Knife porn thread

That's a pretty blade.....not a sentence I've used before, but fitting, I think.

Oh it's stainless too. No soapy water worries.

Thats really nice, there us a chance ill be goingto japan in a few months and would love to get a good kitchen knife, what was the shopping experiece like and any other recommendations in shops or hand made options.

Do you know what steel it is?

VG10 clad in malleable stainless according to the site.

We were there the first week of January so most shops is Kappabashi were closed unfortunately. Luckily Tsubaya was open and is really good. They buy / commission knives from local and Osaka makers rather than shifting lots of Wustenoff or whatever. Seems weird to buy a German knife in Japan but ironically I think the locals mostly go for modern chefs knives with resin handles and it's us tourists who buy the traditional Japanese knives.

Tsubaya was great, reasonably priced and there were things there that no one else has. Do your research and work out what style of knife suits your cooking. I've been prepping a lot of veg and become obsessed with 'slaw lately so I got a double bevel naikiri. I absolutely love it.

Unless you're really tight on cash don't really set a budget. Remember that you probably won't be knife shopping in Japan ever again and if you find out you don't use it much you can always pass it on to someone on here 😉

I've never regretted spending money on good tools. I've often regretted spending less money on shitty tools.

thanks for the tips probably not going till october so plenty of time to research types of knives.

@Rich_G if you go to Kyoto then there's a knife maker who has a store there, his knives are legit.
Or as @dbr says there are other good places to pick up traditional knives

Cool. It's a lovely knife. Glws

Ah yes i rember your photos, we are still planning the trip but i would have thought Kyoto will be on the cards. 👍👍 think the knife will be a kitchen all rounder for chopping vege and the occasional meat/fish carving and slicing. but miss's Rich G may have other ideas.

Interestingly my Korean family have always bought German knives, sometimes cutting the end off a chefs knife to shorten it.

Have anyone got a particularly good solution for storing their kitchen knives? I'm currently in the "chuck them in a drawer with a plastic cover on the blade" regime, but would like something which slightly reduced the chances of losing some skin. Don't have much room on the surface on "on show" so I think they'll have to stay in the drawer.

Wall mounted magnet rack? We like ours. But you do need to have a honing steel to keep the blades in good shape.

As above, wall mounting saves space and means your knife is always easy to get to

You can get ones where the magnets are covered so it won't damage your blade

https://cuttingedgeknives.co.uk/accessories/knife-racks

This site sells some pretty good stuff. They are UK based and not a rip off like jkc. They have wooden magnet racks though they are pretty expensive. I got one from tk maxx for 5 quid but I wouldn't keep my best knives on it

Wood covered magnetic rack.
The Japanese knife Centre do them.

Just get a block, store them blade side up, Bob's your uncle... Those wooden magnetic racks are sooooo spendy!

I found some bamboo magnetic racks in TK Maxx the other day for £8, instabuy!

Whatever your storage solution, hone your blades, evrytiem.

I left the UK too soon...

TBF, we haven't bought our house yet so no use for them ATM anyway... :)

Thanks for the suggestions, I like the idea of a magnetic rack, preferably wood faced. I'll see if I can get the idea of having knives out past the boss.

My better half will have five knives out instead of just using one and cleaning it afterwards... It took me two years to get her to put them back in the block the right way up...

It's like a war... :)

The biggest struggle I have is knives getting left to dry with the rest of the washing up and developing nice little pits all along the blade. That and guests giving the edge a good going over with the scourer. Luckily I very much enjoy sharpening all the things.

At least they take them out of the sink.

Knife under soapy water? Why, thank you very fucking much. I really wanted my finger to be hanging off my hand like that.