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It is all to do with practice and techniques. Get yourself a copy of Leith's How to Cook. Link I just googled: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leiths-Cook-School-Food-Wine/dp/184...

A few things:

* It will show you how to cut and the correct techniques to use. Have a look at the Amazon 'look inside' to see how to cut onions, carrots and asparagus

* When cutting things like carrots, are you cutting one carrot or multiple? (the next point is important for this)

* Are your knives sharp? There should be almost no effort cutting through a carrot, for example.

Background to Leiths:

* They're a real cooking school that teaches professional chefs assuming very little knowledge

* It was set up by Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave. Prue Leith is one of the judges on the Great British Bakeoff.

* Leiths is well known in London for both their professional courses and for amateur ones too (e.g. a day to de-bone a chicken)



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