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As I got the impression a lot of kitchen professionals participate in this forum, I hope I may ask them for an advice: what kind of knife do you use when cutting (half)dried tomatoes? The combination of leathery skin, seeds and acidity makes to dull every knife I've tried yet. How do you deal with this?
 
Usually I'll julienne through them with a gyuto. I'll just spill them out covering my board and walk the knife through them all. Very efficient.
 
Tell ya what, I'll make a vid for ya tomorrow.
 
240 Western Tojiro deba works also.

Stefan
 
Usually I'll julienne through them with a gyuto. I'll just spill them out covering my board and walk the knife through them all. Very efficient.

This is how i usually do it too works great, especially if you do alot
 
Sorry guys I got busy with the Barclays tournament and haven't had time for vids. I'll try but it may be a couple weeks...
 
Sun drieds are a natural duller of knives. Not much can be done about it that I can think of.
I usually just stack them up and cut away.
 
worst thing i've cut for dulling a knife is preserved lemon... Gritty salty and acidic...
 
I like the cryovac'd packs of sundrieds that when you open them they stay clumped together. That way I can just grab a fist sized clump and julienne the whole thing in a minute. The ones that fall apart in into individual pieces I smack with my fist to help flatten, stack them, then julienne. Never really noticed too much edge degradation just from doing sun drieds. After a 5# pack my edges feel basically the same.
 
I normally just stack them then push them down to flatten out a bit, i will make a bunch of stacks as much as i need line them up and slice them all the way down works very well and is quite fast, i have never noticed my knife getting dull from it though.. maybe its the cutting board?? I use poly boards all the time and still haven't noticed that happening at all. Or are you using too much pressure?
 
I like the cryovac'd packs of sundrieds that when you open them they stay clumped together. That way I can just grab a fist sized clump and julienne the whole thing in a minute. The ones that fall apart in into individual pieces I smack with my fist to help flatten, stack them, then julienne. Never really noticed too much edge degradation just from doing sun drieds. After a 5# pack my edges feel basically the same.
How are you sharpening these days, Johnny?
 
Pressure and board might be a factor, just as steel and edge. I noticed less dulling with a VG-10, but it has a less acute edge than my carbons, so I find it hard to blame the stuff's acidity. This is why I asked for you guys' experience.
 
Meat grinder to robo-coupe to vita-prep then mashed through a chinoise.
But seriously, I hate dried tomatoes.
 
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