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How to Make Easy Channel Knife Substitute And Other Garnish Tools

Handmade Garnish Tool Photo

All designs are made with handmade garnish tools out of the food can’s lid in the photo.

Great channel garnish tool we can make from canned food lid, so easy. It is an easy DIY project and takes one minute or less! A professional set of carving tools is too expensive and really no need for the home serving, in my opinion. What to do? Make yourself from food grate metal and what everybody uses in every kitchen! Make it from a can. This is a really useful kitchen hack to make yourself a carving knife and works so well for me! I tested so many times. If we make the different shapes of a lid, you can create different tools, not only a channel knife. We can make simple the angled knife or even a vegetable wave cutter from the food can’s lid because it is food grade. One example of a tool for garnishing such as my handmade waving knife is the bottom of the page. This small kitchen hack really handy when we don’t have garnish tools around and need to decorate dishes or simple carving food carving. I wish, I knew it many years ago.

*Attention!

Be very careful when you work with a new handmade garnishing tool. Protect edges with tape or bent them so it is safe to use.

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Direction

Remove the lid from a can. The best to use this kind of lid, when you pull out it with a small handle, because of edges so perfect and sharp.

How to make handmade garnish tool from a can Photo

2. Bend the lid to V shape.

3. Cover the edges on top with tape or bind it before going to use it. The handmade channel knife is ready to use.

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1. How to Make Simple Flower with the Channel Garnish Tool

We can make these simple flowers with the handmade garnishing tool from lemon to garnish seafood, desserts, beverages and etc. For example, flowers from cucumber and carrot can decorate salads. So many more beautiful ideas we can find on the internet to use this technique. Just a small touch and our platter is bright up with this simple but very impressive lemon decor!

Cut notches with the garnish tool in the lemon.

Photo. How to make flower with garnish Tool step 1

2. Slice the lemon. As a result, we have simple but very pretty garnish on our dish!

Photo. How to make flower with garnish Tool step 2

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2. How to Make Beautiful Flower With The Channel Knife Substitute

Flower Garnish from Papaya Photo

On the photo, the flower made from papaya with the handmade garnish tool. It is a great centerpiece for fruits platter and decoration for desserts. We can make a flower from different fruits and vegetables. I am going to show an example of how I use my carving knife on cucumber. This garnish is also called vandyke garnish.

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Make the cuts around the cucumber like on the photo.

How to make beautiful flower with tool Photo

2. Our cucumber vandyke flowers garnish is ready!

Flowers from Cucumber made with handmade tool Photo

3. So beautiful and simple flowers from the cucumber with cherry tomatoes on the plate.

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3. Wavy Vegetable Cutter Substitute Idea From The Lid Of Can

What is a Wavy Vegetable Cutter Or Crinkle Cutter?

A crinkle cutter is a knife-like garnish tool with a zigzag-shaped blade. I suggest buying factory-made this great garnish tool. I have two myself for over 10 years! Waves of different tools are different, so choose for your own needs. However, buy good quality (they are not expensive) and you have them for many years. Buy well-known brands. I say so because I had one in the past, it starts rusting and I throw it away. I have and happy with The Pampered Chef, OXO and Wolfgang Puck (this one I don’t have a photo on the page). Wolfgang came to me with a set of tools. I mention it because it is good quality and I have it for a few years now.

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Handmade Garnish Tool Designs Ideas

So beautiful wavy garnishes we can make with wavy knives. I have a few very nice in my kitchen but for curiosity tried to make from a can lid wave garnishing knife. It took me a few minutes to make one. I did, you can do it too! Every wave design on the photos I made with my handmade knife. The wavy handmade garnish knife from a can lid worked well for a small number of vegetables. I probably don’t try to make potatoes fries with my handmade way knife but for vegetable platter works just great. For french fries, I made a handle on top and what makes support the blade. It is just a tip for a shortcut if you need a wavy knife right now. These tools are usually not very inexpensive and absolutely worth buying one if you like to make vegetable and fruit garnishes.

Handmade Garnish tool

Handmade Wavy Vegetable Cutter

As you can see the waves so perfect! I like this knife and didn’t throw away it, just keep it as a memory of my creation.

Handmade Garnish Wavy Tool From A Can

In the photo below my wavy knives next to my handmade wavy knife. Pampered chef wavy knife, OXO knife (smaller knife), and my handmade one.

Handmade Wavy Garnish Tool Photo

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Eggs wave handmade garnish tool Photo

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4. Oval Shape Food Garnishing Knife

Papaya Bowl Made with Handmade Garnish Tool

I made the carving tool round shaped and it works the same as the angled tool above. I just show as an example, the beauty of flowers made with my round-shaped handmade garnish tool.

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Strawberry flower. Handmade garnish tool.