Shelf · Knife & prep · No heat
Cutting on the bias
Slicing across at an angle instead of square, so each piece is an oval rather than a disc.
Why it works
The angle is free surface area. A carrot cut on a steep bias has nearly twice the face of the same carrot cut straight across, so it browns faster and takes on sauce better without being cut any thinner — which matters because thinner also means limper.
The tell
Each slice is clearly longer than it is wide, and stood on the board it wants to fall over rather than stand like a coin.
- Square disc
- On the bias
- Steep bias
How it fails
Losing the angle halfway down the vegetable, which is what happens when the knife follows your wrist instead of the board. Turn the vegetable, not the knife, and check every few slices that the ovals still look the same.
In the app, the card opens on the recipe step that names it, with the tell drawn.
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