Chef’s knives?

Didn’t read any of the thread. But used to be a chef and always liked the wusthof pro chef knives. Easy to keep sharp and cheap. Still have 2 and use them way more than the Henkels I own. Also restaurant chefs don’t use the fancy pants knives, maybe some sushi chefs. But in general there’s way too much going on in a kitchen to worry about keeping fancy expensive knives in good condition. Restaurant chefs burn through gear (knives, pans, pots) like skiers burn through skis in low tide conditions. Fancy knives are for showing off $.


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They also have sharpening services stopping by regularly.

Sharpening service? Are they going to have some other dude fuck their wives, too?

We always sharpened our own knives.

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Sharpening service? Are they going to have some other dude fuck their wives, too?

We always sharpened our own knives.

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I only do the hot ones

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Town Cutler has a good sale going.

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TR on any of their knives? Curious if they're good tools or just pretty jewels? Thanks

^No. I have only emailed them a couple of times with quality responses. The paring knives with the Mexican Blanket handle are what I am looking at for a few gifts. Reviews I have seen are good, and Nitro V is plenty for the recipients of these knives. I do know the makers of the micarta for the handle make an excellent product (GL hansen).

Magnetic Strip. Yes.

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^^^ I also have that Chinese cleaver.... like many of us probably do. It came in handy for spatchcocking.

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^^^ I also have that Chinese cleaver.... like many of us probably do. It came in handy for spatchcocking.

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Hard left, or one in?

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Hard left, or one in?

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One in is the one I have.

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One in is the one I have.

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One in is the one I have.

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It's this one.
https://www.chefknivestogo.com/cckcleaver2.html

I'm pretty impressed with the quality for that price point. I still have to remind the wife that it needs to be cleaned and dried immediately. I bought it with the intention of using it as a vegetable cleaver, but I still find myself wanting something that isn't as tall.

Mine's way less fancy, or maybe the same thing???? Acquired at an Asian restaurant supply place for something around $20. I don't use it much, but it's nice to have around sometimes.

Restaurant supply stores are a good place to get decent quality no name stuff at a good price.

Yet another great use for the ol' cleaver. Great tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKSjMrc8gc

Shun started their warehouse sale online today. Picked up a pairing knife and a utility knife.

https://shun.kaiusa.com/warehouse-sale.html

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Shun started their warehouse sale online today. Picked up a pairing knife and a utility knife.

https://shun.kaiusa.com/warehouse-sale.html

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nice! did you get the sora or the classic?

i need a utility knife, and the sora is a hard price to beat. wondering what i might be missing.

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nice! did you get the sora or the classic?

i need a utility knife, and the sora is a hard price to beat. wondering what i might be missing.

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I have a classic chef already so we went with classic. Sora looks good though I haven’t ever seen one IRL.

Man I could use a new bread knife, but I can't justify dropping a hundo to slice bread.

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get this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Tojiro-Bread-...xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

it's great

Don't spend money on a bread knife.

I personally can't stand the straight shape of a bread knife, hitting my knuckles on the board sucks. I prefer an offset shape.

Also, the worst cuts with a knife that I have gotten come from a serrated blade.

These 2 work well, the serrations on the Dexter cut a bit more aggressively. i think the Dexter comes in a wood handle option as well if that's your thing.

https://www.amazon.com/Dexter-Russel.../dp/B001538HZ6

https://www.amazon.com/Mercer-Culina.../dp/B01F35UGWS

I was gifted one of these a LONG time ago. It's a great knife:

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/det...ead-Knife/1010

I did the exact same as the others... I have high end expensive knives in my collection and ended up buys me this one... It works great and as soon as it doesn’t cut I will buy another one...:

Mercer Culinary Millennia Bread Knife, 10-Inch Wavy Edge Wide, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PS1HS6...ing=UTF8&psc=1


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Shun started their warehouse sale online today. Picked up a pairing knife and a utility knife.

https://shun.kaiusa.com/warehouse-sale.html

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Nice. Their pairing knife is tits. GREAT investment. Another nice one to go along with it is the Shun birds beak knife. Weirdo looking knife with a backwards curved blade that I ended up getting a TON of use from.

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Nice. Their pairing knife is tits. GREAT investment. Another nice one to go along with it is the Shun birds beak knife. Weirdo looking knife with a backwards curved blade that I ended up getting a TON of use from.

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Can’t believe we already got our order. Guess it doesn’t hurt that they are like 5 Mike’s from my house...

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The two on the left are new to compliment the chef’s we already had.

Someone on a local yard sale FB page has listed this as a Chef knife. Says: "Very good for working with meat."

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maybe for field dressing game ?

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maybe for field dressing game ?

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or if you're Grizzly Adams then it's your everything knife.

In the kitchen probably not but if you got yer hands inside of an animal you probably want something with a hand guard and a heavy blade, my dad had some of those for dressing out game

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/8188...SABEgKKCfD_BwE

I got a chinese knockoff of a jig something like^^ this for sharpening knives, works well

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In the kitchen probably not but if you got yer hands inside of an animal you probably want something with a hand guard and a heavy blade

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Not for me or anyone I know that field dresses big game. Something like this is a better tool IMO: https://www.benchmade.com/15006-steep-country.html

Pa would be close to 100 if he was alive, that knife might be old school

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Especially if the meat isn't dead yet.

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That's obviously a Texas challah cutter wrought from fine Pakistani pot metal and Bangladeshi brass. The lone star on the ceremonial sheath is a dead giveaway.

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I did the exact same as the others... I have high end expensive knives in my collection and ended up buys me this one... It works great and as soon as it doesn’t cut I will buy another one...:

Mercer Culinary Millennia Bread Knife, 10-Inch Wavy Edge Wide, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PS1HS6...ing=UTF8&psc=1


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2nd that rec, they are as cheap as $17 shipped.

I got this Wusthof Deli Knife as a gift recently and as much as I love my heavy ass Wusthof Chef’s knives, this thing has become crazy-useful. Bread, citrus, sammies, bagels, prep...

A nice addition, and something I didn’t even know I needed.

https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/pr...-panini-knife/

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Not for me or anyone I know that field dresses big game. Something like this is a better tool IMO: https://www.benchmade.com/15006-steep-country.html

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My dad used an old buck knife for whitetail, which I still have, but this is the tool if you want to skin, quarter, and bone out an elk in 30 minutes:

https://www.knivesplus.com/media/WK-BIG.jpg

I also use a shitty filet knife and an amalgam of basically this in the pack at all times, along with extra blades for the above and a small sharpener and a bunch of gloves:

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And a 4 month review of this shitty knife I picked up on Amazon gets 5 stars:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0838NB927/?th=1

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...AC_SL1500_.jpg

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My dad used an old buck knife for whitetail, which I still have, but this is the tool if you want to skin, quarter, and bone out an elk in 30 minutes:

https://www.knivesplus.com/media/WK-BIG.jpg

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Woah. That's badass! What exactly is that? If you can knock out an elk so quickly with it, that tool would definitely make short work of a whitetail.

It's a WY knife.

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My dad used an old buck knife for whitetail, which I still have, but this is the tool if you want to skin, quarter, and bone out an elk in 30 minutes:

https://www.knivesplus.com/media/WK-BIG.jpg

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You clearly haven't processed an elk, much less in 30 minutes. I would pay money to watch someone process an entire animal with that contraption. /threaddrift take it to Fall Day's Afield

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You clearly haven't processed an elk, much less in 30 minutes. I would pay money to watch someone process an entire animal with that contraption. /threaddrift take it to Fall Day's Afield

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Haha. I dunno. Many do the gutless field dress. When you're in grizzly country, you gotta HAUL ASS and GTFO stat. Many a grizzly bear knows that when they hear that rifle shot, that's the dinner bell.