Posts by Wagstaff

Get the chef's you "always wanted" would be my advice before "the set...". Victorinox parers, petty, specialty. Then you'll figure out which profiles you'll use. Probably fewer than at first imagined. But you know you'll use the chef's...

Wa handles are light handles. A good thing for many of us. They're often less well finished, maybe less robust. Western knives use "balance" as a selling point. Wa handled knives are more likely to be blade heavy. Which is objectively,...

MACs were a gateway-drug to several J-knife freaks I know.   I don't actually know what you mean by "open", truth be told.  In the "trad" sense of opening a knife, the Macs are pre-opened. They come with a good OOTB edge...

I don't know the Shaptons either.  But in general... the XC is ok, slower than the XXC; and the XC will STICK.  Not an issue if you keep the water flowing and keep the XC moving, really, but... no advantage.   I like...

I'm not sure. For chef's knives/gyutos, I suppose (only) 4.  One of them doesn't leave the cupboard much  -- it's my "breaker" and since I've been eating veggie, don't have much call for it.  I'm even ok with using my...

A 300 what? Gyuto? (That's a big one if so). By sujuki I think you mean sujihiki. Which is a japanese made western slicer. Is that what you already have in 300mm? Sorry I'm not helpful with answering your question. I hope I can help...

Quote: Originally Posted by chefedb  .... Make sure you thoroughly dry before putting away..... This.

1. - probably not.  If you live in an incredibly high-humidity environment (a rainforest?) maybe --but if you're using the knife every day or nearly so, generally no.  Oil it for longer term storage. 2. Hate that.  And...

...I had a lesson with Jon to start, and that... (mostly) on the JCK-bought combo stone.  Jon's comment at the time was that it was surprisingly ok.  And technique matters more than stone choice.  Still, I tried the...

I learned to sharpen on that combo stone. It was ok for my purposes. Separate stones are better in the long run if you're doing your own sharpening. And some stones are better to learn on than others. The thread with BDL's...