[Fish Stick]

Her teacher smiled, and then began to cut more slowly, so that Lyssoryl could watch, and see how she was cutting with the grain. "For the basic cuts, which you'll be learning, and to get the best amount of tenderness out of the meat, you will want to cut with the grain. This will allow it to release more of the juices. For meats to be less tender, and more rough, you want to cut against the grain of the meat." she said, and then listened to the rest of Lyssoryl's querie.

"Ah, well, if the best isn't available, then you can try to cross tastes, and put a different taste into the meat. That's a bit more of an advanced practices, as for now we're just learning the basics. Now, i want you to use this knife, and make each of the cuts as i just demonstrated... Then we'll move on to how to cook each of the cuts," said Sera, smiling, and handing the knife to her with the handle first, so as to have her start to learn the proper ways of handling the various utensils in cooking...