Recent content by SwampDonkey

I know that's the prevailing sentiment but ime I don't care for lasers on dense stuff, actually like them better on softer items. Oddly enough in my Squash Bustin series I found that concave ground midweights were my favorite a la Shigeki Tanaka ginsan, and Shindos do a great job a smaller...

Post em! My two favorite testing products on a knife are onions and dense sweet potatoes or butternut squash. Mostly because I eat/cut a lot of each and they're opposite ends of the spectrum. I know russet potatoes are a common tester but often give false positives to me. Some knives can...

I know what you're talking about! But it only works for me efficiently/cleanly like 45% of the time. Agree though, I pretty much just use smash/press method when mincing. If I want to thin slice for stirfry or marinade then I 1) have my wife with nails do it. Not even being a misogynist like...

Interesting! I wonder if the "Brand Name" has better adhesive? My only diamond plate experience is that DMT and a knockoff Atoma 140 from CKTG. Sucks major butt on metal but is a great lapping/flattening stone. Noticed a drop off in cutting speed fairly quickly but a la VG10 it's held "good...

Garlic peeling isn't bad with the smash method but I'd be pretty tickled if fresh garlic was faster/cleaner to process without getting the damn paper skin everywhere. Also shallots the size of onions.

I use this coarse/fine DMT for crappy stainless of my family's when traveling. Sounds awful but it's effective and fast on cheap stainless. https://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/collections/dmt/products/dmt-double-sided-8-dia-sharp-diamond-stone?variant=48626824511790

Had a local oyster farmer bring ~300 and shuck at our rehearsal dinner. They were gone in an hour.

A "round" is slicing hot protein, letting the knife either sit on board while dirty or actually leave it in the meat for ~10 minutes, then wash off with the hottest water you can manage. I've even experimented with boiling water from my kettle, slowly poured down blade but not sure it's any...

And where it comes in the sentence! If the first word is "man" then 3 syllables. If like "hey man, I'm about to whip up a puhcon crusted snapper feelay" then it's one syllable. But "aw man" is 2 syllables

Naked is intimate or more of a feeling, but neckitt is the act of being unclothed and frolicking or performing some other non-sexual action. As a kid I'd run around bare neckitt on the farm.

I say puh-con, unless I'm talking about pee-can pie. Idk why it's different but it is.

Pecan supremacy gang

Still not really sure what the ask is, if it's directly tied to western makers than I'm out But Okubo, Munetoshi, and Mazaki all have the best, most textured, most fun KUs I've come across.

Hard disagree. All of mine have long lasting KU even after lacquer removal