How to Choose the Right Chef’s Knife
Choosing the best chef's knife for your kitchen can be fraught with challenges, however, and if this is your first time, then you’ll need to make sure...
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How to Sharpen a Serrated Knife (Without Ruining It)
Serrated blades need a tapered rod, not a stone. How to sharpen a bread knife scallop by scallop, what ruins the teeth, and when to...
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How to Improve Your Knife Skills and Chop, Slice and Dice Like a Pro
In this guide, we will be giving you some handy tips used regularly by chefs in Japanese cooking, on how to hold your knives and...
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Tips To Improve Your Knife Skills
Having a good selection of sharp, high-quality knives is a must but knowing how to use them correctly takes time and patience. But if you...
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How Do I Mount a Magnetic Knife Holder?
Mounting a magnetic knife holder is a 20-minute job. Our step-by-step guide covers height, marking, checking for cables, the right fixings for brick, plasterboard and...
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What Are the Basic Knife and Kitchen Safety Rules?
The kitchen is a surprisingly dangerous place and it’s shocking to learn that accidents in the home cost the NHS a whopping £45 billion each...
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What Are the Types of Japanese Cutting Techniques?
The seven Japanese cutting techniques explained: hangetsu-giri, wa-giri, sen-giri, ran-giri and more — what each cut is for, and which knife makes it easy.
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How to Sharpen a Knife Using a Whetstone
Sharp knives are safer and far more pleasant to cook with. This guide walks through sharpening a kitchen knife on a whetstone step by step:...
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How to Choose a Kitchen Knife | Everything You Need to Know
When choosing a kitchen knife, there are only a few basic things that you need to consider. As you become more experienced, there are then...
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How Do Japanese Chefs Hold Their Knives? An Introduction to Grip and Technique
In this article, we’ll not only explain why Japanese knives are designed to be held in a certain way, but also what the most common...
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How Often Should You Sharpen a Japanese Knife?
Sharpening a Japanese knife can often be confusing if you take the term sharpening too literally, therefore in this article will clarify what sharpening a...
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How to Remove Rust From Kitchen Knives
Rust removal from a Japanese chef knife can be a relatively quick and effortless task, depending on how much rust has formed on the blade....
