You'll notice on our YouTube videos how often we grab one of our favorite Victorinox knives for handling tasks large and small. We aren't just putting on a show for the cameras, we really use our Victorinox butcher knives at the butcher shop and in our kitchen at home.
Investing in a great set of knives can be intimidating, but you won't regret picking up a good Victorinox butcher knife set.
The Right Knife for the Job
Victorinox has been at the knife-making game for a very long time and has introduced many revolutionary designs over the company's nearly 150-year history. You might be most familiar with them because of the Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, an instantly recognizable and frequently-copied utility tool.
The Original Swiss Army Knife offers a number of ideal tools to solve most problems.
Choosing Just One Knife
If you've got to pick just one knife that you expect to use for most kitchen tasks, the Victorinox 6-inch Boning Knife is a fantastic choice. Its got a curved, semi-flexible blade and a comfortable handle. The high carbon stainless steel construction takes an impressively sharp edge and holds it well even when you are using it for chopping.
It serves for all sorts of cutting, slicing, and skinning tasks. No matter what you are cooking, this knife will serve your needs with ease.
How the Right Knife Helps
Even though our favorite blade is technically a boning knife, it does so much more than just deboning meat. The Victorinox boning knife has an excellent shape for thinly slicing onions and it'll sharpen so well that you can even make thin slices of tomatoes, a difficult task with many knives.
Even though the Victorinox boning knife makes for a Swiss army solution in the kitchen, investing in a few other knives can make every meal prep more enjoyable. Having a Victorinox paring knife or a chef's knife with a special blade design can make you feel like a professional.
What is a Granton Edge?
Granton edge knives use a special design to help make slicing and chopping easier. The design incorporates scallops along the flat surfaces of the blades but retains the straight edge, unlike a serrated-edge knife. Popular examples include the Victorinox Swiss Modern Santuko Edge chef knife.
The Victorinox Knife in the Field
One of the awesome things we love about the Victorinox boning knife is its versatility. Here is an excellent example of what we mean: this knife is part of our everyday field dressing kit that we take on every hunt.
It goes from butcher shop to kitchen tool, and then finds its way to an essential kit that requires a high-quality knife that can handle skinning, gutting, and field dressing.
The Victorinox boning knives work great for these tasks because of the thin, curved blade and excellent, ergonomic handle. It comes in various designs from our favorite redwood handle to manufacturer-specific Fibrox handles that are high-quality and offer a non-slip grip even when things are messy.
It makes a great skinning knife that has the accuracy to work around bones and slice through hides without dulling too quickly.
What Makes Victorinox Knives Great for Home Kitchens
If you are like most people, you've probably spent an exorbitant amount of time in search of the best knife for kitchens. Victorinox butcher knives are made from high-quality stainless steel that will stand the test of time, even when you use them daily.
They clean up easily, hold a great edge, and they look nice, too. It doesn't take much to make them last a lifetime.
Whether you are picking up just one knife or a complete set, you'll find that each of the knives offers an ideal weight and size for deboning beef or deer. You'll find that you prefer using them over other knives for smaller tasks, as well – like slicing vegetables.
Bigger Knives for Bigger Jobs
When you are cutting up big pieces of meat to make smaller cuts, you'll find that a somewhat larger knife can be very useful. We've found that there are two designs from Victorinox that make excellent kitchen companions and also are versatile enough for a field dressing kit.
The first knife is the Victorinox Butcher Knife. This is a larger and heavier bladed knife that is intended to cut through thick cuts of meat without slowing down to slice through sinews and tendons.
It's a little too big to use as a skinning knife, but having it in your field dressing kit can give you the type of heavy-bladed knife you need for quickly handling large game in the field.
We also find lots of opportunities to use the Victorinox Breaking Knife. This is a heavier and larger blade than the boning knife, but not as large or heavy as a butcher knife. The blade is more rigid to help you easily find joints and break large cuts into smaller pieces.
This handy knife will have you covered when you are switching from slicing to chopping.
Can Victorinox Knives Make You a Better Cook?
While there is no knife that will make your food taste better, the Victorinox butcher knife collection can improve your culinary skills by helping you avoid making an error like slicing too thick or unevenly and it can speed up some of the food prep business where many people get bogged down and overcook other food.
The right knife will save time and money by reducing waste and giving you great results.
What is the Right Knife for the Kitchen?
There basically isn't a wrong knife to use in the kitchen, but each knife will do some things better than others. For example, you'll love using a smaller bladed knife like one intended for paring to handle detail cuts but it won't work great for chopping pork roast into cubes.
In the same fashion, a butcher knife technically can be used to slice tomatoes, but you'll have better success with a thinner, lighter knife made from a material that is easy to care for.
Great Knives – Great Quality
Victorinox knives are available in a broad array of styles, shapes, and with different types of handles. The collection features some of the best knives we've ever used, and we can't say enough about how much we love using the six-inch Victorinox deboning knife.
We keep them in our field dressing kit where they are used as a skinning knife, and they are the go-to for most tasks at work or at home. Of all the brands we have tried, Victorinox offers great butcher knives that are ideal for almost any task.
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