/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10686520
A chinese knife is not heavy enough.
A chinese cleaver certainly is.

>>10684458
That's a knife, not a cleaver.

Pic related is a chinese cleaver. Notice how it gets wider near the tip.

>>8839100
>a 'chinese cook knive' is a fucking cleave

No, it's not. You're simply confused by the rectangular shape. Look at the pic you just replied to. See how thin that blade is? It doesn't have anywhere near the sturdiness or the weight of a bone-cutting cleaver. It's not designed to chop through bone. It's designed to slice vegetables.

The Chinese do make bone-cutting cleavers of course, but they look different. The blade is much thicker and it gets wider near the end for extra weight, like pic related.

What those guys were using was clearly a thin-bladed slicing knife, not a cleaver meant for bone. The shape and the thinness of the blade makes that obvious.

>>8276127

The Chinese do make thick heavy cleavers for chopping bones but that's not what people are discussing here. You can tell by the shape of the blade from the side. The pic you posted is the thinner slicing type.

This pic is the heavy "bone chopper" one. See how the blade gets wider as it goes away from the handle? That gives it more weight for chopping the heavy stuff, just like a western cleaver.

If the blade gets narrower as you go away from the handle (like your pic) then it's a thin-bladed slicing knife, not a chopping cleaver.