How to properly chop white cabbage for sauerkraut, pickling, stewing, salad, borscht? How to chop, cut and chop cabbage with a special knife, meat grinder, on a grater, in a food processor, blender? Shredder for cabbage for every taste: from a knife to a sl
Many people love cabbage on the table, but not everyone likes to cut it with a knife. There are special manual shredders, but they cut thickly and are suitable for thorough harvesting of cabbage. In the meantime, everything is scattered around. For those cases when you need to chop a little cabbage for salad or for sourdough, there is a simple and easy way using a paring knife. People call it the housekeeper knife.
So the idea is this. There is cabbage. You need to make a salad out of it. With a knife, it is very difficult to chop it thinly and evenly. Even if the knife is thin and sharp, you need good skill and care in this work. The author of the video tutorial, passing by the housekeeper, which is used to peel potatoes, came up with the idea that it can be adapted for other important work.
As shown in the video, it is very convenient to cut cabbage with a housekeeper. Cut slices of cabbage are very thin and tender. Nothing scatters around, since the device is very small. The work is very fast, simple and pleasant.
It remains to chop more cabbage, add the necessary ingredients to it and that's it! Bon appetit!
discussion
Natalie's
summer cabbage. Chop it with a knife for 5 seconds. The main load comes when fermentation begins. The autumn cabbage is tough, the cabbages are huge. With such a vegetable peeler, you will cut one velok all day.
Bogdan fisherman
+ natali s there is a special shredder for pickling, and for salad, this housekeeper can also cut the main cabbage, only the head of cabbage must first be cut into two or four parts.
Vasily velikanov
+ natali s when I was pickling cabbage, I chopped it on an electric bread slicer, you can use a combine or an electric vegetable cutter, very quickly. A vegetable cutter is inexpensive, unlike a combine, I rub everything on it and carrots for borscht and cabbage, the only thing is that onions are not allowed, it produces a lot of juice, only by hand.
Natali's
there is a vegetable cutter. I rubbed the markovka on it. And cabbage by hand. I love it when a very thin and long straw is obtained. And here is the bread slicer interesting option. I think it might just turn out to be a great straw. Thanks for the idea.
Vasily velikanov
I'm glad you liked the idea. I meant bread slicer and cheese slicer. The width of the resulting cut is also set there, just as you need thinly or thickly, and then cut across and that's it. I also love salads planed by hand, but I worked a lot and hard, so I only cut cabbage with machines, and now at home only with my hands. But, I love electric assistants very much, they help out well.
Stellavita
natali s won't. I didn't know it was a potato blade - I always shredded cabbage. Big heads. Certainly longer than with a simple knife but the result is worth it
Natalia Mironova - garden soul.
I have such a thing, I only peeled potatoes for it. That's great, now I'll chop the cabbage. There's also a garlic grater on top!
Alena is another miracle.
Tatyana Mamatova. You can not only peel vegetables and fruit peel (kiwi, apples), but also cut cucumbers into strips for salads or carrots, zucchini, etc. for stewing.
Nikiforova irina
I don’t have garlic for it, but there is a protrusion for the eyes), though in order to use it you need to turn your hand inside out. I need to buy a new one and throw this one away. The advice is unrealistically useful and thanks to the author for this!
Elena Morozova
thanks a lot for your advice! I have been using such a clean one for 16 years, but I have never thought of shredding cabbage with it. Cool, fast and convenient. Thanks again!
Pavlo Alexandrovich
+ bogdan ribak this miracle is called “vegetable knife”, today I bought one for myself, the price is 1 euro, only the blade is parallel to the handle, I immediately protested - just super! Last time when peeling 3 kilograms of carrots for juice, the whole kitchen and I were yellow) this time 1.5 kg. Carrots + beets - cleaned very quickly, and without splashing, cleaning vegetables has now become a pleasure.
Anastasia Kutuzova
great method - thanks! I didn’t like messing with cabbage before, precisely because it’s not so easy to chop) but with your method it’s just wonderful and easy and even fun to do it. Once again, many thanks and a huge like to your know-how and for sharing with us.
Natasha sun
shredder borner-I've been using it for 15 years. And for a salad, but for sauerkraut in general a thing. For me, this method is good for a salad. A sauerkraut should be long lines. But this is how they say to anyone.
Olga Abramova
The internet is full of videos on how to use this device. So I don't think it's your brilliant idea. Solid plagiarism, but everyone strives to present himself as a genius. Why can’t I honestly say that I saw and share an idea. So no, “I thought and thought of it.” And I agree that half, or even more, can be thrown out of the video, that's just the same narcissism and a story about how I thought of it. Well, a masterpiece that struck on the spot "we can say that the cabbage is organic." Dear author of the video, everything created by nature is an organic product.
Tatyana Gavrilova
How much malice in the comment. And why not just assume that the person himself guessed. There are so many cases in history that even poems were written almost word for word in the same way in different parts of the country. different people. And you're offended that you're not the first to write about it? You watch a series of videos "at Tatyana's" that's where the plagiarism is! I’m already simply deleting, although the topics there are interesting, he doesn’t say, but utters what even the youngest housewives know. But with such aplomb, as if she was the first to know about it or came up with it herself. And the channel is booming. Although some call her a rude know-it-all.
Tatyana Gavrilova
Well done! I have such a device, but I have not tried cabbage. And about the comments: not everyone is as eloquent as the one who writes about unnecessary chatter. Thank you, everything is fine. We will take your advice.
good recipe
The idea is good, of course. And I have a special knife for cabbage, with a double blade. It turns out the same small straws, only if the cabbage forks are large, then it is more convenient to chop with a knife.
Olga segeida
Still, it’s better to buy it, since such an apparatus only spoils the cabbage and you are tormented by chopping it. There is a special universal knife, but I use it exclusively for shredding and even large heads of cabbage do not frighten me, but you will get confused with this unit.
Manzura lulaby
I really like this little thing, it is not convenient for potatoes, for long vegetables, like asparagus, cucumber, carrot, radish. This peeler peels off the peel on the one hand and shreds it on the other, a cool thing in the kitchen is very necessary. I didn't know you could chop cabbage this way. Thank you for the idea.
lubasik
shredder gets dull quickly! Forks of course for men. I won't even pick up the word! Such a shredder only scratches the cat's eggs! On a bucket of pickling cabbage, your hand will get tired - what a horror! The bullshit is complete!
Alena kov
this option only works with young, not large, loose cabbage. Like on video. And large, fully mature, dense heads of cabbage are inconvenient to cut with such a shredder. It is easier to use a shredder familiar to many housewives. In extreme cases, in the old fashioned way with a straw knife)
laura c
it costs up to 100 rubles in the comfort of a hardware store. And in Finland, Ukrainians sell for 10-15 euros. And the Finns buy 2, 3 pieces for themselves and as a gift. ; He deftly shows cabbage and carrots and cheese
vladis
I can't chop cabbage like this. I have already acquired 5 similar devices - they just slide over cabbage and don’t cut a damn thing. What is the matter I can not understand.
helen brilliant
I chopped a bucket of cabbage with such a peeler for vegetables, it's quick and easier than with a knife. But the fastening of the cutting plate quickly broke: they sell similar peelers, but either the cloves are less sharp there, or without cloves at all, and they are very poorly adapted for shredding cabbage, and just for peeling. Now I’m waiting for the opportunity to buy again such a cleaner, with sharp teeth, I haven’t come across such ones again. There are cleaners even in the form of one - they are similar in one, but you compare the teeth on the old broken record with the teeth of the new one, and you can see that the old ones are much longer and sharper, respectively, and they capture and cut better.
Lyudmila Zhenier
thanks for the advice. In some dishes I need very thinly chopped cabbage, I used to cut it with a knife. In general, this is an ordinary vegetable peeler, I only have blades located vertically, I have been using it for 15 years, it is very convenient
antoniya antoniya
I also have one, and I have been chopping everything with it for a long time, and cabbage too, but it’s not convenient to peel potatoes with it, it’s good to peel potatoes with a side shredder, they are also sold.
Lara
For 20 years I have been peeling potatoes and other vegetables with such a thing, but I didn’t think of chopping cabbage). Well, maybe because I have a special grater. It is necessary to try this method, it is much simpler and shreds thinner. Thank you!
Olga Pichugova
I have been using this knife for the last five years and for shredding. A large head of cabbage lies on the table, I hold it with my left hand, and right movement shredding from myself. It's pretty slick. Just need to periodically turn the cabbage for ease of use.
Raisa waschtschenko
well done for suggesting. This thing is called a vegetable cutter, it was conceived for peeling and cutting vegetables. I think that you are not the first to use it for its intended purpose, but not everyone guessed that you can also chop cabbage with it! Good luck!
Snezhana Denisovna
Cool! And I threw away such a knife, it was not useful to me at all! I use borner graters, I think they are the best! According to testing, they are considered the best! I bought this one and I don't like it! I watched your video and you are doing great!
Svetlana Valeeva
I have the same knife. You didn't say the other side is for Korean carrots. You can also chop bell peppers, beets (boiled and raw), cucumber into long straws.
Svetlana Valeeva
for convenience, put the vegetable on the table and hold it with one hand, and plan with the other. You'll like it. There's a little bit of dexterity needed. In the same cabbage salad, with the same grater, pepper in thin long stripes - it turns out very beautifully. I wish you success)
vasily velikanov
great, thank you! I have such a tool for carrots, cucumbers, I use a smooth blade, and this is what I have stored inside this thing, I didn’t know where to use it, now I know thanks to you. Shred cabbage when there is no time in an electric vegetable cutter, and when it is easy to eat with a knife. But now I'll try this.
Valentina Germanovna
thanks a lot! Sorry, but I could not resist and sent your video to the open spaces in “classmates”. Let them rejoice at your find and shred the cabbage without any problems! Thank you!
Marina utkina
a great way, I have been chopping with such a shredder for a long time. Only the author did not say and did not pay Special attention that this shredder should be precisely with small cloves. Many have these, but they are smooth, so they won’t do, but with cloves with a bang, great!
Pavel Steshenkov
+ bogdan ribak is very convenient, but only if your cleaner good quality. It is better to do Korean carrots not “on hand”, but by putting carrots or zucchini on a cutting board. I have been selling such knives for 5 years by the demonstration method. During this time, I cut up more than one ton of vegetables. By the same principle that you cut the cabbage, it is easy to cut the onion. Doing so better movement"Push". It's safer and more convenient that way. Now we need to buy for shredding. A thin shredder is also good
havva bagdalova
thank you very much for the advice, I will definitely try it, my dream is to cut cabbage so thinly and beautifully, a godsend for left-handed people, since a special cabbage cutter is adapted for working with the right hand.
Natalie v
THX. Suddenly. There are pluses.
I use a burner vegetable cutter. I have had it for more than 10 years and the incisors are so sharp - that I am amazed that this is even possible. And its plastic is simply invulnerable. That means German quality. There you can chop the cabbage so that it will glow. Surface clearance can be adjusted. And chop the cabbage even roughly - if necessary.
Every housewife knows that cutting cabbage into slices or cubes is easy. But grinding thin straws requires a lot of effort and time. The best helper would be a special knife for shredding cabbage. You need to know how to choose it, as well as how to use it. You must follow the safety rules to avoid injury.
Cutting tools
Presented in modern stores big choice tools needed for quickly cutting vegetables, including cabbage. The simplest is shredding in the form of a grater. This is a plastic or wooden plank with built-in blades. Their number may be different. Devices allow you to get long and thin straws.
Shredders with plastic containers to collect cut products. There are attachment devices. Positive reviews can be found about the knife-shredder "Hostess". The device is convenient and safe, work is accelerated with it. Dexam and Peterhof products are also popular.
Facilitates the process of a food processor. But it can be replaced with other devices. For example, housewives use bread slicers and potato peelers. Straws made by this method are tender and soft. Not everyone can use special hatchets, as this requires skill. A cabbage shredder allows you to cut thinly, but it must meet certain requirements.
Knife characteristics
The tool can be inexpensive, the main thing is that it be of high quality. In utensil stores you can find a large number of knives. Many of them are used for cutting vegetables. A special knife for shredding cabbage is suitable, which must be carefully sharpened. The blade should be wide, and also have a protrusion for the handle.
A cabbage shredder should have a sharp tip. For this, a device used for cutting bread cannot be used. The tool must not have original shape blades.
Terms of Use
To prevent cuts and injuries, it is necessary to use a cabbage shredding knife correctly. How to use it? It must be held with the whole palm so that forefinger was on the handle, the big one on the side, and the others on the bottom. When working, the tip of the tool moves only back and forth, without breaking away from the board.
In the direction of the knife can move as it is convenient for the hostess. But it must be borne in mind that if the device is directed away from itself, then with forward movement it goes down. When cutting a vegetable in its direction, the knife goes down.
Slicing Features
Before work, you need to cut the head of cabbage in half. And if it is large, then into four parts. Then each part is cut into slices across the veins that are on the sheet, so that a chip about 8 cm long is obtained. The finished product is cut into strips using a knife.
The width of the chips should be 3 mm. Making very narrow strips makes the cabbage flabby, causing it to lose flavor. It is advisable to use a super-knife for shredding cabbage. It's safe and fast. And if you need to process a lot of vegetables, then it is better to use a food processor.
Fast shredding
Now in stores they sell a knife with two blades for shredding cabbage, which facilitates the procedure. During the preparation of a dish for which you need a lot of cut products, a lot of time is spent. Using the elementary shredding rules, you can speed up the procedure.
First you need to master the capture of the product. This should be done with the whole brush, not just the fingers. The hand should be tilted slightly forward to top part fixtures touched her. At first glance, it may seem that this is not very convenient for fast work but if you practice, then everything will work out.
It is safer to use a special knife. If there is no food processor, then they can quickly chop cabbage in in large numbers. In this case, injuries and cuts are excluded. The device is very convenient to use.
A special knife is an indispensable element in the kitchen. It makes cooking easy and simple. It will also serve as an assistant in the preparation of blanks for the winter. With its use, thin cabbage is obtained, which is ideal for preparing various dishes.
Every autumn it is time to harvest vegetables in the form of a variety of pickles and canned salads. It's nice to treat yourself to this yummy in the winter.
No matter how much the hostesses prepare various snacks and marinade salads, sauerkraut still occupies a central place in this vegetable wealth. But its appearance is preceded by a rather tedious and not too beloved process of shredding heads of cabbage.
Many years ago, I remember, they said "chopping cabbage." This is because a special chopping knife, or chopper, was used for such a case, and not a cabbage shredder. Cabbage was cut into slices in a rounded wooden trough, linden or oak, and salted and stored until the next harvest.
And although now few people sour cabbage in whole barrels, they try to facilitate the cutting process with the help of various devices. However, even for small volumes, a special knife was invented with several sharp steel blades located at an angle. Such a cabbage shredder (manual, as it is called) is absolutely safe and allows you to significantly speed up the cutting and improve its quality. It turns out an even thin straw, which only a professional chef can cut with an ordinary knife. True, some skill is needed, but any housewife will quickly master this device, there is little wisdom.
For a small amount, a plastic cabbage shredder is suitable. This simple device resembles an ordinary grater and is a mold of durable plastic with removable blades. Some products have a container for
A more productive and reliable wooden cabbage shredder is also a very simple device that many housewives prefer to use. You can buy it in the store or make it yourself. A wooden shredder is a board on which lamellar steel knives. The thickness of the cut pieces depends on the size of the gaps between the knives and the board. Usually wooden cabbage shredders are made large sizes and install them directly above the salting container. For safety, some shredders are equipped with a moving hopper in the form of a cube with a clamping lid. The head of cabbage is placed in the bunker, covered with a lid, and then moves forward onto the knives. This cabbage shredder is safe to use and has good performance.
All of the above devices make shredding only half as easy, because the hands get tired of holding the head anyway. But technical progress, as you know, does not stand still, and now some housewives trust shredding to modern electric meat grinders that have special nozzles, including for cabbage. The food processor is an even more advanced and modernized shredder; it cracks down on pieces of cabbage in a matter of minutes. And finally, the slicer is an electric vegetable cutter.
However, cabbage after shredding in this miracle technique is not as beautiful as we would like, so many housewives prefer to shred cabbage more simple devices. Or the old fashioned way, with your own hands.
With the onset of cold weather, it is especially nice to treat yourself to homemade preparations. Salted and pickled vegetables and ready-made salads delight the eye and taste buds, and the central place at this winter vegetable festival is occupied by an appetizer that is not only tasty, but also extremely healthy. But its appearance on the table is preceded by the laborious and unloved by many housewives, the process of preparation, or rather, slicing cabbage.
Shredding cabbage is a costly business and requires some skill. In order for it to turn out into thin straws, you need to master the technique of shredding with a knife - an ordinary kitchen knife or a special one.
How to chop cabbage with a knife?
If you don’t have a special knife for cabbage at hand, an ordinary one is quite suitable - large and well-sharpened. Using kitchen knife one should remember little secret- the cabbage head should be cut not along the head, but across. It is at the top that the thinnest leaves are located, which are suitable for salting. The second part can be left for stewing or borscht.
When cutting, the main thing is to hold the knife correctly and, of course, fingers. But, in principle, everything is simple: when cutting, the tip of the knife does not come off the surface of the board, and its blade makes a vertical circular motion. You can choose one of the convenient directions:
- the knife moves evenly forward and down, while cutting and returning to its original position;
- the knife moves away from itself and down, and then back - towards itself and up.
You need to hold the knife correctly in this way: thumb lies along the handle, the index clasps it from above, and the rest only lightly press the handle to the palm of your hand. At first, this grip may seem uncomfortable, but over time you get used to it.
But, of course, for your own convenience, it is better to purchase a special knife for shredding cabbage. This simple, like all ingenious, device will become simple indispensable assistant in the kitchen.
What is a cabbage knife?
The cabbage shredder is a plastic or wooden base with a handle to which several rather sharp steel blades are attached, located at an angle. This design makes it absolutely safe to use - it is simply impossible to cut yourself accidentally. There are also fully steel shredders.
How to shred cabbage with a special knife?
If you see it for the first time, then the question is quite natural: “How to use a cabbage knife?” Shredding cabbage with a special tool is much easier than with a regular knife. It is necessary to cut the head of cabbage as conveniently as possible, even along the stalk and reciprocate the knife in the forward and downward direction, and then return it to its original position. A small detail - it is better to cut cabbage across the fibers, then they will lose less juice, which is so necessary when pickling.
Alternatives to a cabbage knifeTechnological progress does not stand still and technology is being improved in order to make the cooking process a pleasure and to minimize the time spent by a woman in the kitchen. Therefore, if you are forced to shred cabbage in large volumes, you should consider more productive devices:
During the preparation of vegetables for the winter, pickles occupy a special place. Among them are delicious sauerkraut and pickled cabbage. When processing vegetables at home, you will need a shredder: in the process of shredding, it is easy to obtain slices of the same thickness, while you can choose the correct direction of the cut fibers. This will preserve the taste of the product and the content of useful substances in it.
Cabbage knife
The classic knife "Hostess" and other analogues for cutting vegetables reduce labor intensity and make it possible to quickly process a head of cabbage for subsequent salting. The device is a steel cleaver with a comfortable handle, on the cutting part of which several blades are installed at a certain angle. A special blade cuts the head of cabbage across the fibers, keeping the juice in the vegetable, and with it everything useful elements. Using a knife for cutting cabbage when chopping vegetables, you can significantly simplify cutting: it happens easily, without additional effort.
Shredder for cabbage electric household
IN farms, at vegetable bases or in canning shops, a universal electric shredder for cabbage is used. It is designed for cutting, chopping root crops, vegetables and fruits that have a rigid structure. The cut is carried out with a special circular knife-grater made of hardened of stainless steel. You can see a photo of the device below. Cabbage shredder vegetable cutter can cut beets, carrots, apples from 0.5mm to 5mm in full length, reducing processing waste. The height of the blades determines the thickness of the cut.
Manual
The hand shredder is an affordable alternative to the professional cabbage cutter. It has a special grater and chute made of wood or environmentally friendly high-strength plastic, as well as a cutting board. The design is equipped with one or more cutting blades, manually adjustable in inclination and height. Adjustable positioning allows grinding to the desired size. The hand shredder for cabbage perfectly copes with all hard types of vegetables. The vegetable cutter is affordable, easy to sharpen, washable warm water.
with box
The next option is a wooden cabbage shredder with a box:
- The device is a case in which 3-4 blades made of durable tool steel are fixed.
- The box and board are made of hard rock wood (beech, oak, ash).
- The position of the blades can be adjusted manually by raising, lowering them and changing the cutting angle.
- Grater for cabbage does not slip on working surface, and the blade group provides good performance.
Mechanical
For chopping vegetables in small volumes, a mechanical cabbage shredder is used. This is a metal or plastic nozzle for a meat grinder with a round grater or a slicer. By rotating the handle of the device and turning the grater around the axis, you can cut vegetables without tedious reciprocating movements. This best option household shredder. Mechanical Models supplied with a set of graters with various diameters and hole shape.
How to choose a shredder for cabbage
To choose the most suitable shredding machine and quickly, safely shred vegetables in required quantities, several important factors. First of all, you should decide on the type you need:
- Manual. Preparation of salads, home preservation.
- Mechanical. Chopping vegetables on your farm.
- Electric. Commercial production of salads, semi-finished products from chopped vegetables.
When choosing this technique, you need to consider the quality cutting blades and environmental properties of work surfaces. They will ensure durability and performance. Adjustable blades allow you to change the cutting width. When choosing, preference should be given to designs with cutting board, they will provide proper comfort during their operation.
