Knife skills videos to hone your cutting skills and slicing techniques
Here at Victorinox, we are not just experts in making knives. We’re also experts in using knives. Our team includes professional chefs, experienced butchers and trained cutlers. All this experience comes together with our extensive knowledge of stainless steel and its properties to make sure that we create kitchen knives with sharp blades and comfortable handles, helping you make the perfect cut.
Our knife experts share their knowledge with you. Do you want to hone your cutting techniques or learn some basic knife skills? Our videos will show you knife skills that go beyond just slicing and dicing. We’ll show you how to properly master your kitchen knife, plus teach you how to chop with flair, just like the pros.
For those who prefer to learn knife skills with an illustrated guide, we also have step-by-step instructions on how to cut various foods such as fish, beef or even onions properly.
How to Cut a Pineapple
To properly cut a pineapple, follow these steps:
- Slice off the top and the bottom of the pineapple. Slice off the skin thinly, using a large kitchen knife.
- Take a smaller kitchen knife and remove the eyes of the pineapple, by making two diagonal cuts either side of the row of eyes. This helps to minimize waste.
- Remove the core – either by slicing the pineapple into rounds and cutting out the core using a round cookie cutter, or by cutting the pineapple into quarters lengthways and slicing out the core.

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How to Cut a Tomato
To dice a tomato into small cubes, follow these steps:
- Lay a tomato upside down and slice vertically but without cutting all the way through.
- Turn the tomato 90 degrees and cut again – also without cutting all the way through.
- Turn the tomato once more and cut – this time all the way through to make diced cubes.

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Comment aiguiser votre couteau de cuisine

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Comment tailler en julienne
Pour tailler une carotte en julienne, suivez ces étapes :
- Coupez un côté de la carotte pour obtenir une base plate, cela vous donnera de la stabilité et vous aidera à couper avec précision.
- Repliez les doigts de votre main libre de façon à tenir le légume du bout des doigts. Cette main servira de guide pour la lame en vous aidant à trancher rapidement, mais avec maîtrise et sans risque de vous couper !
- Tranchez la carotte en lanières en imprimant un léger mouvement de va-et-vient au couteau, de la pointe à la base de la lame.
- Pour tailler en julienne, saisissez une des lanières les plus larges et tranchez-la finement dans le sens de la longueur en tirant le couteau vers vous. La pointe de la lame doit être dirigée vers le bas et le manche du couteau doit être légèrement levé lorsque vous tirez.
Comment couper un oignon
Pour couper un oignon, suivez ces étapes :
- Épluchez l’oignon et coupez-le en deux. Vous pouvez garder la tige, celle-ci vous facilitera la tâche lors des prochaines étapes.
- Coupez l’oignon dans le sens de la longueur sans atteindre l’extrémité. N’oubliez pas de replier les doigts de votre main libre de façon à tenir le légume du bout des doigts pour plus de sécurité et de maîtrise.
- Imprimez un léger mouvement de va-et-vient au couteau, de la pointe à la base de la lame.
- Réalisez 2 ou 3 incisions horizontales (sans aller jusqu’au bout).
- Puis tranchez transversalement dans un mouvement de va-et-vient pour obtenir des dés fins.
Comment tailler en brunoise
To brunoise a leek, follow these steps:
- Halve the leek.
- Tuck the fingers of your non-knife hand into a claw grip.
- Julienne the leek by pulling the knife towards you, cutting the leek into long thin strips. The tip of the blade should be pointing down and the handle of the knife should be slightly raised as you pull.
- Brunoise the leek by taking a small bunch of the julienne strips and cutting finely crossways to make a fine dice.
- Cut with a slight rocking motion so that the blade is always moving from the point to the heel of the knife.
The Rock Chop
To rock chop, follow these steps:
- Remove the leaves of the herb from the tougher stalk.
- Tuck the fingers of your non-knife hand into a claw grip.
- Chop the herb into smaller pieces.
- Form a pile of the roughly chopped herb leaves and place the blade of the knife directly onto the pile.
- Use the fingers of your non-knife hand to lightly hold the blade (being careful not to get too close to the sharp edge) and hold the blade end of the knife more or less in the same place.
- At the same time, move the handle of the blade up and down, and back and forth across the pile of herb leaves.
- Do this repeatedly until the herb is chopped as finely as you need.

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