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I've been managing quite well with Kitchen Devils. Some seem to be cheaper quality than others though, so I suspect they do more than one range, quality-wise. My cook's knife has done me sterling service for years. Does need sharpening now and again, but have seen people whose idea of sharpening seems to be to take as much metal off as they can; it doesn't take much to bring back a good edge if you don't overdo it all the time. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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weasley wrote: | Also, at the cooking experience place I go to, they say you really don’t need all the knives, just a good chef’s knife, a serrated bread knife and maybe a smaller general-purpose/paring knife. I rarely use anything other than my chef’s knife. |
Yup, that's about what I manage with, despite having a drawerful
Although I actually find a chef's knife OTT for cooking for one, hence the cook's knife I mentioned (smaller blade, typically - as far as I'm aware, anyway). ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Victorinox and Sabatier are great. But if you can find a thin 4/6"-ish mild steel blade, give it a try.
I'm not being hipster-theoretical here. A couple of decades back, I bought a little antler-handled mild steel knife from an authenti-tinker for a lark. And despite having a rack full of various gifted techno-cutlery, it's still my daily go-to cooking utensil.
It's blackened with patina, the tip has corroded and been worked off, and it absolutely needs sharpening before and during use. But the edge that you can put on it beats anything else I've used, including a ceramic slicer ceremonially gifted by Kyocera-san in Nippon.
With an occasional wetstone grind and a regular snicker-snack down a sharpening steel, thin mild steel will cut through a can of tomatoes, then the Gordian Knot, then God. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Rogerborg wrote: | Victorinox and Sabatier are great. But if you can find a thin 4/6"-ish mild steel blade, give it a try.
I'm not being hipster-theoretical here. A couple of decades back, I bought a little antler-handled mild steel knife from an authenti-tinker for a lark. And despite having a rack full of various gifted techno-cutlery, it's still my daily go-to cooking utensil.
It's blackened with patina, the tip has corroded and been worked off, and it absolutely needs sharpening before and during use. But the edge that you can put on it beats anything else I've used, including a ceramic slicer ceremonially gifted by Kyocera-san in Nippon.
With an occasional wetstone grind and a regular snicker-snack down a sharpening steel, thin mild steel will cut through a can of tomatoes, then the Gordian Knot, then God. |
Unless it can cut through to other worlds I'm not interested.
I don't want a knife I have to sharpen every 5 minutes, the J J knives used to be good, however I tried to use one to cut ingredients for a beef Stroganoff for 2 people and despite sharpening it before usage I had to do so again before I was done.
I've heard Sabatier were good too, I'll have a look at some of the others mentioned. ____________________ Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
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chris-red wrote: | I don't want a knife I have to sharpen every 5 minutes |
Sure, because you're a professional veg-whittler who needs your chopper to stay rock hard for 8 hours a day, every day.
Or because you're a lazy cvnt who never, ever, wants to sharpen a knife after you've paid 10,000 BTC for it. It's all good.
chris-red wrote: | J J knives used to be good, however I tried to use one to cut ingredients for a beef Stroganoff for 2 people and despite sharpening it before usage I had to do so again before I was done. |
I'm sorry to hear that your mild steel J J shiv didn't take a decent edge. If anyone else who's actually tried a £5 mild steel knife in preference to a neglected rack of Gucci blades wants to chime in, now's the time.
Although Sabatier knives are fine, get them. If you've never put any effort into maintaining anything better (because worse), you won't be disappointed. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
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