Filleting/Boning knife

[monkeyspank]

Can anyone recommend a cheap, sharp, flexible boning knife that can be used for filleting fish as well?

 

[Raikiri]

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/productdetail.asp?productCode=L104&gpf=IncVat&mkt_id=PC1

They're ugly but very good.

 

[randomshenans]

http://www.kinknives.com/kinchef/kinchef-boning-knife-160mm-30.aspx

oh, you said cheap. My bad

 

[monkeyspank]

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/productdetail.asp?productCode=L104&gpf=IncVat&mkt_id=PC1

They're ugly but very good.

Nice one I forgot about Nisbets, I know someone else who gets all their stuff from there!

 

[Nightglow]

Want to try their fish knife, has a beautiful flexible blade.
I use to be a butcher, & have collected quite a few of their knives.

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/ProductList.asp?TopGroupCode=C2&ParentGroupCode=S25&GroupCode=5582

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/ProductSubCategory.asp?TopGroupCode=C2&ParentGroupCode=S25

 

[monkeyspank]

I'll be using it mostly for portioning chickens and filleting fish. Is there one that would be good at both?

 

[The_blue]

2 whole different games mate.

Boning knives are concave blades at the hilt for scraping bones clean. They are very rigid!


Fish filleting knives are very, very flexable. (more flexy than a credit card). This is so you can get the blade flat to the board when removing skin.(bend it like a plastic ruler)

 

[McPhee]

If it's just chicken (or other poultry) then there's no need for a boning knife. You could do that with any general purpose knife (Cook's, Paring etc.). If you're trying to strip the carcass of a large animal or bone-out large cuts of meat then a specialist knife might be useful, but I don't think you're going to get value for money if you're jointing chicken.

Buy the filleting knife. Forget the boning knife for now, it's nothing special really.

 

[monkeyspank]

aah ok, thanks

 

[drone]

Check out tk maxx picked up some nice Kai knives the other day £15-£20 each for knives that online where £40-£70+