◪ Chinese Cleaver Knife: This is a multi-purpose knife with a wide blade and a curved blade that can be used to cut meat, fish and vegetables. Chinese kitchen knives mainly rely on the weight of the knife to cut from top to bottom.
◪ Santoku Knife: It means an all-purpose knife for cutting meat, vegetables, and fruits. It is an improved version of the chef's knife based on the usage habits of Orientals. It is smaller in size than ordinary chef's knives and has a rounded tip. It can be used to cut meat and other foods.
◪ Meat Cleaver/Multi-purpose Knife: It has a long and sharp blade that can be used for various operations such as paring, slicing, chopping and carving.
◪ Bone Chopping Knife: This kind of knife has a thicker blade and a larger blade angle, which is suitable for chopping bones and hard objects. When using it, it is not advisable to shake it from side to side to avoid curling the blade. It should be chopped vertically with force.
◪ Slicing Knife: The knife has a sharp edge and is mainly used for professional cutting of meat, vegetables or slicing.
◪ Machete: Also called a chop knife, it is specially used to chop chicken, duck skeletons, pork ribs, etc. Its steel quality is stable and its weight is also the heaviest among cooking knives. Especially the blade is made of high-quality steel, which is very suitable for processing bone-in meat products.
◪ Chef Knife: This is one of the most versatile kitchen knife tools for chefs. It has a long blade and is suitable for a variety of cutting tasks, such as cutting vegetables, fruits, meat, etc. Western-style chef's knives are lighter, and the cutting method is closer to the use of a hay cutter or scribe cut.
◪ Santoku Knife: This kind of knife has a straighter blade and a shorter blade than a chef's knife. There are small indentations on the surface of the blade, making it easier for food to slip off. Perfect for chopping ingredients or shredding cheese, Santoku knives are versatile.
◪ Carving Knife: This kind of knife is more suitable for cutting cooked meat. Its blade is longer and thin, which helps to cut the meat smoothly.
◪ Bread Knife: The bread knife has a long blade with fine serrations on the edge. In addition to cutting bread, it can also be used to cut other baked goods, such as cakes, or to cut large items where the straight blade often gets stuck likes melon.
◪ Boning Knife: The boning knife has a very narrow, long and flexible blade that can gradually taper into a sharp tip, used to remove bones from meat and poultry.
◪ Steak Knife: This is a tableware specially designed for eating Western food, especially for cutting steaks, chicken chops, pork chops and other meats.
◪ Cheese Knife: Cheese knife is mainly used to handle semi-hard cheese. For example, a slicer is a common cheese knife. It has a long, flat cavity that can easily slice thin cheese slices.
◪ Paring Knife: A paring knife is a tool specially used for peeling peels, which makes peeling peels easy and quick. Additionally, some paring knives are equipped with digging tips to facilitate handling of fruits and vegetables with uneven surfaces.
In addition, there are some other types of knives, such as vegetable knife (used for peeling and cutting vegetables), fish slicing knives (used for filleting fish, meat and molting), dessert knife (mainly used for shoveling, scraping, spreading and smoothing) Surfaces of various foods, cakes, desserts), etc.
In addition, Japanese kitchen knives also have their own unique types, such as the Deba Knife and the Yanagiba knife. The blade is a knife specially designed for cutting fish. The blade has a large angle and a thick back. It is suitable for removing scales, breaking bones and dividing into pieces. The willow blade is shaped like a willow leaf, with a long and slender blade and single edged, which is used to fillet the fish pieces decomposed by the blade into raw fish.
Overall, there are a wide variety of Western chef's knives, each with its own specific uses and benefits. Choosing the right knives can greatly improve the efficiency and quality of your cooking. At the same time, in order to ensure the performance and extend the service life of the knives, chefs also need to pay attention to the care and maintenance of the knives.
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