Bizarre foods- is the host a "knife guy"?

[paperairplane]

Look around and you will find a lot of chefs and people in the food industry that really do not care about there cutlery nor sharpening and maintenance.

A lot of kitchens "rent" blades and treat cutlery like they do the linens and the uniforms.

That is very true - at work you use the dexters. But you always have a few nice blades at home. The real reason most chef's don't have fancy knives is their disposable income is spent on carousing. I never took my personal blades into work - and a paraframe would have been right in my budget for an EDC.

Chef Masaharu Morimoto has some great personal knives - not the branded stuff he sells.

 

[Daniel Dorn]

I used to DVR Bizarre Foods as well, and it seemed like every time he had a knife, it was a different one. He would have the same one for the whole time he was in a particular area, though. In the Australian Outback one, he had a fairly large folder which looked sort of generic.

He may not be a "Quality" knife owner, at least while on-the-road, but he is definitely someone who knows the value of having SOMEthing sharp on him at all times. I would imagine he might have a fairly good collection at home.

Really, though, when you are traveling that much, it's probably easier to just give the knife away at the end of an episode, and buy a new one at the next destination. I'm pretty sure it's what he does. I would...