What's Your Ideal Travel Knife Kit? Here's mine + stone.

[DitmasPork]

Can I ask which are your favourite Suji/Yanagibas for slicing proteins?

The first and only yanagiba I’ve used is a lefty Shigefusa, it’s everything I want/need, no complaints. For sujihiki—love my 270 Takada, b1, for cooked/raw proteins, light, nimble, dependable; if needing more heft/length, like for big meat, I’ll grab the Yanick, a beautifully made blade.

 

[MowgFace]

Here’s my kit!

I’m one of those people using a drumstick bag .

Kit

Current set of knives:

270 Tojiro Bread
210 Gesshin Uraku
240 Kohetsu AS (been through at lot)
210 Tojiro Petty
150 Amazon Seki Petty
Opinel Inox

I usually bring some mix of:

Small knives

Seki
Tojiro
Opinel
Dojo
Wusty
2 x Vic

210 Gyuto/Petty/Line Knife

Masahiro
Uraku
Tsu. Masamoto
Ashi
Tojiro

1 x 240

Masahiro
Tsu. Masamoto
Kohetsu AS
Ichiminji

Honorable Mention:
225ish Gesshin Ginga Rehab - Still a rough 220 finish. But will be a solid addition one day!
Goko 240

Tools!

All wrapped up with my two boards

Brand new Asahi I’m trying out and a $1.50 Daiso board. Old faithful.

Color coordinated everything to be “safety orange” so I can always find my gear. Also to match my Rachel Ray Spattys.

 

[Cliff]

Going with a Mac paring knife, Masahiro VC honesuki, a Shiro Kamo R2 Bunka, Ashi Ginga 210 stainless petty, a 240 Kamo R2 Gyuto and 270 suji.

 

[kidsos]

Going on a “real” holiday for the first time since I started working in kitchens and really getting into knives. So I packed some bare essentials to cook up some nice fresh produce and hopefully self caught or otherwise daily caught fish!

A no name 270 yanagiba
My 165 deba
Cheapest 150 petty I have
And a 195 mab gyuto

 

[chefwp]

I would not call it a 'kit,' but I did grab a knife to take along our journey of about 9 days in Washington state. We were bouncing around with a lot of short stays at airbnbs. I grabbed an old beater made by an American company called Ergo chef that I've had for about 15 years at least. In my memory it was not too bad. I didn't want to bring anything I had to carefully pack or worry about banging around.

I made these observations

1. I am now super spoiled by my current knives, the Ergo chef knife doesn't even come near the knives I currently use at home.
2. Even given #1, it was 10x better than any knife stocked in the 4 different places we stayed at.

This I believe is what people refer to as "first world problems."

The Ergo knife I brought:

The last place had an interesting display of horrible knives, brand was "Home Hero" I think...

 

[M1k3]

I would not call it a 'kit,' but I did grab a knife to take along our journey of about 9 days in Washington state. We were bouncing around with a lot of short stays at airbnbs. I grabbed an old beater made by an American company called Ergo chef that I've had for about 15 years at least. In my memory it was not too bad. I didn't want to bring anything I had to carefully pack or worry about banging around.

I made these observations

1. I am now super spoiled by my current knives, the Ergo chef knife doesn't even come near the knives I currently use at home.
2. Even given #1, it was 10x better than any knife stocked in the 4 different places we stayed at.

This I believe is what people refer to as "first world problems."

The Ergo knife I brought:
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The last place had an interesting display of horrible knives, brand was "Home Hero" I think...
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My daughter bought me that set, under a different brand name. It just collects dust these days.

 

[chefwp]

My daughter bought me that set, under a different brand name. It just collects dust these days.

Put it in your rental!

 

[M1k3]

Put it in your rental!

I'd want people to continue to rent from me though.

 

[rickbern]

I would not call it a 'kit,' but I did grab a knife to take along our journey of about 9 days in Washington state. We were bouncing around with a lot of short stays at airbnbs. I grabbed an old beater made by an American company called Ergo chef that I've had for about 15 years at least. In my memory it was not too bad. I didn't want to bring anything I had to carefully pack or worry about banging around.

I made these observations

1. I am now super spoiled by my current knives, the Ergo chef knife doesn't even come near the knives I currently use at home.
2. Even given #1, it was 10x better than any knife stocked in the 4 different places we stayed at.

This I believe is what people refer to as "first world problems."

The Ergo knife I brought:
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The last place had an interesting display of horrible knives, brand was "Home Hero" I think...
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Buy just one saya. You won’t regret it

 

[riba]

Holiday preparation in full swing