On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:39:24 -0400, alan >
wrote:

>While I love my Wusthof Culinar knives....I think I found a new fave.
>
>Good balance and love the wood handles. Replacing them with Shun
>knives. Just a fellow knive's junkie reporting in.
>
>Anyone else here a knive junkie.

Anyone who only uses knives from a single manufacturer is not a knife junkie;
he's simply trying to impress.

-- Larry

"alan" > wrote in message
news
> While I love my Wusthof Culinar knives....I think I found a new fave.
>
> Good balance and love the wood handles. Replacing them with Shun
> knives. Just a fellow knive's junkie reporting in.
>
> Anyone else here a knive junkie.

Knife, not knive.

I suppose that I qualify. I must have 25 knives ranging from cheap Chicago
cutlery bought many years ago through various Henckles and Wusthofs to a few
expensive Japanese knives that I brought back from vacation. The fact is
that 80% of them sit largely unused. The exceptions a

An 8" Henckles chefs knife that is the real workhorse of the kitchen. 20
years old and as good as new.
A 4" Henckles paring knife that is used for delicate tasks.
A Chicago Cutlery Chinese cleaver.
A Japanese sushi knife, right-handed, that we bought at the Tsukiji fish
market in Tokyo.


--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

I am.
"alan" > wrote in message
news
> While I love my Wusthof Culinar knives....I think I found a new fave.
>
> Good balance and love the wood handles. Replacing them with Shun
> knives. Just a fellow knive's junkie reporting in.
>
> Anyone else here a knive junkie.

> > Anyone else here a knive junkie.

Oh yeah! Me, too. Nothing like surfing ebay for vintage kitchen
"knifes"

Like Peter said I, too, have a boatload of knives on the counter but
only a few I regularly use. That Kershaw Shun Pro santoko is the
sweetest knife; it put my 6" Henckles back in the block for a long
rest. My Chicago Cutlery breadknife gets used before my Schiff and
Black Diamond offset knives. A cheap, plastic-handled Schiff paring
knife gets everyday use while my 4 Star paring knife just sits there
and looks pretty.... Not to mention that 14" Forschner I use for
mutilating pizzas.
I could go on and on....