Kitchen Cleaver

Kitchen Cleaver

7 Simple Kitchen Safety Tips For A Safer Home

Working hard everyday day after day so that you can save the money you need so that you can buy the things that you want, and the best of the things that you want. The fact is that it is human nature to want the best of everything. Like me maybe the kitchen is my favorite room in the house. It is where I get to be my most creative. I love to cook. If you are like me and like to cook then you like good quality kitchen knives. The best kitchen knives are the one's that you feel most comfortable with whether they are the Japanese variety or the European variety. No matter what you want the best kitchen knives for your culinary adventures. Along those lines you will also want to learn how to take care of those knives so that they will last a lifetime. Kitchen knives are tools like any other tool you can use and they have a specific purpose, also they require a certain amount of maintenance and care to stay in top performing condition.

Here are some straightforward simple tips that will allow you to have your best kitchen knives give you a lifetime of service.

1. Do not cut anything on a surface that is not designed to be cut on. An unsuitable surface can damage your knives primary cutting edge. Use a proper kitchen cutting board only. A hard rock maple cutting board is the best.

2. When you are done with your cutting and chopping chores make sure that you wash your kitchen knives in hot soapy water and hand dry them with a lint free towel or cloth. Many people just throw the knives in the dishwasher and this is the worst thing you can do to your kitchen knives. The phosphates from the dish soap and the heat from the dishwasher itself will dull your knives primary cutting edges and destroy the grips of your knives as well knives guaranteed! Wash by hand only and be careful!

3. Don't use any kind of abrasive powder or any type of scouring pad on your knives. There is absolutely nothing that can't be cleaned off of your knives by hot water and liquid soap and a sponge or wash cloth. The abrasive powders and pads will only succeed in scratching the surface/profiles of your knives and in turn the abrasives will dull your primary cutting edge as well.

4. Most knives today are made of stainless steel of different varieties, but "stainless" only means that a knife will "stain-less." No knife is totally stainless or stain free. Knives will discolor and/or tarnish with time if not cleaned and maintained properly especially after cutting acidic foods such as lemons, peppers, and tomatoes. This discoloration can be treated with a good quality metal polish and lint free towel or cloth to bring the original shine and luster back to your knives.

5. A sharp knife is safer then a dull knife so don't let your best kitchen knives go dull or blunt. Learn how to sharpen your knives with one of the many ways that a knife can be sharpened such as bench stones/whetstones, electric knife sharpeners, guided sharpening systems and carbide sharpeners. Keeping your knives sharp means they never get dull. The army used to teach that "A knife is your best friend." Your kitchen knives are your best friends in the kitchen. Keep them sharp!

6. Don't try to cut frozen foods with your kitchen knives. Defrost your food in the microwave first. don't be impatient! Never try to use your kitchen knives to cut bone. Your knives are used for cutting and chopping. If you need to cut bone then get a meat cleaver. Trying to cut bone or frozen foods will only dull and chip your blades and you don't want to do that to your best kitchen knives.

7. IMPORTANT: Keep your knives out of the reach of your children and store them in a safe and secure place like a locked kitchen drawer or in a knife block or magna bar high enough from the floor and counters to prevent your children from reaching them. Make sure that when you are done using your knives that they are secured. I prefer a kitchen drawer with a lock on it and blade guards on each of my knives. I know this can be a bit of a hassle, but we are talking about the safety of our children

About the Author

Easy Cooking is my first food blog. It is the marriage of my love of food and my humble urban kitchen in my very first home that allows me to cook in the fashion that I want. Prior as a life long apartment dweller I never had the kind of kitchen that inspired me in the way my very own home kitchen does. It is small, but it is mine! It is a small 35 square foot floor with a 10×8 wall to wall plan that is a three sided kitchen with long granite counter tops with a bend in each and full granite wall splashes. I have a small Whirlpool 4 gas burner stove/oven and Whirlpool over head microwave oven and both of these units accompany my Whirlpool side by side refrigerator. My kitchen is my favorite place in the entire house. Please visit my blog at: http://www.richardblainesezcooking.com today!

Are we going to Senator McCaskills "Kitchen Table Talk" in Elsberry, MO from 12:30p to 1:30p 8/2/11 today?

Giving us a whole hour with a rep who claims to take our grievances back to her. A whole hour. How serious is that for listening to us? More BS, different day is all. Throw us crumbs and take our treasure. Put us in poverty and make us dependent on them for support. Talk about "A sugar coated satan sandwich" as described by representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) MO concerning this debt deal will be applied to this token meeting at the library in Elsberry today.

This out of touch crap is why BOTH republicans and democrats need to sweep the House and Senate in the primary elections. Remind these idiots that they work for us.

It has to happen in the primaries or the good ol' boys who DO vote in the primaries will keep electing the same idiots in the primary and in the general, people will not cross party lines to sweep out the trash.