Simple Shredding: The “Step Method” for Cylindrical Objects and Hair-Fine Shreds

When the item you are shredding—say, a cucumber or a carrot—is not wide enough to give you an attractively long shred if you slice it into rounds and use the straight-stack method described above, then the trick is to slice it on the diagonal into oblong coins and shred these longer coins into longer shreds. It would be tedious to make small, straight stacks of the coins and shred them one by one, so the solution is not a straight, upright stack but a step-like arrangement whereby you can spread the slices in an overlapping pattern across your cutting surface and shred them in one continuous movement. It is a compromise position—not as fast as if you were able to stack the whole pile upright, but certainly not as slow as shredding them one by one or in small discrete groups.