There are more than a dozen types of modern knives. Even an ordinary table knife can be dessert, intended for fish or beef steak, or used only for cutting certain foods. In each case, you need to use the knife correctly.
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Instruction manual
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Near the plate at the dinner table, the knife is laid out (along with a spoon) on its right side, the fork on the left. Hold the knife in your right hand, the fork in your left. The index finger should lie on the handle of the knife. When you cut off a portion of meat from a piece of meat, lightly press the knife with your index finger. The remaining fingers remain bent towards the palm of the hand.
2
Hold the knife and fork horizontally above your plate of food. Do not rush with a knife to cut the whole dish on a plate, and then use only a fork. Slice into a piece, eat sliced, and then cut a new portion.
3
With a table knife, cut portions from beef steaks, ham, boneless fish, poultry, Kiev cutlets, sausages, sausages, apples, bananas, cheese. But bread, fried or baked fish, crabs, crayfish with a knife on etiquette is not cut. Do not put the sliced pieces on the fork with a knife, but just tweak them. After you have used a knife and a fork for lunch and ate a dish, put the appliances on an empty plate, not next to it and not on the tablecloth.
4
The blade of a kitchen knife should always be well sharpened. Cut various food items with a kitchen knife only on chopping boards, such as wooden, silicone or plastic.
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For each type of product, keep a separate cutting board and separate knife, even if you rinse it thoroughly after each use. A separate knife should be for butter and cheese. Define the second knife only for slicing vegetables, the third for fruit, the fourth for bread, the fifth for fish and the sixth for meat.
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So that the blade of a kitchen knife does not deteriorate quickly, do not open cans or bottles to it. For this purpose knives of a special type are intended - canning. After use, rinse the knives thoroughly in running, not hot water, since hot dulls them quickly. If the knife smells unpleasant after washing, wipe it with lemon juice or table vinegar.