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• #4277
But I was also very impressed with these two (for my purposes)... yet both lacked something.
This first one is basically dreamy and would be perfect if it came with screwdrivers... I love this a lot, but 1 tool for household is the goal and I need those screwdrivers:
SOG Kilowatt - it has a great knife and wire strippers built in for varying thicknesses.
https://heinnie.com/sog-kilowatt/
Then there was this, which is also great but lacks a knife:
SOG Sync II Traveller
https://heinnie.com/sog-sync-ii-traveller
Both of those were close to being perfect tools for what I use a multi-tool for... but in the end the Leatherman Free P2 wins on convenience of having all the tools I need even if no one tool stands out.
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• #4278
Hard to say - I was giving it maximum welly at the time, with both hands. The jaws on the CX do not have as much material on them as, say, the jaws on a Wave do. I doubt if I would've caused similar damage to a Wave. It's the same argument as can be applied to bike frames and components - you want lighter weight? Less/thinner material will achieve that. But don't expect the robustness from those parts that you would otherwise enjoy.
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• #4279
Decent quality medium length knives are so damn useful in the kitchen
This is what you want. Bargain price and the knife I use most in the kitchen https://www.nisbets.co.uk/victorinox-tomato-knife-110mm/c628
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• #4280
The carving knife from that Opinel range looks nice for @superjoe
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• #4281
Totally agree that victorinox are good value and capable knives but serrated?
I had that exact model and it was frustrating to use. Not very precise, even for the tomatoes it is supposedly intended for. Maybe it's just sour grapes though, I sliced the tip of my thumb off with it. Use it for opening parcels now.
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• #4282
but serrated
Fwiw the opinel tomato knife in the kitchen set is serrated too.
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• #4283
From what I've read, serrated knives for tomatoes are a compromise intended for commercial settings where you might not be able to ensure straight blades are sharp enough not to crush tomatoes.
Horses for courses I guess. But I'd choose a sharp plain blade for soft tomatoes any day of the week.
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• #4284
Understood. I tend to work on the 'good enough' principle & the opinel is that. Not too pricey either.
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• #4285
Due to a small child I seem to spend a lot of time cutting cherry tomatoes and grapes and that is the quickest one to use for me. Seems to tear a lot less than other serrated knives.
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• #4286
Possibly in part due to how sharp those Victorinox kitchen knives are from the start, and that they tend to hold an edge pretty well. See earlier reference to lopping the tip of my thumb off!
Anyway, just my experience. I find that straight blades cut soft fruit and veg better than serrated.
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• #4287
Are you familiar with the two plates trick?
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• #4288
Yeah fair enough been looking for a simple multi tool as the little swis army I have is good but not quite up to heavier tasks will prob go for a heavier duty tool. Ta
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• #4289
I can't say I am.
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• #4290
I like your definition of essential tools. 👍
I can see it may be useful to have done extra tools on it, but I'd rather have better and more usable pliers and screwdrivers.
Maybe I get a different tool via your link on the nearly perfect knife for you, but the one I saw had a fire starter, hammer, whistle, saw, other essential day-to-day tools. I presume that’s why it was ‘nearly’ perfect, or maybe you do want those tools and something else is off.
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• #4291
The cheap office knife from opinel is a fav.
Feed back on the knife when you get it.
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• #4292
I find that I can't cut tomatoes thinly with the opinel tomato knife.
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• #4293
Yeah and they've got more of a point to deal with poultry joints. But mainly it's about theatre. I can well imagine they're one of those middle class Victorian inventions like napkin rings.
Still, irl a chef's knife will deal with any of the carving you're going to do 99% of the time.
Therefore I'm sticking to my point, which is don't buy a heap of shit but buy based on aesthetics.
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• #4294
Maybe I get a different tool via your link on the nearly perfect knife for you, but the one I saw had a fire starter, hammer, whistle, saw, other essential day-to-day tools
I'm not starting fires day-to-day 🤷
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• #4295
Tip from working in a kitchen a long time ago and having to do a few hundred tomatoes every day.
Victorinox bread knife, on it's side on a chopping board... slice tomatoes sideways and the 1/2 the thickness of the handle is the thickness of the slide of tomato you produce. Be wary of your finger on the last bit but the rest you can go surprisingly fast.
We bought a tomato slicing machine like this:
It was shit... just constantly gunked up and annoying to ungunk and clean, and more people cut themselves cleaning that thing than from slicing tomatoes manualy. It wasn't even faster than what we were doing, so naturally after a couple of months it was never used again.
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• #4297
I'm not convinced that's an easier option.
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• #4298
As I don't use a carving knife, not sure how the point would help with poultry joints. In my head, you may need the carving knife length for a larger meat joint. But that that is not right either as I've watched joints larger that the carving knive being carved.
PS I love my kiwi knife and that is quite cheap.
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• #4299
I only do it if I care choking the kids.
Which is rare.
Or if I don't care about presentation.
Which is rarer.
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• #4300
^^ That knife in the photo tho.
Knife anti-porn thread >>>>>>
I like that. Do you think it was a design flaw why it snapped or just a shoddy build on that particular one.