CS Vaquero Grande Folding Bread Knife

[James Mattis]

On two separate Friday nights this month, I ran a totally unscientific test of the Cold Steel Vaquero Grande megafolder, shown here with other stuff from my pockets and belt pouches for scale.

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After services at temple, there are a couple of large loafs of challah - egg bread that's thick-crusted and soft inside and very good - to eat. The sisterhood ladies who slice typically find the dullest bread knife in the temple kitchen to do it with. So on two Friday nights I saw a need, and I handed them my CS Vaquero Grande.

The verdict from the hard-working "little old ladies" - "Nice knife!"

A lenghwise draw cut up the middle of the loaf, then slicing across, makes short work of the egg bread. The reverse curve helps, since there's some "belly" out toward the tip that cuts backwards much more efficiently than the straight tip of a typical blunt-nose bread knife.

Both "little old ladies" handed the knife back to me open, since they didn't know how to operate a lockback, and the backspring is a bit too stiff for them to squeeze easily. Maybe I should pick up a CS Desperado, with a similar blade and no moving parts, and donate it to the temple kitchen!

This is what is was designed for, isn't it?

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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001

 

[Knave]

"What has he got in his pocketses?" Well, among other things, he has "my precious" (the Lum)!

 

[V44]

Mr. Mattis

A question for you: The prayer, it had nothing to do with it? Anyone seeing that grande slide out of your pocket would have to utter a prayer.

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Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

 

[James Mattis]

The "Motzi" prayer for the bread had already been said by all, and people there are used to me and know I'm harmless, so nobody screamed or fainted.

The rabbi, who also owns one, did warn the lady about the edge being seriously sharp, but she handled it competantly and confidently.


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001

 

[Marcus]

Vaqueros work great on bagles and hamburger rolls too! That`s why I carry mine,for baked goods emergencys....yeah that`s the ticket.

Marcus

 

[carnifex]

Hehe, Tell that one to the judge

"But your honor, I only had it on me in case I ever needed to slice some bread! I really, really, really didn't mean to cut that muggers arm off!"
Yeah, that will convince him

And I only carry my Benchmade CQC-7 to slice open boxes and do other chores at work...
But since folding knives that you can open with one hand are considered an illegal weapon to even own in my country, then I would probably get busted for possesion of an illegal weapon anyways..sigh...It's a hard life...

Enjoy the bread

A rabbi with a Vaquero Grande..now there's a an image I won't forget in a while

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"Move like Water, strike like Thunder..."

 

[Dave K]

I suppose I ought to resist the temptation to include the obligatory bris joke...

-Dave

 

[James Mattis]

Yes, you should.

No - Not with that big serr...

!!! The rabbi's left-handed Dalton CA Special auto might do in a pinch, but professionals nowadays use sterile scalpels.

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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001

 

[Dave K]

Buncha wimps!

Traditionally, wasn't it just supposed to be a sharpened rock or something?

Ignorant of my own religion...

-Dave

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Sun God, Sun God...RA RA RA!

 

[James Mattis]

In Exodus, chapter 4, there's a strange incident during which Moses' wife, Zipporah, circumcises their son with a flint knife. In the book of Joshua, chapter 5, Joshua directs the tribe to make flint knives for a mass circumcision. Stone knives would probably have been a lot sharper and more suitable for surgery than anything made of bronze in the bad old days. Bronze, being less made a better edged weapon than flint, which is brittle, and may have made a better bread knife too.



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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001

 

[Dave K]

I wonder if a freshly-chipped flint knife would have been sharper and more sterile than a yucky old piece of bronze or iron.

There's some CRAZY stuff in the Old Testament...it's a lot of fun.

-Dave

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Sun God, Sun God...RA RA RA!

 

[AlaChoctaw]

James, I just received my Vaquero Grande yesterday.Merely seeing a picture isn't adequate to illustrate the size of that thing! I don't have a clue what I'll do with it(other than slice bread), but I sure do like it.It's fun just opening a knife that size!

 

[4scoleman]

What a bread knife!!! I can't wait to cut the heads off King Salmon in Alaska this summer with mine!!!

 

[bagman]

Stop all this talk, it is bringing tears to my eyes.

On holiday in the Troodos mountains of Cyprus a couple of years ago my partially serrated AFCK saw sterling service as a bread knife to cut the village bread we bought everyday.

Tough crust but much softer inside. none of the knives in the apartment would touch it but my trusty BM handled it very well. It also helped to answer the question from my wife about why did you need to bring a knbbife with you on holiday. (this is after I had my CF handled dragon fly confiscated at security at Gatwick Airport)