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Commercial kitchen cutlery covers three jobs. Commercial knives for prep and butchery, kitchen forks for carving, lifting and turning, and commercial spoons for cooking, portioning and service. You can start with the areas that need covering now and add more as your business grows.

Commercial cutlery is bought on a different basis to domestic cutlery, because it gets washed at high temperature day after day, dropped, soaked and occasionally put through a bin. Professional kitchen cutlery is mostly stainless steel, and 304 stainless steel is the food-safety grade used in Australian commercial kitchens. The grade and the finish decide how it looks after a year.

The other two questions are storage and quantity: somewhere it will not blunt or go missing, which is what knife storage and cutlery storage are for, and enough spare that a lost item is not a crisis mid-service.

Pricing knives, forks and spoons for a whole kitchen? The price guide lists them by type, so you can see where the money goes before a single order is placed.

These are the top FAQs for Commercial Kitchen Cutlery

What should I buy first for a new kitchen?

Three knives per chef — a chef's knife, a paring knife and a serrated knife — plus a steel, a board and a way to store them. Everything else can wait a week.

After that, the service items: serving spoons, ladles, tongs and a carving set. Buy the chef knives properly and the rest to a sensible standard.

Is stainless steel always the right choice?

For almost everything in a commercial kitchen, yes, because it tolerates a machine wash and acidic food. The exception is high-carbon blades, which hold a better edge but will rust if left wet.

If a kitchen is not going to dry a carbon blade immediately, stainless is the sensible call. The composition of a specific item is on its product page or specifications.

What goes wrong with cheap cutlery?

The handle. A handle that works loose lets water in, and that is both a hygiene problem and the point where the item becomes unsafe. Thin pressed items also bend under load.

Full-tang knives and one-piece or well-bonded handles cost more and last longer. That is the whole argument for buying commercial rather than retail.

Can it all go through the dishwasher?

Some can and some should not, and the item's own listing is the only reliable answer — detergent and high-temperature cycles are hard on timber handles and on fine edges. A commercial dishwasher will blunt a knife faster than cutting will.

As a working rule, knives are washed and dried by hand and service cutlery goes in the machine. Check the listing for anything in between.

How much spare should a kitchen hold?

Enough to cover a lost item without changing how a station works, which usually means one spare of each prep knife and a reasonable surplus of service cutlery.

Service items disappear into bins and bussing tubs at a steady rate. Budget for replacement rather than treating it as a surprise.

Does front of house cutlery differ from kitchen cutlery?

Completely. Table cutlery is chosen on weight, balance and finish because the customer holds it; kitchen cutlery is chosen on function. See tableware for the dining side and disposable cutlery for takeaway.

Do not let one buy cover both. A kitchen using table forks for carving ruins the forks.

How should it be stored?

Knives in a knife block, a case or on a wall rack — never loose in a drawer, where the edges blunt and someone gets cut reaching in.

Service cutlery in drawer inserts or cylinders, sorted, so a server grabs the right item without rummaging. The cutlery storage range covers both.

What else should be bought alongside it?

A sharpener or steel, colour-coded chopping boards, and the handling items in the kitchen utensils range — tongs, spatulas, scoops.

Cutlery that is sharp and stored properly outlasts cutlery that is replaced twice a year. The accessories are what make the difference.