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A selection of various knife types found in a domestic kitchen. A kitchen knife is any knife that is intended to be used in food preparation.While much of this work can be accomplished with a few general-purpose knives — notably a large chef's knife and a smaller serrated blade utility knife — there are also many specialized knives that are designed for specific tasks such as a tough ...
Usuba bōchō (薄刃包丁 — lit. "thin blade kitchen knife") is the traditional vegetable knife for the professional Japanese chef. Like other Japanese professional knives, usuba are chisel ground, and have a single bevel on the front side, and have a hollow ground urasuki on the back side.
Chef's knife. In cooking, a chef's knife, also known as a cook's knife, is a cutting tool used in food preparation. The chef's knife was originally designed primarily to slice and disjoint large cuts of beef and mutton. Today it is the primary general utility knife for most Western cooks.
Fine julienne; measures approximately 1 ⁄ 16 by 1 ⁄ 16 by 1–2 inches (0.2 cm × 0.2 cm × 3 cm–5 cm), and is the starting point for the fine brunoise cut. [1] Chiffonade; rolling leafy greens and slicing the roll in sections from 4–10mm in width
Chinese chef's knife (top) and old North American cleaver (bottom) Caidao or so-called 'Chinese cleaver' is not a cleaver, and most manufacturers warn that it should not be used as a cleaver. It is more properly referred to as a Chinese chef's knife and is actually a general-purpose knife, analogous to the French chef's knife or the Japanese ...
The Chinese chef's knife is frequently incorrectly referred to as a "cleaver", due its similar rectangular shape. However Chinese chef’s knives are much thinner in cross-section and are intended more as general-purpose kitchen knives, and mostly used to slice boneless meats, chop, slice, dice, or mince vegetables, and to flatten garlic bulbs ...
Debas have wide blades and are the thickest of all Japanese kitchen knives and come in different sizes — sometimes up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) in length and 10 millimetres (0.4 inches) thick — but usually considerably shorter, normally between 12 and 20 cm (5 and 8 in) long with a blade between 5 and 7 mm (0.2 and 0.3 in) thick.
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 ...