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BUCK BANTAM KNIFE SET of 2 POCKET KNIVES made in U.S.A. $23.99 |
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Case Knife 6270 Sleeve Board Red Bone Limited #7977 NEW Made 2000 $99.95 |
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AWESOME JESSE DAVIS CUSTOM MADE PEARL PROSTITUTE DAGGER / KNIFE ALABAMA DAMASCUS $239.75 |
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VINTAGE~IDEAL~KEY-CHAIN SOUVENIR KNIFE~NEW ORLEANS~MADE IN U.S.A. $9.99 |
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CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS STEEL FOLDING KNIFE $34.00 |
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Old Vtg Antique Collectible 2 Blade SABRE Pocket Folding Knife Made In Japan $29.95 |
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Cutco 13″ Kitchen Knife #1022 Made in USA $13.70 |
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CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS STEEL HUNTING KNIFE $31.00 |
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Collectible Wenger Swiss Army Pocket Folding Knife Made In Switzerland $29.95 |
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NICE USED VICTORINOX SWIIS MADE STAINLESS FOLDING POCKET KNIFE OFFICIER SUISSE $3.99 |
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Collectible Stainless Steel Swiss Army Style Pocket Folding Knife Made In Italy $29.95 |
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VINTAGE “FISH KNIFE” – Made in Germany $15.50 |
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Cold Steel Carbon V Master Hunter Knife Made In The USA $70.00 |
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Vintage RED BAKELITE Rotary knife sharpener made in England butterscotch veining $12.99 |
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VINTAGE W.W.II FIGHTING KNIFE RH – 35 PAL MADE IN THE U.S.A. U.S.N. MARK I $66.00 |
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MADE IN THE USA–CUSTOM HAND MADE KNIVES–NEW COMPANY-”DELLWOOD CREEK” $45.00 |
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MADE IN THE USA–CUSTOM HAND MADE KNIVES–NEW COMPANY-”DELLWOOD CREEK” $55.00 |
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Randall Knife Model – 50th Anniversary Knife # 206 of 300 – made ! $3,895.00 |
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CASE XX KNIVES NATURAL BONE KOREAN EDITION TRAPPER KNIFE USA MADE #7067 SALE $43.95 |
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~KEY-CHAIN POCKET KNIFE~PROV. CUT.CO .MADE IN U.S.A .PROV. R.I $9.99 |
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Vintage Davpol SABATIER Full Tang Stainless Paring Knife 5″ Blade Made in FRANCE $14.50 |
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CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS HUNTING KNIFE $49.99 |
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VINTAGE 9″ STILETTO Dagger FIXED BLADE Japanese Made KNIFE~No Switch~ROCKABILLY $26.00 |
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Old Vtg Antique Collectible WESTERN 3 Blade Pocket Folding Knife Made In USA $19.95 |
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CAKE KNIFE – Comfort Grip, Stain & Heat resisitant – Made in the USA – NEW $24.99 |
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Old Vtg Antique Collectible JOWIKA 2 Blade Pocket Folding Knife Made In Ireland $19.95 |
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ANTIQUE VINTAGE WW 2 ENGLISH MADE 1945 RODGERS AND SONS MACHETE KNIFE $76.00 |
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PAPER KNIFE EUROPEAN SILVER MARKED 800 MADE CIRCA 1940 $90.00 |
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Old Vtg Antique Collectible IDEAL 2 Blade Folding Pocket Knife Made In USA $14.95 |
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Native American Hand-Made deer hide Knife Sheath $388.00 |
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Old Vtg Antique Collectible IMPERIAL 3 Blade Folding Pocket Knife Made Ireland $19.95 |
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2 BLADE FOLDING KNIFE MADE IN THE U.S.A $1.25 |
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Old Vtg Antique IMPERIAL SCOUT 4 Blade Folding Pocket Knife Made In USA $12.95 |
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Rigid Fixed Blade Knife and Sheath USA Made {B91} $150.00 |
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Old Timer Schrade Fixed Blade Knife and Sheath USA Made {C41} $100.00 |
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Custom made Tanto knife $25.00 |
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New Alaska Ulu Birch Handle Inupiat Knife Animal Collage Design Made in Alaska $18.88 |
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Alaska Made Moose Antler ULU Knife W/ Stand Eagle Face $74.99 |
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New Alaska Ulu Birch Handle Inupiat Knife Totemic Design Made in Alaska $18.88 |
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Made in Alaska Dymond Wood Pocket Ulu Knife Blueberry $44.88 |
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SALE New 11″ Handmade Hunting Knife -FULL TANG Hand Made Heavy duty with Sheath $14.49 |
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SALE New 12-3/4″ Handmade Hunting Knife – Hand Made Heavy duty w/Sheath $16.39 |
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vintage CARVEL HALL japan made MOLYBDENUM STEEL 7 pc KITCHEN CHEF KNIFE SET !!!! $18.89 |
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CASE POCKET FOLDING KNIFE 2.8″ BLADE YELLOW HANDLE CAMPING HIKING MADE IN USA $23.99 |
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An Irish Leprechaun two blade pocket knife made in Germany $10.95 |
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Bushcraft Hybrid Knife + Hand made 5/16 Firesteel $220.00 |
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GERBER L.S.T LOCKBACK POCKET FOLDING KNIFE made in USA $20.99 |
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Lot of 6 Folding Knives Imperial Made in USA Swiss Army Knife Fighter Lot 132 $9.99 |
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Hand made Damascus steel knife $300.00 |
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KUTMASTER UTICA CONSTITUTION 200th Yr Anniversary Gent Knife ADAMS USA MADE $17.99 |
How to Chose the Right Knife for Your Kitchen
The right kitchen knives for the job will shorten your prep time, a lot. This will allow you to work faster and smarter. It also will help you prepare more high-quality ingredients and be a joy to use. So what makes a good knife? The main factors include: size, shape, quality and sharpness.
Size
Use a knife that are too small and you work harder than you need to. Use a knife that is too big and you will lose precision and control, and you work harder than you need to. Typically, you will find that a larger knife is better for chopping, dicing, mincing, and slicing. A smaller knife better suited to cutting, peeling and trimming small fruits. A medium sized knife if useful for slicing fruit and medium sized cuts of meat.
A good basic knife set contains a chef's knife, also called a cook's knife. While pros often recommend knife, 8 inch is a good sized house. 7 inches may be all that a shorter cook would want. Some cooks use Japanese style Santoku knife as a replacement for the European chef's knife style. A chef's knife is the most used blade in a professional kitchen and can be used for most food prep. A big knife that is often intimidating to cook at home but a bit of practice shows that it makes the job go much chopping quickly.
Chef's knife which is not suitable for fine work such as peeling. That's where a paring paring knife come in. Knives come in a range of sizes of 2-5 inches but the most common size is 3 to 3 January / 2 inches. Many home cooks use paring knife to chop to, but that's not what they were designed for. A paring knife is best used when the item being cut is held in hand. If a cutting board is used then a larger and heavier knife will do the job with less effort.
A bread knife should be long enough to cut a loaf of bread. For breads baked in pans or long, narrow loaf, 8 inches is enough. For the bread round, a 9 inch knife or longer is better.
Middle size 5-6 inches long knife is good for general work and often cook's furniture choices. Usually the knife is good for slicing or boning. A larger knife chef's will make quicker work of chopping. Knife in the middle range size is often called utility or sandwich knife, although some cooks prefer the thick edge of a short chef's or Santoku knives.
A good working minimum set of knives including chef's knife, a paring knife, a mid-sized utility knife or two and a bread knife. When preparing chicken, it's nice to have a knife dedicated to that work that does not contaminate the rest of the meal. The vast majority of the prep work can be easily accomplished with knives and a set of poultry shears. It is usually best to start with a higher quality set of small knives and add specialty knives as needed than to buy a large set and never use Some of the knives. Some cooks prefer the nice look of a matching set of knives. Some prefer to buy a knife they like best for each particular task.
If you work with a whole chicken or chicken after a 5-6 inch boning knife is a nice addition. A 6-7 inch fillet knife make short work of de-boning or filleting fish. A January 2 to 2 / 2 inch paring knife helps hard garnishes. While carving a good chef's will do to carve meat or chicken, a knife is not used for food prep are sharp and ready for carving at the table. 8-9 inches is a good general purpose size. The 10 inch knife is better for the prime rib and can double as a cake slicer, cutting the full width of the cake in a motion.
Shape
Knives with curved blades are the most versatile. Strapping benefit from a wider leaves, at least the end closest to the handle, or heel. Straight blade knife works well for slicing things like bread and roast beef. The traditional turkey carving is fairly straight.
The overall including the shape of a knife blade and handle the same shape. The blade shape will influence speed cutting or chopping. The shape of the handle will influence comfort and balance. The latter is very subjective. What feels good for one cook was suffering for others. Before buying it is always best to actually hold a knife to carry it through appropriate chopping and cutting motions .. For some cooks perfect balance is important. Others do not care as long as holding a knife edge.
Quality
Better quality knives hold their edge longer and are generally more durable. It used to be that only forged blades held high quality but that's not the case. While low-quality knives are all stamps, now days many quality knife is cut or stamped from sheet steel. Forschner knives rated by cooking Illustrated as a best buy and a popular in many restaurants offer the same quality holds edge capabilities as much more expensive German brands in less than a quarter the cost, and chest are just mythical being forged blades sharp and durable. Some very expensive Japanese knives are not forged and be the best knife available.
Quality Japanese knives generally offer a much harder than steel German comparably priced ones. The trade off is that while the margins may stay sharper, the knife is more difficult to sharpen when it became dull. Professional chefs fall on both sides of the Japanese steel vs. German question.
Regardless of what you end up picking knife, what top brands offer more expensive is not a good tools. A less expensive knives may be 95% or more as available as aa high price of one. It will not be as finely balanced. It will not offer that ineffable sense of quality. Nor does it impress your friends. Aesthetics vs. value is happily a choice that does not give you a bad knife.
Sharpness
A sharp, quality knife is a joy to use. However, a sharper edge is the more delicate it is. Sharpness comes from being extremely thin blade. If you buy an expensive knife extremely sharp edge and want it to last you need to take care of it. At the very least means without cleaning it in the dishwasher, cutting on a hard surface or unprotected storing knives in a drawer. It also means learning to touch up a knife steel or ceramic hone.
Any knife that quality should come from the factory with a sharp edge enough, although clever is a relative term. A $ 200 + Japanese knife can come with a scary sharp edge, while the $ 40 German one will have a "just" working sharp one. The tradeoff is one of durability as well as the ease of cutting. A very sharp knife edge is fragile and requires the same respect and care. A well-maintained knives will hold a working edge for quite a while, even when it finally gets too dull you may want to consider using a professional knife sharpening service to be restored to the side.
About the Author
Recovering psychotherapist, former restaurant owner and Mac geek, Michael lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
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