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I would say it has to be my chopping board and my knives. Once I've got a great chopping board, great knives, sharp knives, the rest is easy.

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now lots of people have a grater but the one that i would really recommend is a microplane which is really the best grater on the planet if you want those nice delicate threads

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but this is a very like rust resistant carbon steel. It also has this beautiful like uh dark layer on it, which is completely rust proof.

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This thing gets razor sharp.

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Um, those are more than aesthetic. They actually help make sure that when you're slicing vegetables that they don't stick to the blade, so things will fall off the blade a lot more easily than a perfectly smooth blade.

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J. Kenji López-Alt co-designed this product. Stated in the source: “I'm holding in my hand the first production prototype uh of the knife that I've been working on with my friend Gordon Hansen, who is a knife maker uh from Fall City, Oregon.” Kept and labelled rather than dropped: a paid endorsement is still evidence, and you should be the one to decide what it is worth.

A microplane is a great thing for truffles, for parmesan, for all sorts of things that we use, lemons and citrus and stuff like that. So, really good microplane, nice and sharp, really important as well.

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I like the weight of them. I like the way they sit in my hand and I like how sharp they stay. So I'm a big fan of those partic that particular brand of knives for a filletin knife.

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But they're super sharp. They're really fine. The blade's super thin. So if I want to slice peaches, slice tomatoes, whatever it is, I just know that I'm going to get a really fine slice.

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but they are far sharper and and the blade resistance for me is much nicer. So, I really like carbon steel knives.

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but they're really sharp and they peel perfectly

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grating ginger and garlic with this thing. Really nice sharp blades.

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Uh, excellent as a peeler,

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Uh, fishbones and stuff like that do a very, very good job. But even just like general scissors, nice and sharp, very good quality.

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Now, what I like about this compared to other bread knives is it has a very, very thin blade. It has a nice serration, but it is flat on one side. So, it's a very, very sharp blade.

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One of the things I like about that sort of combination of sharpness and sharpness and flexibility is that it makes it really good for like filleting and cutting and taking the silver skin off of a a tenderloin or taking the the skin off of a fish, but I can I can show you like on a mango, for instance. And you can…

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J. Kenji López-Alt co-designed this product. Stated in the source: “And with this partnership, um there's going to be a portion of each sale that'll be donated to various charities that are dealing with food insecurity.” Kept and labelled rather than dropped: a paid endorsement is still evidence, and you should be the one to decide what it is worth.

i love this knife you see me use it all the time it's damascus steel which means that it's two types of steel that are hammered together 67 layers of steel very nicely balanced super sharp this is my go-to knife

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So, I think that's a really important that's razor sharp and uh and has done me proud for at least last five, six years.

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Owned 5 years

I have my bread knife. I got this one in Paris. We've gone through so many different bread knives. Love this one because it's really sharp.

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And it cuts everything like all the vi. It's like really my favorite one.

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So like both these are carbon steel. Carbon steel definitely just stays sharper longer. It's easier to maintain in my opinion.

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it is essential to have a really nice sharp peeler

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This is very sharp.

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This is a brand new one, super, super sharp right out of the box and it stays that way for a long time.

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wood has some natural antibacterial properties. Uh, so they actually end up um generally with less bacterial uh buildup on them than a plastic cutting board does. They also don't get microlastics um into your food the way that plastic cutting boards does.

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anyone who is anyone who already has one of these con knives and it's you know been a couple years now like make sure you learn how to sharpen your own life you're gonna love it the same way that you had it day one when you got it out of the box

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the the chef knife is the first one we made it's the king of the knives it's an eight inch chef knife and we switched the the metal we upgraded it to vg10 as the core instead of aust10 so it's a little bit harder it'll retain the edge a little bit longer still balanced at the bolster and we've rounded the spine so…

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a good comfortable grip and a sharp stainless steel blade ensures you'll always work fast

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They're sharper so that anything that we slice for service, we get like a lot nicer cuts.

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if you keep your knife sharp you can cut with great Precision

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So, it's like a softer material. So, basically doesn't damage your knives as you're chopping.

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wood cutting boards while heavy and requiring more effort for cleaning and upkeep are super gentle on your knives they can last a really long time and they're sanitary

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the software you'll knife by the way the less you're going to cry because the onion really is a compound sulfuric acid this is what stain your eyes make you cry or get dark the sharper the less more is going to cut the less he's going to crush it

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This zestester for limes cuz I don't want it to be as sharp. I don't want as much pith. Then I use this sharper zestester for lemons.

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this is what helps to bring your edge of your knife back if it starts to get dulled won't create the edge but it will help to bring it back if it's already sharp

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let's check this out oh yeah that's a clean cut Precision German craftsmanship this is a sweet knife I would love to take this home with me

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Both of them are big, roomy, sturdy, and easy to care for.

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however the blade is small enough to get those Precision Cuts on produce and can also easily shift and OD fresh herbs

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it's a simple tool and different from a flat peeler as it allows for smoother more efficient peeling and that produces minimal waste this is due to a sharp thin blade which allows you to better follow the Contour of whatever it is you're peeling a potato a carrot other root Veg

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They sharpen well.

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you could also take um any sort of ceramic ceramic vessel. And generally the bottom the unglazed portion of the bottom here is going to be a good um makeshift knife sharpener. you can just run it along the bottom of a bowl or a mug and that'll get your sharp edge.

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with a with a nonprecious knife, you can use one of those pullthrough things that your um that your your mom has in a drawer, you know, and that'll get you a good edge.

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so do you ever you realize rated to not very often though your knife is sharp enough yeah it can do most of the jobs of chemistry that's true

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this hand sharpener that has a course and a fine that you simply pull back on with your knife to sort of make it nice and sharp

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I would strongly recommend against any kind of uh, metal or glass or hard material cutting board. Um, you know, a knife blade uh is is sharp and it's strong. Um, but e even if you even the strongest knife blade, if you're going to use it on titanium cut, I mean, titanium is very very strong, but if you use it on glass…

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because certain materials will ruin and dull your knives such as bamboo please dear God do not useing bamboo cutting boards stop

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production quality issues in their first couple runs of knives and so people were getting knives that weren't as hard as they were supposed to be the steel wasn't up to spec and some of them weren't sharpened properly

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plastic cutting boards on the other hand while cheap and lightweight absolutely destroys the edge of your knife causing you to frequently sharpen them on a stone

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Yeah. Well, so a honing steel like this um you you generally don't use a honing a honing rod with like very very hard metals. Um, so like the um the the the Von Helmick um custom knife that we have is made of very hard steel. Um so generally like I wouldn't a honing rod is not going to do too much to this. Um and in…

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I'm not going to really cut so many herbs with it because it's not razor sharp.

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