“America’s test kitchen knife review is all that I need for a knife”— it ain’t.
“I should listen to people’s suggestions and recommendations on forums ” - lots of people like to recommend knives AND *barely ... Barellyy* using theirs, AND have *zero* cutting skills, AND *zero* sharpening skills—i don’t listen to people with out a vid somewhere, or have significant experience working on high end blades. Most people are glorified America’s test kitchen testers. I’m so sick of the lack of blade proficiency among knife enthusiasts. It’s like reviewing Sports cars by only going on the highway, get your game up. As a Side note ... I have vids of me shaving my face with gyuto’s on YouTube. Not that it matters, but it’s to show my comfort with knives. And to show my own sharping ability Ever so slightly. I also did one with an R2 blade showing how sharp “stainless” can get, because ppl talked about how only carbon can get Super sharp at one point
..... who the hell are you recommending me a Kato for Honyaki for 1k+ and yours doesn’t even have a patina, and you only cut some cucumbers....poorly.
“I need a gyuto, paring knife, bread knife” - nope, I peel kiwi, shred carrots, pit apples, peel potatoes, cut crusty bread ... you name it .... with a 240mm Gyuto and I do it efficiently ... it’s called developing skill. Only thing that is faster is a peeler. — my kitchen supply list is 1. A Gyuto and 2. a peeler (MAYBEEE a bread knife) *done*
“carter said his his vid blue < white steel” — after owning several of both I knew even he was a chump. Ate his words years later.
“Honing rod / steeling hard steels is *bad* ... soft steels only”
A) I do what I want ... and know what I’m doing. It’s a piece of steel that I want an edge on, not the holy bible that I’m mutilating. -might put up a vid of me steeling a blue 1 honyaki Gyuto or a ZDP blade ... watch ppl flip out lol.
B) I saw sushi chefs in japan take their yanagibas to the back of a tea cup for an edge, your gunna say that’s wrong to? They live food preparation ... your a knife enthusiast/ retailer/ forum member.