Bandicoot got kitchen duty this weekend.

Progunner

Progunner

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My brother and I made 50# of kielbasa this weekend and I took the Bandicoot along. It didn't see much action as the deer and pork had already been chuncked up, but while I was twisting the meat packed gut into links, I did use it to cut the links apart. I got all sorts of blood and pork fat on the handle and it stayed firmly in the hand with no slippage. I didn't have any staining of the exposed steel either. I have been carrying this little thing since I got it last week and it is a great knife. Sorry I don't have any pictures, but with us making sausage, no one had a hand free or clean to take hold of a camera.
 
I ran it through my industrial restaurant grade dish machine afterward too. It washes somewhere near 180 degrees and rinses at about 212. The handles where a little tacky after the wash, but when they came down to room temp they were the same as the day I got it in the mail. The coating was uncompromised as well. This just made me think about how hot can we get these things before we mess up the temper? I know Busse's have a high range, what about the rats?
 
You'd have to get it a lot hotter than that to cause any problems with the temper. I wouldn't intentionally drop it in a camp fire, but a little heat isn't going to hurt it.
 
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