Recent content by sally benes

A while ago, I bought a most amazing carbon steel petty knife that everyone was saying is the best bang for the buck and "semi-stainless" and thin and sharp. I also bought a King combination sharpening stone that I'm still a little scared to use. Anyway, lately, I've been thinking about spending...

I'm confused. Does a Glestain work or not?

You youngsters can do anything you want on a phone these days. Don't think that excuse is gonna fly young man.

Yes. The two people that post all the time can't put up a review? I've been checking this thread every day for a while hoping to learn a little something.

I'm still poking around here and there. Some people have a family to raise and no, my son won't be participating anytime soon. Aside from sharp things, he also seems to be obsessed with burning things and dissecting things so it's probably less of a "knife bug" and more of a "boy bug," thank you...

Well, my son in now hooked on "sharp things." I came here thinking I'd be able to figure out what two knives would be the best bang for the buck. What I got was way too much information and my son now tells me that we need MUCH bigger knives than anything we've used before and we need whetstones...

This might be totally off-base but we had a conversation about this over dinner and my oldest seemed really interested. After dinner he showed me this link: http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/fbbuploads/1304044520-AsymmetricalBevels.jpg. He told me the angles on #1 and #3 were the same. Then he...

Hello, my name is Sally Benes and I'm a homecook for 5. I enjoy cooking Indian and Thai food, but really cook everything. I doubt that I'll end up with a bunch of knives like some people on the forum. But I do plan on maybe a couple of small knives. I seem to like the knives called pettys. It...