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Re: Chef Knives?
Originally Posted by
jclay
Ditto.
But I'm not interested in forging my own knives!
Eric Estlund does special order custom knives!
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Last edited by j44ke; 08-02-2023 at 09:41 AM.
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Re: Chef Knives?
Jay Dwight
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Re: Chef Knives?
Originally Posted by
echappist
There's a lot to like about my Wüsthof Chef's Knife, except for the fact that it's more of a hassle when it comes to cutting veggies.
Having used a Chinese style chef's knife previously, I bought another Wüsthof purely on the basis of similar form and ended up buying a traditional cleaver. It's a knife completely wasted on me, as I don't trust myself to swing a sharp blade at ~30 inches away from the item to be chopped; nor does it really cut veggies. I gave the knife to my dad.
Recently, it has come to my attention that
Wüsthof does indeed make an actual Chinese style chef's knife. It's probably the one I will purchase next.
I wish we went to this place when we were in Tokyo. I may or may not be able to justify the cost of this
damascus nakiri over what Wüsthof charges, but my is it pretty.
Looks pretty. Though I would be suspicious of any knife when the forge does not identify the steel. For nearly $200 for a 170mm nakiri I think you can do better. Many choices, but this might be a place to start: Fujiwara Nashiji.
https://realsharpknife.com/collectio...i-165mm-nakiri
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Re: Chef Knives?
My experience with Wusthof is it's not bad, it's well made, decent grinds, solid knife. But you can definitely do better for the price they're charging, they're thicker than necessary and the steel sucks (for the money). SeriousEats is always a good place to check :: https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-...-kitchen-knife
Dustin Gaddis
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Re: Chef Knives?
Got some Amazon gift cards for Christmas and just ordered myself a 240mm Misono gyuto in carbon steel. Biggest 'chef' knife I've had, first carbon steel kitchen knife, first asymmetric bevel. Coming from Japan, be here in a few weeks.
I could do without the silly dragon engraving, but it'll wear off over time.
Pic from here :: https://japanesechefsknife.com/colle...d-carbon-steel
Last edited by dgaddis; 12-27-2023 at 10:35 AM.
Dustin Gaddis
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Re: Chef Knives?
Originally Posted by
dgaddis
Got some Amazon gift cards for Christmas and just ordered myself a 240mm Misono gyuto in carbon steel. Biggest 'chef' knife I've had, first carbon steel kitchen knife, first asymmetric bevel. Coming from Japan, be here in a few weeks.
Enjoy your new knife!
Recently I began making large batches of soup to freeze and find myself chopping enough veg that a chef that size would make some sense. It's not a struggle to get along with my 210mm gyuto and 165mm nakiri and I have no plans for a larger gyuto but suddenly I can see the utility even in a home kitchen with food prep demands that fall well short of Herculean.
What I ought to do is get rid of some legacy/inherited knives that are just taking up space in overflow storage and my brain!
A longer bread knife would be handy but I won't toss the one that's been with me for half of my life. Increasingly I feel an affinity for tools, pedigreed or not, that have quietly done their jobs for me, for decades.
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Re: Chef Knives?
You will get tired of it Dustin ;) I'll help you out by taking it when you are completely exasperated.
GORGEOUS knife.
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Re: Chef Knives?
Originally Posted by
dgaddis
It's shorter in height than I expected, but I like it so far. One meal (chicken, bell peppers, onion) + a couple apples and it's already getting some patina.
Nice looking knife but, yeah, the heel looks pretty low particularly against the other, shorter one (which looks nicely made and pleasingly proportioned). Doesn't strike me really as a chef but reminds me more of a thin, narrow Sabatier (240mm x 15mm heel) I have which is wonderful for slicing fish and amateur sushi hour, but would be terrible for prep chopping. My knuckles would be smacking the cutting board with that one and the blade isn't up to such use. Is yours a thin blade relative to the usual jobs for a chef knife of that length?
My 210 Masakane heel is 25mm which is fine, but I wouldn't want it to be any less and my old Lamson chef is 30 which was generous but it's a relative beast, and now my spouse's daily driver that I don't generally touch...or touch up until asked. In it's current state it would, and did the other day bc it was out and at hand, drive me nutz; like cutting with the edge of a well used cold chisel.
You guys have me looking again. Quit it already!
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