How To Bias Cut

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Watch this video to learn how to use a bias cut on many foods, from carrots to bread.

Bias cut usually has to do with something that is long: a french baguette, a cucumber.... we're using a carrot in this instance.

What the bias cut does is add more elegance to your plating. If I cut radial slices from this carrot, this takes you back to junior high. A bias cut is a hard angle.

Use your forefinger as a guide, slice tip to heel with the knife, and that's the angle - that hard angle being the bias cut.

This could be bread, it could be chives: you can apply this cut to many different types of things. And that's the bias cut.