Posted on 01/14/2021 11:08:50 AM PST by mylife
High-end custom knives run from $400 to $40,000. Here's what makes them so expensive, and why they could be worth it.
Buying an expensive knife won't turn you into an excellent cook anymore than going to the Container Store will make you an organized person. But well-crafted custom knives are things of physical beauty, and they can have a kind of talismanic power. Super-luxury chef's knives start at about $400, and go up from there. Famously, some custom knives, like those from legendary knife maker Bob Kramer, sell for upwards of $500 an inch. At auction, Kramer's knives often fetch prices in the low-to-mid five figures.
A very fancy chef's knife is also a kind of paradox. A chef's knife, the 8- to 10-inch blade used for everything from breaking down chickens to dicing vegetables, is a tool that gets used frequently. As such, it's often subject to wear and tear, dings and scratches. It's a Ferrari that needs to be used like a Jeep. Plus, plenty of excellent professional chefs use knives that are in the $20 to $50 range to make incredible food.
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Lots of fake chef knives out there from China. A very good chef knife should run between $100-$150. But boy are they worth it if you do your own cooking. A knife in the above price range really holds its edge and if it does need sharpening all it takes is a few licks on a good steel.
Try Sous-Vide...makes good venison great..!!
“Japs make good blades.”
Do they make good wives?
I actually would not. I do not plan to buy anything I don’t absolutely need, for the next 4 years (at least).
The trick is to not let them get dull. I hone every kitchen knife on a Lansky crok-stick block whenever I'm finished with them.
Lanskys come with holes for 25 and 20 degree bevels, but I drilled some 15 degree holes; that's what most culinary knives are ground at.
https://www.amazon.com/Razorri-Solido-Complete-Sharpening-Stone/dp/B07YDLHGWW#
Don’t buy from Amazon, but I have this set.
Wonderful tool.
Depends?
Do I make my living with it?
Do I have massive quanties of disposable income?
If both answers are no, then No.
If I spend $40,000 on something it better have leather seats, a kicking entertainment system and a new inspection sticker!
I use a leather strop loaded with Herbs Yellowstone.
Sure I would.
I have a set of Wustoff and some Shun.
I’m guessing Nancy Pelosi probably has several $400 knives.
My mom like old pot metal butcher knives. They dulled quickly, but could also be sharpened quickly to a near razor edge. Some of ‘em were sharpened down to a nub!
“Only if it came with a chef. And a steak.”
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If the chef was a hot Swedish blonde in a 2-piece bikini cooking my steak? I’ll buy 2.
When a roommate moved out 25 years ago, he left a set of steak knives, and these knives have gone with me ever since. It was a “famous" brand, and I still use them daily, such the engraving on the wood is worn off, so I couldn’t tell you what make they are.
Yea but when in the kitchen and preparing lots of meat, 10 seconds on a good steel is all it takes to bring the edge back. I have 2 steels, both about a hundred years old, it don’t take but just a couple licks to bring that edge back.
Bob Carver proved this very thing many years ago when he put the elite hi-fi snobs to a real listening test and they failed miserably.
Yes. Audiophiles can be the most idiotic imaginable. Put an old cheap tube amp with old rca cables and a topend digital amp with fancy gold cables behind a curtain. Have people listen to music alternately from the two different amps using the same music source and speakers. Then dare them to tell the difference.
Who's back is it intended for?
-PJ
Link to a youtube about it, the real deal - counterfeits are out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0belIwAzgIM&t=3s
On every video you can see this knife in use. Impressive knife and impressive knife skills.
if you try to use your Quartz or Granite countertop as a cutting board just once, any knife will be fried beit $35 or $3,500, doesn’t matter.
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