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About
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05-Maret-2018
BREAD KNIFE
Bread knives are used for cutting bread and are one of many kitchen knives used by chefs. The serrated blades of bread knives are able
to cut soft bread without crushing it.
Bread knives are usually between
15 cm and 25 cm (6 and 10 inches). An offset serrated knife uses
an offset handle to ensure the cook's knuckles will not touch the cutting
surface when the blade has cut all of the way through the food.
PALETTE KNIFE
A palette
knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a
flexible steel blade.
It is primarily used for mixing paint colors, paste,
etc., or for marbling, decorative endpapers, etc. The
"palette" in the name is a reference to an
Art
knives come primarily in two types:
- palette
knife resembling a putty knife with a rounded tip,
suited for mixing paints on the palette
- painting
knife with a pointed tip, lowered or "cranked"
like a trowel,
suited for painting on canvas.
While
palette knives are manufactured without sharpened cutting edges, with prolonged
use they may become "sharpened" by the action of abrasive pigments such
as earth colors.
Palette
knives are also used in cooking, where their flexibility allows them to easily slide
underneath pastries or
other items. See frosting spatula.
PAPING BAG
A pastry
bag (or piping bag in the Commonwealth) is an often cone-
or triangular-shaped, hand-held bag
made from cloth, paper,
or plastic that
is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing
them through a narrow opening at one end, for many purposes including cake
decoration. It is filled through a wider opening at the opposite
end, rolled or twisted closed, and then squeezed to extrude its
contents.
