Use a Knife Like a Chef | Chef Jean-Pierre

I'm a really old guy but have to tell you that this is the most instructive cooking video I've ever seen! The biggest take-away for me was to visualize the knife as a saw, not an axe. Thank you!

I've said it before, but man there is so much value in your videos. The way you don't just show the 'how' but also thoroughly explain the 'why' is exceptional. Bless you Chef.

This Thanksgiving I am grateful for discovering chef Jean-Pierre. I'm a partially disabled Marine, stuck in my home. I was bored and depressed when I accidentally discovered the videos and started cooking seriously. I had always enjoyed cooking, and had some basic skills but watching the videos, over and over in some cases, really elevated the level of my cooking and uncovered a passion for classic French and Italian cooking. My freezer is always packed with bags of kitchen scraps, and fresh made chicken and beef stock which I use nearly everyday to make the most spectacular gravies, rice, pot roasts, and soups that I also learned how to prepare watching the videos. I'm excited to get out of bed now, and some nights I have difficulty falling asleep, thinking about all of the mise-en-place I get to do in the morning. I love prep work! Crazy! I actually lost 42# after I stopped buying processed frozen and canned food! Thank you chef and staff! I am very thankful! Probably saved my life.

The mat to stop your cutting board from moving, mentioned at 5:08, is called a shelf liner(also called drawer liner rarely). They usually come in rolls but I did find precut sheets on Amazon. I hope my half hour of research to find this helps someone.

I'm tired of repeating myself, but chef Jean-Pierre is the G.O.A.T. a teacher, story teller, chef and all around awesome guy The passion he displays is absolutely contagious, I love the jokes about the booze most of all. My greatest find on you tube was finding Chef Jean-Pierre. Thank you for making me a better Chef

As someone who has been in the industry for like 13 years I can confirm that Chef Jean-Pierre can teach one or two new things to anyone in every single video, no matter how experienced one might think is. Thank you very much for all the hard work that you put in each video chef, it's really appreciated!

This is what make Chef Jean Pierre so extraordinary. Very few people would take the time to really make you understand. No other chef would do this. Chef JP doesn't just upload "cooking" videos. There's something to learn in everyone of them. You are 1 in 6.6 Billion :)

This dear gentleman is not only a master chef, he's a master teacher. He's a true gift to us all. God bless him!

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS VIDEO!!!! I've never ever seen anyone explain things like you do!!!! The Chef & Jack show!!!!!

The only chef on Youtube that I feel 100 percent confident in giving a thumbs up before I even see the video.

That JJBA picture when he's thrusting with the knife just killed me 😂

Immediately became one of my favorite cooking channels with the Polnareff/Silver Chariot meme

How to handle a knife in the kitchen is so important. You always have something wonderful to give us! The Claw technique absolutely did it for me this time. Thank you, Jean Pierre!

Thank you Chef. I am in construction and we train our new guys why we use tools the way we do, and how to do each procedure. It's the combination of how and why that makes for safe productive use of the tools. I like that you teach in the same manor with all your kitchen techniques, I have become a better home cook will all my foods because you teach me not just the dish you are making but a kitchen philosophy to bring to all my foods. Again, Thank you Chef!

Being a professional knife sharpener his explanation of using a ceramic steel is right on the money.

My best friend is a chef and had been running one kitchen or another for almost 30 years. His first exec job was 18. He says constantly that knife skills are dying out. When he first started years ago he said many chefs had strong knife skills but more recently he finds he has to teach these skills in the kitchen to professional cooks. “Knife skills are dying out Chris.” I’ve heard many l, many times. So Thank you for this video. Hopefully lots of people watch!! Another one of his favorites is, “You get cut by a dull knife not a sharp.”

I love these basic skills videos because they help with "everything" in the kitchen. Thanks again, Chef! 🍻

Been cooking, professionally, since 1972. Early on, I became a fanatic on keeping my knives sharp. The things that you demonstrate are very helpful to a novice, giving them a starting place in maintaining the edge. While there are many sharpening systems out there, I love, and recommend, the Norton tri-stone. I have two, one with Arkansas stones. Thanks for teaching how NOT to destroy the edge, which will enhance proper performance of the knife thereby improving knife skills in general. I applaud your choice of content in all your videos, and this one in particular.

The thing that really made me advance in the kitchen was the improvement of my knife skills and this video here is a gold 🥇

LOVE FROM FROM SOUTH AFRICA...THANK YOU AMAZING VIDEO