Sunday 2 August 2015

Set of 4 Joie Garnishing Knives

In the kitchen section of a department store recently I came across a set of 4 ‘Garnishing knives’.  These are said to be very sharp with highly flexible blades.  They looked very useful but I couldn’t understand why anyone would require 4 of them.

I concluded that there must be more to garnishing  with a garnishing knife than first meets the eye and decided to buy a set – only £3 for the 4 so not a huge decision.

Having got them out of the packaging I found that they are indeed very sharp and highly flexible.  But there were no instructions included so I was not sure what to do with them.

I was certain there must be more to garnishing than the tomato wedges shown on the packaging (which had to be destroyed to get the knives out so could not photograph it – don’t you just hate that?)

A search on the internet produced a few suggestions for things to try and these included the aforesaid tomato roses, radish florets and carrot flowers, but I still found myself wondering why anyone would ever need 4 of the knives unless one were to undertake production line methods of turning out such delicacies.

Guess what my son and daughter will be getting for Christmas this year?