SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Jul 5, 2016 7:41:22 GMT
So what is a dinner knife? I'm not familiar with the term. It is not usually serrated. I've never heard the term dinner knife. I only have steak knives and butter knives.
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Post by gar on Jul 5, 2016 7:54:27 GMT
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Post by gar on Jul 5, 2016 8:01:40 GMT
Steak knives Steak knives, dinner knife, rounded butter knife I have steak knives but don't use them often, usually only if I'm doing steak for a dinner party/special occasion. If a dinner knife can't cope with your chicken then you're cooking it wrong Seeing your pictures, then what I've always called and heard called a butter knife is a dinner knife. I do have one rounded butter knife, but the rest of the knives look like the second one. We still don't use them to cut meat though. I'm sure they could, I've just never seen it done here. So what do you use them for?
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Jul 5, 2016 8:06:14 GMT
Seeing your pictures, then what I've always called and heard called a butter knife is a dinner knife. I do have one rounded butter knife, but the rest of the knives look like the second one. We still don't use them to cut meat though. I'm sure they could, I've just never seen it done here. So what do you use them for? Not much! Spreading butter, mayo, peanut butter, or jelly on bread. I guess next time we eat chicken I will pull them out!
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Post by gar on Jul 5, 2016 8:07:31 GMT
So what do you use them for? Not much! Spreading butter, mayo, peanut butter, or jelly on bread. I guess next time we eat chicken I will pull them out! It's funny isn't it, different habits and norms in different families/places!
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Post by KelleeM on Jul 5, 2016 8:47:50 GMT
My husband puts steak knives on the table for any kind of meat we're having.
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Post by KiwiJo on Jul 5, 2016 10:31:53 GMT
We use steak knives for every dinner, regardless of what it is.
we hardly use our regular knives at all, just for spreading butter etc.
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Post by walkerdill on Jul 5, 2016 10:41:23 GMT
According to the picture I've always called the dinner knife a butter knife....lol.I must inform my mother she's been wrong her whole life... lol. We only use them for spreading stuff & not for cutting anything. We use steak knives for all meat.
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on Jul 5, 2016 10:48:05 GMT
I think we use a steak knife.
To be fair, I don't serve meat that needs cutting that often. Its more likely that I would serve chicken cut up and tossed with vegetables, or sliced over salad than as a whole breast. If it was already mainly sliced and I was just making it a smaller bite, I would use a butter knife.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Jul 5, 2016 11:46:09 GMT
My "dinner knives" have a micro-serrated edge that goes down about 2 inches from the tip of the knife. Therefore, they are great for cutting almost all meats. I still put out steak knives if we are actually having steak, but for everything else, the dinner knives do great.
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Post by katiejane on Jul 5, 2016 12:25:31 GMT
Steak knives for steak, fish knives for fish, a dinner knife for everything else. I don't have a problem cutting my food with my dinner knives. I do own one butter knife that comes out at the weekend when I set the table for a lazy family breakfast.
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Post by utmr on Jul 5, 2016 14:12:45 GMT
Eh, whichever one seems to fit the job. But one of my pet peeves with the kids is to call things by the right name. Ask me for a butter knife and you'll get one. Good luck cutting your steak with that! Same thing with a fish fork. Just because you can eat fish with it doesn't make it a fish fork. lol. But both DH and I spent time in the tabletop business, so somewhat of an occupational hazard. We also nitpick over red vs white wine glasses, as we drink from our plastic tumblers.
But for a casual family dinner we just use whatever is easier and works better.
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Post by oh yvonne on Jul 5, 2016 14:36:41 GMT
I break out the good steak knives for when we have steak, otherwise the dinner knife works fine for everything else, including all chicken dishes and fish. I can't think of when I'd ever need the super sharp steak knife to use on chicken, unless it's a large bone on piece that you BBQ'd.
My silverware set came with one butter knife, and that is only used when I set a formal table.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 5, 2016 14:44:35 GMT
gar thanks for the pictures! We call the second knife shown a butter knife. It's used for butter, spreading condiments, that sort of thing. It's not used to cut anything. The third knife shown I've never seen before.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jul 5, 2016 14:48:08 GMT
Unless the meat is so tender that it can be pulled apart with a fork, I put out steak knives. I would probably use a table knife for chicken on the bone but a steak knife for chicken breasts.
ETA: My stainless set came with 1 butter knife, which I assume is pretty typical. It does out with the butter dish, though we rarely put out a butter dish. I would only use one for corn on the cob or dinner rolls.
ETA Even More: I looked up my set online. It changed brands from Community to Oneida a while back. When it was Community, they called the table/dinner knife a place knife, but Oneida just calls it a knife and sells it as part of a place setting. I have a separate set of steak knives - they are Henckels and clearly intended to do serious meat cutting.
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Post by krazykatlady on Jul 5, 2016 15:01:46 GMT
We use dinner knives for chicken. My husband thinks he should use a steak knife but I don't let him because they can't go in the dishwasher and until he starts doing the dishes at night my rules trump his. ( I'm just kidding ... He can use whichever he wants but a dinner knife is what the table is set with)
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Post by cade387 on Jul 5, 2016 15:06:18 GMT
We have dinner knives, steak knives and some sort of in between. It looks like a dinner knife but slightly more serrated. It isn't as robust as a steak knife though.
For everyday meals we use a dinner knife unless we have whole steak then we use steak knives.
If company is coming over I will put out our in between knives for a meal without steak. If we have steak, I put out our dinner knives for salad/first course and then a steak knife for the steak course.
Since we have little ones, we generally precut all meat on a cutting board so we often cut ours that way as well. Then we just use our chef's knife to cut the steak and then we have less dishes from the table.
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Post by bianca42 on Jul 5, 2016 15:42:08 GMT
I have always used mostly steak knives for meats. The last few years, when just us eating, for some reason the kids have started to prefer the cheap little paring knives to cut almost everything. Weird, but so are they and it works. And I find myself grabbing them more often. It's catchy! Like thisor this. We mostly use Pampered Chef paring knives to cut meat. It's easier for DS to hold than the steak knives.
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