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Pinch grip

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, pinch grip means: A knife hold in which the thumb and index finger grip the blade near the handle.

In Turkish: bıçağı boğazından kavrama

How it is used

Used to discuss control of a chef's knife; it describes the knife hand.

Example sentences

  1. The teacher showed a pinch grip on the chef's knife.

    The fingers grip near the blade-handle junction.

  2. She adjusted her pinch grip before chopping the parsley.

    The adjustment concerns the cutting hand rather than the food hand.

Common collocations

  • knife pinch grip
  • adjust a pinch grip
  • 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.
  • chopTo cut food into pieces with a knife, usually quickly and without needing every piece to be exactly the same size.

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