On Wed, 5 May 2004 08:23:50 GMT, Ajanta took a very
strange rock and inscribed these words:

I realize that cutting into a pineappl or acorn squash requires a big
strong knife, but I am still not sure if I need everything a meat
eating person needs. What do you use? Do you need cleaver, carving
knife, steak knives?

Get a couple sizes of chef's knives (one large, one medium), a paring
knife, a bread knife, and a sharpening steel (I recommend one with
diamond dust as it never seems to wear out.) Anything else you might
need, you can buy individually if you need it. If you like, you can
substitute a large chopping knife for the large chef's knife.

I never use steak knives but I do have a medium sized serrated edge
knife that is sometimes used to cut things like tomatoes that seem to
need extra care.

A few other knife-like things that come in handy: potato peeler, pizza
cutter, and sandwich spreader/cutter (on the last, dunno the actual
name but it's a dual purpose tool used in restaurants to speed up
sandwich preparation; you can spread the mustard, etc. with the wide
blade and then cut the assembled sandwich with the serrated edge.)


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