/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16766279
Jap knives are better

i like nippoknives because theyre easy to sharpen from heel to tip

>>16766279
I guess my favorite is some cheapshit chinese butchering chopper knife that I bought from chinatown for under $5. It cuts anything as long as I sharoen it, has weight to crush garlic with ease, and can scoop a lot stuff around.

Victorinox 10" is my favourite knife because i find the fibrox handle to be the most comfortable.
As far as the blade goes, any knife can be as sharp as you like, and with a honing rod you dont need fantastic edge retention so hard steel isnt a big deal.

>>16766279
I recently got a weeb chef knife that I'm very happy with, a big step up from my chef's knife from IKEA.

use one of these at work all the time

>>16767970
here is a funny amazon reveiw of it:

Inferior Product - Mercer 8" Kitchen Knife - M23510
By Plugger75 on Jul 20, 2020
Mercer Knife didn't hold up.
After less than 8 months the edge of the blade chipped/distorted during use (cutting pork).
(This was done by a 110 lb woman in a home kitchen.)

The Manufacturer (MERCER) did not honor the warranty. Mercer rep said we over-stressed the knife.

Clearly we used the Mercer knife past it's limits, but we also have 2; 8" CUTCO kitchen knives and neither has ever had a problem that even remotely looked like this. FYI: We've had the CUTCO knives for more than 10 years of regular use with no issue other than light sharpening.

I can’t imagine anyone unironically believes that either western or asian knives are superior to the other for all applications all of the time.
I enjoy having a mix.
Of what I have, my favorite western knife is a Wustfof Ikon chef, and my favorite weebsword is a nakiri made for me in Sakai, Osaka.

>>16768004
>After less than 8 months the edge of the blade chipped/distorted during use (cutting pork).
>(This was done by a 110 lb woman in a home kitchen.)
So a Chinese woman got drunk and mistook her roomba for the piglet she bought at market.

I like my dollar store knives just fine. No need for some overpriced garbage just to cut things.

>>16768244
I can’t believe it took like 11 hours for an “anything beyond the cheapest is garbage” guy to appear in a knife thread.

Victorinox 8 Inch

>>16768044
>my favorite weebsword is a nakiri made for me in Sakai, Osaka.
Do you have a photo? I just ordered a nakiri online. Haven't ever used one before but I got it in my head it's the optimal tool for dicing mirepoix veggies.

>>16766279
i've been using this smallass 20cm fruit knife i got at a 100yen shop in jp for the last 5-6 years at home.
honestly it's great, very versatile and easy to use. i sharpen it every 6-12 months and i use it at least 3-4 times a week on average

>>16769328
Ah yes, the fruit knife, that knife I use to puncture the plastic on a container of ravioli or to open vacuum packaged cheese.

>>16769373
i actually use it for everything, from mincing garlic to shredding cabbages, even to dice pumpkins

>>16766279
For me it's my Henckels chinese cleaver

>>16769240
>Do you have a photo?
Nothing decent which I’d be willing to post on 4chan.
There are personal inscriptions on the blade, and my wife’s family crest is on the handle.
Sorry, this is the best I can do.

>>16766279
I love my weeb knives, but I can never get my nakiri nearly as sharp as my gyuto despite them being made of the same steel.

this is my go to for most of my prep at work
absolute fucking lightsaber of a knife for anything that isn't super tough like squash, has stayed pretty incredibly sharp after a month straight of daily use with just a ceramic honing rod
just really beautifully designed and well built, makes my other knive feel a little obsolete

>>16769524
>kiritsuke master race
Muh nigga.
Mind if I ask what your ceramic rod of choice is?
I use the black one from MAC; it’s done well enough that I haven’t felt compelled to buy a different one.

>>16769414
Yeah well that's not good enough for me, so shut up.

>>16766279

I have a Wusthof set that serves all my needs. Not too expensive. Use a honing rod only, never bothered buying stones.

>>16769481
Ooo sweet... Nice flat straight belly and the hamon line looks cool. Are rounded handles more comfortable?

>>16766279
I own these knives, I keep em sharp and they work well.

>>16769601
it's the opposite anon, you're not good enough to use it properly

>>16766279
I got this last year and I like it sharpens up easy and holds pretty well, I like the way the handle feels and it wasn't all that expensive.

I want to get a small ish nip petty knife because I want something smaller but I never feel great using most pairing knives, they just feel too small.

>>16766279
i have a JA Henckels for breads, some no name stainless knife for general cutting and an old pair of scissors for chopping up ingredients when I'm lazy

>>16766279
>want to argue about western vs jap/chink knives?
Is there something like a "japanese beater"?
I'm about to get a beater knife, probably a Victorinox, but I really want a WA octogonal handle. All the entry level japanese knives (eg Takamura R2) have western handles.

I bought an overpriced bunka since it was too fucking beautiful but I received a santoku instead because the shop fucked up and they didn't have any bunka in stock.
I got a pretty big discount to avoid returning it back, but now I'm stuck with a knife I hate just because it isn't a bunka.

>>16770815
They're almost identical, but still, I hate this one.

>>16770815
Manly knife
>>16770818
Woman's knife

>>16769580
i use a white ceramic rod from a local knife shop that i suspect is probably a very similar product, they also sell a black one, but the white one is supposed to be better for powder steels like the SG2 my knife is made with

>>16770815
>bought a knife online
fucking idiot

>>16769775
>Are rounded handles more comfortable?
As opposed to octagonal? Yup I think so. It’s hard to tell in the pic but the handle is a slight D-shape.

>>16769775
>Are rounded handles more comfortable?
Not him, but you should definitely try out different handles and see which ones you like the most. I think western handles are OK, D-shaped handles are disgusting (slippery af) and octagonal handles are perfect.

>>16770815
>>16770818
>>16770840

>>16772165
I find western handles much more confortable on small knives.
For a large one, definitely an octogonal handle.