B Y K A T I E , A L I C E , & N A C H O

The Evolution of the Knife

Stone Age

From bronze to iron; from iron to steel; from steel to carbon-steel and stainless steel; and on to fancy titanium and laminates.

The first metal knives

The Bronze Age The Iron Age The steel knives

Different cultures with different knives

The Inuit ulu (Eskimo women) The Japanese santoku The Chinese tou

Kitchens and Safety

●  Kitchens are places of violence. ●  Mostly because of knives.

●  There are different ways to avoid these dangers.

Types of Knives

Bread Vegetables Meat

●  Oldest tool in the cook’s armory. ●  People invented them to do the job that they couldn’t do with their teeth.

Thousands of years ago they did not have that many types of knives.

History

Changes of the Knife

•  sharpened on both sides (dagger like)

●  1696 outlawed ●  Civilising Process begins

Civilising Process

•  sudden change in table manners •  sixteenth- seventeenth century knives- sharp •  eighteenth century knives- very blunt

o  butter knife-like •  revolted by previous ways

o  using fingers to eat o  single sharp knife

Knives in the Eighteenth Century

•  all about display •  showed status •  other knives were

very sharp