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I have had a Grand Seiko for about two years now, and it has not gained or lost a second yet. It has been reset to official time a few times for daylight savings time changes and time zone changes, but has always kept perfect time. Your mileage may vary, but mine is perfect. As an old Air...

Where in the Sunshine State are you? Keith, in Tallahassee

It looks gorgeous. And delicious.

Sounds great, Brian, but we need photos!

I was sipping a martini and wowing a new girlfriend with my wit and slicing a potato on a mandoline. As you may guess, I took a corner of my thumb off neat as you please, and bled everywhere. She was very impressed.

Fortunately, I don't know from experience, but some who do tell me knife fights are a nasty business. If you get in one, you are going to get cut, and though you may win the fight, you have a good chance of bleeding out before you can get to an ER. This convinced me to always carry the 1911...

We had an emergency room surgeon in a number of pistol classes who had an interesting comment on that subject. He said in the ER, about 15% of gunshot victims died, and about 15% of knife wound victims survived. It certainly increased the distance at which I figured a knife carrying bad guy...

I have taken a few knife fighting classes with Steve Tarani, who some say is at the top of the class. They included classes with the folding carry knife and the karambit -- a wicked tool from Indonesia, equally dangerous to the untrained user. My folder is always carried and never used as a...

Good answer. Welcome ILL24. Keith

I am just a home cook, so I keep it simple. Four cups of all purpose white flour and four eggs in the mixer bowl with the dough hook. Once is gets cranking, it usually needs one to two more eggs before it will come together properly. Once it is the right consistency, I let it run for twenty...

Son: Fear not, my spirit keepers have absorbed the disturbance. Not to worry. Keith

I received an ISI whipping siphon for Christmas, and wanted to try it last night to make a pineapple liquor foam for desert. I could not heat the mixture because it would lose the alcohol, so I put 2 grams of soy lecithin in 250 grams of liquor and whisked until it looked disolved. Then into...

Speedy: Welcome to KKF. I was where you are a couple of years ago, and I can tell you what I have learned, though I am far from an expert. There are a number of experts here who will respond in time. First, it will become clear in time that sharpening your own knives is necessary and a large...

Large Italian green olive, pitted, and stuffed with German triple cream blue cheese. For the martini, equal parts Tanqueray gin and Chopin vodka. Stirred, not shaken. Served in an 8 ounce Waterford Lismore martini glass. To stuff the olives, I get a 5cc syringe from the Doc, cut off the...

I think it depends on how you hold a knife for in-hand peeling. The Harner is a great knife, but in-hand it nicks my finger with the deeper blade. And I am too old and set in my ways to change how i hold the knife. The Shun is the right shape for me. I want one of the Carter paring knives...

I suspected the situation might be something like that. I wonder, however, about asking for a payment as a gift in an open forum. Isn't that likely to stir up a problem? Or perhaps Paypal is too busy to bother with KKF.

I have been tempted to ask someone buying a knife from me to send the payment via Paypal as a gift to avoid the fee. Is that legal? Am I asking for trouble by doing that?

Congratulations, Colin. And best wishes for continued success. This has been a very interesting discussion, particularly because it is a real situation rather than hypothetical.

Perhaps this is the shape you are looking for. It does the jobs you mentioned very well for me.

Colin: I can't stand in for your Dad, but I have kids your age and can tell you what I would tell them. Money is not the most important thing in life. You are still young, with a long career ahead of you. An investment in the future which will open doors for you is something to seriously...