CULINARY KNIFE CUTS

julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: food · everyone · reference · kitchen

Dimensions are verbatim from the Culinary Institute of America “Lesson Plan Toolkit: Knife Skills”: sticks of 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 inch, dice from brunoise at 1/8 to large at 3/4, paysanne and lozenge at 1/2 × 1/2 × 1/8, tourné about 2 inches with seven sides. Millimetres are computed from inches (× 25.4). The sticks and dice are printed at actual size on every sheet format. Checked 2026-08-13.

A DICE IS A STICK CUT ACROSS

A dice is a stick cut across: by the CIA rule the cutting step equals the thickness of the strip, so brunoise at 1/8 × 1/8 × 1/8 is julienne cut crosswise, and small dice is bâtonnet treated the same way.

And “brunoise” is not about size but about destiny: the name comes from the French brunoir, “to brown”, because these fine cubes most often end up sautéed.

On the sheet

Dimensions are verbatim from the Culinary Institute of America “Lesson Plan Toolkit: Knife Skills”: sticks of 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 inch, dice from brunoise at 1/8 to large at 3/4, paysanne and lozenge at 1/2 × 1/2 × 1/8, tourné about 2 inches with seven sides. Millimetres are computed from inches (× 25.4). The sticks and dice are printed at actual size on every sheet format. Checked 2026-08-13.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 8 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

CULINARY KNIFE CUTS

A DICE IS A STICK CUT ACROSS

On the sheet

Printing

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