Recent content by Uncle Mike

Takeda. FTW.

Burrfection says he’s working on one.

Turned out it was mostly just stained. Scrubbed with Barkeepers Friend, fixed chips and I’m done. Thanks for advice.

I volunteered to repair a knife, but am wondering about it. Owner doesn’t know much about it other than he bought it in Japan. Anybody recognize it? It’s obviously in bad shape including rust, staining, chipped edge and slightly broken tip. My plan was to clean it up,use Atoma 140 to...

I have a Boos board (end grain Maple) for everything that’s not protein. I have a Oxo plastic board that fits in the dishwasher for that. I’ve never had any problem with either damaging my knives.

Thanks for the feedback! Now I’m leaning toward getting one before next summer.

Just wondering why you didn’t set the oven temp for your target temp like soups vide? I’m going back and forth on the oven. Looks really interesting but I don’t usually like to get the 1.0 version of something. Are you a bread baker? Interested in using steam for baking bread. Also, how much...

I inherited a Le Crueset Dutch Oven and the inside was discolored on the bottom. Not pitted and not real bad. I put bleach and water (I think around 50/50) and let it soak for a day. It was noticeably better. I had another one for 20+ years and the inside was pitted and badly discolored. Also...

ok. I thought this was a place to discuss kitchen knives and their usage. I see I was wrong.

Scraping board spine of the knife is several mm tall. When you go to scrape food up off board with the spine, it has to go over this lip to get onto the blade. Dustpans are flat to the floor for a reason I want the edge of my knife facing the board, not me I have to flip the knife around to...

Can’t you just go out in the desert and do all that stuff for free?

He is hella boring. His King 1k /6k method is basically sound. Then he sold out to bathrobe Hap and his $2000 “system”

He now advocates flattening stones (get the suckers to wear out the expensive nanohone stones So they can buy more, more $$$$)

How do you sharpen it?

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