Bushcraft Knife in Kitchen?

[stabman]

Recently got a knife back from my dad; traded him a knife he liked a bit better for this one I had given him years back.
A J. Diotte bushcraft knife I got many years ago from kgd.
154CM blade, 4 inches long, 0.208" thick steel.
0.050" thick behind the edge.

Amazing handle ergonomics, and practically indestructible blade.
My dad took it out to the woods and hunting when he wanted a knife he knew was indestructible in case of needing to get fire in in case of emergency.
He doesn't head out so much now, and he still has the Busse Gamewarden I gave him, so he will be fine.

My stepbrother had also borrowed it from my dad in the past when he wanted an indestructible emergency knife with him.

Well, now I have it again.
In a city.
With no woods in sight...what to do?

Hmmm, need to eat. Low on freezer meat supplies, but there is an old frozen pack of donair meat.
Is the Diotte up to the task?

Yep.

Cuts meat that is solidly frozen good enough.

How about onions?

Not elegant, but it makes them into pieces.

To busy eating ravenously to take more pics under packing up the leftovers:

Guess it counts as survival knife now, since it helped me make food.
Thus I did not starve to death, and survived.

 

[jacobconroy75]

Sometimes I cook dinner with a ridiculous knife just to see how it goes. Know what?

They all cut stuff. Makes cooking a lot more fun if you ask me. Cool knife!

 

[stabman]

Sometimes I cook dinner with a ridiculous knife just to see how it goes. Know what?

They all cut stuff. Makes cooking a lot more fun if you ask me. Cool knife!

Thanks!

It does make it more fun.
Used a ZT tactical tomahawk to make supper before. That was interesting.

The more things you cut with your knives and other edged tools, the more dexterous you become using them, too.

Plus, most of us spend more of our lives inside than in the woods (or emergency situations of any sort), so if we reserved all our stuff for the things it was supposedly intended for, we wouldn't get to use it much.

 

[jacobconroy75]

Thanks!

It does make it more fun.
Used a ZT tactical tomahawk to make supper before. That was interesting.

The more things you cut with your knives and other edged tools, the more dexterous you become using them, too.

Plus, most of us spend more of our lives inside than in the woods (or emergency situations of any sort), so if we reserved all our stuff for the things it was supposedly intended for, we wouldn't get to use it much.

Correct on all points. It's tough for my wife to poopoo my expensive EDC folders when I feed her with 'em!

 

[stabman]

Correct on all points. It's tough for my wife to poopoo my expensive EDC folders when I feed her with 'em!

I employ the same tactic!

 

[kobold]

Yeah, I also retired my chef's knife and just rotate a BRKT Aurora 2, and Tundra. I don't need all that length and a convex blade slides through everything.

 

[jacobconroy75]

I might go find the Spyderco Bushcrafter for salad and veggie chopping tonight. I'll bet that Scandi grind works well for skinning a carrot.

Only one way to find out.

 

[stabman]

Yeah, I also retired my chef's knife and just rotate a BRKT Aurora 2, and Tundra. I don't need all that length and a convex blade slides through everything.

I might go find the Spyderco Bushcrafter for salad and veggie chopping tonight. I'll bet that Scandi grind works well for skinning a carrot.

Only one way to find out.

I approve.

 

[jacobconroy75]

My experiment:



First I removed the hide. It worked better than I expected to. Faster than the carrot peeler? Nope.



My first vegetable feather stick, in case we need to build a fire for a rabbit.




A fire-bloom:




And then I chopped it all up. Job done. I'd guess it took five times longer than the regular tools, but it was ten times more fun.



The carrot did remove all the fire steel residue from the blade, and I've never known of an easy way to do that until today. Great Success!

 

[stabman]

My experiment:

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First I removed the hide. It worked better than I expected to. Faster than the carrot peeler? Nope.

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My first vegetable feather stick, in case we need to build a fire for a rabbit.

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A fire-bloom:

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And then I chopped it all up. Job done. I'd guess it took five times longer than the regular tools, but it was ten times more fun.

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The carrot did remove all the fire steel residue from the blade, and I've never known of an easy way to do that until today. Great Success!

Excellent!
The carrot feather stick is truly a thing of beauty. It may become a new internet sensation.