/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Mixed feelings. I think now that Japanese knives are fully mainstream they have become an easy way to hock substandard knives on a gullible public. I also violently dislike polished, stained, lacquered, or inlaid wa handles especially on "rustic" finishes like kurouchi or nashiji. Should be just bare unfinished magnolia wood with a horn ferrule, no exceptions unless you're rocking a honyaki mirror finish.

Also, if there is no machi I am automatically suspicious of it, just goes up there with the finish on that handle. Incoherent message being sent, because it's trying to tick off a lot of boxes in order to appeal to ignorant rubes.

Also, threadly reminder that the mods have german sippy cup knives.

>>11705451
enjoy your unfinished handled weeb knife idiot

>>11705451
You don't think walnut wood handles should be allowed on kurouchi blades?

>>11705476
In fact, I do! But I also use western handled knives for 99% of my cooking, generally semi-stainless. I only pull out the wa handles when I'm bored.

Serious question though: what specifically are you worried about with an unfinished handle, when you've already got a knife that's clad in highly reactive wrought iron and a stick tang jammed into a round handle? Are you simply oblivious to the dissonance because you know nothing about knives? Like, were you tricked into buying it? Was it a gift? Or are you just that dumb?

Rhetorical question, I know you're just dumb. But you can still answer it so I can have a laugh. Or as the superior Japanese would say, 笑い

>>11705482
Allowed? I didn't use that word. I think you should be allowed to walk around in public with a buttplug shoved up your ass if it makes you happy. I don't think there should be some cop patrolling knife factories and making arrests. I do think it's stupid and some sense of common decency should compel you to freely choose the magnolia handle and not paint it with lacquer.

>>11705487
>worried about with an unfinished handle, when you've already got a knife that's clad in highly reactive wrought iron and a stick tang jammed into a round handle?
it is you who is the dumb one

>>11705514
That's some great damage control, cleetus. Would you care to make assertions about my sexual preferences while you are at it?

>>11705516
unfinished magnolia, hatred for anachronistic/mixed aesthetics. To celebrate meeting you today, Mr. Furry, sir, I think tonight I will make a rabbit stew, probably leaning on the Hungarian side of things... all items chopped with a walnut-oil-polished-walnut-handled, woefully underweight, stainless steel chinese cleaver... or possibly a plastic handled, american-made chef knife if the toy my mommy got me for christmas makes me nervous.

>>11705809
You can do what you like, it’s your kitchen. If you want to simmer a fait tout filled to the brim with your own excrement you can even do that whilst ruining food with your winco cleaver.

>>11705905
I wish it was Winco. I'd even take some blatant Chinese knockoff name over whatever this travesty is.

I basically just took to the time to respond to your "Assertions about my sexual preferences" quip, and tried to bring that back to cooking (rabbit gulyas), while hitting on the main theme of this thread (wa handled knives) and the secondary theme (sense and tradition).

I'm probably just going to etch the blade of the cleaver and hang it up somewhere.

Wa or Yo handle or material or finish dont matter a shit anyway if you hold the knife in a proper pinchgrip ... balance and choil and spine are mmore important. Although choil and spine can be DIY rounded without too much diffculty

>>11705983

Of all the knives I've tried, the Winco KC-401 has by far been my favorite.It is a beast in every sense of the word and any concerns I had about it being hard to control were incredibly mistaken.

>>11705487
>>11705516
Even though I kinda agree with you, you sound like a faggot from reddit.

>>11705451
Holy kek I made that first reply, I had no idea that you got banned for that thread wtf

>>11707317
Thanks! I have several accounts on reddit which I created when the mod here started stalking my IP address range and mass deleting all my posts for about a year. Apparently I really pissed them off. But they seem to have gotten over it or maybe it’s because I dropped my trip. I can resurrect it if you like, but I’m on mobile now, it will have to wait until I get home.

>>11705436
weeb shit

>>11707336
Janitors doing their jobs for once.

>>11705436
I would experiment with a cheaper one but in general I would only keep either western style knives or asian style since both require their own techniques. Learning the asian style of cutting isn’t hard though. Nowadays the only knives I use is a Chinese clever, bread knife and a deba (short fish knife) but I had a set of wusties for a while before that.

>>11707369
Jannies can’t ban though, for someone complaining about reddit you sure seem like a tourist.

>>11707403
When did I say they could?

>>11705516
...y-you enjoy sexual congress with me?

>>11707484
You kind of implied it when you equated mods with jannies. I wonder if that mod is still around, back in the day I'd get an instant 30 day "ban evasion" ban just for using this trip.

>>11707878
Sayonara, big guy!

>>11705436
what does wa stand for?

>>11705997
It matters if the knife is causing cross contamination

>>11708508
和 or if you're a hipster 倭

>>11709992
You mean a /pol/tard?

>>11710003
poltards are pretty much hipsters when you think about it

>>11708380
Still here, apparently I have been forgiven

>>11705436
My $10 ikea knife works fine. Holds an edge bretty güd, too.

doww do u feel me dollar menu baby

this thread makes me want to smoke crack

>>11711469
what do knives have to do with smoking crack?