Posts by elpelotero

The French Laundry cookbook is a very good resource. I also have the books for the CIA and the FCI schools, Jacques Pepin Complete Techniques, Escoffier, and get Larousse as well. I compare between all of these when researching...

Thanks for the feedback once again.   I purchased the yanagi thinking I could use it for more purposes, but quickly realized it was solely made for sashimi. At the time I was doing sashimi style cuts at the restaurant, but...

I have a somewhat comparable story to yours and can shed some light on the matter....   Please don't take any of this as bragging, or negative towards you, or anything of the sort...I'm trying to state objective...

The recommendations on the Konosuke keep making it look like the better and better choice...   Also, I noticed a spelling error on my behalf. I did not mean Hattori, but rather Hiromoto--which I've heard great things about,...

I have a Mac petty knife, 6 inches or so, that also was not a true 50/50 out of the box. It looked more like a 70/30. It was extremely sharp. After it lost its edge and I called Mac with questions about how to resharpen, they could not...

Has anybody tried at least two of these knives to compare?

Hello,     After reading reviews and recommendations on this site and others over the past couple of months, I've narrowed down my choices for a Sujihiki to Konosuke, Hattori, and Moritaka.  If there's something...

As to your second question, I don't know if it makes sense to re-burr on a finishing stone. Mind you, the burr was extremely small, but I could definitely feel something there that was gone when I deburred. I picked up the technique...

So after some more research on "chasing burrs" and with your advice on how to feel for the burr, I was able to raise a burr on both sides of the knife, tip to bottom, on both the 1000 and 6000 stones. I also put some sharpie across the...

Thanks for your response.   As for some more details, I soak the stone 10-15 minutes, or at least until bubbles stop. I flatten it each time, either before or after use, soaking the fixer as well.    I've also...