I don’t have a coherent set of kitchen knives. I have a couple from Pampered Chef (which I don’t seem to be sharpening correctly because they don’t cut tomato skin), I have a few steak knives from some set we found in my Uncle’s burned house, and a chef’s knife from IKEA (which I got because it was cheap). It’s frustrating to try chopping food with dull knives.
Last Christmas as I was window shopping at the mall, I saw a set of knives at the Sharper Image store. I don’t know if it was the gadgety nature of the store or what, but I really wanted the knives. They are Microedge knives that “never need sharpening”! I know a claim like that is likely to be puffed up, but I also figure that they should stay sharper than some other knife, right? Well, I resisted the impulse to buy, thinking that I shouldn’t just buy whatever pops into my head.
I waited all this time, and after months of consideration (and a markdown at the store), I got them yesterday. Here are my new kitchen knives:
What happened to my comment? I said that they were awesome and that you needed this knife block. Hmmmm…. We’ll try again…
http://onemansblog.com/2006/08/16/the-ex-knife-block/
HA! I want one of those now. The picture in the link is really small. Here’s a bigger picture:
http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/theex400.gif
I’m salivating over the brand new, nicely packaged, shiny, sharp knives!!! Besides spoons, I have a thing for knives … especially Santoku knives. I’m madly coveting the knife in the middle so I must now look away … you evil temptor …
Congratulations on your new knives! Up until a year ago, we had just two Cutco knives. Leonardo decided we needed more, so we got 5 more, including duplicates of the two we love and use constantly. Good food is much easier to produce and share with good knives! Enjoy!!
Cutco are the best & my favorite!!! They have a new 5″ Santoku that I’d love to get my hands on!
So… how do you use a Santoku? (Then I can get all excited and neeeeeeed another thing, too!)
It’s just the shape of the blade that I LOVE! It’s good for cutting & chopping everything & anything … and the blade is a little wider than a regular knife, so after you chop stuff you can scoop it onto the knife & drop it in whatever you’re cooking. I’d do one of those linky things here, but I don’t know how.
No, no, no….it’s one of those knives with nine three-by-three squares that have numbers randomly scattered throughout and you have to solve the puzzle.
Just kidding. I have a Santoku and I love it!! CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP
I bet you can skin a rabbit with those new knives!
Michele took my comment.
Brad took my skin.
HA! [But not really. Moment of sad reflection…..]
I had been wondering for sometime if any intelligent bunnies read this blog. Since evidently at least one does, now we can be sure the word is spreading through the Rabbit Kingdom to avoid the House on Evergeen to save your hide…..literally.
Was just searching around for any mention of these knives. I received a set as a gift when my wife and I moved into our first post-college apartment back in 2006. They are still going strong here in 2017! I’ve loved using them every time for over 10 years, and haven’t even considered trying to sharpen them once (I don’t think you even could due to the edge pattern). Any time I try to chop an onion with someone else’s expensive knife set, it just sucks compared to these. Anyway, thanks for posting this way back when, it was cool to see.
Hi Evan. If you still have yours, I’m envious. Mine were lost when when the fire clean-up company packed all my stuff in boxes. I had a box from another family’s house, and I think they got a box from my stuff. I returned their box full of VHS tapes, but they apparently didn’t return my knives. They’re gone. So sad.