M2 steel vs fruit acids

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buendia

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Everybody needs to find a compromise between cutting capabilities and smell and taste of various kinds of steel. I prefer to sacrifice the edge. I like eating fruit and veggies with my knives and there are a couple of blades I own that I simply cannot use for this task. My test is: to cut a cucumber and smell the blade, then taste the cucumber. I`m fine with D2, 440ABC, 3D(SGPS), but I can`t use e.g. high carbon Opinel.

What experiences do you have with M2?
 
buendia said:
Everybody needs to find a compromise between cutting capabilities and smell and taste of various kinds of steel. I prefer to sacrifice the edge. I like eating fruit and veggies with my knives and there are a couple of blades I own that I simply cannot use for this task. My test is: to cut a cucumber and smell the blade, then taste the cucumber. I`m fine with D2, 440ABC, 3D(SGPS), but I can`t use e.g. high carbon Opinel.

What experiences do you have with M2?
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I actually use a high-carbon opinel as my food blade, and it gets used on cucumbers three or four times a week. For the first while, there was a distinct iron taste to the food, but once it got a bit of a patina, everything was great, and it works wonders.

Maybe try one of the methods of quickly develloping a patina on an opinel, and trying it? And see if that gets you anyplace. Then you can apply the same lesson to other steels.
 
I bought my friend an Opinel 10 years ago and he still uses it for food. It`s patinated very well, but still, its metallic aftertaste is too much for me.
What a steel for cutting though...
 
I used an M2 stryker once (coated) and had no problem all day long with tomatoes and potatoes. You wouldn't think it but potatoes are horrible at staining, well everything once they've say for a while peeled....
 
The idea of somebody using a Stryker on potatoes is funny to me. No offense or anything, it's just such a silly image.
 
Been carring a BM710HSSR in my pocket for like 6 years now. M2 steel, never a sign of rust.
 
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