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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese kitchen knife, Japanese Sande knife and Western chef knife?
Kitchen knives are mainly used by housewives to cut meat and vegetables, but some lawless people will use them to hurt people. We should use kitchen knives peacefully, not as weapons to do illegal things.

Stainless steel knives are different from iron knives: stainless steel knives are clean and beautiful, but not very sharp; The surface of iron knife is not beautiful, but it will supplement iron after long-term use, which is suitable for anemia patients.

There are many kinds of kitchen knives, which can be divided into Chinese kitchen knives, Japanese kitchen knives and foreign kitchen knives besides those designed for various purposes. Japanese kitchen knives are generally used with chopping boards to prevent the blades from being damaged after cutting off the ingredients. Most foreign kitchen knives can be used directly on the conditioning table.

Chop: Chop, chop meat, or chop bones into small pieces. The blade is thicker and heavier.

Slicing knife: suitable for shredding pork and slicing fruits and vegetables.

Fruit knife: cut fruit and smaller food.

Sawtooth knife: suitable for cutting fruits with more water.

Japanese kitchen knife

The Japanese kitchen knife is called "Skilled Chef", which comes from the title of "Skilled Chef" in China's ancient Zhuangzi. Now the new Japanese font is "Baoding".

Diced bread is mainly used for cooking fish.

Thin-edged croutons are mainly used for vegetable processing.

Baoding for sashimi, specially used to treat sashimi, is the thinnest one of Japanese kitchen knives.

The diced tuna (マグロ) is specially used for cutting tuna, and the blade is about 40 ~ 60 cm long, which can handle large tuna.

ウナギ, which is used to cut eels, has different shapes in different parts of Japan.

Western kitchen knife

Chef knife

Universal application

Chef's knife is a multi-purpose kitchen knife with an arc-shaped blade, which can be used in conjunction with the chopping block for more accurate cutting. The length of the chef's knife is about 15 ~ 30 cm, and the most common is 20 cm.

Bread knives usually have serrated edges and the length is about 15 ~ 25cm. The serrated blade can easily cut bread and other ingredients with hard skin but soft inside.

paring knife

Tool knife (utility tool)

Meat chopper

A knife for cutting meat.

microtome knife

Large meat cleaver

Meat cleaver

Fish fillets for cutting fish.

Ham slicer (ham slicer)

Special kitchen knife

Tomato cutter

Oyster knife

Watermelon knife, the blade length is about 35 cm or more, used to cut watermelons.