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Nakiri bōchō and usuba bōchō: vegetable knives for vegetables; Oroshi hocho and hancho hocho: extremely long knives to fillet tuna; Santoku: general purpose knife influenced by European styles; Udon kiri and soba kiri: knife to make udon and soba; Unagisaki hōchō: eel knife
Hōchō, Japanese kitchen knives in Tokyo. A Japanese kitchen knife is a type of kitchen knife used for food preparation. These knives come in many different varieties and are often made using traditional Japanese blacksmithing techniques. They can be made from stainless steel, or hagane, which is the same kind of steel used to make Japanese ...
The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [3] [4] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.
The honyaki knives are usually used only after completion of an apprenticeship after becoming proficient in ingredients, cooking, sharpening, and knife use. Honyaki knives are usually harder to sharpen in comparison to laminated blades because they have no mild steel that is quickly removed and are usually even harder.
Japanese sword blade and sharpening stone and water bucket at 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington. Sword polishing is part of Japanese swordsmithing where a blade is polished after forging. It gives the shining appearance and beauty to the sword.
Knife indentation is done away from the edge of a kitchen knife. A knife most simply has either a rectangular or wedge-shaped cross-section (sabre-grind v. flat-grind, but may also have concave indentations or hollows, whose purpose is to reduce adhesion of the food to the blade, so producing a cleaner and easier cut. This is widely found in ...
Long magurobōchō, used to filet tuna at the Tsukiji fish market A magurobōchō in use at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A magurobōchō (Japanese: 鮪包丁, lit. "tuna knife"), or magurokiribōchō (鮪切り包丁, lit. "tuna cutter kitchen knife"), is an extremely long, highly specialized Japanese knife that is commonly used to fillet tuna, as well as many other types of large ocean fish.
Waterstone and Oil stone, possibly as part of Whetstone (tool) or better yet, merge all into a Sharpening stone article that would also describe the techniques. (provided article on Japanese waterstones under "Waterstone". Grindstone (tool) also exists, but more in the context of early caveman type uses. Have started on the Sharpening stone ...