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Planning the Christmas get together, 10 friends, and thinking what food to have. In previous years have done classic roast beef, slow cooked lamb, Game stew, this year the thinking is more buffet style than sit down meal - mostly as I did a Mexican night and tacos are just the best. So what to...

Feels like there’s a gap in my knife set for a steak knife. Having never owned one before I haven’t got a good picture of what makes a good one. Would be great to hear about people’s favourites or ones they never use as there’s just something weird about it. Also pics, lots of pics. Googling...

After a Black Friday discount I couldn’t turn down I now have a proper smoker after wanting one for years. Planning on doing a Boston butt this weekend to try it out holding temp for a longer cook. Price of rubs imported from US to UK is absurd, so looking to make my own - plus I like...

Heya, looking to give some 125sc a try and wondering if anyone has a good HT recipe they could share? Wondering if fast oil will work or if it will need water / brine for quenching. Cheers!

Merry Christmas everyone What’s everyone making, and what with? Some baked cheese with smoked garlic and Rosemary whilst opening presents Now on with the rest of it, KD making easy work of the veg What’s everyone else got on the go?

Been a while since I posted anything but have had a few days off work and have been able to get into the workshop. Making a saya is quite straight forward, just needs a bit of effort in preparing the stock, and then plenty of trial fits. Started off with a piece of reclaimed Teak, looks a...

Nice vid of the forging of a kitchen knife by a UK maker. I went on a course with Owen about 3 years ago and made my first knife which really taught me a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktevY1NOro

I've got some Carters with the black riveted handles that have been on my list of knives to pretty up with a new handle. I seem to recall seeing some that Butch did for Stefan, but can't find the pics now. Has anyone else had theirs rehandled? The simple way would be to add a spacer the...

Thoughts to anyone affected by the blasts. Tragic times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qfXYBheE_Fs Embedding disabled unfortunately, but well worth following the link Interesting comments on hand ground convexed blades as opposed to flat machine grinds too

Hi Maxim, Been wondering about this for a while. What difference will I notice between natural and synthetic stones of the same grit range in a practical rather than aesthetic basis? I've tried a lot of synthetic stones and a few naturals- some European and some American but no Japanese...

Just picked up this parer from another forum member. Cleaned up the handle and put a fresh edge on it and I'm really impressed. Arrived with a few small chips in the edge and felt quite slick on the stones making me think the steel is quite hard, unsure of what the steel is though (guess was...

Just noticed a Fish handled takeda cleaver for sale at the old forum. Must resist buying, but the pictures were worth looking at. Even know im contemplating emptying my money box to see if I have enough

Following on from the 'Chef Niloc Benefit' thread, i won the 16" x 22" Cherry Boardsmith board. http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/8514-Chef-Niloc-benifit?p=147868&viewfull=1#post147868 However being based in the UK, and this being a large and solid board, means the cost of...

Great vid showing one of Sheffield's last forgers demonstrating his craft. He mentions making 2 gross blades a day, and every hit with the hammer does exactly what he wants, I could watch it for hours http://youtu.be/zpeyhC-UIFg http://youtu.be/zpeyhC-UIFg

So, just picked up a smallish belt grinder and without any Steel to make something proper with I thought I would practice using it, and try a western rehandle at the same time, with one of the "cough" jewels in my collection. I picked up this lump of a knife in Walmart, couldn't say no to $1...

Just picked this up of ebay, the pictures posted by the seller had no sense of scale in them so whilst i guessed it was on the large side i hadn't realised quite how big it is..... Its 36" long with an 11" long by 8" blade :O The full tang is tapered but it is still a weighty...

Now, even more so than before, I wish that this was in the library http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vo01ldlTQc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/at-the-sharp-end-lessons-in-slicing-dicing-and-mincing-from-a-cutting-connoisseur-7682334.html Am I the only one that starts off thinking this may be good, and then gets more and more frustrated with it. The fact it ends with...

Ordered this a while ago and after a few F+F tweaks it arrived today. Will try and do a write up covering how it performs when i've had the chance to use it but thought i'd share some pics and initial thoughts. Came well packed with a nice plain poplar saya which i wasn't expecting :D...