Posts by wunderbier

Also, my wallet appreciates these two comments to no end.    Quote: Originally Posted by foodpump  My personal opinion?  Go cheap on the course one and spend your money carefully on the finer grit...

Thanks for the advice guys! I was worried after reading or watching something that it would be too difficult to flatten a coarse stone on drywall screen, but it sounds like that's not the case. Most of the options I'm looking at now...

I couldn't find a thread dedicated to this topic, so here we are. I only started my foray into freehand sharpening about a month ago, but I know I'll need to bite the bullet sometime and get a coarse stone for at least filing back the...

Heh, kielitaitoni ei ole mitään loistavaa vielä, mutta kyllä se käy jonkin verran salakielenä netissä! Olen asunut Tampereella noin neljä vuotta ja olen kotoisin Amerikasta. Käyn nykyään aikuiskoulussa ja toivottavasti valmistan...

Moi! En täysin ymmärrä sitä, mitä kirjoitit. Onko kilpailu tarkoitettu koululaisille, jotka ovat ammattikoulun kolmannessa vuodessa? Arvaanko oikean, että olet vielä ensimmäisessä vuodessa? Ellet ole liian "vanhaa" kilpailulle,...

In my personal experience tolerance to capsaicin and piperine (respectively the chemicals that make chili peppers and peppercorns hot) increases with regular consumption. However I've never seen data to support this supposition, though...

Replacement knife arrived in the mail yesterday along with freebie tomato knife for my troubles. I sharpened it last night (separate King 1k and 6k stones) and it took a pretty good edge despite my less than stellar sharpening skills....

I sent the knife back today. I wrote to them over the weekend and again on Wednesday and didn't hear anything back, so I just stuck it in the mail today hoping for the best. Of course, when I come home and write an email explaining...

    Quote: Originally Posted by boar_d_laze  Whose posts?   Exchange it.   Good luck with the cooking and with the knives.  Watch out though, carbon Sabs can become...

Thanks BDL, concise enough for me.   Hopefully I didn't shoot myself in the foot by taking oil coating off and getting a hint of patina along the blade before even thinking of checking the blade. Rookie excitement, what can I...