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11-21-2020, 10:07 AM #126
Chef’s knives?
I have the infamous “henkels international” in the 8” I think it’s like 60 dollars. It’s fine as a big chefs knife. I know it is not in the same class as the ones in your budget but it’s a very nice tool. it’s 15 years old and it holds an edge quite well. Nice balance. Hard to justify any upgrade.
It’s also big and heavy. Like a chefs knife should be.
That is why it now lives in the drawer. I use the other two there much much more. The wusthof is probably a bit more expensive of a knife and the other is surely cheaper (I think).
I’d personally rather have a fine version of the other two over the chef’s just based on time in hand. It’s rare I need to chop 15 pounds of carrots which is what that big chefs is great at.
That said, my ex ran a kitchen store and one of the knives she bought for her new place I only used a couple of times was a high end 8” wusthof chefs and it handled much more nicely than the Spanish henkels so there’s that too. Felt less clunky with similar weight, somehow, may have been imagined but damn that was a nice knife.
Hard to go wrong with a nice knife!! Enjoy!!
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11-21-2020, 10:43 AM #127
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11-21-2020, 10:45 AM #128
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11-21-2020, 10:48 AM #129
My answer to dismembering a turkey--besides removing the drumsticks which I do with a boning knife--was to buy a pot big enough for a whole turkey and make soup with what's left after most of the meat has been sliced off.
Ate dinner at Zuni in SF once. They have an open kitchen. They were serving a lot of roasted Cornish game hens. The asst chef was splitting them in two by smashing a cleaver with a mallet, rather than just swinging the cleaver. Seemed a lot more precise. If I ever decide to serve people half a Cornish game hen I'll get out my cleaver and a mallet. (A maul might be overkill.)
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11-21-2020, 12:10 PM #130man of ice
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Never.
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11-21-2020, 12:11 PM #131
Depending on where you live, maybe there's a blacksmith offering a knife making class. I made this. Best knife I own. 2.5 days of instruction and the knife to take home for 400 or 450, can't remember.
Would I pay 450 for the knife? No. You can buy them forged by the pro for just over 200, but considering the experience, it's a steal.
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11-21-2020, 01:39 PM #132
All these knives without bolsters is just tearing my middle finger apart.
And FWIW IMO French pattern > German pattern but I think the market has made my feelings moot.
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11-21-2020, 01:45 PM #133yelgatgab
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11-21-2020, 02:05 PM #134
Bridgetown forge in pdx.
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11-24-2020, 11:34 PM #135
Anyone have recommendations for carbon (non-stainless) chefs knife? Looks like Korin has some good reasonably priced ones that have a 62 hrc. Would be sick to get into the mid 60s without spending a fortune.
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11-25-2020, 08:50 AM #136
What's your upper price point?
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11-25-2020, 08:54 AM #137
Not necessarily "chef's Knives" but I have a few nice Kyocera Ceramic knives and those are SHARP as hell. After 10 yrs still haven't needed to take advantage of their free sharpening offer. They have some higher end Santuko knives.
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11-25-2020, 09:04 AM #138
Chef’s knives?
I’m here to vote for a Global Santoku.
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11-25-2020, 10:00 AM #139
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11-25-2020, 10:10 AM #140
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11-25-2020, 12:04 PM #141Registered User
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so who uses the magnetic knife holder strips ?
if you run out of wall to screw them up on, I got em on the bottoms of my kitchen cabinets so they hold the knives horizontaly and you can't see themLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-25-2020, 12:12 PM #142Registered User
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Town Cutler has a good sale going.
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11-25-2020, 02:47 PM #143
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11-25-2020, 02:59 PM #144
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11-25-2020, 04:50 PM #145Registered User
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We don't worry up here cuz we got universal health care but If you can't operate a magnetic knife strip without cutting yerself you should employ an illegal to do all the cutting for you
the strip one on the wall is a nicer looking wooden strip purpose-made to mount in a kitchen but if you put a couple up under the cabinets no one will see them so instead of buying the purty ones I got some tool strips from princess autoLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-25-2020, 05:02 PM #146
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11-25-2020, 05:22 PM #147Registered User
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You probably wana be looking at whatever you are picking up, while you are looking with both eyes see if you can find a sense of humor in that cutlery drawer
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11-25-2020, 06:26 PM #148
I built a 2 inch thick maple counter top with slits in the back for my knives. Takes up less room than a knife block. One hint with knife blocks or my cutting board is to slide the knife back in with the blunt edge toward you so the cutting edge isn't dulled sliding it into the block.
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11-25-2020, 07:02 PM #149
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11-25-2020, 07:10 PM #150
Yup. Wouldn’t store them any other way.
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