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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:
I am also curious about the course saying that the chef’s knife is the most useful knife? I have one, but prefer my 4” paring for all but large items like cantaloupe.
— Heidi Hanz
Answer:
If you like your pairing knife better than a chef knife, go for it. Um, you know, when I started working with Jacques Poppen during our course, the Jacques Poppen, um, uh, what was it? The, the taste or the, the Jacques Poppen course that we have on Rouxbe, I was quite surprised to see that he used a pairing knife for most of the stuff he was doing, and that's great, that's fun. Um, you know, it's a different generation learn different, different ways. So chef knife is not always used. If you're more comfortable with a four inch pairing knife, um, instead of a large knife, that's totally fine. Um, just re it's gonna be easier on your hand with a bigger knife than it would for a smaller one. But if you're used to that, stick with it.
