Have you ever wondered how to hold a kitchen knife safely? Professional chefs are all taught basic knife skills, but unfortunately, this knowledge isn’t always known by home chefs. Without official training little things can be overlooked, and without anyone there to tell you the proper way to hold a knife in the kitchen, how …
Choosing the correct chef knife size is an important consideration when picking a chef’s knife. Chef’s knives come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The most important consideration is choosing the correct chef knife length for you. In this article, I’ll go into detail about how to choose the correct-sized chef’s knife and how …
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We’ve all seen TV chefs furiously honing away their knife on a honing steel. And there is a good reason for it, honing your knife is an important part of keeping your knife well maintained and helps them to last as long as possible. Honing a knife is often overlooked by home cooks and typically …
Whether you are a professional chef or a home cook a honing steel is a vital member of your kitchen toolset. Honing steels are extremely resilient pieces of kit, and if treated in the right way a honing steel could last the home cook decades. But you do actually need to clean them from time …
No one wants to use a blunt knife in the kitchen. It turns cooking from being a pleasure into a chore and is actually a lot more dangerous as the knife can easily slip. If you’re reading this, you’re probably in a situation where you don’t seem to have any alternative, all your knives have …
Honing steels are a vital and all too often underused tool of the kitchen. Commonly but incorrectly referred to as sharpening steels, honing steels help to keep your knives well maintained, so they can last significantly longer. Honing steels feel so robust that it’s easy to think they will last forever, but will your steel …
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Having good knife skills can make cooking a joy. But get it wrong and you could be in a messy, and painful situation! Having an object specifically designed to easily slice through flesh moving up and down right next to your fingertips is always going to pose a bit of danger, but if you place …
