The Importance Of Professional Butcher Knivess

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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

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