Kitchen Knives
Quick Cooking Tip
The importance of high quality knives can't be stressed enough! Buy the best you can and expect to spend some serious money. It is better to buy a couple of excellent knives and slowly add to your collection rather than buying an entire set of low quality knives. Start with a chef knife and paring knife.
- Three basic knives that can help you whip up a storm in the kitchen are a chef's knife, a paring knife and a serrated knife. Wide blades also known as "cook's knives", are used for a variety of tasks.
- The chef's knife is an all-purpose knife that is ideal for chopping, dicing, mincing and slicing.
- The serrated knife works well for cutting bread and tomatoes.
- Steak Knives. The name says it all, although these are useful for other tasks.
- Chefs use paring knives for cutting or chopping of smaller foods and coring vegetables. Paring knives come in a variety of shapes and sizes
- Fillet Knives usually have very flexible narrow blades for boning or skinning
- Boning Knives are stiff and narrow for separating flesh from bone.
- To lengthen the life of your knives, wash the knives by hand, rather than in the dishwasher.
See also: Kebabs
