Posts Tagged ‘Knives’
Carving the Roasted Turkey
First of all, I would like to wish everyone a safe & blessed Happy New Year. Hope your holidays were exciting & able to spend them with your family & friends. We had hosted our Christmas Eve gathering with all of my side of the family gathering our our home. Our tradition is that everyone brings a dish whether it’s meat, vegetable, snacks or dessert.
This year I fixed a roasted turkey. I had injected a butter flavor marinade in the turkey prior to cooking it. Since I had purchased a Nuwave Infared Oven, I wanted to try it out. It worked great. It took about 3 hrs to cook a 13 pound turkey. My husband used an electric knife to carve it especially the breast meat. Using the electric knife made the carving job go a lot quicker than if he had used a sharp knife & everyone enjoyed eating the turkey.
Chopped Chocolate Made Easy
The best pastry chefs know to use fresh chocolate when making tasty treats like brownies and fudge. But, fresh chocolate comes in blocks and must be finely chopped in preparation for the melting process. Chefs hate nothing more than spending a valuable hour prepping chocolate.
Serrated kitchen knives are a pastry chef’s best friend. The grooved “teeth” on a serrated knife work perfectly to chop brittle chocolate blocks. Serrated knives also tend to be sharper than typical chef’s knives because they’re used less frequently