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boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 09 9:42 pm Post subject: Knives - the real deal
I love cooking. OH last week bought two knives from the butcher as I'm sick of knives that are rubbish. They are both victorinox - a boning out knife and a big chopping knife. They hold the edge wonderfully and the big knife goes through the backbone of a rabbit easily. Why did I manage with rubbish for so many years?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 09 9:46 pm Post subject:
Indeed. Good knives are a must, cooking can be a pain without them.

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 09 10:12 pm Post subject:
I love my Global knives, specially the big cooks knife. It gets used for 75% of everything I use a knife for in the kitchen. I've also got victorinox boning knives I use for butchering the pigs - they hold an edge well and were very reasonably priced.

random

Joined: 01 Jul 2006
Posts: 158
Location: Sk�ne, Sweden

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 6:01 am Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

I love my Global knives, specially the big cooks knife.

Me too, I was only saying to the OH yesterday that we'd had the Globals around fifteen years now.

A good knife lasts a lifetime and is definitely worth the investment.

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 8:08 am Post subject:

I use a decent sized, decent quality knife for almost all my cooking. I sharpen it almost every time I use it and it's excellent. (The only thing I don't use it for is very acid foods cause it's carbon steel & taints the food).

My MIL has two tiny, blunt, 'kitchen knives' which are frankly dangerous. Because they are blunt I always cut myself when I use them.... So when we go there & we offer to cook, I take my own knife.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 11:07 am Post subject:

Midland Spinner wrote:

My MIL has two tiny, blunt, 'kitchen knives' which are frankly dangerous. Because they are blunt I always cut myself when I use them.... So when we go there & we offer to cook, I take my own knife.

Why not take your sharpener instead?

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 11:38 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Midland Spinner wrote:

My MIL has two tiny, blunt, 'kitchen knives' which are frankly dangerous. Because they are blunt I always cut myself when I use them.... So when we go there & we offer to cook, I take my own knife.

Why not take your sharpener instead?

In my own experience, you can't really sharpen a crap knife. It's just a waste of time.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 11:41 am Post subject:
Probably the best money I've ever spent was on a proper carbon steel Sabatier knife before I went to medical school. I've still got it, it takes and holds an edge really well and I use it for probably 85% of kitchen tasks that need a blade.

tim_and_nicky

Joined: 28 Nov 2008
Posts: 261
Location: Beautiful Galicia, NW Spain

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 5:03 pm Post subject:
What Sean said. Really, decent knives are a necessity, not a luxury. We got ours half price from a lovely cookshop in Whitstable but to be honest they would have been devent value at the full price. I wouldn't be without them.

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 6:24 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Midland Spinner wrote:

My MIL has two tiny, blunt, 'kitchen knives' which are frankly dangerous. Because they are blunt I always cut myself when I use them.... So when we go there & we offer to cook, I take my own knife.

Why not take your sharpener instead?

Because MIL is scared of sharp knives and prefers hers blunt ...wrong, stupid and dangerous, I know, but I'm not saying it to her we are in a negotiated peace accord at the moment, but......)

Madame Bear

Joined: 12 Feb 2008
Posts: 219
Location: exeter, devon

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 7:26 pm Post subject:
There is simply no better present for a cook than a really good knife - one that you can't quite justify spending your money on, but somebody who loves you does.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 7:46 pm Post subject:
I have a couple of Sabatier knives from when I was at catering college and I added some more last year that I got in the sales - they are lovely knives but still looking for a good sharpener though - I have never been able to get the hang consistently of using a steel - what does everyone else use

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 7:52 pm Post subject:
Sabatier is a name that can be used by anyone. It's not properly protected.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 7:57 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Sabatier is a name that can be used by anyone. It's not properly protected.

True - mine are produced in France which I was told are better quality than those produced in some of the other countries in the far east - could be twaddle but they work ok

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 09 7:58 pm Post subject:
Oh, there are GREAT Sabatier knives out there, just wouldn't want people to assume anything with that brand on was any good.

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