My Cutlery

[nerwengreen]

These are the pieces of my 45-piece cutlery set. I have eight butter knives, dinner forks, salad forks, big spoons, and little spoons. I also have one serving fork, one slotted serving spoon, one serving spoon, one grapefruit(?) spoon, and a knife thing that I'm not sure what it's for. Here's some closer looks at the knife:



Anyone want to tell me what it is?

Comments

[flutemute.livejournal.com]

I said this in chat, but will here as well.

It is a fish knife, or at least looks like one.

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[brianna512.livejournal.com]

Forks - serving, dinner, salad (or dessert)
Spoons - slotted serving, serving, tablespoons? (do you have 8 of these?, it might be a smaller serving spoon), teaspoons, soup spoons
Knives - dinner, and that last one looks like a butter knife to me - right-handed and the reason I have a full set of individual butter knives with my silverplate, the individual ones are hand-neutral.

[lynn-neko.livejournal.com]

According to this website it is a fish knife:

http://www.butlersguild.com/index.php?subject=273

To be honest though I always used it to put frosting on cupcakes myself.

[tylorva.livejournal.com]

Definately a fish knife. The strange shape is good for peeling away the fish meat from the bones. Having used one on mynay occasions, it does actually make a difference. :)

[brianna512.livejournal.com]

In my silver set as a butter knife. That is, not for spreading but for moving some butter from the dish of it to your plate for you to use. As I said I also have a full set of individual butter/spreading knives, not quite like anything there, most like the dinner knives but shorter, with a broader flat blade, and a dull edge.
I still don't know what the odd small spoon is. I have one too, it might be a sugar spoon, though I have another smaller single spoon that might be for sugar also. (There would definitely be a sugar spoon in my set.)

[evilfemme001.livejournal.com]

I missed this - hehe, not used to you posting here o.O

And yes, the funny knife is generally called a butter knife (or a spreader by some, but that just sounds wrong)

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[nico-rebelcat.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's for cutting up cheese. Like french cheese you eat with biscuits and grapes. Fish knife? Nah...

[(Anonymous)]

It is a fish knife. An individual cheese knife would be shorter and smaller, the larger ones wouldn't have an angle that's a bit like a fork's. It's a design thing, though.

Cheese knives come in a set of two. One sharp one resembling that one, but most commonly with two spiky bits at the end, and the other one looks like a miniature meat cleaver.

Coming from a professional caterer... ;)

[nerwengreen.livejournal.com]

Thank you for weighing in (and sorry I missed this until just now). My overall impression is that different places put it to different uses. ;) All the "fish knife" people are in England (or at least, all the other ones - I'm not sure where you are).