TF or Watanabe?

Miura knives
Kitchen Knife Forums

Help Support Kitchen Knife Forums:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Doom for house seat:D More gals in after yesterday. All the Me too rage he would be sacrificed in a voodoo amazon ritual.
 
Interapid101 said:
Briefly dated a stripper and it was a lot like nakiri. Thought it would be fun, but it wasn't anywhere as good as I expected.
Click to expand...
Now I feel like a pimp for owning 6 Nakiri, 7th one will be a Wat 180 hopefully. Maybe like you guys I will fall in love with a single 240 Gyuto someday, and then I will go bury the dead nakiris in the backyard.

Jville said:
Alot of hate here for the Shig nakiri. I got a 180 ku and the grinds fantastic. It has a little bit of an s to it, super thin behind the edge, performs great.
Click to expand...

Im actually thinking of the same thing ... Im not sure why people dont like them very much.
 
For me, a nakiri can be a good performer, but it just doesn't live up to the desire of use you might think. I got mine from Jon in the early days when I wanted every knife in every profile by every maker. I actually got it to eventually jump onto an usuba which never happened.

If I could do it all over again I would have gotten a cleaver a lot earlier.
 
@Anton Do you think I could get away with one of my favorite porn stars being my secretary?
 
I should note that the nakiri did save me money in the long run. I got a simple knife that does not intimidate relatives that I won't cry over if it so happens to disappear and I don't have a pricey usuba sitting in the drawer.
 
Haven’t checked in on this thread in a while. It sure has taken a different turn haha. Or several rather
 
Man, I missed one helluva party while I was gone over the last few months! All I’ll say wellllll after the fact is that Jon and Maxim have never steered me wrong, in any regard. And ofttimes they’ve refused my business as they didn’t have what I was looking for specifically. It seems to me that quite a few people misconstrued the points they were going for.

In regards to other hot topics! The 165 KU shig nakiri that I bought on a lark a few years back is basically a small axe. I dinged the damn ‘tip’ the first time I used it trying to get through a tall onion. Gonna wait till prices get astronomical and sell it ‘as is’ at a profit:)

I’ve owned two Toyama gyuto, a 240 and a 270. And I’ve used another 270 that I bought for my sous chef awhile back. I’ve said this many times before, but I’ll repeat it again- I came to the conclusion that the grind on the Toyama excels on the 270. Shorter knives with this style grind just don’t work as well. The added weight and balance have a lot to do with performance as well IMO. The 270 Wat I used awhile back was much the same, but I haven’t used Wats in other lengths to verify that it’s strictly a length based game in that regard.

All this talk gave me flashbacks to five years or so ago when there was a killer 270ish Wat on BST that was part of a mass culling that an old school member was putting up for offer. Labor, Panda and I were not that flush and contemplating buying the Wat together as a time share knife!

Now I have a Billup, Toyama, and multiple Shigs that I rarely if ever use. It’s funny how the industry flips toolwise once you get to top of the heap. You can afford the best, but don’t have an excuse to use them most the time...
 
Last edited:
brainsausage said:
Man, I missed one helluva party while I was gone over the last few months! All I’ll say wellllll after the fact is that Jon and Maxim have never steered me wrong, in any regard. And ofttimes they’ve refused my business as they didn’t have what I was looking for specifically. It seems to me that quite a few people misconstrued the points they were going for.

In regards to other hot topics! The 165 KU shig nakiri that I bought on a lark a few years back is basically a small axe. I dinged the damn ‘tip’ the first time I used it trying to get through a tall onion. Gonna wait till prices get astronomical and sell it ‘as is’ at a profit:)

I’ve owned two Toyama gyuto, a 240 and a 270. And I’ve used another 270 that I bought for my sous chef awhile back. I’ve said this many times before, but I’ll repeat it again- I came to the conclusion that the grind on the Toyama excels on the 270. Shorter knives with this style grind just don’t work as well. The added weight and balance have a lot to do with performance as well IMO. The 270 Wat I used awhile back was much the same, but I haven’t used Wats in other lengths to verify that it’s strictly a length based game in that regard.

All this talk I gave me flash backs to five years or so back when there was a killer 270ish Wat on BST that was part of a mass culling that an old school member was putting up for offer. Labor, Panda and I were not that flush and contemplating buying the Wat together as a time share knife!

Now I have a Billup, Toyama, and multiple Shigs that I rarely if ever use. It’s funny how the industry flips toolwise once you get to top of the heap. You can afford the best, but don’t have an excuse to use them most the time...
Click to expand...

dude - where have you been???
 
Anton said:
dude - where have you been???
Click to expand...

labor of love said:
Working. Haha! Im literally closer to dishwashers than I am my own siblings due to the amount of time I work. I guess brainsausage has better things to do on his smoke breaks than browse this forum unlike myself.
Click to expand...

Funny you should say smoke breaks as typically my break is to check the meat stuffs surrounded by smoke:)

This past spring/summer was pretty grueling work wise, and I find it best sometimes if I narrow my signal, both in terms of input and output online. Being in charge of a bunch of disparate personalities can be very taxing to say the least. Cheffing is very akin to running a kindergarten classroom. I’ll never make my own offspring, as I have far too many adoptees on hand at any given moment that need full attention!
 
Interapid101 said:
Briefly dated a stripper and it was a lot like nakiri. Thought it would be fun, but it wasn't anywhere as good as I expected.
Click to expand...

i went with a stripper for around 8 years. there were downsides, but the performance was enough to make up for it.

in the end, it just wasnt meant to be.

im pretty happy with my new wat 180 though. it suites my use case well. similarly, ive hit a couple obstacles in our short time together, but otherwise it performs exceptionally well.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top