"Knives for a pro..."

gord said:
My whole perspective of you has just changed. You were quiet coding man with muchos useful knowledge about programming. Your now insane psycho quiet guy whos knows too much. :p
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I'm not a psychopath I just like quoting from Lock Stock :o
 
Lovely young lady eh?? ;)

It's well worth getting the smaller knife as well - wouldn't bother with the sets as there's always at least 1 knife you won't want in the set. You're best off buying the ones you want. :D

Simon/~Flibster
 
Nuff said on my taste ;)

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having both Sabatier and Global, I like the Sabatier (as a totaly noob to knives etc) mainly because the Glabals a pain to sharpen once its blunt (they say use a ceramic steel, but it doesn't seem to work very well compaired the the Sabatier)
 
VeNT said:
having both Sabatier and Global, I like the Sabatier (as a totaly noob to knives etc) mainly because the Glabals a pain to sharpen once its blunt (they say use a ceramic steel, but it doesn't seem to work very well compaired the the Sabatier)
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I wouldn't use a steel at all tbh.
I'd go with stones instead - find them immensely easier to sharpen with.

Simon/~Flibster
 
I just got a new set of knives for my new house, Im no chef or anything but i was looking in TK Maxx and found a block of sabatier knives reduced from 240 to 40 quid i think. I'm happy with them and they do the job.
 
VeNT said:
they say use a ceramic steel, but it doesn't seem to work very well compaired the the Sabatier
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I was told in the shop that the European knives were better suited to a steel, and the Japanese ones to the whetstone. Maybe try a stone instead?
 
With the possible exception of a diamond steel a steel is only for keeping a sharp knife sharp not sharpening a blunt knife. I would use a good combination of medium and fine stones for sharpening a blunt knife.
 
i hate the global knives personally, they irritate my hands after using for a while, however, i have a set of 5 shuns...... on this pic, i have 1,3,6 and 8, plus the boning knife (not pictured)
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they cost me around £400, however, worth it to me as i'm a chef by trade and have been for the last 12 years, they are a pleasure to use, easy to maintain, a couple of strokes down the steel and they are sharp again, very comfortable having an ergonomic 'D' shaped grip (sort of) and very stylish, they get my vote anytime.
 
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BeaumonT said:
I just got a new set of knives for my new house, Im no chef or anything but i was looking in TK Maxx and found a block of sabatier knives reduced from 240 to 40 quid i think. I'm happy with them and they do the job.
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was actually going to suggest TK maxx, they do usually have a good range of cooking utensils, and the 2 local ones to me always seem to have a block of sabatiers which look ok.
 
Lion Sabatier are the best knives for your money. Perfectly balanced. We sell them in our shop (Lame cookware shop :o ). Quite expensive but atm they're down to £100 for 5 piece with block. Make sure you buy a sharpening steel to go with whatever you get, NOT an automatic electric sharpener or any of these dual grinding jobbies.
 
Zefan said:
Lion Sabatier are the best knives for your money. Perfectly balanced. We sell them in our shop (Lame cookware shop :o ). Quite expensive but atm they're down to £100 for 5 piece with block. Make sure you buy a sharpening steel to go with whatever you get, NOT an automatic electric sharpener or any of these dual grinding jobbies.
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Depends which dual wheel sharpener you buy...

Most are complete crap tbh - however the Minosharp ones are superb if you don't want to learn how to sharpen knives properly with a stone. :D

There's 2 types...
Minosharp - for use with Global knives only
Minosharp Plus - for use on any knife other than Global

When I'm persuaded to help the parents out - I'll use them on their knives. 30 seconds and the knife is a hell of a lot better than it was. :D

Simon/~Flibster
 
Stones for the win!

Be carfull when your sharpening knives as well, i managed to slip with a perfectly sharp boneing knife caught my knuckle and now i have a really messed up knuckle! happened on one of our buisiest saturday nights! So never sharpen them when your in a rush.
And dont ever let other people use your knives we have a chef who has a tendency to cut off the chopping board! muppet! So he's only gonna be using the cheap sheffield ones
 
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