JP3185051U - Knife holding aid - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a knife holding assist tool for assisting in cutting a plurality of tofu placed on a cutting board in a horizontal direction while maintaining a certain height when the tofu is efficiently cut into bowls.
The main body is made of a low-friction material and has a vertically long and substantially rectangular main body with a total length of about 40 mm. The knife holding portions 2, 3, and 4 are formed. The knife holding part has an opening length of 2.5 to 4 mm, the body is placed on a cutting board with a predetermined posture, and the back of the part close to the handle of the knife is inserted horizontally into the opening part of the knife blade The tofu is formed at a height suitable for cutting the tofu into approximately two to five equal parts in the horizontal direction.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a knife holding aid used for cutting tofu.

  In the lodging business or the restaurant business, for example, when providing miso soup with tofu to many customers, a large amount of tofu cut into the eyes of the rice is required. Conventionally, when trying to efficiently cut a large amount of tofu into a bowl, many cooks place a plurality of tofu in series on a cutting board and hold the handle of the knife and both sides of the blade and cut it horizontally. However, it takes a certain amount of skill and experience to cut a plurality of tofu pieces while maintaining a certain height, and it takes a long time compared to cutting vertically because it requires careful work. It was over.

  In order to solve such a problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2008-136830 discloses an invention of a tofu cutting aid that makes it easy to cut tofu into a state similar to the cutting of straw.

  However, the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2008-136830 is a tofu cutting aid used to cut one tofu at home, and is not suitable for continuously cutting a large amount of tofu, Moreover, the subject that a cook must release a knife once in order to put tofu on the said auxiliary tool remains.

JP 2008-136830 A

  The present invention is a knife holding assist that assists in cutting a large amount of tofu horizontally while maintaining a certain height when cutting a large amount of tofu efficiently. It relates to ingredients.

The present invention comprises a vertically long and substantially rectangular main body formed of a low friction material such as high-density polyethylene, and has at least one horizontal side surface of the main body that has at least one horizontal left-right direction. The knife holding portion has an opening width of 2.5 mm to 4 mm, preferably 3 mm, and the knife holding portion places the main body on the cutting board in a predetermined posture. A knife holding aid characterized by being formed at a height suitable for cutting the tofu into approximately two to four equal parts in the horizontal direction when installed.
The user inserts the back of the part close to the handle of the kitchen knife into the space of the kitchen knife holding part, installs it on the cutting board with the front of the knife facing tofu while holding the knife holding aid, and pushes out the blade of the kitchen knife By cutting the tofu horizontally, the plurality of tofu placed on the cutting board can be easily cut horizontally while maintaining a certain height.

  A magnet body may be fixed in the knife holding portion so that the knife can be fixed by magnetic force.

  In the present invention, when a large amount of tofu is efficiently cut into a bowl, the cooker inserts the back of the kitchen knife into the desired kitchen knife holder and places it on a cutting board, so that a plurality of tofu placed on the cutting board is placed. It is related to a knife holding aid that assists easy cutting in the horizontal direction while maintaining a height suitable for cutting into two equal to four equal parts, and its structure is simple and inexpensive. Can be provided.

  Further, the one in which the magnet body is fixed in the knife holding portion and the knife can be fixed by magnetic force has a feature that the main body does not easily fall off the knife even if the hand is released from the main body.

FIG. 1 is a front view. FIG. 2 is a rear view. FIG. 3 is a side view. FIG. 4 is a perspective view.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. It goes without saying that various modifications and / or additions can be made to these embodiments without departing from the technical idea of the present invention. There is a regional difference in the average size of one tofu, but this can be dealt with by changing the size of the main body.

FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of a knife holding auxiliary tool suitable for cutting an average tofu cut (about 300 to 350 grams) in the Kanto region from approximately two equal parts to approximately three equal parts in the horizontal direction. It is.
FIG. 1 is a front view of the knife holding auxiliary tool (the front and back are different for convenience), and the overall length of the vertically long and substantially rectangular main body 1 formed of a low friction material is 4 cm. At the height of 2 centimeters in the center of the main body 1, a grooved knife holding portion 2 having a vertical opening width of 3 mm and a depth of 8 mm penetrates in the horizontal direction. The front face is used to divide the tofu into approximately two equal parts in the horizontal direction.

The user inserts the back of the part close to the handle of the kitchen knife into the space of the kitchen knife holding part 2, installs the knife holding aid with the thumb of the dominant hand, and installs it on the cutting board with the front direction facing tofu. Grab the handle of the knife with your four dominant fingers and cut the tofu horizontally by pushing out the blade of the knife. An average tofu (about 300 to 350 grams) in the Kanto region has a height of about 4 centimeters, and the tofu is roughly divided into two equal parts in the horizontal direction. At this time, if the tofu is held by a hand other than the dominant hand for operating the knife holding auxiliary tool and the knife, the operation is further facilitated.
After the operation, the knife holding auxiliary tool may be removed, and the tofu may be cut in a vertical direction to make a chopped rice cake.

  As a result, the knife holding auxiliary tool fixes the height of the kitchen knife to a certain level, thereby cutting a plurality of tofu placed on the cutting board in a horizontal direction while maintaining a certain height. Skills and experience are no longer necessary, and careful work is no longer necessary, reducing work time.

  FIG. 2 is a rear view of the kitchen knife holding auxiliary tool. At a position approximately 1.3 centimeters from the upper and lower ends of the main body 1, a grooved knife holding section 3 having a longitudinal opening width of 3 mm and a depth of 8 mm and 4 penetrates in the horizontal direction. The front face is used to divide the tofu into approximately three equal parts in the horizontal direction.

  The user inserts the back of the part close to the handle of the kitchen knife into the space of the kitchen knife holding part 3 as in the case of approximately bisecting, and cuts the tofu horizontally so as to push out the blade of the kitchen knife, Subsequently, the spine of the portion close to the handle of the knife is inserted into the space of the knife holder 4 and the tofu is cut in the horizontal direction by pushing out the blade of the knife. As a result, the tofu is roughly divided into three equal parts in the horizontal direction.

  In addition, when the portion near the blade edge of the knife has a sufficient thickness, the back of the portion near the blade edge of the knife is inserted into the space of the knife holders 2 to 4, and the knife holding auxiliary tool is used by a hand other than the dominant hand. It is possible to cut the tofu horizontally by holding it with a hand and setting it on the cutting board with the front direction facing the tofu, holding the handle of the kitchen knife with your dominant hand, and pushing out the blade of the kitchen knife.

  In the second embodiment, a knife holding auxiliary tool in which a magnet body is fixed in a space of the knife holding portions 2 to 4 by a method such as adhesion or internal installation so that the knife can be fixed by magnetic force will be described. The knife holding auxiliary tool according to the second embodiment is such that when the user inserts the back of the portion close to the handle of the knife into the space of the knife holding portions 2 to 4, the knife is fixed by a magnetic force, so that the main body is a knife. It has the feature that it does not fall off easily.

  Other points are the same as in the first embodiment.

1 Knife holding aid body 2 Knife holding part 2
3 Kitchen knife holder 3
4 Knife holding part 4

Claims (2)

It has a vertically long and substantially rectangular main body, and has at least one knife holding portion formed in a substantially groove shape penetrating in the horizontal left-right direction on at least one side surface of the main body. The kitchen knife holder has an opening length of 2.5 mm to 4 mm, preferably 3 mm, and when the main body is placed on a cutting board in a predetermined posture, the tofu is roughly divided into two parts in a horizontal direction. A knife holding aid characterized by being formed at a height suitable for cutting into four equal parts.   The knife holding auxiliary tool according to claim 1, wherein a magnet body is fixed in the knife holding portion so that the knife can be fixed by a magnetic force.