Always cut away from your body.

Always ensure you knives are sharp; you are less likely to cut yourself with a sharp knife as you apply less pressure to the ingredient you are cutting.

Use the right size knife for the job in hand.  It will give you better control and will work faster.

Never test how sharp you knife is by running your finger along the blade.

Store you kitchen knives in a safe place.

Normally, they are better value for money.  However, you do not have a choice of which knives are in the set.  A typical set would normally contain a knife block, a  paring knife, a chef’s knife, a slicing knife, a utility knife, a bread knife and a steel or pair of scissors.

Cutting tools have been used by humans for over 3 million years.   However, kitchen knives as we now know them made from stainless steel  were first produced in the 1920’s.

ekitchenknives.co.uk believes it is. Less expensive knives tend to be made in pieces and then welded together as a cost-saving exercise. However, don’t be fooled, as some top end Japanese knives are made from 3 pieces of steel; the tang, blade and bolster, to ensure the best type of steel is used for each section of the knife.

The point is where the spine and the cutting edge come together.  This is used to pierce foods and to work with delicate ingredients.

The tip is the thinnest and lightest part of your kitchen knife and is therefore again good for delicate ingredients.

On forged kitchen knives the spine is usually the thickest part of the blade; it can be squared or rounded.

The bolster is the part of the kitchen knife where the blade and handle meet.  The bolster protects your fingers, but also adds weight and balance to your kitchen knife.

The handle is the part of the kitchen knife that you hold when cutting.  Handles come in many different shapes and sizes.  They are made from different materials including resin, plastic, stainless steel and wood.

The tang is the piece of steel which extends from the bolster or blade into the handle.  The tang is the part of the kitchen knife that provides the knife with balance, weight, strength and durability.  A kitchen knife with a full tang is recommended by ekitchenknives.co.uk as they are stronger and far more reliable when using on tough ingredients.  Henckel kitchen knives offer not only traditional vertical tang knives but also horizontal tang kitchen knives from the Twin Cuisine range.

The cutting edge is what ekitchenknives.co.uk considers being the most important part of the knife!  It is the part that does all of the work!