00:00:01different ways of grating and shaving
00:00:03vegetables one essential piece of
00:00:05kitchen kit is a microplane this isn’t
00:00:09here it’s just it’s like it looks like a
00:00:11grater but it shaves much much more
00:00:12finely and more accurately they’re
00:00:14available in very different sizes of
00:00:17great and so each one has got particular
00:00:19uses the fine one here I love to use for
00:00:22nutmeg oh no you do really just grate
00:00:24like that up and down you get a really
00:00:27beautiful fine fine fine great nutmeg
00:00:31tap the microplane after you’ve used it
00:00:33so everything falls off the bank this is
00:00:36also really good for lemon zest it
00:00:39shaves is really really delicately
00:00:42finally again what template make sure we
00:00:47got all the zest off that’s a fine one
00:00:52medium side one is great for chins
00:00:55especially over the top of off cook
00:00:57dishes like pasta and stuff often I
00:00:59plate all the spaghetti or the pasta or
00:01:01the soup up and then just grate this
00:01:03over the top and it’s so much nicer than
00:01:05grating at first and then sprinkling on
00:01:07because you get to keep these beautiful
00:01:09little curls on top they look really
00:01:11cool them you can also use cheese on
00:01:17this big one here which cuts much wider
00:01:19ribbons and see that it’s also good for
00:01:23chocolate chocolate looks great on you
00:01:26shave it like that these beautiful curls
00:01:29there this middle sized one here is
00:01:33really good too for garlic we get a peel
00:01:35garlic clove and you don’t want to wait
00:01:38around to chop it fine you can do it
00:01:40great
00:01:42on one of these beautifully shaved fine
00:01:46garlic you can do that straight into the
00:01:48pan or if you put the pan on I have the
00:01:50oil in it you can grate straight in
00:01:52really easy you’ve got to make sure that
00:01:55you clean your I complain afterwards
00:01:56obviously because you have got raw
00:01:58garlic on it okay you can also do
00:02:01carrots root vegetables and things like
00:02:03that if you’re making a salad a little
00:02:11shavings of carrot it’s also nice to
00:02:13finish plates with if you’re making a
00:02:15salad or something great little shavings
00:02:18of carrot over the top just slightly
00:02:21bigger stuff bigger savings if you want
00:02:24on the coarser microplane alright and
00:02:30don’t forget the little humble sweet
00:02:32peeling either because this you know
00:02:34it’s what people just use to peel the
00:02:36vegetables but don’t forget you there’s
00:02:37so much more to it than that you can you
00:02:39can prank vegetables with it so this
00:02:41count is already peeled and I’m cutting
00:02:43it into lovely little strips with this
00:02:45peeler now that’s a lovely addition to a
00:02:47salad speed peeler is really
00:02:49multifunctional ankle good next thing is
00:02:54there’s little friends here this is a
00:02:56plastic mandolin and what it is is its
00:02:59edge here that you can slide vegetables
00:03:01down against and it cuts into strips
00:03:02salt carrot for example tossed into
00:03:09beautiful slices like that slightly
00:03:12thicker then you would get weather with
00:03:14a speed peeler what oh my god been down
00:03:19to the grind the reminder figures
00:03:29we get down towards the end of the
00:03:31county have to be very careful when you
00:03:39get towards the end what to do is
00:03:42actually push it with your fingers up
00:03:47like the wing so there’s no chance of
00:03:51you getting caught by that little blade
00:03:54there excellent these lovely shavings
00:04:04really nice and the salad or steamed
00:04:06something like that this one is very
00:04:10similar except it’s got an additional
00:04:12sort of set of ridges here that means
00:04:14that when you put the carrot through you
00:04:16get long domestics it’s those slices see
00:04:22that yeah
00:04:24very use exactly the same way when you
00:04:27get down to the end fingers out the way
00:04:34just to be safe these lovely matchsticks
00:04:39that’s fantastic just added into a green
00:04:41salad for a little bit of color a little
00:04:43bit of crunch daddy use it
00:04:45no don’t forget there’s micro-planes
00:04:48fantastic and you can do all these great
00:04:50things with them but they are quite
00:04:52expensive if your budget doesn’t run to
00:04:54it box craters are a really good
00:04:56alternative this one is quite fancy it’s
00:04:58got six cutting signs but the four-sided
00:05:01one is every bit as good and they’re
00:05:03very versatile too people think they’re
00:05:05only really just for Kings but you can
00:05:06do cheese you can do potatoes you can do
00:05:08any of this stuff with a box grater you
00:05:10can cut with a thick side you can cut
00:05:13potatoes for dolphin worms things like
00:05:14that so they’re really good investment
00:05:16if you don’t have that if you can
00:05:18stretch to buying the full kit of micro
00:05:19planes these things are really good too
00:05:22they’re not too expensive they’re quite
00:05:25hard to find but if you look online you
00:05:26can normally track the knees down and
00:05:28simplest the most economical of all is a
00:05:30trusty speed peeler it does much more
00:05:33than peel vegetables
00:05:37okay that’s grating and shaving
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