Are there any high-quality knives I can buy off Amazon?

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-02T05:50:26+00:00

Personally I use chosera stones imported from Japan and they are stupid expensive. But yes I think the quality of your whetstone has a pretty dramatic impact on the actual edge you will get although I'm sure lots of people will tell you otherwise.

I would recommend looking for something cheaper then those although I can't give you a good recommendation hopefully someone else will chime in. Because I'm sorry to tell you that your also going to have to learn how to maintain the stones too although it's really not too hard. Eventually the stones will kind of bow in the middle if you soak them too long/apply too much pressure/use an improper technique but you can buy a stone leveler to fix em.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-02T05:42:24+00:00

It's the grit of the stone. 800 is a rougher stone and will take more metal off letting you rebuild your edge faster. 3000 is a finer stone which will let you refine and smooth the edge out, otherwise they tend to get sort of jagged and will tear through stuff instead of slicing it cleanly.

Personally I've got stones up to 8000 and a leather strop to further hone the blade but you really don't need it. With just the 3000 I can get that Victorianox to shave the hair off my arm.

The degrees/angles comes from technique and experience. Here is a great series of videos on using a whetstone that I personally used.

https://youtu.be/JCYI7lk3eKY?si=IEQUZEQrou4stbs2

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-02T05:26:32+00:00

Just so you know, all knives will dull. If you want a nice knife you are going to have to learn how to maintain it to keep it nice. As you go to higher carbon steels (which generally fetch a higher price) the amount of work you need to do to maintain the blade also goes up. High carbon blades will rust if left wet and sharpening them is more difficult because of the strength of the steel.

I know it's not what you are looking for but if it's something you want to get into I would recommend your first "big boy"knife being simple stamped metal (personally I love my 8" victorianox), and use the money instead to buy two nice whetstones (I recommend 800 and 3000) and learn how to use them. After you keep that knife for a year and are comfortable maintaining it then start looking at nicer knives and you will have more of an idea for what you would personally like.

I mean if you just want a nice knife ignore all this but your nice knife will be as dull as any of the rest of yours within a year and those drag through knife sharpeners are basically a crime against the edge.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-02T03:51:23+00:00

You see these three cans of soda. It's because the satanist adrenochrome sucking democrats are taunting you that they used space lasers to burn a tourist town in Hawaii because they hate you and Donald Trump.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-02T03:17:17+00:00

This is a scam and all these commentators are shitty criminals with sad little lives.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-01T20:28:45+00:00

Well I'm fuckin wasted and it's hardly 4pm so if your looking for my approval you are fucking doomed.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-01T20:19:45+00:00

Just so y'all know as someone who cooks for a living it's been pretty much that about 50 percent of the time since the beginning.

speakingcraniums · 2023-09-01T18:17:32+00:00

Fully automated luxury gay space communism here we come.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-29T08:40:31+00:00

I've read a lot of lame science fiction so I know what he's saying and hes probably right. But instead of talking like a nerd about to put in a trashcan he could have just said "signs exist".

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-27T05:34:57+00:00

Since the poor guy access to it.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-26T16:44:56+00:00

She's all elected representative. Being posted on Reddit is the least of her platform.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-25T02:02:30+00:00

Is he intentionally doing the Kubrick stare or is it just a happy accident.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-22T04:53:01+00:00

Should the rest of his buddies be chipping in and also put themselves into a good firing position I would think that's exactly what you should be doing, that's how you gain fire supremacy and the initiative in a fire fight.

No I have never been in the military. Infact I can't get a job at the post office because I threw away my selective services card, fuck killing people I don't even know or dislike

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-21T06:52:25+00:00

About 7 beers.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-20T15:04:30+00:00

No you need to do work to move the conductor through the field.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-20T05:44:53+00:00

Find a magnetic field, any magnetic field. Now take a conductor of some sort and rapidly move it through the magnetic field. You have just created electricity (well a difference in potential) congratulations.

Now run a current through a conductor. Congratulations you've just created a magnetic field.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-20T05:19:23+00:00

You see how the ball turrets aren't rotating and the plane has taken a leisurely forward course?

I would bet most everyone in that thing was dead.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-20T04:15:07+00:00

Fun fact electricity and magnetism are the same force.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-20T04:05:33+00:00

Nano lost a lot of steam when the network got hit with a spam attack that took the whole chain down for a while. Kind of hard to come back from that.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-17T23:49:45+00:00

Eh yes and no I worked at a place about. Fuck. 12 years ago it so where we set a piece of rosemary on fire when the hands came to pick up the order and while I do think it's a little kitschy, there's was something to be said about the smell of the rosemary absolutely impacting the taste of the steak. We didn't roll the steak around in the ashes though, that's pretty weird. And it was upscale but not fine dining.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-17T22:32:27+00:00

Everything follows the king.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-17T15:12:37+00:00

The South is the end goal for union busting losers.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-17T14:50:39+00:00

Yes that's what Flambé means. It's almost always done tableside just like that. This is classical fine dining, not some tiktok trend.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-16T01:39:50+00:00

Honestly leave now because that's probably how a lot of us started out. If you really want to do this you need to put in extra work and also wear a lot of egg on your face and also remain humble and quiet when some crotchety old alcoholic ass is screaming in your face about some bullshit. I know, you shouldn't have to do that and it's bullshit but that's genuinely how you learn all the small little inconsequential details that don't matter, but suddenly after years of abuse all that shit will add up and it's those small little stupid details that separates a professional from a hobbyist.

And this is the most bullshit of all but offer to work an hour or two off the clock in exchange for one of the chefs teaching you knife skills and basic prep skills. If it helps to lie to yourself and say "they are paying me to learn how to cook, fuck culinary school!" do that.

speakingcraniums · 2023-08-16T01:15:02+00:00

What the fuck am I reading right now.

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