the tourne cut.

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