after dinner sneeze

t says: Marco Pierre White is featured in some youtube videos whipping up some rather simple dishes using Knorr packets.  More interestingly, this dish is beef braised with Guiness and prunes.  I’m not sure what I think about that.  I’ve done the Guiness turkey, and it’s ok, and I’ve done a prune braised pork, which is pretty good.  But this one just looks weird – I think it has to do with how dark it looks.  Check it out.

What strikes me as really weird is not only the knife that he is using to prep those ingredients (i.e. he’s using a yanagi, a traditional Japanese knife that’s most often used for slicing fish) but also how he’s holding the knife (a very weird grip with the thumb on top).  I’m going to have to research that maneuver a bit more …