A Knife Primer
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- Ravenlea
- Terrie_Bittner
- sckaroly
- lwmcsweeney
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» Ravenlea - Welcome to Suite101.com
Hi!What a great topic and an interesting first article. I have forwarded the link to my niece and her husband who both love cooking. I have been living with them for the past year and one of the gifts of my time with them has been a healing of my relationship with food.
I'm about to move back out on my own and look forward to reading your articles as I get back to cooking my own meals.
Many blessings,
-- posted by Ravenlea
» Terrie_Bittner - Re: Welcome to Suite101.com
In response to message posted by Ravenlea:I'm a terrible cook and really need a topic like this. My idea of choosing a knife is to reach into the knife holder and grab whatever touches my hand! This was quite informative. Thanks, and I'll be back. After all these years, maybe it's time I bother to learn to cook.
-- posted by Terrie_Bittner
» sckaroly - Re: Welcome to Suite101.com
In response to message posted by Ravenlea:Ditto on the welcome to Suite101. I've been in the business for 30 years (I'm just a few years older than you) and have considered going to culinary school, something I never did. I may not because of time, money and a family to support, so most of my current education is self-learning.
I've been looking for new knives to replace my Connoisseur set (by Russell Harrington Cutlery). I've found that you can get a Henckels 10" chef knife for $80 (4 Star line) to $90 (Pro "S" line) on the Internet. (That compares to $110 at a specialty gourmet store in Placerville, Calif.) I'd advise anyone looking for knives to search here:
If you can find these knives within $10 to $20 of these prices on the local market, pick up the knife. When you consider shipping and handling that the online and mail order houses charge, you break even.
Lindsay: What knives did the school sell to you? I've done some research into culinary schools for my 17-year old daughter and have found that most of them "sell" you a set as part of the tuition package.
-- posted by sckaroly
» lwmcsweeney - Re: Re: Welcome to Suite101.com
In response to message posted by sckaroly:Thanks for everyone's welcome, I look forward to working with all of you. In answer to Steven's question, yes, culinary schools do sell knives as part of the student fees, although mine did allow me to use some of my own since they were identical so I did not have to buy the full set. We were "sold" Wusthof's high end knives, specifically the paring knife, a 9" bread knife, a 5" boning knife, steel, and a chef's knife. We had a class on knife skills and got to choose between an 8", 10", and 10" wide chef's knife based on feel.
-- posted by lwmcsweeney
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