Do you know your knives?

[Robin Garr]

Great quiz from Mental_Floss ... how many of these knives can you name?

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=1063&p=1

Well, I got seven out of eight. Missed #4, said it was a boning knife!

got 7 of 8. Missed #1.

got 7 of 8. Missed #1.

Ditto. Called it a boning knife. Never seen or used one.

Mark Lipton

I got 100 %. Surprised me, but I do study knives, and love reading articles about the different types and uses for them.

Only missed #7. And I had read Carl's post about #4 but I knew what kind of knife #4 was, I believe. The butter/cheese knife question was really a guess.

7 out of 8, missed #1. I've never heard of that one before.

I missed #4 and #7. I got #1 right because I knew what it wasn't.

John

Missed #1, and would have gotten it correct if 1and 2 were asked in reverse.

I also missed the Tourne and the filet knife (...called them paring and boning, like everyone else).

Missed the Tourne one as well. I would have gotten it if they'd used the "bird's beak" term but have never heard of a Tourne.

Missed #1 also, got 7 out of 8. I think #1 is a trick question.

Drew

Missed the Tourne one as well. I would have gotten it if they'd used the "bird's beak" term but have never heard of a Tourne.

yeah, I missed it for the same reason.

-mike

[Robin Garr]

Missed the Tourne one as well. I would have gotten it if they'd used the "bird's beak" term but have never heard of a Tourne.

yeah, I missed it for the same reason.

-mike

Would you guys have recognized it as "tournée"? It's a pretty standard preparation for veggies - carrots, parsnips, even potatoes - carving them into quick, round-edged cubes.

Would you guys have recognized it as "tournée"? It's a pretty standard preparation for veggies - carrots, parsnips, even potatoes - carving them into quick, round-edged cubes.

I wouldn't have picked up on that either, although I know the prep you're talking about.

Would you guys have recognized it as "tournée"? It's a pretty standard preparation for veggies - carrots, parsnips, even potatoes - carving them into quick, round-edged cubes.

I got this one but only because in my brief stint in cooking school I went through the pain of learning to "turn" vegetables, used one of these knives but never knew the name for it. I figured "tourne" must be the French spelling. The classic shape isn't really quite a cube, it's more elongated. More like a small barrel with rounded ends, or stubby American football. As for everything else cooking-related, the French have an entire lexicon for turned vegetables, different names for different sizes but those I've long forgotten.

[Jenise]

Hey Mark, how's the tsunami watch going down there? It's hitting here right at high tide but nothing looks alarming.

Hey Mark, how's the tsunami watch going down there? It's hitting here right at high tide but nothing looks alarming.

Jenise, I can see the water but I'm a couple of hundred feet above it, so wouldn't know if anything was happening. I suppose it might actually be more noticeable here on the Sound where it's relatively calm than it is on the coast, where I understand it's been hard to tell the tsunami from the regular surf.

Missed the Tourne one as well. I would have gotten it if they'd used the "bird's beak" term but have never heard of a Tourne.

yeah, I missed it for the same reason.

-mike

Would you guys have recognized it as "tournée"? It's a pretty standard preparation for veggies - carrots, parsnips, even potatoes - carving them into quick, round-edged cubes.

probably not, but I "tournee" my veggies with my plain old Wusthof 3.5" paring knife!

-mike

Amazingly, I got 7 out of 8.
I don't think I've ever seen a tourne knife but I do know about "turned vegetables", as I've heard them described.
Fell apart on Qu 7.

7 out of 8. I missed #1.

Got 7 out of 8, missed number 7.

6 out of 8
Got #1 and #2 wrong. I switched them up... Called #1 a Paring Knife (it is a Tourne) and #2 a Tourne (and its a paring)

8 out of 8, 100% -RP