From Hungary by a Parisian friend

Âchillepattada

Âchillepattada

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The Porch is a fantastic place where a French amateur from Paris can discover the Hungarian cutlery with the help of another Parisian friend met on Blades Forum o_O
Thanks a lot Jolipapa for this nice surprise :)🙏

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Âchillepattada said:
The Porch is a fantastic place where a French amateur from Paris can discover the Hungarian cutlery with the help of another Parisian friend met on Blades Forum o_O
Thanks a lot Jolipapa for this nice surprise :)🙏

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Glad you enjoy it 😀
Hungary has an old tradition of cutlery, of course influenced by all the events that happened in her rather short history. (Magyars settled about year 1000)
JM's knife, a rác (old word for Serb - pronounce rats), made by László Papp is the equivalent of a boy's knife. Patterns often come in 2 or 3 sizes, from #10cm to 14,5cm. Blade is German Krupp stainless steel. Local stag antlers for the slabs is popular, (other materials are the usual wood or horn, both imported or local).
As you can see in the video, shortage is not an option! 😀
(There's a short thread about Hungarian knives, but I couldn't locate it.)

It is not just by chance that one of the most spread family name translates by blacksmith 😀
There are cutleries all over the country, but the town of Debrecen, "far East", near the Romanian border can be considered as the capital, though most cutlers are small outlets, often a family tradition.

Traditional patterns;
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(Arató : reaper; Gráci, from the Austrian town of Graz; Fejesgörbe : rounded head; Körmölő : doodler/scrapper; Juhász : shepherd; Szalonnázó ; lard knife- a tradition in winter is to melt lard at a campfire and spread it on bread and eat it with an onion. The more the snow, the more enjoyable. 😆

Náder Ignác was a famous cutler in Szeged during the XIXth century, he gave his name to the pattern he created. About the same time, Sziráky József, in the same town invented the Halas (fish) shaped like a fish.
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Two more patterns from Debrecen : Páros-kés paired knife :
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and Farvillás - litterally fork-in-the-bottom 😀
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Beware : Szalonnázó at work 😋
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Âchillepattada said:
The Porch is a fantastic place where a French amateur from Paris can discover the Hungarian cutlery with the help of another Parisian friend met on Blades Forum o_O
Thanks a lot Jolipapa for this nice surprise :)🙏

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What a great surprise! Way to go Jolipapa Jolipapa !

Jolipapa said:
Glad you enjoy it 😀
Hungary has an old tradition of cutlery, of course influenced by all the events that happened in her rather short history. (Magyars settled about year 1000)
JM's knife, a rác (old word for Serb - pronounce rats), made by László Papp is the equivalent of a boy's knife. Patterns often come in 2 or 3 sizes, from #10cm to 14,5cm. Blade is German Krupp stainless steel. Local stag antlers for the slabs is popular, (other materials are the usual wood or horn, both imported or local).
As you can see in the video, shortage is not an option! 😀
(There's a short thread about Hungarian knives, but I couldn't locate it.)

It is not just by chance that one of the most spread family name translates by blacksmith 😀
There are cutleries all over the country, but the town of Debrecen, "far East", near the Romanian border can be considered as the capital, though most cutlers are small outlets, often a family tradition.

Traditional patterns;
ab80cb59273843b9289d387d98837e25.jpg

(Arató : reaper; Gráci, from the Austrian town of Graz; Fejesgörbe : rounded head; Körmölő : doodler/scrapper; Juhász : shepherd; Szalonnázó ; lard knife- a tradition in winter is to melt lard at a campfire and spread it on bread and eat it with an onion. The more the snow, the more enjoyable. 😆

Náder Ignác was a famous cutler in Szeged during the XIXth century, he gave his name to the pattern he created. About the same time, Sziráky József, in the same town invented the Halas (fish) shaped like a fish.
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Two more patterns from Debrecen : Páros-kés paired knife :
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and Farvillás - litterally fork-in-the-bottom 😀
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Beware : Szalonnázó at work 😋
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Great post! I'll have to spend some time with it. My great grandfather, who emigrated to the US in 1898, was a blacksmith in Ohid, Hungary. I believe he specialized in ornamental iron work. Unfortunately I don't know much more then that about his work.
 
Jolipapa said:
A TV report (in Hungarian, sorry) showing history and the maker.
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Of course I didn't understand a word, but it was nice to see the maker, and some of the process!!! Thanks!!
 
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