KNIFE SKILLS
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| CHEF'S KNIFE | This all-purpose knife has an 8- to 14-inch
triangular blade. It can be used for peeling,
trimming, chopping, slicing, and dicing.
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| Tournée Knife | has a curved blade that looks like
a bird’s beak. It is used to trim potatoes and
vegetables into shapes that look like footballs.
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| Fillet Knife | has an 8- to 9-inch blade
with a pointed tip. The blade may be rigid or
flexible. It is mainly used to fillet fish
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| Butcher Knife | has a 6- to 14-inch rigid
blade whose tip curves up at a 25-degree angle.
It is sometimes called a scimitar (=si-m`-+t&r)
because its curved blade resembles a saber by
that name.
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| Slicer | has a long, thin blade that is
ideal for cutting large foods such as meat and
poultry. The tip of this knife may be pointed
or rounded. The blade may be rigid or flexible.
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| Boning Knife | A small knife with a thin, angled 5- to 7-
inch blade. It is used to remove
bones from meat, fish, and poultry and trim fat
from meat. The blade may be rigid or flexible
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| Paring Knife | has a rigid blade that is only 2 to 4 inches long. You can use this knife to pare a thin outer layer or peel from fruits
and vegetables
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| Chiffonade | to finely slice or shred leafy vegetables
or herbs. This cut is often used to make certain
garnishes.
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| Rondelle | or round, is a disk-shaped slice. They are made
from cylindrical fruits or vegetables, such as
cucumbers or carrots.
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| Diagonal | cut results in an oval or elongated slice of a cylindrical fruit
or vegetable. The technique used to slice a
diagonal is similar to the one used for a rondelle
except that you must hold the knife at an
angle to get an oval-shaped slice
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| Roll Cut | oblique cut, is done by first cutting a cylindrical fruit or vegetable
as for a diagonal cut, rolling the fruit
or vegetable by 180 degrees, and then doing
another diagonal cut.
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| Julienne | cuts are 1∕8-inch thick matchstick-shaped cuts.
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| Batonnet | cuts are ¼-inch thick matchstick-shaped cuts.
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| Brunoise | cuts are 1∕8- inch thick cubes often cut from julienne cuts.
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| whetstone | is a sharpening stone made of either silicon
carbide or stone. It may have up to three sides,
with grains ranging from coarse to fine.
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| trueing. | A steel can be used daily to keep knives sharp.
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