Thought I'd treat myself for my birthday. Bought a Kasumi £100 steel chef's knife for 1/2 price. Yes - it is very sharp - slices a ribbon off an A4 sheet of paper. So - tried it on the task I find most challenging - root veg.
Guess what? Next time I shall go back to my unbranded 6"Ceramic knife - one of 3 for £18 the set!!
A bit disappointing. But, strange - the Kasumi knife sliced a lemon by it's own weight, whereas the Ceramic one bounced!
Nice to hear you are back Tim ;D...so you have perfect knife for the job then...think of all those G&T you can make in timely fashion..chop, chop and lemon done for the drink ;)
I bought a tomato knife from Amazon £3.99, two of my friends have them. The only trouble was I cut myself twice getting it out of the wrapping. That is seriously sharp.
Lovely to see you posting Tim, hope all is well with you xx
I know what you mean about knives, I have an old prestige one, same era as my spatula thing, over 30 years old, still as sharp as anything, much better than these new ones ;)
Take care
T.
Be careful with a new, sharp, knife!
The children still remember when I sharpened the knives (having kept them quite blunt when they were very small) and promptly sliced my thumb to the bone!
Give me sharp every time:
I was using razor blades to make balsa gliders when I was seven, and worked up to 1.5 metre spans by the time I was 12 - but the only time I ever cut myself was with a blunt knife.
If you are used to a sharp knife that goes exactly where you tell it, you really notice how much more dangerous it is to force a blunt one... which can go all over the place.
If you're used to taking liberties with blunt knives then sharp ones might be a surprise!
Cheers.
Our "best" knife is a tesco one which we found when out walking, having been dropped by a previous walker sat on the same seat for lunch. ;D ;D ;D
We've bought supposedly sharp knives before- though nothing in the league of your Special one Tim! but this is still the best
We got titaniom set about 10 years ago and its still doing ok. Tone has to get a stone to the large one now and again
I must confess I'm a sucker for sharp things. My current kitchen knives are Mastergrade I O Shen whcih are three layer steel ( hard in the middle, more flexible on each side) and have very pretty handles. Being Japanese they have a different profile to European knives and are sharper.
http://www.hartsofstur.com/acatalog/IOSHEN_Knives.html