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This week its British tomato week, set up by the British Tomato Growers Association to emphasis they grow their tomatoes naturally. Tomatoes are also a great food to demonstrate the quality of kitchen knives and how well they cut tomatoes as well as the level of skills the chef has whilst cutting them. Most people who have had used the wrong knife to cut a tomato would reveal that mess and frustration that shortly follows. Butchers Equipment shows you how you can cut your tomato without the mess and the frustration. Continue reading →

  A massive 50 million fewer loaves of bread are being sold in supermarket according to reports released this week. The timeless tradition of preparing sandwiches before work has fallen out of favour with modern Britain’s who prefer meal deals at supermarkets. In 2015 bread sales lost 5.4% of its value but this year has reduced even further by 8.9%, bringing the value beneath £1.5bn mark. But what will happen to the reliable bread knife if loaves completely lose favour with the British public? At Butcher’s Equipment we have found four alternative ways you can still put our bread knives to good use. Continue reading →

When you ask people what they think of when you mention American cuisine, the most popular answer in the hamburger. It has now become a highly popular dish in its own right in Britain. But what is the history of this food icon? The first mention of a burger in history is in the time of Genghis Khan and his Mongol riders, the Golden Horde as they conquered village after village across Asia. The riders stashed the raw meat under their saddles before riding. After they had ridden each day, the pounded meat would be tender enough to eat raw. So the Golden Horde conquered Asia by eating hamburgers. The next evolution of the hamburger in history didn’t come until around five hundred years later. In the book The art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse names the prototype for the hamburger the Hamburg Sausage. The recipe says the minced beef be seasoned with suet, pepper, gloves, nutmeg, garlic, wine vinegar, bay salt, red wine and rum. The Hamburg Sausage should then be smoked in the chimney for a week before being eaten. Continue reading →

Meat mincers are now essential tools for most butchers when they wish to chop or mix raw or cooked meat. Originally butchers would use mincing knives to produce minced meats before the meat mincer revolutionised the industry. Butchers would use either a mincer knife or cleaver to mince the meat. This meant that the production of minced meat was very slow a laborious for the butcher. For centuries this was the way minced meat was produced. In the nineteenth century German inventor, Karl Drais invented the first meat mixer, which was hand cranked and it forced the meat through a metal plate that had small holes in it. This resulted in long, thin strands of meat. Continue reading →

National Butchers Week has ended and it has been said to be the best one yet. Up and down the nation, butchers and butcher suppliers have been demonstrating their skills and equipment. And the day before in International Women’s Day, Leeds City College celebrated the women in the butchery industry. March is the month for butchery appreciation. From the 14th-20th March, the nation celebrated National Butchers Week. In Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, Aubrey Allen celebrated the week by offering different deals on meat every day. Simon Kelly who worked for Aubrey Allen said that the butcher’s experiences much more interested and success after this year’s event than they have had before. Continue reading →