As a world-famous chef, it’s obvious that Chef Gordon Ramsay needs to know his way around
a set of knives. But you might not know about all of his most impressive and most memorable
cooking experiences involving knives, which is why we’ve compiled a list of Gordon Ramsay’s
top 10 knife moments!
Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Kit
Ramsay may be the best of the best when it comes to cooking, but that’s partly because
he’s using the best possible tools in the kitchen. Not content with just one option,
Ramsay reveals his secret trio of knives that help him create his dishes. The first of them
is a powerful chopping knife to deal with all the heavy duty prep that Ramsay needs
to get done at work. This is teamed up with the second knife, a smaller and lighter paring
knife. But the biggest knife of them all is Ramsay’s prized serrated knife, used for
carving up a main course. Ramsay also has some friendly tips for anyone going knife
shopping. Apparently, there’s more to choosing a knife than just grabbing anyone from the
store. He explains that you need to experiment with picking up and holding knives until you
find one that feels right to you. And of course, the heavier the knife you can find, the better
your cutting will be.
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Ramsay vs. the Onion
One of many people’s greatest enemy in the kitchen is the common onion. Trying to cut
up one can result in stinging eyes and start the waterworks running. However, Ramsay tackles
these little monsters with absolutely no fear. In a video published on his personal cooking
channel, Ramsay takes the time to demonstrate how to properly chop up an onion into fine
slices. Ramsay starts off with a life-changing piece of advice - apparently, if you leave
the root bases of the onion on when you cut it, the onion juices won’t bleed and make
you cry. Thanks for looking out for us Ramsay! Things get a little more complicated when
Ramsay demonstrates the proper way to hold on to the onion, with one of his finger knuckles
leaning out to guide the knife. It looks dangerous, but it seems to work for him as he slices
into the onion one way, and then cuts along the other direction to make tiny pieces of
onion. Ramsay completes the task in no time, all without shedding a single tear.
How To Sharpen A Knife
Ramsay’s already taught us the three most important knives that we need to buy, but
what if they start going dull after a whirlwind cooking session? Luckily Ramsay is also a
master of knife sharpening, and he shows the best way to keep a knife in pristine condition
during a Youtube tutorial. First, he takes out a knife sharpening steel and says it should
be held as if it’s just a safe tennis racket. Wisely he reminds his audience to always keep
their fingers behind the hilt of the steel, avoiding any potential slicing accidents.
Ramsay makes it look easy as he sharpens the knife slowly, dragging the blade from the
bottom to the top to fully restore it. Then he starts to amp it up, crisscrossing from
the top to the bottom of the steel and getting faster and faster with his knife work. Ramsay
is unconcerned about wielding a sharp knife, however, and instead starts talking about
the dangers of blunt knives!
On the Chopping Block
A lot of amateur chefs just buy their herbs dried or already prepared from the grocery
store. But not Chef Ramsay. He likes to have his herbs completely fresh and prepare them
himself, but he knows a way to slice them up without causing a giant mess and staining
his chopping boards. Ramsay decides to teach a group of aspiring chefs his ways and starts
off with showing the proper knife skills needed to prepare chives. He uses his same fancy
finger trick as from the onion tutorial, urging everyone to use their finger knuckle as a
blade guide and to protect the other fingers. But he does have a word of warning this time,
begging them to “Please be careful!” He then begins to cut the chives into extremely
fine slices, without any of the herb juices staining the cutting board. After he’s satisfied
with the chives, Ramsay moves on to the basil. He folds the leaves into each other and then
rolls them up, all the while without bruising the fragile leaves. Then he turns the leaves
into super thin strips with his quick and precise cutting. His audience was wowed by
Ramsay’s talents, with some shaking their heads in wonder and mimicking his hand motions
with the knife. We’re pretty impressed too!
Gordon Ramsay Snaps A Knife!
We all know Ramsay for his awesome skills in the kitchen, but even the king of the culinary
world has to slip up once in a while. On his television show The F Word, Ramsay was giving
a mouthwatering tutorial on how to properly cook up brill, a type of flatfish. He gets
off to a strong start, bustling around his kitchen and explaining the garnishes and sauces
that he will be paring his seafood masterpiece with. Then, Ramsay shows a step by step lesson
from inside his home on how to properly slice and break down the raw brill fish. He proves
his knife sharpening skills quickly before jumping into the fish preparation, cutting
long strokes through the meat to create perfect fillets. When Ramsay tries to rehash this
lesson in a real-world kitchen, however, things don’t go exactly as planned. He brings out
a thin knife and explains. He starts playing around with it to show off just how flexible
it is, bending it against the hard metal counter in the kitchen. The knife finally has enough
and the blade snaps in half, with part of it flying off into the air! Ramsay is startled
but laughs it off, and the camera crew can be heard laughing at the mishap in the background
as well. Luckily no one was hurt, and Ramsay might be a little more careful in the future!
Ramsay’s Expertise
Ramsay has cooked beside numerous celebrities on his television shows and invited famous
journalist Kate Silverton to appear on The F Word for a friendly cook-off. During the
segment, Ramsay is in the middle of adding some spice to the apples he is cooking when
he starts to chat with Silverton about her fiancé. Apparently, Silverton’s fiancé
is a security specialist who provides training for journalists traveling to volatile locations
for stories, and he trained Silverton before she left for Iraq. Ramsay hones in on the
fact that her fiancé is an expert in his field, and proceeds to ask her. Obviously
seeing his chance to woo her, Ramsay tries to show off his own impressive expertise by
chopping up an apple with lightning speed. While Silverton admits that she does find
expertise attractive, it’s clear that she isn’t quite wowed by Ramsay’s knife skills.
He continues to rapidly slice up apples before giving up with a joking, He might not have
impressed Silverton, but he definitely impressed his viewers.
Ramsay and the Brazilian Chef
One of Ramsay’s other extremely successful shows is, of course, Kitchen Nightmares. In
the fifth season of the UK show, Ramsay visits the disastrous restaurant Piccolo Teatro.
Led by Brazilian head chef Daniel, the French restaurant is in shambles when Ramsay arrives.
Daniel is extremely enthusiastic, dancing around his tiny kitchen and suggesting his
best dishes for Ramsay to taste test. Ramsay simply sums up the restaurant with its eccentric
chef by saying, During dinner service, Ramsay watches in shock as Daniel slowly putters
around the kitchen singing and procrastinating. The night gets worse and worse until ultimately
Daniel has to be kicked out of the kitchen and sent home. He refuses to leave the kitchen
and adamantly holds onto a knife, while Ramsay calmly tries to pry it off of him. They have
a short showdown, with Ramsay asking for the knife over and over and Daniel holding onto
it until he finally concedes and uses it to scrape food into the trash. Ramsay has had
enough and decides to take matters into his own hands by throwing Daniel over his shoulder
and literally carrying him away from the restaurant.
Salmon Slicing Record
As we’ve already seen, Ramsay has some serious moves when it comes to quickly and easily
filleting fish. But he may have met his match when he was pitted head to head against Darren,
the world record holder for cutting at least 40 pieces of salmon in one and a half minutes.
In the video, Ramsay meets with both Darren and a Guinness World Records official to see
who will emerge victoriously, and potentially create a new world record. Ramsay admits that
he’s not his usual confident self, exclaiming When the official sets the stopwatch, the
men get to work slicing away at their respective salmon portions while a crowd looks on. Darren
may have a thing or two to teach Chef Ramsay, because he breaks down his portion way faster
than Ramsay. Each man had to produce 40 pieces of salmon, and Darren completes the task in
a mere one minute and twenty-four seconds! Ramsay, on the other hand, lags behind Darren
and makes a huge mistake by miscounting and only producing 39 pieces of salmon. While
Darren wins a new world record, Ramsay is sent home to practice his knife skills a little
more!
Ramsay Sharpening With Stars
As previously mentioned, Ramsay tends to attract a lot of celebrity visitors. This was the
case when actress and singer Martine McCutcheon appeared on The F Word with Ramsay. After
tucking into a delicious meal that Ramsay had prepared for her, McCutcheon admits that
she isn’t the best chef. She doesn’t even have real plates, only paper ones! Ramsay
decides that she’s in need of some culinary help, and pulls her into his kitchen for some
education. He chooses to start her off on a daunting task - how to sharpen a knife.
After first teaching her the proper names of the equipment, and teaching her that a
knife sharpening steel is NOT used for measuring rings, Ramsay hands McCutcheon the utensils
and stands behind her to help her out. He holds her hands and makes her sharpen the
knife despite her nerves, and they even pick up some speed doing it. He then backs away
and makes her sharpen it with her eyes closed, which is something that you probably shouldn’t
try at home!
Gordon Ramsay's Own Kitchen Nightmare
What happens when you combine a culinary master with the queen of comedy? A hilarious and
slightly dangerous demonstration, or at least that’s what happened when Chef Ramsay joined
up with Ellen Degeneres on The Ellen Show. Ramsay decides to show Ellen how to cook a
vegan stir fry, and she pitches in with some of the prep as well. He sounds like safety
is a high priority for him when telling Ellen to be very careful while cutting the carrots,
and he tries to show her proper cutting technique on a red pepper. But his safety demonstration
goes amiss when he actually cuts himself while lecturing Ellen on safety! He jokes that it
will be okay, because. Gross Chef Ramsay! The show must go on, and Ramsay jumps right
back into cutting up the pepper, only cracking once to ask for a bandage! Ellen grabs one
for her injured guest, and he continues to cook in a wok with occasional breaks to stem
the bleeding with a towel. It’s finally revealed that Ramsay didn’t just give himself
a tiny cut, but he actually cut straight through his fingernail and took it clean off. To add
insult to injury, Ramsay also exclaims that he thinks the nail ended up in the stir fry...
maybe not his best meal!
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