Speedy takeout can help speed slicing in the kitchen too. Nick Mercogliano, a sous chef at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., turns plastic lids from takeout containers inside-out, places cherry tomatoes in between two lids, then draws a knife across the rows of tomatoes to halve them. “You can do 15 tomatoes instead of one at a time,” he says.
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Jan. 15, 2016Nick MercoglianoSous ChefRobert Wood Johnson University HospitalNew Brunswick, NJ
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