Do you use an outdoor fixed blade in the kitchen?

[The Grendels]

Sometimes, but I also have a collection of kitchen steel that generally offsets the need to use my outdoor fixed blades.

 

[NapalmCheese]

I mean I have, because if I get a new knife I'm going to use it for something and like 98% of my knife work is in the kitchen; but I certainly don't preferentially use outdoor knives in the kitchen; my kitchen knives do a much better job.

 

[shane45-1911]

Does the Bow River cut meat and cheese well - particularly meat?

Cheese tends to stick to this knife (although that is a universal issue with many knives), but mine cuts meat rather well as long as the knife is sharp.

 

[grybsh7]

I've had this Spyderco South Fork in my kitchen knife block for several years.
Doesn't see a lot of use but I will use for boning and heavy slicing.

 

[Toomanyquestions]

After some thought, I bought a carbon steel kitchen knife, the Ontario small fish and game knife (I should have listened to the experienced hands who counseled against bushcraft knives), and a Mora Flex (recommended on this thread). I believe the first and the last kinfe will stay in my kitchen for a long while.

 

[Fanglekai]

No I don't. Fixed blades for outdoor use are too thick and/or don't have the right geometry.

 

[AntDog]

My Buck 102 is one of my favorite kitchen knives. It’s somehow great at cutting meat. Excels at peeling taters, slicing maters, and dicing onions too.





My Greco Companion manages to cut a thing or two despite its girth. At 1/4” thick it theoretically shouldn’t be able to chop a hot turd. I just use it instead of listening to armchair quarterback opinions.

 

[luethge]

Does this count ?

 

[SimplyMinded]

I've got some Old Hickory knives I've taken outdoors that work well in the kitchen. That's the thing about those, the patterns have been around so long that they were American outdoor knives before there were really outdoor knives. I wouldn't put them through the abuse modern outdoor knives are expected to endure, I have a camp axe or hatchet for that.

 

[NorthernSouthpaw]

You know what works absolutely amazing as a kitchen knife?...


a F#*@%NG kitchen knife!!!!!!!!
Who walks around the house with a sheathed knife on their hip?
Get yourself a decent chef knife and paring knife. Those two will cover about 95% of what you need in a normal home kitchen. The best thing is they stay in the Freaking kitchen! So you have zero need to speculate if you can julienne an onion with an ESEE Junglas.....

Sorry, but as a chef, these posts always rub me the wrong way.

 

[Drop bear]

I have the men with a pot knife. Which is ridiculously expensive for what it is. But it is still fun to use.

 

[emjay]

I have, but don't anymore. Kitchen knives work best at kitchen knife duties (who would've thought?). I only used my non-kitchen knives in the kitchen because I wanted to and it was fun, but cleaning food bits out of folders isn't fun, and outdoor fixed blades usually have horrible geometry for cutting up food. It can be done, but it's like using a pair of pliers to tighten a nut. It's not ideal.

Even when I go camping, I'll bring along a couple of kitchen knives for food duties. I have a large folding knife that gets put into kitchen duty if I'm away for work or holiday and the place I'm staying at has blunt knives (which is always the case anyway), but I don't regularly use it in my own kitchen.

 

[bikerector]

You know what works absolutely amazing as a kitchen knife?...


a F#*@%NG kitchen knife!!!!!!!!
Who walks around the house with a sheathed knife on their hip?
Get yourself a decent chef knife and paring knife. Those two will cover about 95% of what you need in a normal home kitchen. The best thing is they stay in the Freaking kitchen! So you have zero need to speculate if you can julienne an onion with an ESEE Junglas.....

Sorry, but as a chef, these posts always rub me the wrong way.

Why does it rub you the wrong way? Seriously, it shouldn't bother you at all what other people are using in their kitchens.

And I didn't know it was wrong to walk around the house with a fixed blade. Sounds as silly as telling someone it's wrong to carry their handgun around the house.

And the cursing certainly is overkill. Life is too short to get upset about little things like this.

Sorry, but as a knife nut, posts like yours rub me the wrong way.

 

[Wild Willie]

Like bikerector I have a couple of of EDChefs from David Mary . Even though intended to mainly be used in food prep I carry the top one in 15n20 in my bag everywhere. It gets used to open concrete, cut rope, plastic and whatever else needs cutting. So I'm more inclined to take a kitchen knife outdoors to use than bring in a field knife. Personally value the cutting ability of a thin kitchen knife than the abuse factor of an outdoor knife...

 

[Zulus]

I don't
Got few good kitchen knives handy at kitchen

But opposite, yes
I took kitchen knives to do home jobs very often