— Holli Koster

Yeah, so I typically do, uh, use chef knives for the majority of the work I do, but I will, um, you know, I'll use pairing knives for doing smaller hand work for things like, um, I don't know, peeling off the outside of an apple or just, you know, cutting up an apple or something like that. But a chef knife is typically what I'm going to, uh, is going to be my go-to now. I have different lengths, um, you know, for them. Uh, my traditional, I guess is an eight inch, uh, chef knife that I keep three just in my knife block all the time. Uh, one is a vegetable uh, knife that has kind of holes in it to be able to help when you're slicing things to, um, so nothing sticks to it. The other two are just classics. Um, and uh, the, I do have a smaller one that's a, I actually have two smaller ones that are six inch blades as well too. So, um, those are kind of my go-to in the kitchen. Um, and you know, other things like u utility knives, like maybe, uh, you know, like a bread knife, um, you know, that's a serrated edge. I do have another smaller serrated blade, um, for things like tomatoes. Um, you know, but quite often I'm just gonna use my chef knife anyways just 'cause I keep it nice and sharp and I'll go right through a tomato anyways. I might use a pairing knife on a tomato. Um, but yeah, so, uh, chef knives are kind of the ones that are the standard. It's the easiest to be able to, you know, hold. Now there are other types of knives for different utilities that you're doing for like boning fish and you know, like butchering and stuff like that. But on a whole food plant-based diet, I'm not seeing much of that. So my go-to is I always have a couple, uh, good chef knives, eight inch. I have a couple that are six inch, um, a sed blade for a bread knife, a small sed blade blade for other utility work. And then I usually keep at least like, at least three pairing knives, kind of depending. And those are all just to be able to keep 'em clean and stuff like that. If there's multiple people in the kitchen, um, you know, so I just have a couple of each to be able to go to, um, to, to be able to have now, um, you could absolutely just get away with three knives, a chef knife, your sed bread knife, and a pairing knife. And those are the only three knives you would really need to be able to get through any kitchen at all.