The hunter’s equipment kit for knives

Among other highly skilled knife users such as chefs, meat workers, butchers and deckhands, hunters stand alone as having no definitive description of the tools of their trade.

The food preparation industry trains future chefs and cooks principally through TAFE and the Secondary Schools’ hospitality courses, They list the items of equipment needed to be mastered as skills are developed. A trainee chef needs a ‘starter’ kit consisting of an 8” cook’s knife, 4” paring knife and a 6” straight back boning knife, all with honing steel and sharpening stone or diamond steel or stone.

A full understanding of the scope, care and use of the kit is considered an underpinning skill of the chef. The kit is always kept in an hygienic box, brought to every training session. New students are given a description of the equipment they will require and are allowed to choose it with consideration