To An American Cook, This Is An Odd Knife -But It Vorks very Well!
>.. Growing up in a home with a Western European Focused Menu, this knife is not regularly seen in any kitchen I have cooked in, even a few camp kitchens. But, I am stretching out to new concepts and different tools. First it was Japanese knives, and they work great at what they do, and I even have several still at work in my kitchen. >.. I was looking to buy a few small knives for the vegs and fruits in the kitchen, and when I looked on AMAZON, this knife popped up. It is listed as a boning knife, but my traditions say to use a thin flexible blade. This is neither thin (except at the cutting edge - more later) nor flexible. I turned to YouTube to see if there were any videos, there were, and I watched them. I bought the knife. >.. This is a rugged son of a gun. the tang runs through the handle and is easily 1/4 inch wide. (There is a metric number in the listing, but I haven't worked my mind to that yet.) The stainless steel is rugged, the blade is SHARP and not to be doubted. the edge of the blade is thick until the last 1/3 inch where it narrows considerably to present a cutting edge angle of about 10 degrees. So far, I have not had a need to sharpen it, but I expect it will take some skill on my part. >.. WHAT I USE IT FOR: I buy meat in primal Cryopak units and portion to my menu and needs. This knife works better than my fillet knife in the bulk breakdown. It just slices deep and easy. No hesitation, no need to use much force. BUT, this is NOT the knife you want to trim silver-skin. Sharp enough, but the blade is way too thick for that purpose. (But, watching Harry Soo wield a 27inch Dahlgren(?) blade to chop sweet peppers, most any knife can do other jobs than that they were designed for.) >.. I have not taken this knife camping, I don't do that any more, too old, want a real bed at night. So, I can't comment on using this knife to feather wood or split medium sized logs to fire wood. When I was younger, I had a Swedish Moraknife for bush craft. Could have used it to cut up meals and even eat with it, but I didn't. Too trained to have a tool for the right task. I know people do use their bush craft knife for other things, I just never did. >.. This is one knife that, when I go to sharpen it, I will use a ceramic rod, rather than the other stones, as the blade shape is so narrow after being thick that I do not think I can get a good angle from a stone. And good ceramic rods are relatively inexpensive. Read more
