{"id":38,"date":"2026-09-24T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/2026\/09\/24\/five-knife-skills-that-make-weeknight-cooking-faster\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:12:00","slug":"five-knife-skills-that-make-weeknight-cooking-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/2026\/09\/24\/five-knife-skills-that-make-weeknight-cooking-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Five knife skills that make weeknight cooking faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most recipes feel slow because of the chopping, not the cooking. These five habits save more time than any gadget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The five<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Keep your knife sharp: a dull blade slips and slows you down<\/li><li>Use the claw grip to protect your fingertips<\/li><li>Halve round vegetables first so they sit flat<\/li><li>Rock the knife for herbs instead of chopping up and down<\/li><li>Clear the board as you go<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practise on an onion every night for a week and you will notice the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most recipes feel slow because of the chopping, not the cooking. These five habits save more time than any gadget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-recipe-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}