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Just watched a Uzbek cutting green onions for Uzbek Palov. What made it interesting is he had a knife that was at least 3 feet long, razor sharp and the green onions he was cutting was in a bundle perhaps 28" in diameter. The knife just plained thin slices off of the end of this bundle. I have...

Here is a very handy free app, listing a whole bunch of different steel alloys. KSCC for Android KSCC for Iphone/iPad

I have had my Kabar for many years. It is made from 1095CV and has a HRC of about 58. I have never been able to get the edge on it I wanted. With the Shapton I know I can finally get that done. I have one question. I have a GS500, should I start the Kabar out with a #320?

Camping and Woodcraft (to the PDF) is very interesting book. The Internet Archives has scanned editions (to the master page) published into the late 1930's. This one is the 1st edition, and is downloadable as a PDF or several other file systems such a EPub, which among others can be loaded into...

Many of the European kitchen knife companies make children's chef knives. The are intended, under close supervision, for children to help you cook. A great learning and inclusion thing. Understand I am not a family man. The only comparison I have is toy guns, if I had children, and by now...

This cookbook features recipes going back 4,000 years. One thing I really like about it is often ingredients are substituted with modern analogs. This book has a section talking about the original what they were and how they were made. One example, Garum, Roman fish sauce. You can still get...

As you know this knife is Ontario's Knife Companies take on the Horace Kephart camp knife. It was introduced in 1920. As I reported in the New Knife thread the sharpening on this knife is really crude out of the box. I was using the Shaptons on it this morning. Compared the Japanese knives I...

One great source for recipes is from the websites of manufacturers of food products. Examples: Red Boat Fish Sauce Steen's Syrup Calrice (Calrose) Tabasco Hormel Kikkoman Sriraja Panich A pointer about Kikkoman Soy Sauce. Japanese brewed Kikkoman tastes better than the US brewed version. The...

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These 2 books are available from Amazon. They feature recipes contributed by the actors in these 2 TV series. I have both and the feature some really good stuff. Both have very good entrees.

I was reading through the JNat thread and just for grins I Googled Wyoming Sharpening stone. To My surprise there is a Wyoming Stone. it is nephrite jade. There is at least one source of them Wild Whetstones. I know nothing about them. I do know this is something that would have been around the...

I happened to run across Horace Kephart's books on Camping and woodcraft, and his Camp Cookery book which was published in 1910. These books are in Kindle edition so I have his cookbook and his Camping and Woodcraft books. Looking at the Camp Cookery book I might just have found recipes my...

This is a recipe booklet published in 1930 by Hector Boiardi, Who we know of today as Chef Boyarbee, Hector changed the spelling so people would pronounce his last name correctly. As you might expect the recipes feature Chef Boyarbee canned sauces in the recipes. These sauces are still...

There was a booklet, "Chuckwagon Cooking From Marlboro Country" put out by Phillip Morris in the 1981's that was a freebee given out at liquor stores. It was a gigantic hit. My copy is sealed away its recipes recorded digitally. It interested me because my Great Grandmother Crips was a...

This is the master recipes of the US Armed Forces. It was realized after WW2 that for logistical reasons the recipes used in the US Armed Forces needed to be standardised this finally happened in 1969 with the combining of the recipes used by the 4 services into the Armed Forces Recipe Service...

SOAR, now called RecipeSource, Was created by the grad' student, Jennifer Snider Coopersmith at Berkeley in the year 2000. It is hosted on the University of California Berkeley server. It is a database of recipes from all over the world. It is very nicely indexed so if you are looking for a...

I have been a fan of the Baumgartner [art] Restoration YouTube channel for years. I was watching the latest episode. Julian uses thickened water to hydrate without soaking to remove rabbit skin glue from the back of 300-plus-year-old canvases. I was looking at it and I thought this would work...

Specialty Produce is a giant database of fruits and vegetables. It has information about each entry and how to use them. It is powered by Specialty Produce a large retail and wholesale grocery supplier located in San Diego, Ca. If it is in season, and they have it you can purchase and have...

A number of YouTube channels about sharpening suggest inspecting the edges of the blade you are sharpening with a magnifier, Basically you can see the edge and know when to stop. These channels do not show, or if they do there is no mention of the brand. I know where to get handheld...

The set of Shapton KLuromaku Whetstone I have has done something that I have not been able to do up till now. Put a razor-sharp edge on my Marine Kabar utility knife. Its blade is made from 1095 Cro-Van steel with a hardness of about Hrc 58. The factory edge is 20º on each side. The Japanese...