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    This document lists and provides brief descriptions of various types of knives used in cooking: 1) It describes knives such as the bird's beak knife, boning knife, butter knife, cheese knife, chef's knife, and filet knife which are used for specific culinary tasks like paring, boning, spreading, cutting cheese and fish. 2) It also mentions specialized knives including the chestnut knife, clam knife, devein knife, grapefruit knife, and lettuce knife which are designed for opening particular foods like chestnuts, clams, shrimp, grapefruit, and lettuce. 3) Knife types are also defined by their blade such as the ceramic knife, cle

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    This document lists and provides brief descriptions of various types of knives used in cooking: 1) It describes knives such as the bird's beak knife, boning knife, butter knife, cheese knife, chef's knife, and filet knife which are used for specific culinary tasks like paring, boning, spreading, cutting cheese and fish. 2) It also mentions specialized knives including the chestnut knife, clam knife, devein knife, grapefruit knife, and lettuce knife which are designed for opening particular foods like chestnuts, clams, shrimp, grapefruit, and lettuce. 3) Knife types are also defined by their blade such as the ceramic knife, cle

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    This document lists and provides brief descriptions of various types of knives used in cooking: 1) It describes knives such as the bird's beak knife, boning knife, butter knife, cheese knife, chef's knife, and filet knife which are used for specific culinary tasks like paring, boning, spreading, cutting cheese and fish. 2) It also mentions specialized knives including the chestnut knife, clam knife, devein knife, grapefruit knife, and lettuce knife which are designed for opening particular foods like chestnuts, clams, shrimp, grapefruit, and lettuce. 3) Knife types are also defined by their blade such as the ceramic knife, cle

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    KNIVES

    Bird’s Beak Knife (Tourne Knife)


    - has a shorter blade than a paring knife, with a blade that is typically 2 to 3 inch long. It is designed to curve
    upward on both the cutting edge and the top edge.
    Boning Knife
    - used to remove the main bone within a cut of meat, such as a ham or a beef roast.
    Butter Knife
    - A small knife with a blunt edged blade that is used to apply spreads.
    Ceramic Knife
    - A knife with a blade made from zirconium oxide, also referred to as ceramic zirconia,
    Cheese Knife
    - cut easily through soft or hard textured cheese and manufactured with narrow-blades or short wide blades
    Chef's Knife
    - Also called a cook's knife, this knife is an all purpose
    Chestnut Knife
    - A kitchen utensil that is used to score the chestnut prior to roasting.
    Clam Knife
    - A kitchen utensil that is used to pry open the hard shell of a clam or an oyster
    Cleaver
    - a wide rigid blade and used to chop, shred, pound, or crush food ingredients and materials
    Deli Knife
    - made to cut easily and quickly through a variety of sandwich ingredients
    Devein Knife
    - used to remove the large vein that runs down the length of a shrimp.
    Filet Knife
    - a thin flexible blade, typically 6 to 11 inches long, used for filleting fish.
    Frozen food knife
    - Built to cut through hard to semi-hard substances and called a saw- toothed blade or a coarse saw tooth
    blade.
    Grapefruit Knife
    - made for ease of cutting the meat of the fruit away from the grapefruit skin
    Lettuce Knife
    - A plastic serrated edge knife that is designed to slice lettuce without causing the edges of the lettuce to turn
    brown.

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