Carl Kotte
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Do You Use Your "Expensive" Knives?
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juice
Doesn't even buy knives
BillHanna
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Or to remove excess wall from a horse's hoof.
Oh I see what you did. Superficially, this is just comical. But no, no, I see what you did. This is a deeper philosophical question. The "tool". Is it really the knife? Or do you mean the maker? Or, perhaps, you mean the purchaser...
On another note, maybe we start a Go Fund Me to get @RDalman to wear fishnets while crafting the next Group Buy.
Looks like a grate cheese knife!
'Drugs or drugs' doesn't have the same ring to it.
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There are members of my household who strongly disagree.
would you buy a $10,000 lawn mower and not use it?
Jovidah
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If I was even remotely doubting whether I'd dare to use it I wouldn't buy it. To me it's a tool first. If the cost inhibits me from using it in the intended role it is basically a useless waste of money to me.
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This baffles me to some extent. I don't see how you could fully appreciate a super fine knife without using it. No matter how beautiful it is you could never fully grasp its true essence without putting it thru what it's meant to do.
Keith Sinclair
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Better come with a tractor to pull it & cut wide paths.
Keith Sinclair
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Dalman would have to get a sex change. It's even politically correct these days.
Here's my take. If a knife isn't used, it should have sentimental or historical value. Otherwise it should be used.
I have my go to work and home knives, which range from super cheap---not cheap. But it's nice to bust out the super expensive ones.
Like when you get some fresh southern ocean line caught greenbone.
Like when you get some fresh southern ocean line caught greenbone.
Our most expensive knives are the ones we use most. It's how I justify buying more.
The ones I use least are some of the cheapest - my collection of beautiful, old and restored yanagiba. They mostly just get polished and admired
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The ones I use least are some of the cheapest - my collection of beautiful, old and restored yanagiba. They mostly just get polished and admired
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Yep.
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Carl Kotte
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Now, that’s an idea! Very very small fishnetsOh I see what you did. Superficially, this is just comical. But no, no, I see what you did. This is a deeper philosophical question. The "tool". Is it really the knife? Or do you mean the maker? Or, perhaps, you mean the purchaser...
On another note, maybe we start a Go Fund Me to get @RDalman to wear fishnets while crafting the next Group Buy.
Carl Kotte
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What if it’s a sexy lawn mower?
LewRob80
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I use all of my knives, rotating regularly while in pro kitchens. Depending on the staff around I often lend out midrange knives (200-400$) and always rotate and use my more expensive (500-700+) right now I’ve been loving my Fujiyama FT 240 as my daily driver with 2-3 hours of cutting a day
DitmasPork
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I do remember cringing in horror when I scratched up my beloved Wustof Classic—my first expensive knife. There’re pro cooks I know that feel spending over $100 on a chef’s knife is a useless waste of money—while other pro cooks I know regularly take Katos and Shigs into a pro kitchen environment. I’m much more relaxed with knives these days—don’t care what they had cost or are worth, they are all just knives in the kitchen. I’d be a rich man if ten years ago I’d invested money spent on gyutos, in Bitcoin instead. However, I do enjoy the luxury of bringing out a denka to prep. #priorities
DitmasPork
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Of course I do. Why would I have a knife I don't use. Same for pistols. Why have a custom pistol you don't use.
I sharpen knives for chefs & repairing tips is almost standard procedure especially new ones the amount of times I have heard people say they dropped it almost as soon as it came out the box.
The advise sounds similar to buying a new car best to key it before someone else does it.
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The price doesn't change whether or not I use a knife. Its intended purpose and ease of use is what does it for me.
If its a gyuto I expect them all to do certain things in the kitchen to justify me bringing them to work: shave chives, cut through parsnips without wedging, work well enough on cooked proteins, and be able to break down a chicken including Frenching an airline breast which involves cutting through a bone in the wing.
If I have to baby a knife then I'm just buying it to hang on my wall and I'd rather put that money elsewhere.
If its a gyuto I expect them all to do certain things in the kitchen to justify me bringing them to work: shave chives, cut through parsnips without wedging, work well enough on cooked proteins, and be able to break down a chicken including Frenching an airline breast which involves cutting through a bone in the wing.
If I have to baby a knife then I'm just buying it to hang on my wall and I'd rather put that money elsewhere.
DitmasPork
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IMO, depends on a buyer’s objectives. I buy knives to use—they get scuffed, I have zero interest in polishing, so my knives won’t win beauty pageants. If someone buys with the intent on reselling—which is a perfectly valid reason—then they should just keep it in the box and don’t dare use it.
I have lots of pistols and I have shot them all. My custom ones are target shooters. My eyes are too old nowadays to shoot well any more but there are still a couple of target models I would buy if I ever see them even though I can't really shoot them anymore.
Besides everybody from Texas has guns.
DitmasPork
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All comes down to priorities—a $1k gyuto cost the same as a dinner for two at many Michelin starred restaurants; sushi for two at Masa in NYC cost about a grand.
