Handling Knives

Selecting the correct knife for the right job

It is important to use the correct knife when cutting food. For example:

Paring knife for peeling fruits and vegetables which is also used for small works such as deveining small sea food, removing seeds, skinning or small garnishes. 

Cook/Chef Knife for mincing, chopping, slicing, dicing vegetables, slicing meat and disjointing large cuts.

Bread Knife for cutting bread

Preparing area for usage

In this picture, you can see that we are cleaning the table with cleaning detergent and cloth. 

And the cutting board has a wet cloth underneath it so that it won't move around while doing the work.

You can also see that the equipment for use is clean and sharp.

To maintain knife

In this picture it can be seen that we are maintaining the sharpness of the knives. You can use a long stone for sharpening knives but for this one we are using steel. One should hold the steel at a 45 degree angle and sharpen the knife from the heel to the tip of the blade from the top going down the steel.  The same should go for the other side of the blade of the knife.

Storage 

Knives need to be stored correctly to avoid them being damaged or blunt 

In class we store them in a cupboard 

Bystander Effect

The Bystander Effect

     Have you ever hesitated to help someone before out in public? Why do you think you hesitated? 

    

     Humanity is rather strange. We are involved in a vast amount of everyday activities such as working, studying, hanging out with friends etc. Under these situations, there’s always a moment where someone that we don’t know is doing something that needs helping with. Imagine walking down a busy road. Then a student who fell or tripped and got their stuff messed up. Normally you would help right away. But then, you feel something like you don’t have to. These thoughts might come into your mind; ‘someone’s going to help anyway’, ‘there’s a lot of people. I’ll just let them be.’ This is called the Bystander effect

     The Bystander Effect is experienced when you hesitate to help someone in need out in public because one might think that someone’s about to help. One will hesitate because there are a lot of people. This is not because of anxiety or peer pressure. This is because one is holding onto that hope that someone else will help. I’d describe this as laziness, not anxiety. 

     In our stranger and wonderful world, nothing’s perfect. Everyone is sure to experience the Bystander Effect every once in a while. But, too much of this isn’t the Bystander Effect anymore. It would be called ignorance. As stated, no one is perfect. But we can always be a better version of ourselves than others in our own thoughtful way.