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How to Chiffonade
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No, it’s not some old-timey dance step. Or something draped over the lights in a brothel. Chiffonade is a technique used to cut leafy vegetables and herbs into slender ribbons.
Step 1: Wash vegetable
Wash the vegetable or herb, cutting off any stems that are still attached.
Step 2: Stack leaves
Stack a handful of leaves on top of each other.
Tip
If you’re using basil, stack up about 8 leaves at a time; for leafy greens, stack about 3 leaves.
Step 3: Hold stack
Roll the stack up tightly and hold it horizontally on the board in front of you with one hand.
Step 4: Grasp knife
Grasp the knife in your dominant hand, holding the handle close to the blade with three fingers: your middle, ring, and pinkie. Curl your forefinger around one side of the blade while holding your thumb on the opposite side.
Step 5: Hold roll
Hold the roll with your non-knife-wielding hand close to the area you will cut.
Tip
Curl your fingers so that the tips are firmly planted on the roll and the knuckles point outward—in the food world, this is called the ‘claw grip.’
Step 6: Slice on angle
Starting at one end, make thin slices with your knife at a 60-degree angle to the roll. Make the slices about 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch apart—creating very slender ribbons.
Tip
When cutting, be sure to keep your fingers tucked in from the blade and allow your knuckles to guide the blade across the roll.
Step 7: Add more greens
If you need more greens, stack, roll, and cut another handful of leaves until you have enough for your garnish.
Did You Know?
The word chiffonade comes from the French for ‘made of rags.’
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MeMeXx
09/15/2008 à 22:02
HERB NOT ERB FFS :
DaleOfHope
09/16/2008 à 01:29
Rofl, it's pronounced Erb smart one… lol
Don't believe me? Look up the pronunciation on dictionary.c om or something…
Piers
09/16/2008 à 16:42
I think you will find in English it is pronounced with a very prominent H, what do you think you are French ?
Also chiffonade is pronounced with an open A as in chiffonard & Basil is pronouced BAzill not Bayzill.
Don't pretend to speak our language if you can't even the simple things right.
DaleOfHope
09/16/2008 à 20:34
Well, I'm American and speak English… And that's how we pronounce the words here. We say, "Bay-Zill" and "Erb". Don't ask me why, because I simply don't know… 😛
Sorry for the confusion.
Piers
09/17/2008 à 05:39
It's down to the very multi-cultural nature of America. So you have a mixture of English and worlds from other languages. Your pronunciation of herbs comes from French for instance.
Daederik
08/10/2009 à 15:47
And Oregano is pronounced
"Or-ay-Gahno" as opposed to
"Or-eggano"
Yes yes, we get it..let's not make this a UK Vs US thing…cause in case you didn't noticed, you tend to be looked at just as badly as we are 😛
kiwucha
11/14/2009 à 22:10
Lol, I always say Herb and people look at me like "o.O"… No wonder 😛
king
01/31/2010 à 22:08
Word fight. XD
Juan Velez
02/11/2010 à 04:12
Cute girl in the vid.
celmaestro
04/23/2010 à 05:22
Say what you want, it doesn't exactly matter.
But I say "Erb"
MiHao1964
05/08/2010 à 11:48
How company this knife ?
Kayli
06/21/2010 à 15:53
@apersonfromporlock i lived in england for 3 yrs (im american) a loooooooooooong time ago dont they also eat fries with forks?? gotta luv engalnd 😀 (and london)
bag3lmonst3r
09/17/2010 à 05:36
is that chica cute or what? i completely forgot why i watched this in the first place 🙂
Ismael Morell
07/16/2011 à 07:06
@MeMeXx its erb you fucking dumbshit are you 2years old?
ʻIkuā
07/23/2011 à 07:18
I'm gay and the chick's hot.
James Ko
03/12/2012 à 09:21
good
Mago Gosora
08/22/2012 à 04:52
Step one: Go back in time.
Step two: Kill whoever decided to have multiple accents of the same language.
2534will
09/07/2012 à 17:59
urb wtf is a urb lol it has a h in it for a reason HERB
H Robinson
05/24/2013 à 20:54
"Herb" derives from Latin and he letter h is silent in languages that derive from Latin.
Rubiks
09/17/2014 à 22:47
In the words of Eddie Izzard "In America you say erb, in England we say herb because there's a fucking h in it"
Br C
02/06/2015 à 04:36
Isn't this very similar to the julienne?
Gant Grid
03/07/2015 à 02:16
I love 1 stop how to's. Thank you
Alex Wright
04/14/2015 à 19:15
How not to say herb and basil. Hint: it's not pronounced erb and basel
정팔이
06/07/2015 à 12:01
lol 8 basil leaves? You cut how much you need
Jasmine Shelton
09/02/2015 à 04:04
Dude I've been fling this without even knowing what the hell this was called.
Jasmine Shelton
09/02/2015 à 04:05
Doing*
Jason Kirin
10/08/2015 à 22:06
Came here because I was making Basil tea (http://www.ehow.com/how_2291223_brew-fresh-basil-tea.html) from my garden… Thanks for the new skill!
Modern BoreFare
11/03/2017 à 01:02
Chiffonade, pronounce like it's a fizzy drink…
Only in America…
Oh, and this isn't a 'US or UK pronounciation thing. The word is French, so should be pronounced the way the French would pronounce it.
You wouldn't pronounce Cabernet like Kay-ber-net, would you?
Yanyan Polo
01/14/2018 à 11:14
Could you please post the subtitle in the comment because i didnt copy paste from the upper post
Parker King
02/14/2018 à 21:29
"How to milk what should be a 30 second video into almost two minutes"
THIS IS #MAGA COUNTRY
09/20/2018 à 03:16
Ewww, who wants rags in their food?
Alberto Azzopardi
01/08/2019 à 17:33
‘H’ is silent in Spanish. So erb. In English H is pronounced as Herb..
Duijvel Duijvels
02/17/2019 à 21:26
step one: do not wash your herbs but feel free if you want to lose taste….
Wes
07/27/2019 à 19:23
ah 1/6th of an inch… even as a person who predominantly uses the empirical system, I completely agree with all the hate we get for it
Elizabeth Trevaskis
02/07/2020 à 10:29
P
Jerry
09/24/2020 à 16:40
Step 1: learn how to pronounce Chiffonade.
Brizzle L
01/04/2021 à 07:57
"If you need more… just do it again".
MeinGoobby
10/23/2021 à 11:40
Needed this for my Culinary School Homework
Les Reed
02/18/2022 à 09:29
💁🏾♂️🤔👀
Chiffonade: MADE OF RAGS…
COMES FROM THE FRENCH
AS WELL AS…
THE WORD DORY…
THE BROWNING COLOR AFTER YOU CARAMELIZE IN PREPARE A DARK THINNING COLOR BROWNING COLOR ON YOUR FOOD
DELRAY…
THE FRENCH… ?
CALLED THE BROWNING ON THE CARAMELIZATION PROCESS ON THE FOOD
OmniGio
11/17/2022 à 20:38
this video sucks