Cutting Tools and Equipment

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Published 2010

Table 1.2 identifies some of the cutting tools and equipment used in the garde manger kitchen.

	Tools and Equipment
Knives	Thai decorating knife (not shown) paring knife turning/fluting knife narrow flexible boning knife smoked salmon knife
Shears	poultry shears lobster shears kitchen shears
Mollusk tools	oyster knife clam knife bottle opener (used for oysters)
Zest tools	microplane grater zester stripper/channeler
Fruit tools	corer pitter
Slicers	pickle slicer egg slicer egg wedger egg top cutter quail egg cutter truffle plane cheese plane
Gouge	V-shape cutter crinkle cutter vegetable frill maker cylindrical vegetable cutter gouge
Specialty slicers	vegetable sheeter turning slicer spiral slicer
Individual geometric cutters	triangle, leaf, rectangle; many other shapes available
Representational cutters	many shapes available
Cutter sets	geometric hors d’oeuvre cutter set; many other shapes and sizes available
Mandolines	mandoline swing mandoline Asian mandoline
Processors	food processor with various cutting blades