/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12202259]

Why don't Americans take pride in making good kitchen knives? It's always MUH CHEAP SHIT BETTER THAN YOUR GOOD SHIT or THE BAD COOK BLAMES HIS TOOLS.

p.s. please talk about cooking knives not your weird insecurity issues, /pol/ is invited to return to their containment board. The last thread was completely ruined within minutes, this is Food & Cooking. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.12202265]

>>12202259
Because other countries do it better so we just buy from them.

[Anonymous No.12202361]

I'm willing to bet there are good knives made in America, you're just an elitist foreigner with no concept of the law of diminishing returns.

[Anonymous No.12202367]

>elitist eurotrash
>posts gook

[Anonymous No.12202372]

>>12202259
We have money. We can just buy them.

[Anonymous No.12202375]

>>12202367
>implying Europeans make good knives

[Anonymous No.12202432]

>>12202259
plenty of artisan knive makers in the US; more than a dozen Damascus steel knife makers in the US so i literally dont know what you’re on about

[Anonymous No.12202436]

>>12202259
>why are there no good knives at the Walmart my mom takes me to on Saturday’s?

[Anonymous No.12202441]

>>12202259
Uh what?

[Anonymous No.12202508]

>>12202259
There's plenty. But people who live in the states love the 'foreign' marketing ploy.
Bob Kramer makes some of the best knives in the world, guy gets raw materials, forges his own steel down to the polishing.

It's like cars. People will buy some shitty Mercedes benz thinking it's in the same class as their AMG line and find out it's just like any other luxury line of vehicle that Nissan or Chevy makes.

[Anonymous No.12202536]

>>12202508
Dude no one here will EVER own a knife actually hand made by Kramer.

[Anonymous No.12202554]

>>12202436
>I shop at Williams Sonoma so I am a real chef

[Anonymous No.12202815]

Buying the overpriced shitty knives you got on your trip to Tokyo is not a good use of money

[Anonymous No.12203048]

>>12202815
Yeah, you should save your money for the anatomically correct child-size inflatable sex dolls, amirite my red pilled brother? #JoeRogan #MAGA #triggeredSJWtears

[Anonymous No.12203054]

>>12202536
I will if I brake into his house, steal one and hold it against his wife's throat while I rape her.

[Anonymous No.12203511]

>>12203054
i support your right to be an idiot, but you realize that you are an idiot, right?

[Anonymous No.12203548]

>>12203511
>i support your right to be a rapist, but you realize that you are a rapist, right?
FTFY

[Anonymous No.12203609]

Fancy knives are cool and all- but anyone who actually cooks for a living will cherish their workhorse over a show-pony.

Americans also love foreign things.

[Anonymous No.12203645]

>>12203609
I like to flash my money

[Anonymous No.12203671]

>>12203609
>Dexter
>actually works just fine in the left hand

[Anonymous No.12203976]

You do realize nip knives are folded a trillion times because their metal is a trillion times worse than AMERICAN? Holy shit, you can get a $30 knife that blows your faggy $800 nip blade out of the water so hard you'd want to commit seppuku but too bad your shitty nipknife is dull like school setting anime after trying to cut three grains of rice. Also anyone with at least half a brain uses ceramic for soft food. Glides through like butter, leaves no metallic stench. When it gets dull after years well guess what I'll just use another because it came in a pack of three for under ten bux. Muh artisanal nipknife faggots are literally kitchen audiophies.

[Anonymous No.12204027]

>>12203609
I got a story. I used to work in a resort kitchen for years as a kid.

One day head cook's knife goes missing. Nobody knows what happened. Turns out the other kitchen bitch stole it before fucking off to college. He TELLS me, but I sit on it for a while til chef is bitching about it one day out back by the dumpster while we're smoking weed.

Mention I knew who did it.

RAGE

[Anonymous No.12204039]

>>12202259
We have gooks and euroweenies take care of that shit for us...we're to busy shooting up schools.

[Anonymous No.12204073]

>>12202536
He makes generic knives to you know.

[Anonymous No.12204109]

>>12204027
That not a story. Are you having a senior moment?

[Anonymous No.12204138]

>>12204027
Good story, anon

[Anonymous No.12204147]

>>12202259
>>12200043 (OP)
Japan has shitty knives too, you just don't see them because they don't export them internationally as japanese brands, just chinese crap you find at department stores like Aeon
And americans don't make a lot of shit because they pay other poorer countries to make them whilst they also pay for a global military force unlike other countries

[Anonymous No.12204159]

>>12202259
I can buy quality hand forged kitchen knives all across the states you dunce

[Anonymous No.12204164]

>>12203976
>You do realize nip knives are folded a trillion times because their metal is a trillion times worse than AMERICAN?
Japanese knives are generally made of iron, vs the more common western stainless steel knives. Steel knives need more work to sharpen and hone, but hold their edge for a while. Iron knives sharpen quickly, but are softer and go dull faster. I believe there's also a difference in flexibility, with typical japanese cooking benefiting from a more flexible knife for removing fish skins for example.

[Anonymous No.12204933]

>>12204147
I've used shitty Japanese knives, of course they exist. Any country can make shitty knives, that's not interesting. But why does Japan have 238947 different varieties of very good knives each with their own individual merits? Even something like a "vegetable knife" has like 487 different styles depending on how you personally prefer to cut your vegetables, and what kind of vegetables, and so on.

Meanwhile America has what. Bob Kramer, and some religious maniac with a Geocities site who makes one kind of knife and it has a stupid looking deer antler handle and it costs like $1900 and isn't even a good shape unless all you do is chop at deer legs.

>>12203976
(You)

[Anonymous No.12205520]

I'm sure it has nothing to do with a culinary tradition based on simple and precisely prepared food that emphasizes freshness, as opposed to western cooking that prioritizes complex cooking and harmonious blends of numerous different ingredients cooked together.

[Anonymous No.12205535]

>>12203671
fuckin lmao

[Anonymous No.12206410]

>>12203976
You realize it isn't 1402 anymore right

[Anonymous No.12206416]

>>12203609
>>12202441
>>12202375
You call those knives? THIS is a knife.

[Anonymous No.12206731]

>>12206416
>The Messer is a true brute. Created for pure cutting, this battle ready sword, with its wide blade, provides exceptional slashing.
This reminds me of Cold Steel marketing text