/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My house. Cost me $120,000.
I use it for literally all of my cooking.

>>19606063

fucking vanilla beans

>>19606095
damn this nigga ballin

>>19606063
That's like nothing as far as knives are concerned

>>19606262
I'm a poorfag so it's a lot for me.

I haven't bought anything expensive in years. Bought a huge straight sloped All-Clad sautee pan from Marshalls years ago for $135, so it probably retailed at $250. But I was given a gift of a large Le Creuset dutch oven for Christmas one year by someone I thought hated me.

>>19606063
one of my blenders was more than that, the other was $180

>>19606095
that's cheap for any house. my shitty condo is worth that now. is your house rural?

>>19606063
For cooking, dunno really, none of my cooking shit is that expensive. My most used stuff is stupid cheap; 20 dollar knife, 25 dollar cutting board, 20 dollar cast iron pan, 24 dollar stainless pot. Even my plates are those 19 dollar 4 person setting cheapos from wally world, cups too. It doesn't really take much to make good food, just a little time and effort.

>>19606063
2k on a knife, 3k on a sharpening stone.

>>19606095
Damn, I bought my house for 175k and now it's worth 450k, probably a little more because one on my culdesac sold in 6 days for 500k and it's 800sqf smaller than mine and on a smaller lot.

>>19606063
Not the most expensive but I recently bought a flour mill and I used it today for the first time. The dough is proofing over night so I'll be baking it in the morning

Smells nice

>>19606393
I tried growing my own wheat and making flour with it.
Was a lot of work that didn't really make sense to do in the sense of time spent versus how much it costs at the store.

>>19606403
Ive milled my own wheat in the past with a vitamix and it made the best tasting bread Ive ever had but the mill was too coarse

I imagine the bread Ill be making tomorrow will have a much nicer texture, like a typical whole wheat loaf

>>19606384
Holy shit, get them OUT anon. What are you waiting for?

>>19606384
>3k on a sharpening stone
based rock collector

>>19606392
Have you heard that son 'culdesac' by Genesis? It's pretty good.

>>19606384
that stone better have been pulled from some ancient river where geishas washed their cunts after being railed by demons or some shit

>>19606426
>>19606423
One is a stone probably mined in the edo period, so 200-400 years old, and is used by katana polishers in the traditional stone progression. Koma benchstone.

The other is a Nakayama maruka, which means it's hand selected as the best of the best from one of the most famous/"best" mountains where whetstones are mined in Japan. Ridiculous and mysterious stone that I still haven't unlocked the full potential of.

The third is an extremely rare stone found in a mine where mostly whetstones that have su or tiny holes in them. This example does not have any su. Remarkable performance. Extremely fast and amazingly receptive to heavy pressure honing.

The fourth is an incredible Nakayama kiita. Nothing too exotic about this stone, but the yellow coloration is reknowned for having a certain feel and quality to them. Phenomenal stone. Fast, and stupendously fine if used correctly.

The knife is made by a registered sword smith, and is very very difficult to get. He makes the knives in a very traditional and painstakingly slow and difficult process. Absolute beasts of a knife. I have a 12" meat slicer, a gyuto that is tarnished from lots of use, and one I scored to keep pristine as a collectors item.

Thanks for reading my blog post about my expensive toys.

>>19606483
What is the name of the sword smith?

>>19606483
Thanks weeb, very cool!
>probably mined in the edo period
How did you come across such an item?

>>19606483
>The knife is made by a registered sword smith, and is very very difficult to get. He makes the knives in a very traditional and painstakingly slow and difficult process.
If this dude was on forged in fire I watched all the eps and I can tell you if his shit sucks or not. Basically this >>19606496

>>19606063
cast iron pan. don't remember how much it cost, but i'm sure it's the most i've spent on a kitchen item

>>19606063
Black Pepper. It’s like fucking $7 for a container of unground peppercorns unless you go to a small ethnic market and buy a giant bag of it. Really chaps my asshole and makes me a sad boy.

>>19606063
Stainless steel cookware with the thick ass bottom, best cooking investment ever.
Came with like 6 pots and 3 pans

>>19606496
>>19606510
Kiyoshi kato/yoshiaki fujiwara. Kato is his name and yoshiaki fujiwara is his work name or something. Idk. Autism tier Japanese craftsmanship produces some cool and delicious stuff. Food, knives, whetstones, and cookware is the extent of my weebness.

The knife has a very unique geometry to that flate, and the heat treat is insanely hard. It feels glassy when sharpening even though it's just old school white 1 steel.

Since you like forged in fire yuu may enjoy watching kato make his knives. I particularly like that he uses a sen scraper to form the blade profile.
https://youtu.be/TgtFgJR-U_E

>>19606497
Tomonagura on etsy drops some absolute killer whetstones on etsy sometimes. I used to check his store a few times a day in hopes of scoring some killer pieces. He hasnt posted a legendary tier stone in a long while, but you can still purchase quality sharpening/shaving stuff from him. I trust him and what he sells entirely and completely.

>>19606063
When I bought my own place my parents memed me into getting Miele appliances, the oven was like 4k or something.

1400.
I wait, you said brought. Yeah I stole a set of knives worth 1400. Never paid more than 40 for anything cooking related.

>>19606515
I think I pay about a dollar for a 100 gram bag at my local grocery store, man. How big are those seven-buck containers you're buying?

>>19606063
Large carbon steel frying pan.
My pots and pans are cheap, maybe I will get nicer ones eventually.

>>19606497
you just find a jap online, tell them you're the biggest gearqueer around and ask them to scam you

>>19606483
Fuck off, a stone can't be "receptive" to anything.

>>19606597
Bet it looks sweet.

>>19606063
Spent $1400 for an automatic coffee machine, which broke one year later and out of frustration with service, I threw it away

Half a million dollars on my house and the kitchen it came with.

>>19606332
No. In an East Coast city. Got it 11 years ago just when the area was starting to gentrify. Worth $300k now according to my fucking taxes (and insurance) and that value is about to skyrocket as this area is one of the last without any skyscrapers and one was just zoned for the next block down once they tear down a recently abandoned bakery/factory (it didn't survive the pandemic).
Thankfully, after ten years of owner-occupancy, there's a control on property tax here so while my taxes absolutely will go up as the area gentrifies further, it won't go up so quickly as to be too much a burden.

>>19606392
>800sqf smaller
lol
That's bigger than my whole house. I live in a fucking shoebox.
720sqft for the first floor, with the basement and second being even tinier. 2 bedrooms. Tiny 16×16 back garden. Good starter home.

>>19607244
Wrong, stonelet.

>>19607320
A stone that can process stimuli wow, you can sell it for quadruple the amount you got it for.

>>19606384
>spend $50 on a knife
>buy a new one every 2 years
You could have had 80 years worth of knives just for the cost of the knife alone you know. What did you read on some subreddit about how you should overpay for what is still ultimately chink manufactured 'buy it for life' products again?

>>19606262
memelord not realizing diminishing returns

>>19607265
smeghead

>>19607389
I don't care, bud. It's a valuable collectors item made by a world renowned master swordsmith. Enjoy your cheap factory knives. I will enjoy my expensive handmade ones. Every single person I've let compare multiple knives cutting things clearly understand the difference in performance.l, and is usually sold completely on one of my more inexpensive, but still handmade knives.

>>19607378
Press hard on stone with knife while sharpening > knife gets inconsistent scratches and doesn't really go much faster.

Press hard on stone with knife while sharpening > remains extremely consistent, but only works faster.

Not difficult to understand if you aren't a complete honelet stonelet.

Probably the $60,000 for the stupid green countertops

I literally said, "I don't care what color except not green."

>>19606063
Coffee grinder and manual expresso machine 300$+300$

This piece of shit.

imagine being so bad at knives you need to spend five grand on cutting potatoes

>>19606483
i would like to see pics of your stones and knives please

>>19607314
In the 08 housing crisis property values in the town I live in only fell 1.8%, so hopefully I can keep these gains as this housing bubble bursts.

>>19607473
Okay. Here is the really old one. Notice the scallops on the sides. Someone used a special type of hatchet to cut those into the stone. Very beautiful. The stamps on the side were added much later on when this guy named asano created a rating system for these specific types of stones. It indicates that it's a koma, sword grade, and a benchstone size. Very very rare for a pleb like myself to have a couple of these because the sword polisher usually keep a hold of them.

>>19607473
Here is the sunashi. A lot of the beauty in these stones is hard to see in pictures and the colors pop more when they're wet.

>>19607429
You'll have to show me in person. Come round mate.

>>19607473
Kiita on the left and the maruka on the right. Notice the stamp. That's put on basically the top 1% of all stones mined from this specific mountain.
The kiita is probably my favorite stone I've ever used. It feels almost magical with how fast, relatively easy, and ultra fine it is all at the same time. These are hard to very hard stones and they have a certain softness to them when you're sharpening on them. A true joy to use.

>>19607473
Aaand here is a funny quirk about these stones. The pattern or, kawa(bark), on the back and how pretty it is actually increases the value of these stones. They're kind of like gemstones where certain colors, attributes, and sizes/shapes add value in a non linear way.

>>19607473
Knife on the left is called a sujihiki and it's designed for slicing meat. The thing is a beast, and you can feel how crazy the heat treatment is when sharpening the knife.

The other knife is here >>19606591

>>19607473
Here you can see how pretty the kiita stone is when it's wet.

>>19607569
Gemstones value is very linear, in fact entire industries exist just to codify and identify them.

>>19607586
From what I understand a .9 karat diamond is going to be cheaper than a 1 karat per karat and waaaay cheaper than a 5 karat diamond per karat. All with the same quality etc.

>>19607489
If/When the bubble bursts, the first thing I'm doing is having the city reassess my taxes to lower them.
We're not planning on moving any time soon.

>>19607601
Yes, a linear growth in value depending on size does happen with gemstones, however, color, clarity, and cut also have immense impact.
Raw gemstones have a very measurable linear value depending on size, after cutting things get a less so because not all cuts are as popular and therefore value can increase or decrease depending on that and also it's like gambling, while you have a pretty good idea of what's inside you don't really know until it's cut and you have to hope for the best.

>>19606483
>The third is an extremely rare stone found in a mine where mostly whetstones that have su or tiny holes in them. This example does not have any su
Not sure if bait or just painful consoooooomerism

>Paid $150 for an 8 qt anodized dutch oven.
Thought it would be a huge mistake at first. Thought maybe I should have just paid for a nice lodge dutch oven thats half the size. Greatest investment I have ever made. Performs just like a high end dutch oven in a modern stove. I can meal prep TONS of healthy good tasting food, cacciatore, meat sauce, pot roast, etc. Don’t even have to worry about chipping the enamel. Only downside is its easier to brown in a separate pan and the transfer to the pot.

>>19607623
Hmmm. Maybe standardized pricing is a better word for the gem stones?

>>19607630
Neither, ding dong. Just an appreciation for cool rocks and how well they work to sharpen steel.

>>19606063
Probably the saucier pan from le creuset. It's normally like $500, I got it on sale for $350.

>>19607584
what compels you to do this? i understand having hobbies but this feels a lot deeper than the hobbies i've got and i'm curious

>>19607689
Well first and foremost I'm a knife/sharpening autist, and Japanese natural stones are the pinnacle of all whetstones imo, especially for straight razor honing.
The second thing about them is they are all unique and have a different feel and quality to them. Really good ones can take a lot of effort to "unlock" or understand their full potential. I'll often choose a stone to use based on how I'm feeling in the moment.
I also think it's cool that they are just rocks from a mountain.

This is a 200x magnification image of a knife I sharpened using a 1500 grit synthetic and then 2 natural stones.

>>19607395
Lolwut, I use a $40 3-piece set of Binging with Babish knives.
I'm saving up for a beautiful handmade chef's knife and nakiri from one of my favorite knifemakers, and it ain't gonna be cheap.

>>19606063
i think my cuisinart was about $120

>>19607791
Based. Handmade knives from a great maker are so worth it. The common diminishing returns argument is only really true for factory knives.

>got free espresso machine
>got free instant pot
>got free cast iron
thanks mom
i guess the only thing i really bought that was expensive was replacing the coffee machine when it got sold off by a crazy person who i let live with me

>>19606063
My fridge was $1000.

>>19607561
>>19607429
i love the both of you im giggling like a kid while drunk

>>19606332
>my shitty condo
Since when did what was built on a property have anything to do with its value. The term housing prices bugs me, you mean the value of property, houses cost pennies.

I spent $300 on a Butter Pat cast iron because I only spend money on nice stuff that can last a hundred years like oriental rugs.

>>19607964
What about my comments did you like?>>19607561

You're not Stone splurger anon are you?

>>19607569
What are they actually though? I'm assuming they're one piece of a single stone.

You should do a /ck/ give away, I'll take the one on the left.

>>19606063
$3500

>>19608068
They're sedimentary shale, igneous rock, or tuff rock. Chert is the usual abrasive within.

They mine veins and slabs of rock will be pulled off. When a good slab comes off they'll use a saw to cut them into the best shapes. Note the kawa on the back. It's a dividing layer between the slabs if that makes sense.

This looks like a great video about it the mining and refinement process.

https://youtu.be/JrCRjQxBfD0

>>19608083
Nice. Going to watch this.

>>19608068
Another video

https://youtu.be/a3A_G9fVf0c

>>19608091
Another.

https://youtu.be/3L_HC1FFgvQ

>>19608091
Anuddah. There aren't many on youtube.

>>19608091
Oops.

https://youtu.be/sDSdy5ruxqI

$240 knife, 24cm gyuto while I was in Japan

>>19608171
And oh, $500 Flair 58

My sous vide machine, paid 130 for it. I also bought a big ass stew pot with it to use it in and paid 20 for that, which turned out to be the comfiest thing ever. It is a massive pot and making big soups in it is super satisfying.

>>19606483
I bought a whetstone 2 days ago. My knife is now duller than it was 3 days ago but sharper than it was 1 day ago.

>>19607985
Depends on the country and how they do things. In some, when you buy a house, you don't have rights to the land under it. In others, property taxes are calculated exclusively on the value of the land but not any structures built on it and yet others, like the US, tax you on the land, the structures, the improvements to those structures, neighbouring structures and their improvements, the whims of the particular tax official determining the taxable value of the property and other arbitrary bullshit.
Since your understanding seems to fall under my second example, I would guess you are Australian since that's the system they use.

>>19608206
fkn nerd

>>19608206
Gotta practice! An overly acute edge bevel and oversharpening can reduce edge retention/stability. If you find that your edge is folding over too easily I recommend adding a microbevel.

Hold the knife at 30-45 degrees from the whetstone and do 3 or 4 very light passes on each side flipping the blade each time.

You may have also failed to fully remove the burr you created when sharpening.

>>19606063
250$ made in japan microcomputer/fuzzy logic rice cooker.
Absolutely worth it and I am now leaving this thread.

>>19606063
1. Stove: ~$3300~
2. Fridge +Freezer combo: ~$2600~
3. Main SS Pan: $235
4. Knife: $190
5. Saucier: $180
6. Cleaver: $110

The rest is below $100 each.

>>19609907
Forgot my vitamix: ~$700~

>>19607579
Those knives' edges are both chipped
...

>>19609913
Nah. Just dirty. At least the one on the left is. I'm extremely careful with that knife because it takes me a really long time to sharpen it properly.

>>19606063
I spent $845 on a fork

>>19608206
It is a sad but true fact of life that the very first edge you put on a knife is by far the most difficult one, and it has nothing to do with experience. So much can be wrong with a knife's edge straight from the factory.