Western cuisine is all about of variety of meat and dishes made out of meat. All the instruments required to make a decent non vegetarian dish will be available in each household. If you are a food lover, like to be innovative with your culinary creations then you do not just require the skill for that but also the right instruments. One of them is a ham knife. A ham knife comes in handy when you have to cut thin slices of meat. Not that it cannot be used for other purposes, but the primary use of a ham slicer or a ham knife is to slice ham or other large pieces of meat into thin slices.