Can a kitchen knife break garlic?

This depends on the choice of kitchen knife material.

China kitchen knives are generally divided into mulberry knives, slicing knives, civil and military knives, bone cutting knives, Jiujiang Bay, barbecue knives, peeling knives and duck slicing knives. Different knives have different hardness and toughness, so their uses are different.

Mulberry knife is thin and narrow, you can cut vegetables and meat, but you can't cut bones, so it is easy to get stuck and hurt the knife.

Knives are used to cut things. Generally, they are relatively heavy and cannot be used to cut bones.

Military and civilian knives can cut chicken bones, cut vegetables, chop, peel and scrape skin, and are widely used in modern families.

The bone cutter has a protruding abdomen, is big, thick and heavy, and the hardness of the steel used will be higher. Used for cutting ribs, fish heads, chicken thighs and other bones, the cutting edge is blunt.

Jiujiang Bay is commonly used in hotels. The blade is obviously wider than the tail, the back of the knife is curved, the meat is cut, the head is big and the back is thick, and it specializes in cutting big bones.

Barbecue knives are used to cut cooked food, sausages and the like. The skinning knife is a knife specially used for skinning shrimp dumplings. It has no blades. Duck slice knife is a knife used to cut Beijing roast duck. It is long and narrow, usually about 5 cm wide and narrow.

According to industry insiders, the tool with higher hardness is brittle, and it will break if it cannot be deformed when shooting horizontally. Look at the label when buying a knife. This kind of steel is very hard for that kind of very expensive knife. But this kind of tool is brittle, and it is easy to break when knocked or slapped.