Professional butcher knives – Find the right knife for your needs Hello Everyone, Today, I am going to talk about professional butcher knives and how to choose the right knife for your needs. I will also give you some ideas about how to care about them and how you can improve you work efficiency if you make the right choice. In my 25 years career of being a butcher I had to deal with hundreds types of knives. My choices with choosing and handling the right knives were sometimes wrong and the worse thing was that I wasn’t aware of it. My hands were sour, the amount of meats I hurt was bigger than before and I wasn’t really enjoying my work. I’m sure that all of us at least once had a moment in your lives that everything was going wrong right? …show more content…
I was then delegated to different type of work and suddenly everything became much easier. My efficiency increased and I wasn’t getting tired and painful as before. Then, I realized that all my problems came from the wrong choices of the type of knives. Well, nearly all, because my knife sharpening skills were also not the best. After that I was very careful with choosing the right tool for the right job and how to carefully handle my butcher accessories. Because I experienced all the consequences of my wrong choices I decided to learn more about butcher knives and how to make my life much easier. Therefore I’m more than happy to introduce you to the most popular types of professional butcher knives. If you are a butcher you probably know some of them, but it’s always good to know a little more about the things that you work with nearly every day of your …show more content…
This knife is often used to trim fat and cut larger pieces into smaller ones in large beef processing plants. Breaking knife This knife is used primarily to break down carcasses. It is used when you want a long curved blade to help cut through a carcass. This knife gives a full range cutting motion and makes a clean cut. Cleaver The cleaver is quite similar to the traditional butcher’s knife except that it is lighter in weight and has thinner blades for precision cutting. It is very large and its shape varies. The cleaver has a tough edge which makes it withstand directly repeated blows into thick meat, dense cartilage and bones. The edge of this knife does not really need to be sharp because the design depends on sheer momentum to cut efficiently. They are used for cutting through soft or thin sinews and bones. Trimming knife The trimming knife is basically used for removing meat from bone. This knife can be used to make thin clean slices and the tip of the blade makes meat trimming a very easy and pleasurable task. 2. How to choose a
If I wanted to cut a piece of paper that had three invoice slips on it into separate pieces, I would first look for a pair of scissors, as they are relatively safe and appropriate for the task. However if there are no scissors available, I may instead opt to use a ruler to tear the paper instead, as although it is not the most appropriate tool for the task, in the situation it would be time and cost effective. It also doesn’t matter too much if the edges are jagged on an invoice slip. If I had to cut something in a more presentable way I may have to take the less efficient option and check with another department to see if they had scissors I could use.
List three ergonomic considerations when buying shears. Picking the right pair of shears to fit you is important, if not it can cause some health issues. Making sure they are the right size to fit your hand and also the weight of the shears make a difference on how comfortable they are when using. The third thing you need to know is how to maintain the shears how many times you need to sharpen it a year, details like that will help with your decision on getting the perfect pair for you that will last.
If the blade did not hit the exact spot on the neck it would become as though it was an axe. It would hack away until the head came off. After all the chopping, the blade will often become dull. Throughout the revolution, the blade was changed, it became angled. The angling of the blade helps kill faster.
285) These types of injuries usually come from knives, axes, or other weapons like that. In some instances, a sharp trauma will look like a line across the bone. So, if someone is not trained in knowing what these marks are, they can be easily over looked. According to Byers (2011) “sharp trauma is the result of narrowly focused, dynamic compression forces applied to the surface of a bone.” (p. 285) Unlike blunt or projectile trauma, sharp force will be focused in a single area, unless the suspect us using an ax or machete there won’t be a large amount destruction to the bones. Using an ax or machete however can severely damage the bones that can look like blunt trauma. So, it is important for the forensic anthropologist to be able to distinguish between them.
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Many say it is bad to dissect an animal of nature, and they are completely true, they’re helping animals in the studious way. Can also be dangerous to those veterinarians, hopefully they are secure. The practice of dissection the act of cutting into and examine a dead animal. It continues to sense as a prominent educational tool for touching. The treatment of animals destine for use in dissection and other educational purposes. It involves an inordinate amount suffering, stress, inhumane
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