Hey home chefs: teach me about knives.

I need a fish fillet knife. 3rd from left on the right magnet, correct? how do u like it?

 

With or without mold from the prior owner?

 

10 minute soak in bleach.

 

That's actually a 12" slicing/carving knife, but does work well to fillet larger fish like salmon. Smaller fish I usually will use a stamped boning (curved blade on left magnet) or breaking knife that is very thin and flexible. They are very close in shape to classic fillet knives like these, and pull double duty.

 

Ya I’d use it for Yellowtail and Tuna if I’m lucky. Thnx

 

I have a set of Shuns, the Alton's Angles, sent them to Shun twice now for their free sharpening and repair of some chips, they always come back super sharp, but I need to send them yearly and not once ever 4 or 5. For cheaper knives that are great quality; Victorinox. One of my favorite knives in my collection is a Victorinox 8" chefs knife.

 

I suppose that would depend on your definition of "fine". (I'm reminded of something here ).

 

It always comes back to Pie for Mongo...

 

For a bread knife I always use dexter russel offset handles. They are sharp and cheap so when it gets dull throw it away and buy another one for 30 dollars, same with their filet knives but I'll sharpen them till its not worth it and then just buy a new 30 dollar filet knife. I've cleaned about 300 salmon this summer with one knife and have sharpened it twice. Salmon season is about done so I'll give the knife away and start with a fresh one. Other than that as a chef I don't need 20 knives. I use a 7 inch Santoku for most stuff, a big chef knife/ cleaver for big things that need muscle, a boning knife, a bread knife, a filet knife and a paring knife. One cool tool at home or a restaurant I can't live without is a Japanese mandolin

 

I love having good knives, but I mostly use an 8" chefs and an 8" santoku. They are older Haenkels with the classic scale handles and I have the block set and use the others occasionally. I have a 10"shun Santoku and 6" chefs that I really like, but they don't live in the block so they are not as handy to grab. I need to use them more as I really like the feel of them in my hand. They give good control.