Filet knife

Very similar to the boning knife in looks, the filet knife tends to be longer, around 5-9 inches typically. While the boning knife is used on meat and poultry, filet knives go hand in hand with prepping fish. Filet knives are even more flexible than boning Knives, that combined with the extra length allows the ability to remove the most meat you can. You can use just any knife to clean a fish, however it just works so much better with the proper tool.

Carving/Slicing

With it's long 8-14 inch blade, that comes to a fine point, the carving/slicing knife is one of the last knives used in the cooking process. A Carving/Slicing Knife does just that, It carves the meat up, and with the aid of that fine point, it is often used to serve meat to the plate. Anyone that has prepared a turkey on the holidays has enjoyed the use of a carving knife.. except those heathens that used some sort of electric (GASP) Knife. If you want to win cool points with those at the dinner table, a few strokes on a sharpening steel, right before carving the meat will do the trick..even if it doesn’t need it.

Cleaver

While it's not actually a knife, no kitchen would be complete without a good cleaver. It's thick, heavy, square shaped blade is tasked with the chore of chopping up meat or bone. It can also dice and chop veggies, open a lobster, just about anything that doesn’t require fine work. With the increased blade thickness, comes extra weight that drives a beveled edge into whatever gets in the way, without much fear of edge damage. Turned on it’s side, the wide flat blade is handy for crushing garlic, or scooping up whatever you just do it. Once you start using a good cleaver, you will find more and more ways to use it.

Boning Knives

Care to guess what a boning knife does? You guessed it, takes care of the bone problem. Generally speaking, a boning knife has a long thin blade, somewhere between 5-8 inches long, tapers down to a very sharp point. This sharp point allows you to get right in there next to the bone when preparing meat to cook. Boning Knives tends to be a bit more flexible than perhaps most other knives in your block, with perhaps one exception. And that brings us to the next knife on our tool list.