Many Chinese recipes require you to shred meat or vegetables. The technique is quite simple.

Difficulty: Average
Time Required:  5 minutes

Here's How:

1. Grasp the cleaver firmly by the handle, placing your thumb on one side of the blade, and your second and third fingers on the other side.
2. For meat: slice the meat against the grain into pieces approximately 2 inches wide.
3. Pile the pieces on top of each other.
4. Cutting along the grain this time, cut the meat  into thin strips.
5. For root vegetables like carrots: cut the vegetable diagonally into thin slices.
6. Stack the slices and cut lengthwise.

Tips:

1. Partially frozen meat is easier to shred.

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