Saturday, May 10, 2008

How To Choose And Keep Kitchen Knives

Would you like to find out more information about how to choose knife for your kitchen? The information in the article below comes from my own experience and with some additional reading. The information about this topic presented here may be helping you on two aspects: either it will emphasize on what you have already known or it will teach you something really new information. No matter what kind of aspect you will get from reading are good learning outcomes. As your knowledge about this topics will grow after you have read.

Knife is one of the most important equipments in a kitchen is knife. Different size and shape of knife are used for different jobs. Long knife are suitable for cut large object such as fruit and meats, meanwhile smaller jobs such as vegetable cuts are for smaller knife. The different of blade type also indicate the specific functions of knife, for example serrated blades are design to hard cutting jobs such as lamb meat or hard-texture vegetables.

Generally, every kitchen knife is available together with sparing knife and there are some guidelines on how to choose good quality kitchen knife. The basic element that you have to consider when buy kitchen knife are function, quality and price. These basic elements could be applied to all kind of kitchen knife and its sparing set. The knife that used for general cutting works in kitchen generally has a relatively short blade of three to four inches. This kind of knife could be used for many smaller jobs, such as peeling and slicing fruits and vegetables such as apple, onions, garlic etc. If your kitchen often has this kind of jobs rather than heavy cutting jobs so you may need to consider paring knife is probably the first knife to buy. I am quite sure that most of kitchen has general small cutting jobs more than heavy jobs so it can be conclude that you should buy this type. After you have used pair kitchen knife for a while, probably for about 1-2 years, you may see that the blade start to broken and you have to looking for a new one. Now we are going to talk about the quality of blade that you have to consider when buy kitchen knife.

The quality of blades indicates the durability of kitchen knife. Most of kitchen knife blade are made from stainless, which usually last for about 1-2 years and they need to be replaced or re-sharpened. When choosing kitchen knife, you have to choose the ones which made from good quality blade. This could be measured by the certification message indicated on the blades itself. Or you may have to ask seller about the warranty policy of the knife. However, the durability of knife blade also depends on the way that you keep and maintenance too. To make sure that you keep all kitchen knives correctly, you must clean it immediately after use. This is because if you do not clean it immediately, the stain and bacteria is the cause of moan on the knife handle so you may have to replace the new one even thought the blade is still in very good condition.By: PisanK