Hobbyist cutler making a couple of knives for gifts and kind of curious what cooks/chefs prefer in the overall knife shape for general duties?
Weight, balance and length are also something I can easily adjust to suit so that its usable. Funnily, haven't made a lot of generic chefs knives, most of the stuff people liked where either butchers type knives, smaller utility, skinning and paring blades, the odd boning knife and so on. Edge geometry- will be what I think is best suited for the use and materials.
Have made one Santoku in the past as a bit of an 'experiment' and while it was an excellent blade for working on vegetables, didn't quite have the nimbleness for fine work- but I'm not quite so sure that's really a requirement for a non-professional home user.
The Gyuto's you see, mostly seem to end up in the 'hybrid' bin of most kitchens, they do a bit of light butchering and general duties from what I can tell and somewhere in the middle.
European, still used most everywhere, but could it be improved or are there some areas which aren't?
Understandably nothing does all things and there's compromises- but I'm interested in what people use at home or work and what they like/hate about those particular shapes. Being the bassakwards person I am, I do design from the handle forward, rather than the blade so none of those handles in the pic are what will be on the knives.
Szechuan cooking deals with the bullshit you get with french cuisine. If you want dainty you can use a paring knife, but there's utterly no point. So in general just use a Santoku and if some twat wants to bitch, address it.
>>9072080
Paring knives are something I've made a lot of over the years, simply because the vast majority of mass produced ones tended to be kind of shitty and people basically leapt on them like a fat chick onto a cake.
So yep, they will be paired with a paring knife- that sort of seems to be the most a household as "basic needs" as most people don't do butchering, skinning, filleting, boning or most of that in a home kitchen at least.
>>9072097
And that's done with a square cleaver. Easily done with a cleaver.
Give me your best beans recipe
Buy can of black beans
Open can of black beans
Add soy sauce and olive oil
Oh my god
>>9071503
no human should exist like that
beans
I have one of these for slow cooking in the oven, however as the liquid reduces stuff is left on the side of the pot above the waterline which then burns. How am I supposed to prevent this?
>>9071435
fucking stir it once in a while, numbnuts
Superglue the lid on tight
>>9071435
you could wash the sides down periodically while cooking, but really they're supposed to be easy enough to clean
im not a great cook and need to live on $50 a month for a long time soon
can you make me a meal with picrelated and beans i could eat with rice?
Skip the tomatoes, use fresh chili peppers and onions.
Goes good with Mac n cheese. Add some hotdogs Iif u want protein. Just boil the dogs to get most of the sodium out
>>9071242
with a small amount of chicken you could slow cook it in a crock pot for a few hours. Add rotel the last hour. Cook the rice seperate. Combine what you intend to eat and leave the two otherwise seperate in a fridge. 2 pounds of cheap chicken (thighs) can combine with a can and 3 pounds of rice and give 3 hearty meals for 6 dollars.
How the hell do I cook this in my kitchen (cast iron pan) without my entire apartment filling with smoke again? Every recipe demands smoking hot heat.
>>9070705
Are you adding any kind of fat to the pan?
>>9070718
I usually add a bit of olive oil to start and then butter about halfway through. Should I leave out the oil?
>>9070705
>Every recipe demands smoking hot heat.
You are being trolled.
bet you use cheap olive oil too.
Hey guys. I got me a panini press and I was wondering what you guys suggest to make with it. So far I've only made a chicken, tomato and feta panini style thing on flatbread and a basic quesadilla but I loved them. My wife wants to make burgers on it (idk why we've got a grill) but I'm sure you guys have some out of the box type recipes. Right now I'm thinking of bruschetta...
Not a /ck/ regular, but passin' thru.
I don't have much space in my kitchen at all so cooking can be a huge pain in it. I will tell you that I use it for more than just panini's/sandwiches. It is bar none probably the best thing you can use to re-heat a pizza, I've used it a few times to quickly grill/prepare some steak/beef/chicken for use in sandwiches later.
Maybe a real co/ck/gobbler can help you more.
Crack an egg and smoosh it real hot like.
Grilled cheese
For me, it's the Big N' Tasty. The best fast food burger.
;_;7
>>9070640
>Big
>Tasty
Pick zero.
I know the Big N' Tasty was just a regular burger with no cheese and a larger than usual meat patty, but my god was it truly tasty. It was the best item on the menu during its run.
I've never heard of this burger before, how is it different from a quarter pounder?
Hello cu/ck/s
I would like to eat more olives
What can I make that includes olives, but is also easy to make?
>>9070610
>>9070615
I was thinking of maybe simple tapas with sausages, olives, manchego and maybe some bread
Just how bad are those, health-wise and otherwise?
>>9070518
High in fat and salt, it's better used in small portions and then it's not too bad. Sliced thinly on a sandwich or cubed for something like fried rice/pasta dishes it works okay. Wouldn't serve it like a regular piece of meat.
>>9070518
expect colon cancer if you eat it fairly regularly
not even joking
>>9070518
>Not even Spam™ brand Spam™
The poorest of poorfag meat. Just fucking buy bacon, it'll taste better and it's actually healthier because it doesn't have an teaspoon of salt per serving.
>Reviewbrah gave this bad boy a 9.4 out of 10
Is it really that good?
>reviewbrah
>good
I question your ability to make good decisions.
looks alright
>>9070038
Yes, Culver's is god-tier. I'm a Wisconsin Swiss melt kind of guy.
How do you make mushy, microwaved steamed vegetables palatable?
>>9070017
Don't overcook them in the first place.
buy regular frozen vegetables and don't steam them?
>>9070030
This. You gotta dial back on the cooking instruction times. I'd rather under-mic then saute than have a mushy pile of garbage.
what do?
put off seeing a dietian.
came here instead..
age congee this morning.
It's time to end it all.
I suggest death by chocolate.
>>9069939
See the dietitian. We're no better than you at this.
>>9069939
how unhealthy do you have to be to have to see a dietitian? just curious
Why don't you own a pasta machine?
>>9069732
Store bought pasta is just as good as homemade pasta. Most of the taste is in the sauce.
Because I don't grind my own meat?
>>9069732
>not hand rolling your homemade pasta dough and cutting it up with a knife
I took half a calzone and poured on the sauce that you're supposed to dip it in, then shook on some cheese.
What do you think?
So it's pizza stuffed pizza.
Is it me, or is that pretty close to Chicago-style deep-dish pizza?
>>9069808
not really
Made some carbonara today but it tasted like Mac n cheese.
What did I do wrong brehs?
There's already a carbonara thread asshat. Post in there.
>>9069701
Try using something that isn't kraft single slices you fat turd
>>9069728
I used good quality parmsean.