HI vs. Cutco

Semper Fi

Semper Fi

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Anybody ever hear of Cutco kitchen knives? I hadn't until my buddy calls me up and says his young daughter is selling knives and she wants to make a presentation. Hmm...a "presentation" me thinks. He says she gets 10 bucks for just doing it and I don't have to buy anything so I said OK.

Anywhoo, she goes through the canned pitch and then comes to the punch line...the set only costs $800! But since I have been knife and gun and motorcycle parts poor for years (otherwise I would be retired by now) I had to pass.

So I said would ya like to see a real knife? I brought out a Bura 18" chiruwa AK and the little girls eyes about fell out of her head! :D "What do you use that for?" she asks as she fondled the blade still wide eyed with a big grin on her face.

I saw my buddy this morning and he said his daughter was still talking about that "monster" knife. :D
 
Semper Fi said:
he said his daughter was still talking about that "monster" knife. :D
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Gotta Love it! Better not show her that BDC --it might really be love at first sight. I can see her now carrying it to school to "show her friends." OMG! :rolleyes:
 
My folks are still using the Cutco knives they received as a wedding gift 40-odd years ago. They have the "revolutionary" Thomas Lamb handles (like Loveless used) and are all serrated save for a Chef's knife and a carver. The set also came with barbeque tools, and a less-than-ideal serrated filet knife and a 100% worthless serrated hunting knife. Really, they are not bad kitchen knives.

I can't say I like the way they are sold now. It smacks of an "Amway" or other barely-legal Ponzi scheme. A friend of mine got involved in their new marketing approach, and wanted to give his shpeil to My room mates and I. I don't think he appreciated it very much when I kept interrupting to set him straight on the numerous "selling points" he was regurgitating. It was tough love, though. If he could learn to respond to my questions and objections, he would probably have been a much better salesman. He never realized what a favor I was doing for him by heckling his pitch. :rolleyes: ;) :p
 
My parents also got a set when they were married in 1954. Came with a HD plastic rack that hung on the wall. All non-serrated, and some of the sharpest damn knives I have ever used. Of course my Dad kept them razor sharp, but they were excellent quality.

My Dad died almost 25 years ago and I haven't had the pleasure of speaking to my mother in 15 years or so, so I have no idea what happened to them, but would not be surprised if they were still in use.

I really doubt that the ones being sold today are of the same quality, but I have no idea. If I had that kind of bread to spend on kitchen knives, (rather than the more neccessary HI khuks!), I would just get myself a good set of Henckels 5-Star or Twin Select knives and not worry about it the rest of my life. :)

Regards,

Norm
 
Norm, if you do a search you'll find the subject of Cutco has been covered here in Bladeforums many times. It was one of the first questions I asked when I found Bladeforums.

For the Record, I would like to propose that should HI ever accept special orders again, the Bowie knife with a skinnier blade would be an excellent kitchen knife.

I'd like to see HI offer a couple great kitchen knives and a fork. Yep, a large fork suitable for the barbecue or holding the turkey before carving etc etc.


munk
 
cutco = sales nazi's. every last one of my freinds who went to the first semenar said that within the first 2 minutes the thought popped into their heads - every last one of them "this man... this man trying to sell me knives. he is pure evil."

its a complete brain wash campaign, up there with the best of them.
 
BruiseLeee said:
A fork by Sher would probably weigh a pound and a half.
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Yeah, but it would probably be able to flip over a whole buffalo carcass on the bbq without bending :D.
--Josh
 
years ago my Mom called to have me come over to her house because a friend of hers had a daughter that was selling Cutco so she could earn extra $$ for school...got me the cleaver, still use it today...

I would love to see H.I make a cleaver
 
That's it, a cleaver, just a Bowie made thinner, with perhaps a slightly crescent moon curvature to the edge so you can rock it back and forth while cutting.

And a fork that doesn't bend would be neat.


munk
 
I can see it now...the "munk espescial ala kitchen"

I can't wait for the blems...they'll go great with my cooking. :barf:
 
I thought that the Bilton and Kagas Katne were HI's kitchen khukuris.

Now forks? Spearing food and eating it off of a miniature trident? That's for savages! :barf: I'll use my prehensile and sophisticated fingers thank you very much.

Though, I would like a way to dip a Bilton into a jar of raspberry preserves without sending glass anywhere.
 
Nasty said:
I can see it now...the "munk espescial ala kitchen"

I can't wait for the blems...they'll go great with my cooking. :barf:
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I propose "the Munkuchina". :cool:
 
I think that'll have to be "The munkuchina"

(Lower case "m" remember!) ;-)
 
I can live with that. :)

Seriously, a convex cleaver that can chop and also has a spine you can grip and rock like an ooloo for mincing up veggies would be way cool! :cool:
 
wow! That would be an awesome joke to play on the telekinetic spoon-bender types!

Carbon fiber or titanium for non-bendy utensils?

Or how about polyetherimide resins? A dowell rod of this heat set resin about 3/8 inch in diameter is unbendable. The stuff is indestructible. They make those roller ball things for mouses and controllers out of it.
The expense comes in in the heated compression mould design, which starts around a couple million or so, for small pieces.

Keith
 
A nice wedding gift and you can bury it in the Burgler's forehead. But when I say fork I mean something 18" long.

I haven't had a decent barbecue fork in many years now.



munk
 
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