Cutting Cherry Tomatoes
A really decent set of knives make a world of difference in the kitchen. Not only does the prep process go much quicker, you do less damage to the food and keep it at optimum quality. If you’ve ever tried to cut tomatoes with a blunt knife, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
While by no means a professional in the kitchen, I have made sure I use some good quality knives. The last set I had before this were more useful as spatulas. On the advice of a professional chef in the family, I went out and got a great price on a set of Global knives – and I was using them years before MasterChef was! I could tell they were high-quality knives the first time I cut myself. It hurt, but what a neat little cut.
Buying a quality set of knives mean you have to look after them with the proper sharpening equipment. Some brands and styles of knives are not suitable for some different sharpening processes, so be sure to read the instructions and ask someone that knows.
Recently when visiting my uncle, the chef in the family who advised me on the knives, he was cutting the cherry tomatoes in a funny way. Watching a proper chef demonstrate knife control is amazing, so I took notice.
Tomatoes are a great way to blunt your knife. In order to get a better cut and also preserve your knife edge for longer, make a small ‘snick’ through the skin of the cherry tomato with the tip of your knife first. Then, use the rest of the blade to cut through that slit for a clean cut without crushing the flesh.
There you have it – a small tip to help keep your knives on the cutting edge.
Couldn’t agree more. I bought Global knives about 3 years ago and haven’t looked back since. In fact, I’ve even bought them as Christmas presents for a couple of family members since. And if they’re good enough for Anthony Bourdain……
Ok it wont let me comment on the first blog post so I will have to do it here…
Let me start by saying ‘Wow!’ – You guys really dont get social media.
If I want to read articles about kitchenware, or garlic bread I already have thousands of quality blogs to choose from.
If you really want to deliver value/authenticity on your blog how about telling us something *only* Coles can tell us?
How about telling us about:
- upcoming features/improvements for the online shopping site
- innovations that coles in engaging in such as self service checkouts
- commentary/opinions about current affairs, such as Coles’ stance on climate change and what you are doing about it
- discussion/revelation about problems customers are experiecing and how you are solving them
- information about the company culture, how its developing and how social technology is being harnessed
- inside info, such as projects different memebers of the coles team are working on
- products that have a special or unique story behind them
- interesting tidbits about bestselling items, or seasonal data
- what makes coles better than any other super market? why do you deserve our business?
- etc
Do NOT write dimwitted articles about which mass produced garlic bread that Coles sell is the best. Do you really think we beleive you would give an honest appraisal of your suppliers products? Of course not. Social media is about honesty. We (the “consumers”) are not stupid – we know your perogative is generate maximum revenue, so lets not dance around the fact and pretend its not.
Instead tackle things of substance, try and engage the customers on topics for which you ARE the authoratitive source e.g. the COLES BUSINESS. Your business is retail so that means talking about retail, NOT the homogenous products I can find at any super market.
Be opinionated. Be couragous. Be insightful. Be yourselves. Don’t feed us drivel.
Thanks Jack. This is exactly what we were hoping for – get some ideas and feedback direct from our customers.
Appreciate you taking the time to comment – have a look in the coming days at the posts coming up, I’m sure they will tick a few of the boxes you mentioned.