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January 6, 2009

The cutting edge of knife technology

Author: chef


One of the popular new forms of kitchen cutlery available at the moment is the ceramic knife.  Ceramic knives are becoming more and more trendy in the culinary world because of their ability to maintain a sharp edge for 10 times longer than a steel forged knife.  Additionally, ceramic knives are completely nonreactive and non rusting which means you can use them under water not worry about drying them and so on and so forth.

 

The downside of ceramic nice comet in the fact that they are more chip-able than steel and cannot be used for chopping or hacking at incredibly hard items like animal bones.  Other groups of people enjoy the ceramic option because they are less reactive with food than iron knives and food that is cut with a ceramic knife will actually go bad less quickly than food cut with traditional metal.  Ceramic knives are usually constructed out of zirconium and compressed into a knife shape.  Checkout more information here.


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