Many people hate cooking because it often leaves them feeling greasy and oily, but it's also because of this "earthy aura" that cooking becomes a spice in life, enjoying the happiness of making delicious food together with a partner. A home should always look and feel like a home. Haha, if it weren't for this, many young couples might not even have a kitchen space. Many young couples put some thought into choosing kitchen utensils. Kitchen knives come in a wide variety, so what kind of knives are needed for kitchen cutlery?
The first knife, undoubtedly, is the "chef's knife," the pillar of kitchen knives. For Chinese cuisine, the main knife is naturally the common wide-bladed kitchen cleaver, which is very handy for chopping large pieces of vegetables. Of course, if you often cook Western cuisine, then a Western chef's knife with a blade length of 9 inches or more will be your main knife. With Western cutting techniques, using a long knife to shred or dice is more effortless, making it easy to achieve "blind cutting" without looking.
The second knife should be the serrated slicing knife. This knife is very adept at slicing cooked meat, with minimal crumbs when cutting bread, and it also works wonders on soft ingredients like raw fish. Its frequency of use in the kitchen is second only to the chef's knife.
Occupying the third spot on the "most frequently used" list is definitely the small and delicate peeling knife, sturdy, sharp, and reliable. With a blade length of 8-9 centimeters, it is also used every day.
The fourth knife may vary from person to person. Personally, I find the narrow-bladed boning knife very practical and worthy of the fourth spot. It's very handy for dissecting chickens, ducks, and pork ribs. It can also roughly substitute for a fish fillet knife to slice salmon steaks from a whole fish, etc.
Of course, there are other knives, such as the smallest knife for carving and peeling. There's also the cleaver, with a hard blade and a thick, heavy body. One strike can easily break bones. And of course, there are scissors, which are also quite commonly used.
