Carving the turkey

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To my wife's mild horror, I carved the turkey today not using one of her excellent Déglon kitchen knives*, but rather a wicked sharp Cattaraugus 225Q, seen below.

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* http://www.deglon.fr/outils_pros/produits.php?id_gama=76&id_job=25, bought at the actual store (don't miss the basement): http://eshop.e-dehillerin.fr/, well worth a stop if you're in Paris and a "cookie" or cutlery fan.

Anyone else use a non-traditional, non-standard-kitchen knife? Or a golden oldie from the collection?
 
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I'd have loved to see the wifes face when you set to carving with that old war horse! But sharp steel is still sharp steel.

We didn't have a turkey to carve, but we did have a smoked turkey breast and two large grilled salmons to serve up. My old Wenger chefs knife did the deed.
 
Carved the turkey today with my 25 year old Buck 119. My wife's only comment was "I hope that thing is clean."
 
That must have be a sight to carve the turkey with that beauty!!! No carving here but I did take apart an old heavy duty glass blender and had to scrape remnants of the gasket ( once removed) from the bottom on the glass to re-seat and seal it. My job was to make the Brandy Alexanders for everyone and the old blender needed to be cleaned properly and brought back to tip top working order! I was carrying the trusty IXL whittler and the razor thin blade served me well:D
 
I use a Buck 105 to carve our turkey, it is one mighty fine boning knife, it helped stripped the carcass and render the bones for the stock pot, good stuff...
 
I used a garage-sale Sabatier slicer with a bent tip. It probably got that bent tip from working on turkey joints. Maybe by next year I'll have my 225Q re-assembled.
 
r redden said:
Carved the turkey today with my 25 year old Buck 119. My wife's only comment was "I hope that thing is clean."
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I got that too. So I made a big obvious show to her and the longtime freinds at the table by washing it off with hot soapy water before carving.

And believe me, with that in hand, there were no concerns whatever about turkey joints.
 
A bunch of years ago I started to carve the Thanksgiving turkey and found my carving knife wasn't sharp enough. I went looking for something to use and settled on this 1990 Case sheath knife which I really hadn't used much. It did such a great job I've used it ever since.

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