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 snoot
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 Chef Knife's
#8401595 - 05/14/08 04:37 PM (4 months, 29 days ago) |
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After playing with a variety of knives, over the course of my life I've finally found one that feels amazing in my hand. Its the elite santoku 6.5" by Kershaw Shun;
It just arrived last night, and I've been chopping up all the shit in my fridge, just for fun. I've used everything from the finest Wüsthoff, to some vintage Chicago cutlery. The thing I like about japanese still, is not only is the Damascus a very nice touch, but the edge is honed to a 16º angle, unlike most western edges that are set at around 20º. Making for a crisp clean cut with very lil effort.
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 grymmtymm
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: snoot]
#8401612 - 05/14/08 04:40 PM (4 months, 29 days ago) |
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kershaw does make some good knives, and i use a santoku blade almost exclusively, it's great.
benchmade also makes some kick ass knives, some of the best i think...
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Llamanose
The llama knows
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: snoot]
#8416259 - 05/18/08 12:56 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Shun knives.... Mmmmm.... 
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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NIMH
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: Llamanose]
#8416776 - 05/18/08 03:07 PM (4 months, 25 days ago) |
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Where did you get it?
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I must not Fear. Fear is the mindkiller . Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and
through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. ONLY I WILL REMAIN.
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Brainiac
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: NIMH]
#8416952 - 05/18/08 03:57 PM (4 months, 25 days ago) |
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They will sharping it for life..
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I'm dyslexia, so get the fuck over it. "Ardet Nec Consumitur" (burned but not destroyed) People shouldn't be afraid of it's government.The government should be afraid of it's people..
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: grymmtymm]
#8417629 - 05/18/08 06:48 PM (4 months, 25 days ago) |
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You say almost everything. What more do you need than a chef's knife and a serrated?
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It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. THAT is the natural order of things today. THAT is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today...There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today...
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars.
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Brainiac
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You always need another knife... 
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I'm dyslexia, so get the fuck over it. "Ardet Nec Consumitur" (burned but not destroyed) People shouldn't be afraid of it's government.The government should be afraid of it's people..
Spores I need
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grymmtymm
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: Brainiac]
#8420739 - 05/19/08 04:32 PM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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knives are a man's best friend......
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centrum
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: grymmtymm]
#8421987 - 05/19/08 09:14 PM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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the chef's knife is my #1 tool.
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jellynutz
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: snoot]
#8432183 - 05/22/08 08:53 AM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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Forschner FTW!!!
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Passion destroyed is reborn in the passion for destruction...
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Brainiac
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: jellynutz]
#8432405 - 05/22/08 10:37 AM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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!! Global Cutlery !!
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I'm dyslexia, so get the fuck over it. "Ardet Nec Consumitur" (burned but not destroyed) People shouldn't be afraid of it's government.The government should be afraid of it's people..
Spores I need
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mayfly
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: Brainiac]
#8435094 - 05/22/08 10:58 PM (4 months, 21 days ago) |
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Kasumi = epic win.
Globals are nice too.
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soochi
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Re: Chef Knife's [Re: snoot]
#8472411 - 06/01/08 08:44 PM (4 months, 11 days ago) |
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Shun's are great but if you're not used to japanese style knives then sharpening them might be more of pain than previously thought. Traditionally made japanese knives are thicker than european knives so the edge has to be sharpened at a steeper angle.
I'm personally saving up for a deer stag handled Nenox S1.(about $700) This is the brand used by Morimoto and one of the last companies in Japan to make their knives in the completely hand made samurai tradition. Absolutely the best and longest lasting edge retention of any knive made in regular production.
For the less extreme and for those that want something that most people may not have try googling "Henckels Miyabi" JA henckels recently acquired Miyabi knives in Seki Japan and sell a line with steel engineered in Germany and the knife itself handmade in Seki. Former Japan Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba was intrumental in designing the entire product line.
Currently I switch back and forth from a Henckels pro S santoku (for less delicate things) and a Chroma Porsche design santoku. (Being a pastry chef, the "chef" knife doesn't play as important of a role as my ice cream machine 
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