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I've always heard good things about https://www.epicedge.com/.
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Thoht posted:I've always heard good things about https://www.epicedge.com/. They are one and the same with Blade Gallery
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Thank you, that’s what I was looking for and just not finding with apple maps searches for some reason
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My Victorinox 8" chef's knife is 12-13 years old and while I honed it regularly, it has definitely lost its sharpness. I don't do a lot of cooking, but should I just get another Victorinox for $50 or upgrade to a Wustoff for $100 or Global for $70?
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You could get a whetstone and learn to sharpen it? It's not too hard, I watched a few YouTube videos and picked it up pretty easy. Used a little wedge guide to get a feel for the angle at first. (Maybe something about humans doing this kinda poo poo for millennias) I'm not amazing or anything but can get it back to fighting shape hitting it for a few minutes every couple months or so. I just use one stone. https://a.co/d/3aogE5J
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Yeah, honing is not sharpening. The cheapest thing to do is get it sharpened, either by learning to do it or finding someone local who can sharpen it for you (which is often like $5-20).
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New Sukenari ZDP-189 and rotating knife block
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There’s three different sizes. This is the smallest. https://www.amazon.com/360KB-Black-...yY2hfYXRm&psc=1
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Scythe posted:very sick
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Lovely.
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Rakeris posted:You could get a whetstone and learn to sharpen it? Scythe posted:Yeah, honing is not sharpening. The cheapest thing to do is get it sharpened, either by learning to do it or finding someone local who can sharpen it for you (which is often like $5-20). I guess I was asking about whether my Victorinox is lovely enough to justify buying a new knife but it sounds like sharpening is the way to go. At the very least, a whetstone kit would allow me to sharpen my other knives as they dull. Any recs on that front?
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There are a lot of options and they are all mostly fine. Don't buy a pull-through sharpener. If you want a traditional whetstone, Japanese waterstones are popular in this thread. Shapton makes really nice ones but you can get a double-sided King or whatever and it will be perfectly good. You can also get a diamond stone like a DuoSharp which sharpens (i.e., eats metal) faster, which can be good and bad. There are also a whole bunch of guided systems as well. You can read back a couple pages and we've discussed some of them. I still haven't pulled the trigger on any of them. I have found the folks at Sharpening Supplies very helpful and responsive if you have questions or need some guidance.
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Ordered a 270mm saya (since it’s too tall for either of my knife blocks) and copped this little number to get free shipping Suisuki Nami AUS10 80 mm 
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Some nice fancy knives in here recently, thought I would show off my $12 AliExpress special. (Thanks to this thread) Been liking it so far, too bad I don't have anywhere to store it due to it's girth.
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Rakeris posted:too bad I don't have anywhere to store it due to it's girth. New thread title? Also never an issue I've had 
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One day the Knife thread title will not be a dick joke but that day is not today. e: fixed the greengrocer's apostrophe I ain't having that on me.
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Picks up a stick and starts whacking the hornet’s nest: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7276103510733671722
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Kramers are trash I wipe my rear end with kramers.
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I didn’t like the overly aggressive angle of the handle but before I returned it I stacked it on my Henckels Pro and noticed that it has the exact same blade profile, which made me feel a little better about my trash knife
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Living in Yasugi for a month has some perks. Ginsan No 3 steel. $65 Also the Wakou museum is a nice walk through. They even let you hold a piece of steel and a pretty cool sword and take pics, and also use a traditional bellows! cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Yoooo I was just there in July! I went to the Wakou museum too. I have a metallurgy background so it was really interesting to see some of the stuff they had there and the explanations they had were also quite good, though very lacking when it came to the small items. Definitely worth checking out. Actually, I should have bought my knife there, though I didn't really end up having time...
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Rakeris posted:Some nice fancy knives in here recently, thought I would show off my $12 AliExpress special. (Thanks to this thread) Been liking it so far, too bad I don't have anywhere to store it due to it's girth. I just broke in this exact knife last night and I gotta say: a huge knife rules and everyone should have one
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totalnewbie posted:Yoooo I was just there in July! I went to the Wakou museum too. I have a metallurgy background so it was really interesting to see some of the stuff they had there and the explanations they had were also quite good, though very lacking when it came to the small items. Definitely worth checking out. Actually, I should have bought my knife there, though I didn't really end up having time... Yea we shopped for about 30 minutes and the woman working the counter was very informative. The carbon was tempting but I wanted something more easy care. I wish they had smaller items too. I wanted a nice smaller knife.
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Steve Yun posted:Picks up a stick and starts whacking the hornet’s nest: Which, I guess, if they're kitchen influencers or whatever, but that still seems crazy when all they're cutting up is gourds and green onions.
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Decided on getting some Wusthofs for my wife for Christmas. Chefs knife, serrated bread knife, utility and paring knives. Keeping in mind I'm in Canada, are there usually any black Friday sales or anything I oughta hold out for before ordering? I signed up for their spam to get 10% off, any chance of getting more of a discount than that?
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codo27 posted:Decided on getting some Wusthofs for my wife for Christmas. Chefs knife, serrated bread knife, utility and paring knives. Keeping in mind I'm in Canada, are there usually any black Friday sales or anything I oughta hold out for before ordering? I signed up for their spam to get 10% off, any chance of getting more of a discount than that? Any reason it has to be Wusthofs? Since you're in Canada, I'd go to a knifewear store if you're near a big city and have the employees recommend something.
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I'm getting them in purple yam, purple is her favorite color. Even the nearest "city" to me doesn't have anything like that
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Wusthof makes good stuff outside of the cheapo ranges anyway, there's no reason to push for a change to something else if they want Wusthof. I don't really know about sales but it's worth waiting to see if you don't need them before then, Wusthof is one of the brands that large chains like Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel and Sur La Table sell, and those kinds of major retailers are also the kinds that tend to run sales like that.
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Maybe not, but if you have another month after that before you need them, why not find out? The worst that happens is you pay normal price, right?
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oh rly posted:Any reason it has to be Wusthofs? Since you're in Canada, I'd go to a knifewear store if you're near a big city and have the employees recommend something. +1 to recommending Knifewear. I was in vancouver over the weekend and just popped in to kill time before dinner. really nice store and knowledgeable people. not so much a collector's heaven (like Ai and Om or Tosho) but still great selection. 
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Development posted:+1 to recommending Knifewear. I was in vancouver over the weekend and just popped in to kill time before dinner. really nice store and knowledgeable people. not so much a collector's heaven (like Ai and Om or Tosho) but still great selection. I grabbed a knife from Knifewear some years ago when I decided I wanted a nice cutting tool for the first time, and was really happy with them. I wasn't sure what I wanted so the person at the counter asked me some questions and brought out a selection of knifes for me to check out the heft of as he described their features and such, narrowing my selection down by bringing out a couple more and it was a very pleasant experience. I ended up with a blade with some heft to it that I've been using since. May actually have to bring it in, now that I think about it, as I accidentally put a sizeable (a few mm wide) nick into it.
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Hopefully you guys can help with this: My girlfriend uses this crappy Outback steak knife looking thing as a chef's knife and after suggesting it, she's super pumped at the prospect of me getting her a fancy chef's knife for Christmas. The problem is the only experience I have with them is a cooking class I took about a million years ago in highschool, so I have no idea what's actually good. Any recommendations on a Chef's knife (and possibly a paring knife) that's high quality but also looks really flashy? Budget is about 150. I don't know if this will help, but she's always cooking a bunch of international food, but gravitates to a ton of Asian dishes.
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Biff Rockgroin posted:Hopefully you guys can help with this: If you want to do a chef’s knife and paring knife, it’s hard to go wrong with the Tojiro DP line Tojiro DP 2-piece Chef's Knife Set https://a.co/d/gQO95Co And if you can push your budget, they’ve got a Damascus version that looks flashy, though the visuals are the only difference. TOJIRO DP Damascus 2 Piece Knife Set - 8.25" Chef's Knife with 4" Paring Knife https://a.co/d/08hieoI
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I absolutely love this Mac Pro santoku, my favorite knife ever, but because it is a hollow grind, if you want to maintain the grind you will likely have to have it sharpened by Mac (by mail) unless you have someone local that you trust capable of doing so. (You do not actually have to maintain the hollow grind, Sharpening Supplies recommends just sharpening hollow-ground knives like any other knife. But I love it more than any other knife I own, and I dunno how much of that is due to the grind.) I am seeing sales on this one to make it cheaper (it's already in your budget from Mac), but I don't know many online knife sellers well. Shun Classics are always popular but are a little over-budget at around $170 via retailers like Crate & Barrel (they're more expensive on Shun's site). People say they are overpriced and they are probably right, but I have one of their nakiris and it feels great in my hand. I have never used a Tojiro, everyone in this thread says they are good knives. But they also excuse fit and finish issues that they acknowledge the knives sometimes have; I would rather give one of these as a gift.
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guppy posted:I have never used a Tojiro, everyone in this thread says they are good knives. But they also excuse fit and finish issues that they acknowledge the knives sometimes have; I would rather give one of these as a gift. I’ve seen enough choil photographs that show legendarily bad grinds, stuff that would be shameful on gas station knives. If I could handle the knife before purchase and the price were right, that would be one thing, but I wouldn’t order online.
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New knife
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https://www.knivesfromjapan.co.uk/knives-c1/knife-sets-c13/tojiro-senkou-dp-flash-4-piece-kitchen-set-p413 Does this look like a good deal? Looking to replace some very old Wusthof Classics and this set came up in a search. It's one more knife (utility) than I am bothered about but the price seems good when comparing to other sites. Can't get to the shop to hold in person but if they arrive and are not comfortabel I can always return.
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