Learning how to slice food is one of the most essential skills in cooking. After all, if you don’t know how to cut down your ingredients, you’re going to have a hard time cooking them. Contour Pro Knives Set of 10 has everything you need to complete your kitchen knives set, making your time in the kitchen shorter and your task easier.

The Contour Pro Knives set comes in seven different types of blades:

The Chef’s knife, and it’s usually 6 to 12 inches long. This blade can be used for various tasks like slicing, dicing, chopping, and mincing. When properly sharpened, it can even break down and bone large cuts of meat. The side of the blade can also crush garlic cloves, ginger, and lemongrass.

Chopping knife From the name itself, this knife makes chopping easier with a curved blade, Fillet and boning knife

This is a thinner, more flexible blade that is 6 to 11 inches long, used for filleting and boning--or the act of separating the bone from the fish or other meats. The narrow blade enables it to cleanly move along the backbone of the fish and evenly slices along the skin. The curve offers greater control when making precise cuts.

Paring knife usually a thin, 3 to 4 inch blade; paring knives are used for intricate work. It is small enough to allow greater amount of control than a larger knife.

Hacking and crushing knife Also known as cleavers, this knife vary in shape but is usually wider than other knives. It is mainly used as a butcher knife for hacking through bone. The knife's broad side can also be used for crushing ingredients.

Steak knife from the name itself, this knife is used to cut main course meats like steak and chicken. The knife is only 4 to 6 inches long and varies in thickness.

Shears Food scissors or shears can also cut and trim meats, but are also for cutting herbs.