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It seems like just a bit too much oil. I wouldn't bother doing anything other than cooking with it. Usually if you left some factory coating on, a paper towel will wipe up with some black stuff instead of just oil/nothing.

Wok.

Some roast pork belly

my weird egg-and-carbon steel thing is that it seems to not stick really well if i use cooking spray rather than straight up oil or butter or whatever. no idea why.

My cat never really talks to me about stove safety

11 7/8" Matfer carbon 8" De Buyer carbon ~12" All Clad stainless saute pan 14" Imusa Carbon steel wok 14" stainless steel wok (mostly for steaming) Never really need non-stick stuff. Got rid of it all about 4 years ago. I have a 12" ikea stainless pan that I let guests use because I don't care...

I like it on my stainless Msicard knife. Feels like it goes with the handle (burned oak I think?)

Had a craving for japanese style rice bowl kinda thing. Steak on rice with some scallions and donburi sauce.

Impossible ground non-meat has been pretty good for me in bolognese if it's available where you are.

Having now used ~200, 240, 270, I feel like my most comfortable width is somewhere between 200 and 240. Can't say exactly why, just what feels comfortable and functional. Probably 225-230 range but it requires trying more knives I suppose. My most commonly used knife these days is a 240, but...

FYI the link on Laseur's site in your post seems to be broken now, may want to provide some full pics

I've never bought from BST or sold from it. There are many people who seem to do so regularly, and likely plenty of good, solid transactions with no misleading from the buyers. However, there have also been scams -- some identified and taken down, some not, and lying. To me, the most likely...

I think BNIB is likely just rife with dishonesty. Not knowing who to trust and who not to as a newer user, I just distrust any claim of BNIB in BST.

As someone relatively new to this forum and who doesn't post much, but looks at BST out of curiousity fairly frequently (though have never bought or sold) I think it's fairly likely that many claims of "like new" "never sharpened" "BNIB" are: 1. Frequently not true 2. Unverifiable Banning...

I like Matfer just because I prefer the metal handles to the De Buyer weird material ones, but they're both great