Cooking Knife Types and How to Use it
If you a chef you must be know about cooking knife types. But if you are not a chef, and you love cooking like me? So many kind of cooking knife sometimes make us confused. What types of cooking knife that we should use for this and that. If you are think like me, just continue reading. Lets find know about Cooking Knife Types and How to Use it.
Cooking Knife Types and How to Use it
- Chef Knives
Chef knives, maybe we can call it multipurpose chef knives. Designed to perform many kind of chef activities. Usually have about 20 cm length.
- Utility Knives
Utility knives is a little bit smaller than chef knives, you can use it to do a smaller cutting task.
- Paring knife
Paring knife is a small knife with plain edge blade that can be used for multi purpose. Especially to peeling fruit, or other smaller works.
- Bread knife
Just like its name, this knife is specially used for slicing bread.
- Carving knives
Carving knives is a knife that best usage for slicing meat. It is thin, make the best result for carving meat, poultry, ham, etc.
- Slicing knives
Almost have same function with carving knives, but it is longer and narrower.
- Cleaver
cleaver is a big size knife, also it is very heavy. the main usage of this knife is for cutting meat with bones and joints also.This size make that task easy.
- Boning knife
boning knife have a sharp point and narrow blade. This cooking knife types are specially designed for removing bone from meat, poultry and also fish.
- Fillet knife
This type of cooking knife is used for preparing fish fillet.
- Ham slicer
Generally made for slicing ham. It is long and flexible. Good to you.
- Steak knife
Steak knife is a kind of knife that used for cutting knife. Usually made from stainless steel, and make a good decorative on the table.
This is some of cooking knife types that I describe.
