Knives For Chefs - Knife skills, knives maintance and knife sharpening.

Knives By Type

Boning Knife
Bread knife
Butter knife
Carving
Carving Fork
Cheese Knives
Chef's knife
Chestnut Knife
Chinese chef's knife
Cleaver Knife
Decorating Knife
Deveiner, Deveining Knife
Fillet Knife
Fluting Knife
Grapefruit Knife
Ham slicer
Honing Steel
Japanese Knives
Mincing Knife
Oyster Knife
Paring Knife
Peeling Knife
Shears
Tomato Knife
Trimming Knife
Utility Knife

Tomato Knife

A tomato knife is a small knife with a serrated blade. Typically about the size of a utility knife, tomato knives are ideal for cutting through the tough skin and soft flesh of tomatoes.

Kitchen Knife Skills: Techniques for Carving, Boning, Slicing, Chopping, Dicing, Mincing, Filleting by Marianne Lumb

A step-by-step guide for the home cook on how to choose and use knives.

Good knife skills can be the most important ingredient in preparing a dish. Mastering professional knife skills makes a cook not only faster but safer as well. Kitchen Knife Skills shows the home cook how to choose and care for knives, how to keep them sharp and how to make the best use of their most important features.

This comprehensive guide details the standard professional techniques used by chefs the world over, allowing the home cook to work just like the professionals -- quickly, effectively and stylishly. Detailed, step-by-step photos and instructions show how to prepare anything in the kitchen, including:

* Vegetables
* Fruits
* Herbs
* Poultry and meat
* Fish
* Bread and cakes.

From filleting a fish to fanning a piece of fruit, every knife and knife skill is described in detail in this outstanding resource book. Using this guide, anyone can cook like a professional chef.

Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual (Hardcover) by Peter Hertzmann

Don't be surprised if it changes the way you cook. Knives are the most common pieces of equipment in the kitchen, yet few cooks know the basic techniques that can allow them to carve, chop, slice, and mince effectively. Peter Hertzmann teaches you skills that encompass everything you need to do with a knife in the kitchen, whether you're a four-star chef or an at-home beginner. This comprehensive guide fills a gaping void in culinary literature. 800 drawings.

Knife Sharpening Experts: Sharpening Stones
Written by Len Q

There are so many kinds of knife sharpeners out there. It could be exciting just to select one. You could use an electric grinder but that's pretty major. Only professional sharpeners are recommended to use one. Maybe you'd like an automatic sharpener, the ones where all you've got to do is just swipe the blade through. Perhaps you'd like a sharpening guide system where you've got a sharpening stone and an angle guide combined. Ever thought of a sharpener on a key chain? Imagine that.

Everyone's kitchen should have a good set of kitchen knives. But there are so many different kinds of kitchen knives out there, how do you choose the ones that you need?
There are carving, pastry, cheese and steak knives to name a few. We should start with steak knives because everyone should have a good set of steak knives, whether you eat steak or not. It's a good idea to have these kinds of knives because they can cut lots of food besides meats. They can cut breads without smashing it down because these knives are serrated like a saw; apples and other hard covered fruits like pineapples and melons. Vegetables are another good food a steak knife can cut through that a butter knife cannot.