Knife Skills

Chef's Knives are mostly used for..

• slicing tomatoes and soft foods

• Chopping, Dicing, and mincing

• Small items like fruits and vegetables

• removing bones from fish

A _____ knife is a safe knife.

• Dull

• Small

• Large

• Sharp

use the _________ technique to protect fingers while cutting foods.

• Claw grip

• flat fingers

• Nuckle grip

• Palm grip

Not cutting foods on a cutting board can cause your knife to ____________.

• become sharper

• slip while cutting

• Dull/Damage the blade.

• Ruin your countertops

A knife does a better job of cutting or slicing food when it is sharp?

• True

• False

When using a knife, cut ______ from yourself.

• Away

• Toward

A knife is more likely to slip and cut you if it's dull.

• True

• False

What is the claw?

• A specialized paring knife that removes the tough part from meat.

• The safest way to hold a butcher knife

• The position for the guiding hand when using a knife

• A butcher knife that will cut through any type of food

True or false: a mince is smaller than a course chop.

• True

• False

What size is a minced food?

• Large, irregular sized pieces

• Medium, irregular sized pieces

• Small, irregular sized pieces