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Used to cut semi-hard and hard cheeses. It produces thin, even slices. Cheesecloth: To assist in the formation of cheese A gauzed cotton cloth, used to remove whey from cheese curds, and to help hold the curds together as the cheese is formed. Chef's knife: Originally used to slice large cuts of beef, it is now the general utility knife for ...
From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork. In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a ...
Ancient Greek casserole and brazier, 6th/4th century BC, exhibited in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus. Two cooking pots (Grapen) from medieval Hamburg c. 1200 –1400 AD Replica of a Viking cooking-pot hanging over a fire Kitchen in the Uphagen's House in Long Market, Gdańsk, Poland
Kakugiri; cut into cubes. Sainome-kiri; cut into small cubes. Arare-kiri; cut into small cubes of 5 millimeters in size. Butsugiri; chunk cut, cut into chunks of 3-4 centimeters in size. Usugiri; cut into thin slices. Ran-giri; diagonal cut into pieces of 1/2 inch in size. Hitokuchi-dai-ni-kiri; cut into bite-size pieces.
Kitchen utensils in bronze discovered in Pompeii. Illustration by Hercule Catenacci in 1864. Benjamin Thompson noted at the start of the 19th century that kitchen utensils were commonly made of copper, with various efforts made to prevent the copper from reacting with food (particularly its acidic contents) at the temperatures used for cooking, including tinning, enamelling, and varnishing.
These are long knives used to cut meat, often in the form of a draw cut. The general sizes range from 24 cm (9 in) to 30 cm (12 in). Hankotsu — (lit: "rebelious"). This is a boning butchering knife used for cattle to cut hanging meat from the bone with a pointed tip and a short height which allows the user to turn to cut along bone ...
The animal to be jugged is usually cut into pieces, placed into a tightly sealed jug with brine or gravy, and stewed. Red wine and/or the animal's own blood is sometimes added to the cooking liquid. Jugging was a popular method of preserving meat up until the middle of the 20th century.
The heftier blade works well for splitting, stripping and cutting meat. Other similar meat-cutting knives include the carving knife and the cleaver. The carving knife is usually designed for slicing thin cuts of meat and often has a blunt or rounded point, with a scalloped or Granton blade to improve separation of sliced cuts of meat. The ...