/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I busted my ceramic knife trying to separate two burger patties that had frozen together.

Ceramic is a meme material. Memeterial.

>>8905698
LOL next time don't buy shit you see on infomercials you fuckhead

>>8905698
>>8905705

They aren't meant for people who use retard strength for everything they do.

>>8905705
why didn't you run em under warm water bro?

>>8905705

Ceramic knives are not meant to be used as pry bars. You shouldn't be surprised when they fail when used improperly.

Ceramics are brittle and don't flex.

>>8905698
couldn't you put the top blade in the purple handle? That way you have one knife at least? Santoku is generally recognized as the most versatile knife in the kitchen too.

>>8905705
wendy's is fresh, never frozen.

>>8905698
I've had a ceramic for 3 years and it still holds up for minor tasks. Trick is to never drop it because it's fucking glass.

I also have a slew of real knives like miyabi, shun, global, etc down the line. But I have a question...WHY does every ceramic knife have a gay, colored handle? Mine is orange. It's just, why?

>>8905698
Ceramics are sharp and keep an edge. What they are not though is metal.

>>8905717
>They aren't meant for people who use retard strength for everything they do.

Isn't that the point, though? Those ceramic knives cost just as much as their steel counterparts. So why buy ceramic in the first place when they can only do half the job that the steel ones can for the same price?

>>8905804
>WHY does every ceramic knife have a gay, colored handle?

I'd like to see knife addons that do the same effect, like colored handle covers. Being able to tell the difference between knives by the handle alone (if they're in a block or shitty knives in a drawer, for instance.

I absolutely agree that it looks stupid and gay. But, you can't deny the functionality otherwise.

>>8906108
>why buy ceramic in the first place

ceramic knifes are more britle, but more sharper?

>>8906126
you can achieve a similar effect with a dot of colored nail polish on your knife handles brah

>>8905804
>brightly colored handles

Marketing. They're targeting women who know nothing about knives and rarely if ever use one, but will buy it because it's "pretty."

>>8905698
Ceramic is far harder than steel. This and the nature of the material have a number of implications for kitchen knives:
More brittle and likely to chip, chips are greater in size
The edge burrs and dehones more slowly; sharpening and honing are not required as frequently
They are harder to sharpen, and require specialist equipment
They can hold sharper edges
They are less likely to break down through the elements, no rust and such

Having considered this, the average home cook would be far better off with steel. As a professional, I have seen a few in use; mostly specialised ones for tasks where steel is inadequate, although I knew one girl running an 8" nakiri style ceramic as her service knife.

>>8906857
>I knew one girl running an 8" nakiri style ceramic as her service knife.

This is the only thing I believed without a doubt in your post.

>>8906425
But the blade is white. It's easily discernible from and actual metal knife just by vision alone.

>>8905782
For that matter, neither are steel knives. Fucking hate it when I go over to a relative's house and all their knives have bent or broken tips.

>>8905804
I have an old kyocera ceramic paring knife with a black handle. Shit's mostly useless though because they designed the tip rounded.

>>8905705
>I used something incorrectly
>it broke

Truly thought provoking

>>8906169
>buy a bottle of nail polish
>I'm not a woman or a queer so now I'm stuck with the rest of a bottle of nail polish I'll never use and throwing it out would be wasteful

>>8908671
It's OK to paint your toenails, anon. No one has to know, just wear socks.

>>8905698
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJBPpi7T7R0

>>8906162
They may be sharper than an average kitchen knife initially, but the edge will develop tiny chips over time no matter how much you baby them, and they also have to be so thick directly behind the cutting bevel (due to their brittleness) that they will perform very poorly when cutting food that is thicker or harder than a slice of sausage.

>>8908675
Pretty good knife skills, though.

>>8905698
CUTTING CHEESE WITH A FAKE KNIFE
YOU DEFINITELY DESERVE A FUCKING BAN FOR THIS YOU FUCKING FAGIT

I don't get ceramic knives. sure, they're probably fine for cutting soft veg but.. so are other knives? they don't seem to have anything unique to offer, just things they can't do.

>>8905698

>>8909471
>Cold Steel™

>>8910071
Cold steel has some decent knives, or so I've heard. It is their swords and other products which are shit.

>>8910071

Kyocera ceramic knives are the only once worth getting.

also learn to use the right tool for the job.

>>8909471
>not battonin' with your trusty mora