The catering culture is extensive and profound. If you can choose a suitable kitchen knife according to different ingredients, it will be easy and comfortable. "A kitchen knife can cut everything", which misleads countless people.
The complete knife system includes all kinds of knives for different purposes. In this blog, I will mainly introduce several kinds of cutting tools that are more common and need to be understood by novices. If you are interested, please continue reading.
Knife Set vs Single Knife
1. Chef knife
The Chef knife is the most widely used kitchen knife in the world. Since it is a chef's knife, as the name suggests, it is the most important kitchen knife used in the whole kitchen. It can be applied to all food handling without bones, and can even meet basic meat-cutting needs.
Because of its reasonable blade length and lightweight, it is light and easy to use, and because it does not need to occupy too much space, it is deeply loved by female consumers.
When using the chef's knife, we often use the rock chop knife method, that is, using the radian in front of the blade, the knife does not need to leave the cutting board completely when slicing meat/vegetables.
Kyoku chef knives can be easily used without professional training, which is more suitable for beginners without any kitchen experience.
2. Bread knife
For most families in the West, bread is indispensable in daily life. So, what kind of knives is designed for bread? We naturally thought of the bread knife with serrations. The bread knife is the most special and recognizable of all knives. Its blade is serrated.
The bread knife is so different in order to avoid the knife squeezing the food too much when cutting bread and cake.
It is because the bread deforms and loses its cavity, which affects the taste. It can also slow down the wear of the knife to some degree and prolong the service life.
A good bread knife will hardly make extra crumbs even when facing soft toast and can maintain the flatness of the bread transverse section. However, do not use a bread knife to cut meat or fish, because you cannot cut a complete slice.
3. Boning knife
For meat that often appears on the family table, there is naturally a knife dedicated to cutting meat. When you use the right tool to cut, the whole chicken or sheep leg can be easily separated.
Because the unique long and narrow blade of the boning knife makes it easy to cut the joints of poultry. As long as the meat is still with a fork, it can be sliced accurately and quickly with a boning knife.
4. Utility knife
The multifunctional knife looks slightly longer than the blade of the meat cutter in appearance, which also makes it work as its name.
It can efficiently and quickly deal with diversified cutting needs, such as cutting common vegetables such as herbs or onions.
Of course, you would say that the chef knife can also complete the cutting requirements of vegetables.
However, because of the overall shape advantage, the multifunctional knife is more portable and convenient for beginners' daily use. It is an ideal knife for preparing food materials in the kitchen.
5. Paring knife
The functions of the paring knife and the multi-functional knife are roughly overlapping. It can be used for many food preparation work, from cutting vegetables and fruits to cutting shrimp and cheese.
We have to say that almost any work that feels too clumsy with a chef's knife is very suitable for using a paring knife.
The best way to make the best use of knives is to choose the right knife according to the specific use case. In the initial stage of everyone's cooking, investing in a set of knives can be said to be an essential part.
This blog introduces some basic knowledge of Japanese cooking knives in simple terms. I hope you can get some harvest and find another kind of cooking fun by sharing it with you.
About Author:
My name is Jennie, and I am a representative of Kyoku knife. To introduce ourselves, we sell high-quality Japanese knives that combine traditional and modern forging techniques to enhance your experience on the board.
