/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16121321]

got gifted one of these because my asian coworker heard that I like cooking. and now my wrist HURTS after trying to use it to prep some food.

Have I just been memed? this stuff is heavy, why do they use this to chop veggies?

[Anonymous No.16121333]

Vegetable cleavers aren't particularly heavy
Meat cleavers are for cracking bones

[Anonymous No.16121338]

it's a light knife are you meeming me
just use a push cut

[Anonymous No.16121349]

use your forearm instead of your wrist. move at the elbow

[Anonymous No.16121352]

>>16121321
>now my wrist HURTS

[Anonymous No.16121400]

Why would I get this over a santoku?

[Anonymous No.16121408]

>>16121400
Ya got limp wrists

[Anonymous No.16121417]

>>16121400
cleavers are better if youre doing really big batches or any hard butchery (going through bones instead of just around them)
besides that its just preference, and chefs knives have upsides too

[Anonymous No.16121421]

>>16121321
>wrist hurts
come on nigga

[Anonymous No.16121441]

>>16121417
Cleavers for meat make sense. I never understood it for veg when a light santoku works better

[Anonymous No.16121444]

>>16121417
Cai dao is not a meat cleaver. The name literally means vegetable knife. The broad shape is so you can scoop your chopped veg up and into the wok.

[Anonymous No.16121454]

>>16121321
>my wrist HURTS
Fuck off I can use one of those without my wrists hurting, and I'm scrawny like that twig in this pic >>16121352

[Anonymous No.16121492]

>>16121444
cai dao is thin knife. america calls it cleaver because america is stupid.

[Anonymous No.16121497]

>>16121492
meat knife for butcher is different knife. thick.

[Anonymous No.16121856]

>>16121497
>calls cleaver "meat knife"
>because actually stupid
we don't care that your cleaver-shaped knife is sized for weaker, more feminine use

[Anonymous No.16121943]

>>16121454
Post wrist then, twig-boy

[Anonymous No.16122015]

>>16121943
>lard-wrist posts picture trying to act tough
>holding a survival knife
>on the fucking cooking board
Get the fuck outta here watcha going to do, stab me? That won't help julienne your vegetables, if you even fucking eat any.

[Anonymous No.16122035]

>>16121943
so plump and so soft. not a callus in sight. you must give exquisite handjobs

[Anonymous No.16122038]

>>16122015
>words, words, words
Still no wrist posted. You scared of takin a pic, or is the phone too heavy to hold with one hand?

[Anonymous No.16122056]

>>16122038
my god i can see the obesity in your hands alone

[Anonymous No.16122112]

>>16121321
>and now my wrist HURTS after trying to use it
>>>/fit/
How the fuck can you be this weak and pathetic?

[Anonymous No.16122138]

>>16121943
>glock knife
OHNONONONONONO

[Anonymous No.16122159]

>>16121321
.

if my asian grandma can use this everyday then so can you

[Anonymous No.16122166]

>>16121321

[Anonymous No.16122173]

>>16122038
>>16122056

>The fucking filename

Why were you taking pictures of your wrists in april? Just in case you needed to post them on ck?

[Anonymous No.16122214]

>>16122166

[Anonymous No.16122226]

Goddammit there are some neet Lard lords in here

[Anonymous No.16122250]

>>16122173
Your mom wanted to make sure I was a real big guy, just for her, in April

[Anonymous No.16122267]

>>16121943
>>16122038
>Fat and brown
You're disgusting

[Anonymous No.16122291]

>>16121321
>>16122038
drummer here
youd be amazed the amount of weird little muscles that populate the hand and lower arm that vrey few people use on a regular basis
your fat wrists dont prove shit

[Anonymous No.16122307]

>>16122166
This. OP is a faggot and definitely a bottom.

[Anonymous No.16122420]

I try to keep up to date wrist pics, just in case.

[Anonymous No.16122426]

>>16122267
What, you dont like Americans?

>>16122291
Go do some triplets, band geek

[Anonymous No.16122432]

>>16122307
Take your meds, schizo.

[Anonymous No.16122573]

>>16122426
fast triplets are a combination of lower arm motion and rbound work from the pinky - not really any wrist involved unless you alternate wrist and lower arm motion to give muscles a chance to relax
not a band geek but why yes I have played at Union Pool

[Anonymous No.16122606]

>>16121943
MMM BOY ARE YOU FAT

[Anonymous No.16122612]

>>16122307
Hot

[Anonymous No.16122669]

>Take your meds, schizo.

[Anonymous No.16122728]

>>16122606
Please dont coom to my wrist pics

[Anonymous No.16122830]

>>16122166
This image never fails to crack me up.
And OP clearly has big gay.

[Anonymous No.16123426]

>>16121321
Push when you cut and let your upper arm do the work.
Don't pull/slice.

[Anonymous No.16123430]

>>16121943
Did not realize until now you can spot aperson's diet from the lardy folds on its knuckles.

[Anonymous No.16123437]

>>16122166
What the fuck is going o with his hand? Is it made out of a tent?

[Anonymous No.16124562]

>>16121943
>>16122038
Holy hamplanet, Batman.

[Anonymous No.16124719]

>>16122015
>watcha going to do, stab me?

[Anonymous No.16124734]

>>16121497
What is this called? Looks cool.

[Anonymous No.16124756]

>>16124734
search for 'rhino cleaver'

[Anonymous No.16124781]

>>16121321
They are around same weight as normal-sized chef knife.

[Anonymous No.16124835]

>>16121321
>my wrist HURTS after trying to use it to prep some food
Stop flipping it all day like a fairy, then.
>this stuff is heavy
Relative. Put it on your kitchen scale and give the actual weight.

[Anonymous No.16124848]

>>16122166
lmao.
there it is.

[Anonymous No.16124870]

>>16124756
Thanks

[Anonymous No.16124877]

>>16121400
>Why would I get this over a santoku?
If you’re a rural or working class Chinese peasant, you aren’t going to have a drawer of specialized knives meant for specific things, and a westerner’s idea of a ‘universal’ knife (chef, santoku, gyuto, whatever) isn’t the same as yours, as they don’t regularly need to chop through the body and bones of a whole animal you bought at the market or raised, and you aren’t gonna cry about chopping a few veg with a heavier knife.
Are you a Chinese peasant?

[Anonymous No.16124959]

I love cleavers for mincing things
>t. Chink

[Anonymous No.16125003]

>>16121321
there are two types of cleavers. type 1 is the vegetable cleaver, thin and light and "may" be suitable to cut thru chicken bones. heavy duty meat butchery goes to type 2 cleavers with a wider angle and heft to hack bones.
idk how heavy your cleaver is but if its for butchery it'd weigh a pound or more. otherwise it could be your technique's off as chinese cleavers use a different technique as opposed to western chef knives.
Id watch some youtube videos to get a sense of the movements involved and practice a bit more. you'll get the hang of it

[Anonymous No.16125036]

>>16121492
>america calls it cleaver because america is stupid.
america calls it “chinese cleaver” or “vegetable cleaver”, which is okay and and makes it different from “meat cleaver”. It’s both large rectangle knives, but one is meant for skin and bones and meat and one is not
also for the most part america doesn’t like china. america does like Japan and enjoy calling Japanese knives correct names like santoku and nakiri. if china gets better maybe america will also say caidao and gudao for chinese knives.

[Anonymous No.16125142]

NAKIRI is also useful to have.

[Anonymous No.16125228]

>>16121321
>my wrists hurt :(((
Your father should have beaten you as a child

[Anonymous No.16125236]

>>16121349
this
use it for mincing stuff
just roughly cut up whatever you want to mince, then just lift it up and light lightly drop it along the board rapidly until the thing is minced evenly

[Anonymous No.16125266]

>>16125236
counter height also matter btw
since you're heavily relying on downward motion as opposed to slicing with a western chef's knife, where slice by pulling or pushing the handle towards you, at any angle you like, you tend to be lifting the knife upwards repeatedly to make cuts
If your counter is too high, your arm will get tired much sooner with a vegetable cleaver
There's a Wang Gang video where his cousin couldnt mince some meat effectively because of how tall the table was relative to her height

[Anonymous No.16125522]

>>16122038
Different anon but here’s mine

[Anonymous No.16125591]

>>16121321
work with the weight not against it

[Anonymous No.16126342]

>>16122669
go back newfag

[Anonymous No.16126660]

>>16121943
>literal 15y old nigger
the absolute state of this board