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Boning knife

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, boning knife means: A narrow-bladed knife used to separate meat from bones.

In Turkish: kemik sıyırma bıçağı

How it is used

Used in butchery and poultry preparation; blades may differ in flexibility.

Example sentences

  1. Use the boning knife to follow the joint's contours.

    The narrow blade supports detailed cutting close to bones.

  2. Her knife roll included a flexible boning knife.

    The adjective describes a useful variation of this specialist tool.

Common collocations

  • flexible boning knife
  • use a boning knife
  • filletA boneless piece of fish or meat, such as a fish fillet or beef fillet. As a verb, to fillet means to remove the bones and cut out these pieces.
  • chef's knifeA large all-purpose kitchen knife with a broad, slightly curved blade, usually 20 to 25 cm long, used for most chopping, slicing and dicing.

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