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How To – prepare asparagus, with Jamie Oliver’s mate Pete


00:00:00I’m going to show you a simple way to

00:00:02practice para guess take your spear

00:00:07that’s the good end the nice juicy tip

00:00:10and there’s good eating all the way down

00:00:12the stock but when you get to the end

00:00:14there’s a nasty hard woody bit you need

00:00:16to get rid of so the trick is to find

00:00:19the right place where the good eating

00:00:21stops and the woody bit starts and what

00:00:24you do is hold the bottom firmly in this

00:00:28hand

00:00:28and you bend top round like that and it

00:00:33snaps in exactly the right place this

00:00:36bit closing bin this bit is all lovely

00:00:40and can beat the whole thing to meet you

00:00:42can chop it you can dice it you can cook

00:00:44it like that whatever you like so again

00:00:48take the bottom firmly in your right

00:00:51hand and bend it around and it snaps now

00:00:56the spears won’t be the same length but

00:00:58you know you got there you’ve got full

00:01:00good eating out of both

00:01:06you