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The wide blade of Caidao keeps the cook's fingers well off the cutting surface and the round handle gives a nice "pivot point" for the cutting stroke. The blade has a curvature or rocker along its edge that is generally uniform, improving the knife's ability to chop and mince meats and vegetables.
Usuba bōchō (薄刃包丁 — lit. "thin blade kitchen knife") is the traditional vegetable knife for the professional Japanese chef. Like other Japanese professional knives, usuba are chisel ground, and have a single bevel on the front side, and have a hollow ground urasuki on the back side.
A paring knife or parer is a small all-purpose knife with a plain edge that is ideal for peeling (or "paring") fruits and vegetables, and other small or intricate work (such as de-veining a shrimp, removing the seeds from a jalapeño, 'skinning' or cutting small garnishes). Paring knives are usually 6 to 10 cm (2½ to 4 inches) long.
This utensil typically features a thin edge to assist with slicing, and a large face, to hold the slice whilst transferring to a plate, bowl or other container. Cheese cutter: Designed to cut soft, sticky cheeses (moist and oily). The cutting edge of cheese cutters are typically a fine gauge stainless steel or aluminium wire. Cheese knife
Wedges; round vegetables cut equally radially, used on tomato, potato, lemon, cut into four or six pieces or more; Japanese cuts include: [4] Tanzaku-kiri; sliced into thin rectangular strips. Wa-giri; round cut, cut into round slices. Hangetsu-giri; half-moon cut, cut into round slices which are cut in half.
The santoku knife design originated in Japan, where traditionally a deba knife is used to cut fish, a gyuto knife is used to cut meat, and a nakiri knife is used to cut vegetables. This knife was created in the 1940s to combine the three virtues of each of these traditional knives into one universal generalist knife — the santoku bōchō. [1]