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Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 4:09

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Richard MacCutchan15-Sep-20 4:45

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15-Sep-20 4:45

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Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

Jörgen Andersson15-Sep-20 4:31

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 4:31

Most important is a proper knife.

Get a Windmühlenmesser [^] in carbon steel with Solinger Dünnschliff and you will realize that all knives you ever had before were blunt.
They need to be treated well though (or they will get stained), and regularily sharpened.

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Forogar 15-Sep-20 4:38

Forogar

15-Sep-20 4:38

I use ceramic knives - seriously sharp! "Now that's a knife!"

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Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

OriginalGriff15-Sep-20 5:09

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 5:09

I went ceramic over five years ago, and still have the four I bought then - three of them are still just as sharp as the day I bought them with no sharpening.

I still have my steel knives though, because ceramic can't be used on bone - the edge is too fragile and you get chips.
I did buy a proper ceramic sharpener as an import from Japan because I know my wife ... Sigh | :sigh:

That's why "Three of them" haven't needed any attention! Laugh | :laugh:

Jörgen Andersson15-Sep-20 22:39

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 22:39

Yeah, they hold the edge much longer than a steel knife, but I have several dislikes with them.
Higher friction is one, the brittleness is another. You really can't do this[^] with a ceramic knife.

The brittleness also leads to another problem as far as I'm concerned, most ceramic knives have a very high edge angle of up to forty degrees to compensate for the brittleness which makes them less... well, not less sharp, but rather... they simply don't cut as well's a knife with a 10-15 degree edge. You'd know what I mean when you cut a tomato and the chopping board remains dry.

So they really are each others opposites with different strong points.

That said, I really should buy my wife a ceramic knife of her own.

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OriginalGriff15-Sep-20 23:02

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 23:02

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
You really can't do this[^] with a ceramic knife.

TBH I wouldn't do that with my steel knives either! Laugh | :laugh:

And you can't crush garlic with the blade either.

But I vastly prefer them for "normal" tasks: salad prep, veg check, chopping onions, meat, ...

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I really should buy my wife a ceramic knife of her own.

Oh yes. most definitely. And make it a nice pink handle so she can tell which ~~she is destroying~~ is hers, if she is anything like Michelle.

Jörgen Andersson15-Sep-20 23:18

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 23:18

OriginalGriff wrote:
TBH I wouldn't do that with my steel knives either

~~It's just to show how thin the edge is~~, uhm, actually no, it's a test the knife sharpener does to see if it has been properly made.

OriginalGriff wrote:
And you can't crush garlic with the blade either.

You can with the blunt side, but I'm actually cheating and use a garlic press.

OriginalGriff wrote:
But I vastly prefer them for "normal" tasks: salad prep, veg check, chopping onions, meat, ...

I get your point, but it's actually when you chop onions you really notice the difference using a sharp knife with a low edge angle, there's no need to cry as the onion cells aren't crushed.
It's rather for flexible stuff like meat where the secondary edge angle doesn't matter that much.

OriginalGriff wrote:
if she is anything like Michelle.

It sounds like it. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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OriginalGriff15-Sep-20 23:31

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 23:31

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I'm actually cheating and use a garlic press.

So do I - one of these: Zyliss Susi 3 Garlic Press, Red, Stainless steel: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home[^].
You don't have to skin them first, (which is why I crushed them) and it's solid and low effort. The plastic bit for clearing the holes is crap though, the pins bend far to easily.

I chop onions "the chefs way": How To Finely Chop An Onion - Gordon Ramsay - YouTube[^] and have no problem with crying.

Jörgen Andersson15-Sep-20 23:40

Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

15-Sep-20 23:40

Always did it that way, except I do the horizontal cuts before the vertical ones, it's easier that way.

Also have to love the comment:
"Gordon Ramsay: How to peel a banana

29 million views"
Laugh | :laugh:

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Mike Hankey15-Sep-20 7:37

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15-Sep-20 7:37

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abmv15-Sep-20 7:46

abmv

15-Sep-20 7:46

stay safe

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Re: It seems I get more easily excited the older I get

Ron Anders15-Sep-20 10:19

Ron Anders

15-Sep-20 10:19

Just wait. As dogs will get "the zoomies" just before bed, soon everything life will try try n' get you up about will be met with your own meh. Big Grin | :-D

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Super Lloyd15-Sep-20 16:37

Super Lloyd

15-Sep-20 16:37

Itz gud!
It's because of all those electrolytes! Big Grin | :-D

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Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 22:56

14-Sep-20 22:56

Pole in the middles makes rust. (8)

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Sandeep Mewara14-Sep-20 23:20

Sandeep Mewara

14-Sep-20 23:20

Shouldn't it be 7 letter? or 's' has a role? Confused | :confused:

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Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 23:28

14-Sep-20 23:28

Yes, 8 letters, and s is significant.

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super14-Sep-20 23:55

super

14-Sep-20 23:55

Corrodes?

Pole : Rod
Middles : Cores?

in middle is CORRODES ?

cheers,

Super

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OriginalGriff14-Sep-20 23:57

14-Sep-20 23:57

Dang! Beat me to it! Laugh | :laugh:

super15-Sep-20 0:05

super

15-Sep-20 0:05

Wow, that was close.

cheers,

Super

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OriginalGriff15-Sep-20 0:15

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15-Sep-20 0:15

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Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 23:58

14-Sep-20 23:58

Yes! Pipped OG by seconds! All yours for tomorrow.

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OriginalGriff14-Sep-20 23:56

14-Sep-20 23:56

Pole         ROD
in the 
middles   COR   ES

makes rust.

Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 23:59

14-Sep-20 23:59

Missed by *THAT* much!

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