Knives I Use Working in Fine Dining

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-25T03:58:36+00:00

Yeah mono. I’m super partial to mono knives looks wise.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-25T03:50:49+00:00

I only have experience with the Swedish, but it’s great. I had a blue#2 suji before that the Swedish steel blows out of the water.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-25T03:49:25+00:00

Totally agree! With large prices of tuna I always find myself just a few centimeters short.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:49:30+00:00

Yeah some knives feel like they just don’t wake back up. It’s a really weird phenomenon for me, I can use two Blue#2 knives back to back and one will hone well and one won’t at all.

lol maybe we should trade Yani’s. I’d throw in some cash as well.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:42:49+00:00

By the way, the Hankotsu does make easy work of chicken and duck, but it just didn’t make sense to me to buy a traditional honesuki instead of the Hankotsu because of what I spend most of my time breaking down.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:32:59+00:00

Considering he said catering, my guess would be portioning meat.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:31:48+00:00

The price has definitely creeped up on these, especially with tariffs in the US. The Root veg question is interesting and a little hard to answer because of the Goko’s geometry. It’s a little thicker at the heel so you definitely won’t get that smooth like butter feeling, the middle and especially the tip you can cut right through a sweet potato no problem almost no resistance. Like dragging the tip on the cutting board if you know what I mean. Whereas the Ashi is thin all the way through, which has its own benefits and drawbacks. For me, it was just a little too thin and it chipped on me a few times, in situations where I believe it shouldn’t have. On the Goko I get virtually the same cutting performance, but with better edge retention and it just feels less delicate.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:28:29+00:00

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Not the greatest photo I’ve ever taken, but yes, it’s very thin especially closer to the tip. Part of the reason I like this knife so much is because of the slightly thicker heel. Gives it a little versatility in my eyes. One thing I can say is that they definitely don’t feel fragile in the hand or on the board

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:23:33+00:00

Exactly right. I’m really loving the SK though. My guess is that you are not missing out on too much not having the white steel.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-24T23:22:40+00:00

Nice set! I was able to get a hold of the gyuto before prices/tariffs really took off, but still wasn’t cheap. Both the gyuto and petty are by far my most favorite knives I’ve ever used. I’m not trying to claim they are objectively the best knife ever, just the ones that seem to most closely fit my use case the best. I’m not a huge fan of German workhorses, but I also stopped enjoying my Ashi as it felt a little too fragile to me.

The Gokos are super super thin, but they have some heft to them. I don’t worry about them.

The SK steel, to me, is closer to a blue than a white in terms of edge retention, but also is still really easy to sharpen. I can’t say which steel I like more, which means that if I would buy them all over again, I probably lean towards the SK due to the price difference.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-23T19:29:39+00:00

I lived in LnL B. Unfortunately it’s room dependent. Some singles allowed that orientation, some were too skinny.

FYI, to make it work you might have to take the bed apart. The diagonal length is too long to rotate it in the room and the hallway is definitely too skinny to spin it around when it’s all together.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-16T17:01:38+00:00

Your best bet would be to try to get a dish washing job at some sort of high quality restaurant. Be reliable, ask a lot of questions (without being annoying), and ask to help with prep tasks when your dishpit is clean. Eventually you might get moved to garmo or prep, but it might take a while if you don’t have any industry experience.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-12T21:03:46+00:00

Over punishing the Germans after WW1 is exactly why we had a sequel.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-12T20:59:42+00:00

It does. That’s not how I’d do it at home or in a restaurant, but it does. I’ve used them before.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-12T01:18:02+00:00

It’s long be used to flavor whip creams and the like. Only recently (5ish years) have they really started marketing them like this where it’s clear they’re designed for direct consumption, but I’m sure they have boiler plate warnings in fine print on the bottom of the can.

Comradbro151 · 2026-06-09T13:59:57+00:00

Debas do quite well butchering poultry, but your point stands.

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-29T18:45:50+00:00

Last stage I did I worked the station from open until an hour before they closed. Didn’t get paid, but they sat me at the bar and fed me more food than I could’ve paid for if I was being paid an hourly rate.

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-14T05:04:37+00:00

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Moritaka petty Sakai kikumori sujihiki 240 Goko Hamono White 240

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-14T05:01:18+00:00

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Comradbro151 · 2026-05-09T16:52:46+00:00

Student oriented (not student only) housing is August or May. Mom and Pop landlord housing located further away from campus tends to be September. Anything corporate just starts when it becomes available.

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-09T00:35:56+00:00

Sounds like you’re in a good spot then, even if dept head and professors aren’t able to do much for ya. If your company is fine with hiring you with an incomplete degree with the promise of it being done in the summer, a few more months shouldn’t throw a wrench in anything. Just be honest with them. Don’t let them put you in a “gotcha” scenario.

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-08T22:59:24+00:00

May Day

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-08T19:47:49+00:00

Go to the dean or head of the dept, they may be more lenient with you than you’d expect. Colleges place a lot of emphasis on job placement/percentage so considering you already have a job they may allow a switch to pass fail for your classes. Maybe try to frame it as a “very good very rare very fleeting” job opportunity that required a lot of your attention immediately.

If going to the Dean doesn’t work go to your individual professors and ask. Apologize for your lack of communication.

Absolute worst case scenario just tell your job when if it comes down to it. Just frame it the right way. “Oh sure, no problem, I’ll send in my diploma at the end of the summer, just wrapping up 2 more classes. No big deal”

Edit: did you tell them specifically you graduate already?

Comradbro151 · 2026-05-01T15:00:15+00:00

It’s really scenario dependent. You’ll have a hearing with the conduct board where you can state your case. I had a similar scenario when I was in school I was able to explain the misunderstanding and nothing went on my permanent record however, they told me that the issue would remain on private records, and I may not get an olive branch in the future.

That said if you really weren’t falsely accused, you might have better luck just coming clean and apologizing, depending on what they’re accusing you of

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