/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19376085]

Your knives are sharp enough to shave off your hair, right anon?

[Anonymous No.19376090]

that's gross, anon

[Anonymous No.19376099]

Arm hairs sure. That doesn't take much though. Anything beyond that will get rekt after a few taps on the board

[Anonymous No.19376190]

>>19376085
nope and it doesn't matter. if I want to cut hair I'll use a pair of scissors or a fucking clipper

[Anonymous No.19376275]

>>19376190
What kind of retarded faggot likes to use full knives?

[Anonymous No.19376281]

>>19376190
What kind of retarded faggot likes to use dull knives?

[Anonymous No.19376285]

>>19376085
Yes. I trim my pubes with my 10 inch chef and don't even clean it afterwards.

[Anonymous No.19376287]

Any tips on sharpening a knife without a knife sharpener?

[Anonymous No.19376311]

>>19376287
bottom of coffee mug

[Anonymous No.19376341]

>>19376287
My old butcher may he rest in piece used two knifes to sharpen both like you would with a honing rod.

[Anonymous No.19376350]

My knives are sharp enough to shave hair off hair.

[Anonymous No.19376353]

>>19376085
easily, anyone with two hours of practice, and a small tip from the legendary Cliff Stamp can do hair-shaving with even 400 grit
>>19376341
based I also do this when I cba to bring out the sharpening plate
>>19376311
this too
or I sharpen using the granite countertop in a pinch

[Anonymous No.19376359]

>>19376287
Emery boards

[Anonymous No.19376388]

>>19376281
if you think a not "razor sharp" knife is dull, you don't get to call others retarded sweetie

[Anonymous No.19376459]

>>19376388
If it isn't razor sharp it's dull. Sorry that you have low standards.

[Anonymous No.19376609]

>>19376085
>Whustorf
That will stay sharp for about 2 cuts.
>>19376281
My breaking knife is pretty dull. I get your point though.
>>19376311
My friend doesn't sharpen anything and every time I go over there I end up sharpening her kitchen knives on a plate. What is it with woman not having any concept of tool maintenance...it's like they think a knife will magically cut forever and you can just beat the shit out of any knife without a care in the world.

[Anonymous No.19376613]

>>19376341
>Sharpening
>Honing Rod
He was honing, not sharpening. Not the same thing my dude.

[Anonymous No.19376632]

>>19376609
lmao calm down incel

[Anonymous No.19376633]

of course. if not i sharpen them.

[Anonymous No.19376770]

>>19376287
eat some silica dust and draw it trough your asscrack

[Anonymous No.19376779]

Nope, i have a 1000 and a 5000 grit stone and they make the knives sharp enough to do anything in the kitchen but they dont shave hair

[Anonymous No.19376838]

>>19376609
It just needs about 4-6 passes over my honing rod once every 20-30 minutes of cutting and it's good to go.

[Anonymous No.19376874]

>>19376779
1000 should juuuust barely cut hair, and a 5k should very easily slice hair. You've got a skill issue or shitty stones.

[Anonymous No.19376962]

Sharpening is chumps work. Letting your carbon steel knives get rusty and then spending multiple hours repolishing the flats for purely aesthetic reasons is where it's really at.

Jnats produce killer edges on knives.

[Anonymous No.19376966]

>>19376962
I kneel, King.

[Anonymous No.19376996]

>>19376874
How do I get better? The setup has been working fine so far and I try to do it like the youtube vids tell me

[Anonymous No.19377002]

>>19376613
he made a dull knife sharper, if that isn't sharpening what is?

[Anonymous No.19377047]

>>19376085
Get a job that isn't women's work or autsie boys and you'll find that there is such a thing as "sharp enough" and it doesn't require gay hipster stones to do it. Unless you're using river rocks for 2 weeks to make it katana sharp, you're just a faggot with an amazon account and too much time on his hands.

[Anonymous No.19377052]

>>19376996
Practice more. Get a jewelers loupe and inspect your edges if you want to get semi autistic about it. You will be able to see how well you've polished the edge and if your angle is consistent based on the scratch pattern.

I like to use my thumbnail to feel the sharpness of the edge. You gently press your nail on the edge at a 45ish degree angle. A sharp edge will "stick" in your nail. The easier the edge sticks in your nail the sharper it is. After some time you can get a really good feel for this that will tell you if your sharpening is improving or degrading the edge.
I can tell with maybe a 90% confidence if an edge will shave with the nail test alone.

[Anonymous No.19377057]

>>19376874
Got inspired to try again. The 5000 obviously puts a nice shine on it but it still looks jagged if I look very closely at the edge itself, or is that lack of honing? (pic taken before honing). Anyway it still doesnt cut paper or hair please advise

[Anonymous No.19377064]

>>19377052
Ok sounds like its obviously a skill issue and I should practice more, thanks anon and please have a look at my pic too >>19377057

[Anonymous No.19377073]

>>19377047
Yeah, those jobs suck. I'll keep doing my autism job instead and get paid twice as much for half the work.

[Anonymous No.19377086]

>>19377057
strop, shaving suffers badly from having a burr on the edge

[Anonymous No.19377099]

>>19377057
Firstly you need to go back to your 1k stone and create a consistent burr then gently remove it. If you are comfortable with holding a consistent angle you can use a good amount of force while sharpening.

Once you have a clean edge with no burr you can go to your 5k and hold a slightly higher angle than you did with the 1k and do maybe 5-8 very gentle passes on each side.

You can see that you aren't actually polishing the very edge of your knife. Notice how the edge is hazy looking while higher up it is shinier.

[Anonymous No.19377112]

>>19377002
He made a dull knife able to cut by micro serrating the blade. Not the same as sharpening. I can cut steel with water--doesn't make the water sharp.

[Anonymous No.19377120]

>>19376632
Feel bad about being retarded--also: go back.
>>19376838
>I like eating metal chips and constantly having to work on my blade
My knives are sharp as fuck and stay sharp for months before I have to do anything to them.

[Anonymous No.19377146]

>>19376085
Retard metric, use a piece of paper

[Anonymous No.19377158]

>>19377146
Certain edge thicknesses and angles don't cut paper well either, you goof.

[Anonymous No.19377168]

>>19376353
>Cliff Stamp
Truly a legend. Sharpens a knife holding the stone in his hand and gets it razor sharp in 2 minutes. He left us too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGGo3W15HQ

[Anonymous No.19377220]

>>19377099
Thanks anon, did as you told and after scraping a lot of dead skin I got a couple of hairs! Much love

[Anonymous No.19377576]

>>19377146
A knife can slice paper and still be dull. A working edge will catch on a fingernail.

[Anonymous No.19377729]

What's a good knife sharpening kit for a beginner? What's a good brand and material for whetstone?

[Anonymous No.19377809]

>>19377729
Shapton 1.5k ceramic.

[Anonymous No.19377833]

>>19377729
lansky turn box gets it done and is retard proof but the rods way too small to sharpen chef knives comfortably, there are bigger ones with the same concept. Someone mentioned that you could get bigger rods by themselves for a few bucks so you could just drill a couple of holes in a piece of 2x4 with your desirable angle and have a quality system for cheap.

[Anonymous No.19378988]

>>19376085
since keeping mine somewhat dull, only honing to give it some bite, just because it takes so long to set up and use a stone, i've had zero injuries, because all of them result from clumsy handling instead of brute force. i don't eat anything that requires significant force to cut. even frozen bananas cut like butter with good technique

[Anonymous No.19378993]

>>19378988
also i don't eat butter or margarine and i'm queer

[Anonymous No.19379084]

>>19378988
I just sharpened my knife in this thread twice yesterday (I posted pics) between dinner and evening tea how slow are you?

[Anonymous No.19379107]

>>19376085
this is pathetic, if i was to take my sharpest knives to my 'arm hair' it wouldn't glide along my arm it would dig in and cut in, and yes hair too
arm hair cutting is the most pathetic scale, your knife is blunt op.

[Anonymous No.19379169]

>>19377112
Sharpening is creating a micro serrated edge though. Just supremely uniform.

[Anonymous No.19379179]

And fuck you pretentious sharpeningfags.
>lmao your blade isn't polished with a 15,000k grit stone and can't cut tomatoes .5 micro inches thin?
You stupid baboons, absolute mongoloids, knuckle dragging smooth brains. I doubt any of you have an actual reason for needing a razor sharp blade other than it makes you feel good. Don't even @ me with the whole "sharp blades are safer."

[Anonymous No.19379186]

>>19376085
No. I actually use my knives.
Keeping them that sharp requires a retarded amount of maintenance. That's something only an autist who never cooks would do.

[Anonymous No.19379198]

My knives are sharp enough to easily cut what I need them to cut. I don't know if they can shave my hair because I don't need them to and I don't tie my ego to something as petty as knife sharpness.

[Anonymous No.19379397]

>>19379179
yeah it feels good to easily cut and slice through ingredients, that's it

[Anonymous No.19379417]

As long as mine are sharp enough to easily cut through bell peppers, that's all I care about.

[Anonymous No.19379548]

>>19379186
Cope, they get stropped once a week and that's all that's required to keep them razor sharp.

[Anonymous No.19379858]

ITT: Genelets who can't even cut with their laser vision

[Anonymous No.19380200]

>>19379179
Learn what pretentious means before calling people stupid next time, seethelet.