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B Y K A T I E , A L I C E , & N A C H O
The Evolution of the Knife
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Stone Age
From bronze to iron; from iron to steel; from steel to carbon-steel and stainless steel; and on to fancy titanium and laminates.
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The first metal knives
The Bronze Age The Iron Age The steel knives
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Different cultures with different knives
The Inuit ulu (Eskimo women) The Japanese santoku The Chinese tou
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Kitchens and Safety
● Kitchens are places of violence. ● Mostly because of knives.
● There are different ways to avoid these dangers.
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Types of Knives
Bread Vegetables Meat
● Oldest tool in the cook’s armory. ● People invented them to do the job that they couldn’t do with their teeth.
Thousands of years ago they did not have that many types of knives.
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History
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Changes of the Knife
• sharpened on both sides (dagger like)
● 1696 outlawed ● Civilising Process begins
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Civilising Process
• sudden change in table manners • sixteenth- seventeenth century knives- sharp • eighteenth century knives- very blunt
o butter knife-like • revolted by previous ways
o using fingers to eat o single sharp knife
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Knives in the Eighteenth Century
• all about display • showed status • other knives were
very sharp