Kitchen knifes

[Gun Dog]

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I love to work in my kitchen butchering up game or livestock. The cuts I like just can't get done right at the local butcher shop. A lost art.

Don't get hung up on an entire matching set. Many manufactures do not offer the right knife for each job. i.e. I can't get a long flexible blade for boning in Henkels five star line. I've yet to find a high quality 2" to 2-1/2" paring knife. Get the basic three or four knifes of the highest quality you can afford. Work from there.

The price is directly related to the forging and the carbon content. Kind of like buying chisels for the shop. Wood carvers have tens of chisels and so should kitchen chiefs. None are cheap. Plan on spending over $100 per blade. Henkels and Wusthof are the better ones. In this case buying US does not apply. We just can't forge a good blade.

My knives are off limits to most everyone. I keep an inexpensive set for anyone that's working in my kitchen that I know doesn't know how to use a knife.

 

[rbh]

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We have the J.A Henckels.
There are two types, the German made ones have the two figures in a box on the blade and the other ones?? have a single man in the box.

The ones from Germany hold an egde very nicelly, the other one, not so well!

 

[lakelover]

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We have s mish mash of cheapo knives that are abused constantly and sharpened often, don't think we paid more than $10 for any of them.


When the kids leave home, maybe we'll get some good ones!

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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When the GF any myself moved into the new place, Dad got us a set from Chicago Cutlery as a house warming gift that seems to be holding up pretty good. This is the set he got us; http://www.chicagocutlery.com/index.asp?pageId=1&catId=27&bid=726&sku=1080719

Seem to hold a edge for a good long time as long as you use the knives properly.

I have sharpened the 2 main prep/chef knives with this;
http://www.harborfreight.com/handheld-knife-sharpener-94620.html

Does a nice job keeping the knives sharp.

 

[bruceb58]

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The Henckels sets at Costco suck. Those are the international ones made in Spain. I like the Wusthofs. You can find good buys on Ebay.

I use the Lansky stones to keep mine sharp.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000B8IEA4

 

[destroyer_85_golf]

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i have chicago cutlery knives they hold a good edge and arent super expensive. i trap and hunt so they spend a lot of time cutting on bone and it never takes more than a quick session with the steel to bring them back.

 

[greenbush future]

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I don't buy knives with really strong steel blades, which usually are very expansive, I buy what feels good in my hand, and have a great sharpener. I had some of the really expensive knives, and what I found was when you do have to sharpen them, it's way too hard, it would never be as sharp as factory. With my less expensive ones, 2 swipes through the auto sharpener and I have a brand new knife in my hand. It takes forever the wear out a knife, and I just go buy another cheap one if that ever happens.

 

[Tim Frank]

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The Henckels sets at Costco suck. Those are the international ones made in Spain. I like the Wusthofs. You can find good buys on Ebay.

I use the Lansky stones to keep mine sharp.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000B8IEA4

Ever tried water stones?

 

[bruceb58]

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Ever tried water stones?

Never have but have considered trying paper wheels.

 

[joewithaboat]

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Never have but have considered trying paper wheels.

Careful with those paper wheels... i saw a guy fillet a large chuck of his hand off with one at a gun show. Knife caught and spun around on him, High speed seems to give potential problems. Sharp as heck though.

 

[lakelover]

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I use one of these on my kitchen knives:

It has rotating serrated wheels. It's brutal on the blades, puts on a very sharp edge with a couple passes, and when the knife blade wears out, get another one.

 

[hrdwrkingacguy]

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I have always used one of these...Takes a little bit of practice, but typically once you get the edge where you want it, you just have to maintain it with a steel...

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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I like a AE7 missle nosecone fragment to sharpen knives.

 

[i386]

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We have a mixed set of Henckels, Wusthof, and no-name knives. I don't sharpen them very often. Recently, I was shipping at Harbor Freight and bought a Face Shield for my FIL who just got into wood turning. I looked around for something for my MIL too and found a ceramic chef's knife. We tried it out slicing tomatoes before giving it to her. It worked better than any of my other knives. If a cheap ceramic knife works that well, I wonder how well a "good" one works?

 

[dolluper]

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Have a set of Henckel that I rarly use ...always go for the Wiltshire stay sharp ones.....they are hung on the wall in their sharpening holder pull them out and man they are sharp always...to sharp for Wifee shes afraid oof them....three knife set was 25 bones 20+ years ago

 

[CheapboatKev]

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Have a few good knives..Tried this 6 dollar ceramic coated knife when I was triming a big old beef brisket.
Cut right through the hard fat and removed the "silver skin" better than any other knife yet.
I think a decent sharp knife in a skilled hand is better than a expensive $200.00 knife in the hands of a dufus! lol

 

[roscoe]

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Rada, great knives at really great prices.


http://www.radaknivesforyou.com/