When were Chef's Knives invented?

[MarcelNL]

I don;t think any one revolution was responsible for a dramatic change in knife geometry, it's more probably a slowly evolving design as time passed on and new insights and cooking styles evolved.

It's one thing to cook a whole pig f.e. but as we see until today even a porchetta roast is cut into portions before serving and in case a wealthy family would reserve the whole for themselves I doubt they went at it as a whole.

somewhere between ripping whole joints apart and a Chef's knife things evolved, I bet they started cutting meat in the stone age (looking at the sharpness and variety of their flint tools)

 

[daveb]

"When were Chef's Knives invented?"​

Last week.

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[blokey]

I don’t want to brag about it, but…

 

[Transmaster]

The from the Luttrell Psalter, f. 207v 1325-1335. You can see from this illumination the design of the butcher knife has not changed much to this day.

 

[Transmaster]

This is an Etruscan knife from the late 4th-early 3rd Century BC. It has a familier shape but what is was used for 3,000 years ago will be forever unknown.

 

[aporigine]

… can anyone suggest what the shoe knife and putty knife were used for in the turn-of-the-century American kitchen?

They’d be naturals for steak&potatoes at the freshman cafeteria at college, back in the day.

 

[stringer]

They’d be naturals for steak&potatoes at the freshman cafeteria at college, back in the day.

I always have putty knives in pro kitchens for scraping pots and pans.

 

[aporigine]

I always have putty knives in pro kitchens for scraping pots and pans.

That’s a good idea!

Even so, I’ve had steaks for which a shoe knife would have been ideal.

 

[Vertigo]

"When were Chef's Knives invented?"​

Last week.

See Kickstarter.com for details....

Heeeeey! Turns out those Misen bois made it! The best AUS-10 out of China money can buy!

 

[stringer]

Putty knife power