Comments on: Hanging with the edge http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: SteveO http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36678 SteveO Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:44:22 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36678 <p>Sweetbreads... yo' mamma!!</p> Sweetbreads… yo’ mamma!!

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36650 mamster Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:43:10 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36650 <p>SteveO, I loved that show.</p> <p>My parents got the Messermeister a few years ago; I'm not sure what they used before that. Perhaps they are listening.</p> SteveO, I loved that show.

My parents got the Messermeister a few years ago; I’m not sure what they used before that. Perhaps they are listening.

]]> By: SteveO http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36639 SteveO Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:34:40 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36639 <p>Interesting that you mentioned your parents' knives... in my experience, everyone's folks use a drawer-full of three dollar knives with wobbly handles and so many nicks that you can't tell the serrated from the straight edge. Maybe it's just a mid-west thing... no one spent money on kitchen things back in their day. </p> <p>I can't read about, listen to folks talk about, or look at knives without hearing Adam warn Maurice that he has ten inches of Solingen steel poised to carve him from breastbone to brisket if he makes one false move.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> Interesting that you mentioned your parents’ knives… in my experience, everyone’s folks use a drawer-full of three dollar knives with wobbly handles and so many nicks that you can’t tell the serrated from the straight edge. Maybe it’s just a mid-west thing… no one spent money on kitchen things back in their day.

I can’t read about, listen to folks talk about, or look at knives without hearing Adam warn Maurice that he has ten inches of Solingen steel poised to carve him from breastbone to brisket if he makes one false move.

Cheers!

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36590 mamster Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:17:14 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36590 <p>You mean like <a href="http://wwbw.com/Vitri-Reed-Knife-i81506.music" rel="nofollow">this</a>? That looks cool and I would be scared to sharpen it, too.</p> <p>Caroline, I don't think I have any aptitude for this sort of thing.</p> <p>The diamond stone is only for really damaged blades or if you want to thin or change the bevel on a knife. You don't want to use it on a knife that's just kind of dull, which is why I haven't used mine yet. (I now have two of the Togiharus so I can play around with one without fear of ruining dinner. I'm a real geek.)</p> You mean like this? That looks cool and I would be scared to sharpen it, too.

Caroline, I don’t think I have any aptitude for this sort of thing.

The diamond stone is only for really damaged blades or if you want to thin or change the bevel on a knife. You don’t want to use it on a knife that’s just kind of dull, which is why I haven’t used mine yet. (I now have two of the Togiharus so I can play around with one without fear of ruining dinner. I’m a real geek.)

]]> By: Caroline http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36589 Caroline Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:11:43 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36589 <p>I suck, totally, at sharpening knives, which is why I a) use an Accusharp in my kitchen (on my Western, not my Asian, knives) and b) haul everything to a pro knife sharpener once a year. But before I started doing this, I ruined a few knives on a diamond stone. </p> <p>Yes, the diamond stone is pretty. No, my sad fate will not befall you, as my knives were even geekier than Matthew's: beveled-edge knives made for double-reed woodwind players to use on their reeds. They're basically obscure woodworker's tools. And once I figured out how to use it, the diamond stone was really satisfying.</p> I suck, totally, at sharpening knives, which is why I a) use an Accusharp in my kitchen (on my Western, not my Asian, knives) and b) haul everything to a pro knife sharpener once a year. But before I started doing this, I ruined a few knives on a diamond stone.

Yes, the diamond stone is pretty. No, my sad fate will not befall you, as my knives were even geekier than Matthew’s: beveled-edge knives made for double-reed woodwind players to use on their reeds. They’re basically obscure woodworker’s tools. And once I figured out how to use it, the diamond stone was really satisfying.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36533 Sarah Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:00:35 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36533 <p>Thanks for the reminder that this knife is on sale. I just happen to have a $50 g.c. for Amazon and was wondering what I would spend it on.</p> Thanks for the reminder that this knife is on sale. I just happen to have a $50 g.c. for Amazon and was wondering what I would spend it on.

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36512 mamster Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:53:03 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36512 <p>The waterstone gives you more options than the Edge Pro (you can sharpen at a lower angle than the Edge Pro will go to), and it's a little bit faster, but the edge isn't any better and your hand gets a lot more tired. The two stones I bought cost about $110, which is less than the Edge Pro but not much less.</p> The waterstone gives you more options than the Edge Pro (you can sharpen at a lower angle than the Edge Pro will go to), and it’s a little bit faster, but the edge isn’t any better and your hand gets a lot more tired. The two stones I bought cost about $110, which is less than the Edge Pro but not much less.

]]> By: matt wright http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-36510 matt wright Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:38:35 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2008/12/07/hanging-with-the-edge/#comment-36510 <p>So I am interested - how does the sharpness when sharpened with a waterstone manually compare to the sharpness when done with the edge pro?</p> <p>Great article! I love that Iris likes the stones. I wonder how much she can talk about them though! surely there is only so much to say about an inanimate stone? Oh.. wait.. 4 year olds can talk about anything for ages :D</p> So I am interested - how does the sharpness when sharpened with a waterstone manually compare to the sharpness when done with the edge pro?

Great article! I love that Iris likes the stones. I wonder how much she can talk about them though! surely there is only so much to say about an inanimate stone? Oh.. wait.. 4 year olds can talk about anything for ages :D

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