Damn, those amazing american-produced knives, one would love to shout out! Keep ultra sharp edge for years without sharpening.
Eversharp, ®, is here, gentlemen.
Now, lets get back to reality.
I remember that thread where some sushi chef claimed the need to sharpen few times a day or before every task, to keep the edge in best order..
The thing is, everyone have their own standards, and their own definitions.
So lets make some more scientific approach. Or lets attempt.
Heavy veg prep?
[the example is not a heavy prep for me cause I think of heavy prep when you have to cut 2kgs of banana shallots into thinnest strips possible. I think fine work engages the knife and user more than chopping the shite out of some random veg. But I do that too, before big functions]
Lets say 30 kg of veg but fine cutting not chopping onions in half. Lets say cutting lengthwise your knife makes 10 board contacts, and around 4-6 crosswise.
10 k of onion that is ~70 onions. That makes for roughly 1400 board contacts on 10k of onion.
Then carrots, lengthwise 8 times to get strips and 20 x crosswise to cut a rough cube. How many carrots in a kilo? 5-8 me thinks. that is beyond my math capabilities but its 160xlets make it 6= yyy = 960 board contacts.
And then celeriac to peel you have to use 10-12 contacts per head. 9 heads/10kgs. That makes a hundred already
10 for slices, 10 for strips and 10 to dice. 30 per head to deal with the shite that makes for 300 board contacts for roughly cut 10k's of celeriac.
So there you have it, 2600 board contacts - it might be with different portions of the actual edge, but lets say that about there.
5x a week, lets make it 12500 board contacts.
50000 a month.
And wetalk just a veg prep that, if youre lazy, takes two hours[with peeling].
Now add 10 kgs of cubed chicken breasts = 12 contacts/breastx50 = 600, 10 kgs of sliced lemons 10 slicesx60 lemons=600, 10 kgs of beef cubed= 600. Thats another two hours.
1800 board contacts a day= 36000 contacts a month.
And youre just midway your working shift.
Lets do some mushroom chopping - 6 pieces/mushroom, lets say the mushrooms were grown on elephant shite - that came with the circus, and they weight 100g a piece.
Add 600 contacts a shift, 300 a week and 12 000 a month
The last two hours you help your mate cause he is going down on fruit section.
Peeling pineapple - 10, quartering + core cutting= 8 and making nice sized cubes =8x4=32. Thats 50 per fruit. How many fruits you can handle in two hours, 50 hangovered?
Add 2500 board contacts on that one per day/12500 a week whooping 52500 a month.
And here we just talk board smashing. Think about the iron in beef, acids in lemons and fruits, sugars that makes the bladesticky and therefore making you apply more force = harder boardsmashing.
And then at the end of that shift, shave some chives :tease:
No problem, I did that once with just a Wictorinox petty, blindfolded and levitating