Knife control
A grip that is safe at speed, and cuts that are the same size as each other — which is what makes a pan of vegetables cook evenly rather than producing some burnt and some raw.
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What counts as knowing this
Produce a pile of evenly sized pieces, consistent enough that they finish cooking together
A check for this one skill
Up to 3 questions on this skill alone, marked against the bar beside this. It stops as soon as the answer is clear. No account, and your answers are not kept.
Where it sits
What it unlocks
Start on Home Cooking
Every skill above, ordered by what depends on what, with the projects above that as the evidence you actually did it. We work out where you already are first, so the path skips what you can do.
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