Kitchen Knife Skills 101 - Vivront

Name: Kitchen Knife Skills 101 - Vivront
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Learn how to use your kitchen knives with more confidence and apply your skills to make a delicious salsa.

Created byVivront Knife Shop

Last updated 2/2025

English

What you'll learn

Learn how to hold, handle and use a kitchen knife safely and efficiently
Understand different knife shapes and movements for different food prep needs
Learn the best way to cut produce like mangoes, peppers and onions
Apply your newly-learned skills to make a delicious mango or peach salsa from scratch!

Course content

4 sections • 19 lectures • 30m total length

Welcome to the Knife Skills Course!1:03
Welcome to the course!
This is a video version of the in-person knife skills class we offer at our shop in Edina, Minnesota.
We look forward to teaching you things like how to hold and handle your knife efficiently and safely, different cutting motions used for different food prep purposes, and how to prepare this delicious mango/peach salsa.
About Vivront0:28
We're called Vivront, and we're a mission-driven organization. We're passionate about education and community support--a portion of our revenue goes to support school lunch by paying down debts.
The Course You're About To Take1:21
This course usually takes 90 minutes in real life. In this Udemy version, you can choose your own speed. Fly through it or pause and rewind. We won't judge you.

We're gonna start by cutting some carrots to show you some techniques, and we recommend you follow along with your own carrots. Then we'll move on to our recipe ingredients: peppers, onions, a mango/peach, and some olive oil, salt, pepper and cilantro for seasoning.
Curiosity - Our Motto1:24
Once upon a time, I asked a Chef de Cuisine, "how do people learn well?"
He told me...
"Folks do the best they know how until they find a better way.”
Learning is at the core of our mission--and approaching it with curiosity.

Handling a Kitchen Knife0:54
In this lecture we'll quickly go over how to handle a kitchen knife safely. Go slow and enjoy yourself.
Using the Knife to Help With Your Task1:11
When you're picking your knife, some of it's about how you're approaching the food, and what you do to the food to make your task easier.

1. ¾ Rule
2. Cut a flat spot rule
How To Approach The Food
About the Knife's Edge -- Honing to Keep it Sharper Longer2:04
This video will go over some of the ways your knife gets dull, and how to change that.
The Knife's Edge
Holding and Moving Food2:06
Ever seen pro chefs chop food without looking? It's because of the way they move it in their non-cutting hand. Learn how to move food efficiently while cutting.
Holding the Knife in your Cutting Hand • Three Ways2:14
There are three ways to hold a kitchen knife. We'll show you each of them in this video, and you choose which works best for your hands and your knife of choice.
Holding the Knife
About Blade Shapes1:05
In this lecture we'll go over different blade shapes, and how to use them to your advantage depending on your food prep goal.
Sticks & Cubes1:41
Our food grows in circles. The French have a whole naming system for different shapes you can cut, but we prefer to keep things simple: sticks and cubes.

Intro to the Salsa Recipe • What You Need + What You'll Learn0:33
Alright. Now that you learned about your knife, let's use it! We're gonna make a delicious peach or mango salsa to sharpen our skills. (Haha, get it? Sharpen?)
Cutting an Onion1:54
1. Cut the flowering side
2. Cut through the root (vertically)
3. Turn to the side and cut horizontally
4. Cut it vertically
5. Spin and dice
Cutting a Bell Pepper2:32
1. Cut the top off
2. Cut the bottom
3. Look inside and pick a void
4. Lay flat and cut horizontally
5. Make sticks and cubes
Cutting a Mango4:49
This video will go over one way to cut a mango. Don't be scared!
Mix It All Together + Olive Oil, Lemon, Salt, and Cilantro2:24
You're almost done! Add in your extras -- you decide how much you want of everything.
Precision Cuts

Requirements

No cooking experience needed. Ideally you should have a kitchen knife, bell pepper(s), an onion, a mango or peach, and some olive oil, salt and pepper.

Description

Welcome to the Kitchen Knife Skills 101 course by Vivront.

We’re a mission-driven kitchen shop located in Edina, Minnesota. We believe that curiosity is the best approach to learning, and you’ve taken a step in that direction—your innate curiosity led you to click on this course!

We typically offer a 90-minute in-person version of this course at our store. However, since education and accessibility are some of our key values as an organization, we've decided to publish a version here for our remote friends.

We'll go over some kitchen knife basics, including ways to hold the knife, ways to hold the food, how to cut produce including peppers, onions, mangoes, and cilantro.

You’ll learn about a few different types of blade shapes and how to use them to your advantage based on what you're cooking. These knife skills are easiest accomplished when your knife is sharp so we'll also spend some time talking about why knives go dull and how to keep them sharper longer.

We offer on-site sharpening at our store in Edina. If you can’t drop your knives off in-person, you can mail your knives to us and we’ll get them back to you, performance-ready. More information about sharpening as well as our other classes and the knives we carry from around the world can be found on our website at vivront dot com.

Without further ado, enjoy the Kitchen Knife Skills 101 Course, and please reach out with feedback and/or comments regarding your learning experience! We want to make this course, and your future cooking endeavors, as easy and enjoyable as possible.

Happy cooking!

–Your friends at Vivront

Who this course is for:

If you're new to cooking or a seasoned chef, everyone will learn something from this accessible, fun course that results in newfound kitchen confidence and a delicious, fresh salsa.

Kitchen Knife Skills 101 - Vivront

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 4min

All About Knives: How to handle, hold, cut, and keep knives sharper longer7 lectures • 11min

Salsa Time!5 lectures • 12min

Conclusion3 lectures • 3min

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