🔪️ Kitchen knife emoji

A sharp-bladed cutting tool essential for food preparation, representing culinary skill, precision in cooking, and the fundamental implement that transforms raw ingredients into prepared meals. The kitchen knife emoji symbolizes cooking expertise, food safety, and the careful attention required to prepare meals safely and effectively.

Kitchen knives are central to almost all food preparation, from chopping vegetables to slicing meat, making this emoji essential to discussions about cooking, meal prep, and culinary arts. This emoji often appears with 🥕 Carrot, 🧄 Garlic, and other ingredients in conversations about food preparation and represents both the skill and responsibility that comes with using sharp tools safely.

In broader contexts, this emoji can represent precision, preparation, and the tools needed to transform raw materials into finished products. It embodies the intersection of utility and skill that defines good craftsmanship.

Could also be called Chef knife, cooking knife, culinary knife or chopping knife emoji.

Other meanings

Food preparation, cooking skills, culinary arts, kitchen tools, precision cutting

Example Usage

Using my sharp knife to prep vegetables for dinner 🔪

Related emoji

Cutlery emojis

• 🥢️ Chopsticks
• 🍽️ Fork and knife with plate
• 🍴️ Fork and knife
• 🥄️ Spoon

Visual description

A large kitchen knife with a sharp steel blade and dark handle, designed for chopping, slicing, and food preparation.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.