Merry Christmas to me!

[freq18hz]

I mentioned to her months ago that our cooking knives suck, and how it would be nice to get a gift that I hadn't thought of...

So she goes and searches out this tiny co-op cutler called Bernal Cutlery in San Francisco. She picked up this pair of cooking/sushi knives. High carbon steel, they hand sharpened them on the whetstone right in front of her. They whittle hairs, and IMHO are beautiful. I lucked out! She took me in to the store a few days later, and I picked up an opinel no 07, again hand sharpened on their wheel and whetstone. A scalpel!

-Freq

 

[orca8589]

Very nice! I like the fact that they sharpen there in the store. I need to get over there and check them out. We moved out of SF back in '06, and I miss the city in some ways.

A roommate years ago had a knife like the top one, that he got from a coworker on a fishing boat in Alaska. The guys on board only carried the one knife for all their fish cleaning chores. I loved using that one in the kitchen.

~Chris