If your knife can't do this, it's probably too dull.

Why would you cook with a knife that you can't turn upside down with two fingers while you drop a cut grape over it?

I just buy knives at the grocery store
when they get dull I just get a new one because they are like $8

chef knives are stupid. Knife technique has been developed to make the best out of a poorly designed tool
a back woods retard with an ulu can do all the things a chef with an entire knife kit can do

its just important you understand, you are using that tool because it's the tradition that was taught to you, not because it's the best for the job you are doing

Do any of you assholes know the bevel on that blade? This is like circus for idiots who don't get blades.

>>9208352
Probably. I get them sharpened with a linksy sharpener and guide, especially before Thanksgiving, but am a compete shit about maintenance. This goes for all things. I hate doing my laundry, cleaning my guns, making my bed, or even running anti-virus scanners after I'm done computing.

Whatever, I can cut things fine, but that sharpening is too impressive for me to even remotely expect.

>>9208431

Tossing a grape on a blade is embarrassing. You do that when you sharpen to 20 degrees or less and no one does that. You're not making a razor blade, you're making a knife.

>>9208427
Iunno, 12 dee grees?

>>9208451
this
methinks op a homosex manluster

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>>9208451
>You do that when you sharpen to 20 degrees or less and no one does that

but my nakiri was factory sharpened to 12 degrees and I've maintained that for the last 10 years. In fact, my Wusthofs were sharpened to 18 degrees and have been maintained at that angle for the last 5 years. Fuck, even the $12, piece of shit special "chinese" cleaver I got from amazon had a 20 degree edge on it, and I've only had that for 6 months.

Do you know anything about kitchen knives? Have you studied any culinary cutlery beyond the micro-serrated POS "knives" that Wal~Mart sells? Maybe you should educate yourself before you speak out of turn again, junior.

>>9208541

I knew you didn't know a damn thing you're talking about but maybe you need to read some..

https://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/Detailed-Discussion-on-Knife-Sharpening-Angles-W28.aspx. You're a generic dull poseur. We all see that.

>>9208541
>>9208625
RIP op, go back to school.

>>9208399
are all of your opinions wrong, or just the ones about cooking?

At least you boring assholes have something to do on a Sunday night.

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>>9208625
bruh, your link just proved my point:

>"A 17 to 20 degree angle covers most kitchen knives."

earlier, you said:

>>You do that when you sharpen to 20 degrees or less and no one does that.

and then the link you posted actually SUPPORTED my claim that 3 out of 4 of my kitchen knives were factory sharpened to 18-20 degrees.

It's over, blood. You lost. Just neck yourself, mate.

>>9208668

you own that metal, do you? Jesus christ this forum is full of fucking depressing women. You don't matter, you don't have good ideas, you're just some stupid prick in a basement with shit tools and you love to pretend. You're a depressing afterthought who needs to be right.

>>9208451
20 degrees is standard chef's knife thickness, 15 is what's trending. Of course, keeping it sharp is a whole different matter.

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>>9208680
>projecting this hard

Well actually, I do own a couple of Wusthofs, a nakiri, and a cheap, generic "chinese" cleaver from Amazon. I'm also a 35 year-old man, married to a woman, and I have a job, a car, and a mortgage.

I started coming to this site back in '09 because I was bored and in grad school. I've kept coming back because reactions from people like you hit me right in the schadenfreude. And schadenfreude always makes me do a big cummies on my wifey's tummies!

>>9208718

Never seen someone so cool. You live your truth. That fedora really rounds off your.. whatever you're doing. This planet just makes me sad.

>>9208352
>switching the whole grape with an already cut one off camera
oldest trick in the book

>>9208718

Your self worth is really wrapped up in emptiness. What the fuck, dude?

Standard Western knives are sharpened to 20 degree, Asian knives are typically 15 degrees. Anything else is outside the norm/user preference.

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>>9208541
>let's smack the knife blade-first against the chopping block multiple times and dull it before hitting the meat

>>9208718

Where'd you go, gibble with a wife? Tell me a new story. I'm bored, drunk and need some aspie to tell me a tale.

>>9208399

I don't always frequent knife threads, but in the however many years I've been hear I don't think I've seen this before, pasta or not. Good job, you're actively killing /ck/.

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>>9208725
>>9208734
>someone so cool
>your self worth

lol, I never said I was cool, nor did I say anything about self worth. I just gave you summerfags a peek at who replies to your nonsense. Maybe next time you'll think twice before trying to "school" someone on the internet.

>>9208756
>implying Salt Bae's blades are so fragile
>implying Salt Bae can't sharpen a knife after he dulls it for the purpose of theater
>implying Salt Bae doesn't have a harem of twinks to keep his blades sharp

why are you on 4chan?

>>9208451

>no one does that

Most chef knives are between 22 and 12, so... you're just wrong.

>>9208766

You didn't need to say anything, you projected your sad needyness. How is your marriage going, is it fulfilling and do you have children? Tell me about how you've reached the tip of mazlows heirachy of needs.

>>9208766
They're bitter virgins, but you're also a faggot so... meh?

>>9208778

12 degrees is a fucking razor blade, you idiot.

>>9208781

bitter virgin? I'm so old and fucked out I can't be bothered. I just can't stand young idiots. You or that other fuck. You're just so fucking stupid it makes me ache.

>>9208787
So no other blades can possibly be made at the same bevel angle? Kewl!

maybe you fucking idiots can regroup and stop screwing your lives up repeatedly in front of everyone. I hope you learn at some point before its too late. Good luck.

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>>9208352
my knife couldn't cut a stick of butter in the mohave desert. i'm poor as fuck.

>>9208780
>make stupid claims
>get called out
>post a link ripping your own argument a new one
>uhhhh uhhh you're needy and uhh mazlows hierarchy!

Take your L, sperg

>>9208844

keep going, cunt. It's only 2am.

>>9208851
>awake arguing about things you're wrong on at 2 am
Wow I thought I was pathetic shit posting at a reasonable hour, but I'd kill myself if I was in your time zone.

>>9208858

Sorry, I'm off in a coffee thread, a beer thread, and I'm watching tv. What do you need?

>>9208858

What's going on, hun? I just finished my pita pizza, I'm all yours.

>>9208787

I've never owned a knife at 12 degrees, so I guess I'm speaking in hyperbole, but the point still stands that most modern Western knives are factory sharpened to around 18 degrees, while Japanese knives are closer to 15.

Still definitely under 20.

>>9208873

welp, I use this. https://www.amazon.ca/Chefs-Choice-AngleSelect-Diamond-Sharpener-White/dp/B001CA5LZ6. It's a 20 degree sharpener, because I got tired of ruining my wrists on a whetstone. 15 degrees is only useful if you have the steel to hold that edge. Who uses katana steel in the real world, day to day. It's just infantile. If you're a weeaboo, sure, enjoy, just don't subject normal people to that.

>>9208718
>35 years old
>posting fedora pics on the cooking section of a mongolian cave paintings in motion forum
>having "cummies" and "tummies" in vocabulary

I hope I don't grow up like that.

>>9208916

It made me die inside. But Trump is president, so how much worse can it get? Humanity is compost.

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If you add a lot of rotation in the direction of the blade before dropping the grape on the knife, wouldn't that make it easier for it to cut as it lands? How do we know the knife is sharp and that he didn't add a crazy spin to the grape before dropping it?

>>9208921
Try Reddit.

>>9208974

Try not being human filth. Just once. Go to your poop place.

>>9208974
Which subreddit is amenable for fighting over what angle chef's knives should be beveled to?

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what is best cheap poorfag knife off amazon,?? i need that amazon locker cuz ghetto apartments

>>9208766
this pic will never not make me laugh

>>9208766
You type the same way every perpetually angry 40 year old videogame server admin types.

>>9208993
a KA-BAR

>>9208718
>I'm also a 35 year-old man, married to a woman, and I have a job, a car, and a mortgage.
How embarrassing!

>>9208362
fff

>>9209177

clearly you need a 4degree edge that you can't blow on for fears of bending the burr. just listen to these unmedicated idiots and you'll be absolutely fine.

most of you people should buy a knife,use it and throw it out when it gets dull. everything else will likely result in the death of a family member.

>>9209207
I tried to sharpen a knife with a steel once.
It flew out of my hand and stabbed a guy to death in france.

>>9209209

even the french hate the french.

>>9208653
Oh look, it's "luthier" dude again, calling everybody an asshole.

>>9208993
KIWI knives. They are not bad actually.

>>9209209
Fuck off summerfag.

Actually I don't even like knives as sharp as the one in OP's webm. I prefer sharpening at higher angles, like 20°+. I feel I have more control if I have to exert a little bit of pressure, I don't immediately cut myself if I accidentally touch the edge and the edge lasts a lot longer.

>>9208680
So you admit you're wrong?

>having to drop it from that high
might as well be a butter knife m8
>>9209288
oh look it's the guy who thinks bread will destroy your chefs knife

So I put a 10 degree edge on my general purpose chef's knife a couple of months ago, as a joke. It cuts very well. I'm not really seeing any downsides to a very thin edge, except for the fact that it really seems to dig into my cutting board. It doesn't seem to dull that fast, and I don't see any visible damage on the edge despite subjecting it to some abuse like cutting through pork bones.

>>9208352
This thread is why I don't tell people I'm interested in knives, unless you're talking to a bladesmith or one of the rarer socially competent enthusiasts you get hit with all this cringe fucking bullshit, either that or they think you're a katana collecting weeb/dexter blood lusted serial killer.

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>>9208399
LOW IQ
O
W

I
Q

>Although a knife can be sharpened in a wide variety of angles, Ramsay’s recommendation is to hold the knife against the steel at a 45-degree angle. This is good advice, as most knives can get a nicely sharped edge this way.

>>9208718
This is embarrassing.

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>>9208718
Mate. Come one.
Bragging about having managed such basic feats as getting a job and a wife at age 35 is pretty much as pathetic as not achieving them at all.

In a thread of pure 'tism you managed to stand out as the worst one.

>>9208541
why does he wear the sunglasses?

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>>9209887
>[...] Ramsay’s recommendation [...]

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>>9208352
>shows cherry tomato
>it's nice and whole
>moves whole tomato outside of screen
>drops pre-cut tomatoe.
>everyone impressed and goes to buy shitty knife.
>owners of said shitty knife now get mad at me

>>9208352
How do you watch webms on a phone?

>>9208860
you're so cool.

>>9208352

ITT: knife wankers

>>9208668
i've seen like 5 gifs of obama doing mic drops

is that the only "cool" thing he can do? what a one trick pony that faggot is

What's even the point of having a good knife besides saving a little bit of space? I mean, if you live in an apartment, I guess I could understand, but otherwise you're just a hipster faggot and should KYS.

Want chopped onion/shredded carrots/mirepoix? Put it in a food processor (with or without the shredding attachment). Want something minced? Put it in there for longer. They also sell this shit frozen now.

Cutting broccoli? Use shears. Breaking down a chicken? Use shears. Again, you can buy this shit already broken down for you. Are you poor?

Want tomato/onion/pickle slices for a sandwich? Use a mandoline. Want french fries? Use a french fry cutter or mandoline attachment. Buying sliced tomatoes I absolutely do not condone, but why the fuck are you making sandwiches at home? Are you poor?

You could get a food processor, mandoline, and shears for like 1/4 the price of a good knife and sharpening stones.

If you disagree, then you're just confirming to me that you're an insufferable millennial who watches No Reservations and wants to be like Anthony Boring-as-fuck-dain.

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>>9211110

>>9211359
mic drops is some of the most arrogant, narcissistic thing I can ever imagine someone doing on a stage.

Like you have already decided for yourself that whatever you said is so good and so amazing that it warrants you to just drop the microphone on the floor. Its seriously disrespectful, arrogant and cringe worthy.

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>>9211132
>anime profile picture

>>9208982

/r/esist

>>9211613
>profile picture

>other people are better than me at doing things

>>9211280
>How do you watch webms on a phone?
Download VLC. You might have to set it as the default player somewhere, I can't remember. It should automatically open in it any time you click the webm though.

>>9212301
Caught! Time to real this anon in...

>>9209009
The block chain part always kills me.

>>9213541
>Download VLC.

uh chrome on android plays webms

you must have some ancien tphone if you cant into webm

>>9211280
No problems here. You using an iPhone?

I've personally always keep my knives at grinds based on their metal type, and what I'm using them for.

If it's a German-style steel/knife, I keep the angle at 20-22 because I'm going to be using it for a lot of tougher food products and I don't expect it to be razor sharp. At a really shallow grind that soft metal would be more prone to denting the edge if you're hacking through chicken bones and stuff.

If it's a knife with a higher Rockwell rating like 60-62+, I keep the grind at 12-15 so that shit glides through everything effortlessly, but obviously with softer foods.

>>9211110
he's trying too hard to become the next big celebrity chef, but he's just a shitty meme that'll be forgotten soon

>>9211401
U mad?

>>9213843
>>Download VLC.
>uh chrome on android plays webms
>you must have some ancien tphone if you cant into webm
>not using clover or similar app
>lmao

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmcL3LBEo4

>>9208399
>tfw can't open coconut with bare hands and teeth
>tfw no obsidian knife club

>>9208778
Pretty sure he means 20 degrees combined angle, so 10 each side.

>>9208718
Yikes! I haven't cringed this hard in a long time

>>9208461
Mac MTH80 is 15 degrees.

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>>9208680
>gives link to support his argument
>link actually counters everything he says
>FUCKING BASEMENT DWELLER KYS

>>9211274
>Mac MTH-80
>shitty
GET A LOAD OF THIS GUY!

>>9211280
It never ceases to amaze me how retarded every single phoneposter is.

>>9211401
Don't forget Slapchop, Vegetti, Margaritaville, and the Egg Timer too!