Choosing Unusual Kitchen Knives

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My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'd like to speak with you about what to look for when buying kitchen knives. Thought I'd also take a second to discuss some of the odd ball or peculiar knives you'll come across. This is tiny first of all, what this is, is a very, very fine detail. This is a garnishing knife, this is how you make those little rose flowers out of tomatoes, this is also how you a, you can see the blade is, you know, practically microscopic in thickness. This thing is really, you're not going to chop anything up with this. This is designed solely for garnish work. The only time you ever really use this if you're a professional Grand Monja or professional like decorator. Not a whole lot of purpose for this, I own one, I think I've used it five or six times ever. Also the microscopic boning knife, I'm not sure what you're going to bone with a knife this small. You can see the blade is half the size of the handle, I think it's a two inch, yeah it's the two inch blade. This is a pretty uncommon but you will see these a this I guess if you want to de-bone a Cornish game hen perhaps, that would be a good point for this. Other than that not a great deal of use for it I guess now you could do garnish or detail work with it but that is the point of this tiny, tiny knife. Here we'll see the oyster knife. Everyone s got to have one of these because this works so much better than a screwdriver. You'll see it's actually got a dull tip, there's no edge to speak of. All this is designed for is for slipping inside the joint in the back of the oyster and popping it open. That's the only purpose this knife serves and boy does it do a great job doing that. While you're at it, don't go to the store and spend fifty bucks on a oyster knife, that's just silly. This one was ten dollars, it works great, I've had it for, I don't know, twelve years so I can't recommend just a plain old nice cheapo, you know, industrial kitchen style knife like this. Something you might see every once in a while, the kitchen fork. You might want think gosh, I've got to have that. This thing is great if you're tuning your guitar because it's tuned to an "E", other than that it's good for menacing people. It's also good if you have a carving station set up but other than that you're not going to get a whole lot of use of this. The problem with this is if you poke something with it you're putting holes in whatever you're doing to flip on your grill and you're like letting juices out. Use tongs instead, these things are great but they're only great to own if you get them as a gift. Don't waste your money on one so. And lastly I had to bring out the Ginsu knife. We all know this knife. The question is Can I really cut through a can and then a tomato? The answer quite simply is yes, the reason why is you'll see there's a micro serrations in the blade it's a serrated on top of serrated edge. So you have your serrations and in between your serrations you have more serrations and more serrations you have more serrations in the tip here and you got this weird pointy thing on the end which I'm not sure what it does. This is the fabled Ginsu this will cut through a tin can and a tomato so a it's always good to have one around for a laugh. It's also a pretty descent knife for like three bucks.

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