/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20298573
I wait for the hobo to come around. He sharpens my knives, does my wife while I watch, then I give him a sandwich.

>>20298573
How sharp should my knives be? Is being able to cleanly cut through a sheet of paper a good benchmark?

>>20298578
Yes, or can you shave a patch of hair on your arm.

>>20298573
Why yes, my $300 Japanese knives make me a better cook than you. Not because they inherently make me better, but because I care enough to have nice things that I take care of.

BUCK 120 BEST

>>20298648
>I care enough to have nice things that I take care of.
Oh yeah? Why did you hit it with a hammer so many times then?

>>20298573
Forward to 6:40 it explains how to sharpen a meat carving knife
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=net7t1HjQxY

>>20298648
>chunk of steel
>chunk of steel, Japan

Those knives are too big, you cant peel with them.
Makes no sense to have such a big knive in the house if youre making food for two persons.

>>20298578
Do you plan to be cooking a lot of paper?

I got my 8 inch Vicky, a pull through sharpener, and a honing rod.

>>20298648
Based.

>>20298728
The oaper test is not really for sharpness. It shows you if the edge is evenly sharpened and chip free. If you have a dull spot or small chip your knife will catch on the paper.

Different blade geometries will cut paper better or worse, so it isn't really gopd for testing sharpness.

the back of another knife works fine as a honing rod.
the more you know.

>>20298573
once you know

>>20299445
honing rods are useless
the more you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ReQ83CZOQ

>>20298573
how do I sharpen a world war 1 bayonet

>>20298719
>chef's knife
>paring knife
Does one need any more than that?

>>20298578
My benchmark is that a chef's knife should cut through a tomato with nothing but the weight of the blade.

>>20298670
good stuff

My benchmark is that a chef's knife should cut through the table, melt through the floor, slice my neighbor in half and drill all the way to Earth's core and come out on the other side with nothing but the weight of the blade (the knife is shipped to me afterwards). Otherwise HOW AM I GONNA CHOP MY POTATOES?

>I am so unskilled at cooking I require a $500 sharp thing that does nothing a $20 sharp thing doesn't do, but THIS sharp thing shows you I'm a good 'home chef' because the label of who made it

>>20299487
It's trash.

>not even forged

>>20300341
Yes, having things you like and take care of makes you look forward to using them more and makes you more likely to use them.

>>20300370
If the only reason you can get yourself to cook is your knife then you are pathetic, holy shit. What, when you have a bad knife do you just get burger king or something? What the fuck kind of gay logic is that. You HAVE TO USE a knife to cook and you HAVE to eat food, if you were talking about most other things - sure - but a basic cooking tool is not something you need 'motivation' to use beyond hunger, you fat fucking loser.

>>20300374
Cope retard lol.

>>20300374
>>20300341
Did you know that inventing bad guys in your tiny little brain to get mad at online is mentally ill behavior?