For centuries, butchers have always used their trusty butcher’s knives to prepare meat for cooking. Today though, the invention of the butcher’s bandsaws enables us...

Butchers all over the world each have their own preferred techniques for cutting meat. Often, it depends on the exact nature of their job –...

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We’ve been farming pigs for almost all of recorded human history, which is plenty of time for humans to understand every available part of a...

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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 →