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Victorinox make a range of household and professional (NSF certified) food preparation knives. They offer chef's knives, bread, carving, filleting, deboning, paring, Santoku and specialized knives such as a cheese knife. Victorinox models are made with molded plastic handles, wooden handles or riveted handles.
Cuts with six even sides include: [1] Large dice; (or "Carré" meaning "square" in French); sides measuring approximately 3 ⁄ 4 inch (20 mm); Medium dice; (); sides measuring approximately 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm)
In the US, Fannie Farmer introduced the more exact specification of quantities by volume in her 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. [2] Today, most of the world prefers metric measurement by weight, [3] though the preference for volume measurements continues among home cooks in the United States [4] [5] and the rest of North America ...
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 cleaver, a small paring knife, and a bread knife.
The Swiss Army Knife was not the first multi-use pocket knife. In 1851, in Moby-Dick (chapter 107), Herman Melville mentions the "Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior – though a little swelled – of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screwdrivers, cork-screws, tweezers, bradawls, pens, rulers, nail files and countersinkers."
Before digital kitchen scales fats in the US (and elsewhere) were indeed measured by volume. You would take a 1/2 cup measuring cup, fill it with shortening using a spatula, then scrape it out into the cooking bowl etc.
X55CrMoV14 or 1.4110 Swiss Army knife Inox blade steel used by Victorinox. 80CrV2 is commonly known as Swedish Saw Steel. It is a manganese-vanadium steel with 0.8% carbon content, making it a true high-carbon steel; and as such is easily hardened able, and with very good edge retention.
The balance (also balance scale, beam balance and laboratory balance) was the first mass measuring instrument invented. [1] In its traditional form, it consists of a pivoted horizontal lever with arms of equal length – the beam or tron – and a weighing pan [10] suspended from each arm (hence the plural name "scales " for a