A strange question!

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hamish

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Hi everyone,

I'm interested in buying an HI kukri. They really are beautifully made and the HI's customer service seems to be so good that I'd prefer not to buy from anyone else. However, I have one question that may appear to be a little strange.

I notice that they are made from truck springs. In that case, do you think they'd be OK to use in cutting up food? That's probably the only action mine's gonna see, but I am kind of worried by the idea of using truck parts in preparing something I'm gonna eat!

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Hamish
 
hamish said:
Hi everyone,

I'm interested in buying an HI kukri. They really are beautifully made and the HI's customer service seems to be so good that I'd prefer not to buy from anyone else. However, I have one question that may appear to be a little strange.

I notice that they are made from truck springs. In that case, do you think they'd be OK to use in cutting up food? That's probably the only action mine's gonna see, but I am kind of worried by the idea of using truck parts in preparing something I'm gonna eat!

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Hamish
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it's just metal. it's not dripping in oil. they've been heated to red hot, and beaten on, and polished. there's no way anybody would know it was a truck part if they weren't told.

then again, iron ore is from stars, often accreted by the digestive mechanisms of bacteria and whatnot over millenia, and covered with stone and dirt and it is dug up from the ground.

it's just metal :)

i know a hamish that wears utilikilts. mmm.

bladite
 
First of all, welcome:)
Hamish, HI products are great for cutting up food...although I wouldn't use an Ang Khola to butter some bread or anything, lil' bit of overkill there;)
However, with a good scrubbing of mild dishsoap and careful drying you're khuk or HI knife will be good to go for any number of cutting tasks including food.
Anything that was ever "truck" about the steel is hammered and forged out while they are being made. There will be no difference between your khuk and a carbon steel kitchen knife:)
Now, if i may ask, what kind of food prep are you looking to do? HI makes WAY MORE than khuks. Some of the other knives might be more to your liking.

Jake
 
Hamish, somewhere in the process of being heated and hammered into a khukuri blade, those truck springs completely forget what they used to be. They're perfectly fine for cutting food, long as you keep 'em clean and free of rust like any other knife.

Sarge

p.s.: Welcome aboard, and by the way, a Kumar Karda might be a more kitchen worthy blade if that's really all you're after.

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Steely_Gunz said:
First of all, welcome:)
Hamish, HI products are great for cutting up food...although I wouldn't use an Ang Khola to butter some bread or anything, lil' bit of overkill there;)
However, with a good scrubbing of mild dishsoap and careful drying you're khuk or HI knife will be good to go for any number of cutting tasks including food.
Anything that was ever "truck" about the steel is hammered and forged out while they are being made. There will be no difference between your khuk and a carbon steel kitchen knife:)
Now, if i may ask, what kind of food prep are you looking to do? HI makes WAY MORE than khuks. Some of the other knives might be more to your liking.

Jake
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indeed. i use some of the non-khuks in my kitchen. the cleaver (which i don't have) would be pretty useful someday, and the Sgt. Khadka special makes a damn fine cheese and poultry knife - practically a skinner there. lastly, the JKM make a great steak knife, and overall cutting board tool. there's nothing it can't go through - frozen, bone, whatever. it's SOLID.

i would use my smaller GRS as a camp prep knife for anything from flipping pancakes (though folx seem to like the pen knife for that), to cutting up meat strips and carving the stix to put that on, to ... anything short of a grizzly :)

the flats of these stouts knives would be fine for crushing garlic, to tenderizing, and even stunning the uppity fish or lobster as well.

bladite
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Hamish, somewhere in the process of being heated and hammered into a khukuri blade, those truck springs completely forget what they used to be. They're perfectly fine for cutting food, long as you keep 'em clean and free of rust like any other knife.

Sarge

p.s.: Welcome aboard, and by the way, a Kumar Karda might be a more kitchen worthy blade if that's really all you're after.

yhst-7333098713883_1801_2607574
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or a set of small YCSs would make a dandy steak knife collection :) i'd want matching forks and spoons too :)

bladite
 
I love this question. I just love it. May this forum always be gentle enough so anything can be asked.

Parts is Parts. We're all just stuff..that is, always in change. I can see cutting a roast with a HI blade and one molecule, just one molecule still thinking he's way over his head in gear oil.



munk
 
Great thread. These guys have guided you well. Welcome.
 
I'd just use my trusty Ginsu. I tried to slice salami with my Kumar Kobra once. Didn't work too good.
 
>"or a set of small YCSs would make a dandy steak knife collection i'd want matching forks and spoons too"
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>bladite

What an excellent idea! I'd buy some of those, especially with the carved dragon handles

John
 
Welcome, Hamish. The AK bowie, the Munk Cleaver (which is closer to how the AK bowie was supposed to have been), and the Pen Knife are good choices for you. You can flip pancakes with the PK too. ;)

Bob
 
hamish said:
Hi everyone,

I'm interested in buying an HI kukri. They really are beautifully made and the HI's customer service seems to be so good that I'd prefer not to buy from anyone else. However, I have one question that may appear to be a little strange.

I notice that they are made from truck springs. In that case, do you think they'd be OK to use in cutting up food? That's probably the only action mine's gonna see, but I am kind of worried by the idea of using truck parts in preparing something I'm gonna eat!

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Hamish
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Hi Hamish:

Boy, I just can't let this one go by.

Look at it this way. The springs are probably not strangers to running over biological speed bumps and you get many miles per goat out of your kuk.

So using them on food is OK.

Sorry, guys.
 
I cut a melon with a khuk once when I was in the kitchen. The two halves went flying.




munk
 
To be fair to Hamish, I use my HI products a lot in the kitchen. I just couldn't stand my wife's craptastic stainless set. The AK bowie and Munk Chunk Cleaver are great for thick cuts of meat with bones. I mean, how many things can a 2lb knife NOT go through;) The HI Seax is a great slicing knife. I use it to cut meat into strips. The Sarge/KPH is great for peeling taters and removing bad spots, and great for boning.
Lots of great HI knives for cookin':) I hadn't even thought of the YCS kardas. I might have to fish mine out of the trunk and get them a shot.

Jake
 
90% of the time Ive use antique military kukri in the kitchen for the last 3 years, always with a gentle hand.

I dont realy think about what they cut in the past. {He said thinking about it :rolleyes: .}

Spiral
 
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