Patina question: What's that funky taste!?

[shecky]

I confess that I can taste the steel in many of my high-carbon knives. I mean, when I give a clean knife a lick (eww! yeah right, like you never licked food off your knife.) I can taste the difference between my carbon Master Hunter and my stainless Frost's Clipper. The MH tastes like steel, the Clipper doesn't taste like anything at all. I have not noticed any residual taste on foods that I cut with either knife, nor have my woman and kids..

I'll do you one better. I can smell the difference. No, really. I'll bet you've noticed it too. That faint metallic odor.

 

[GibsonFan]

I'll do you one better. I can smell the difference. No, really. I'll bet you've noticed it too. That faint metallic odor.

Yup, I know exactly what you mean. Glad I'm not the only one People look at ya real strange when you sniff and lick a knife in the store...

 

[A druid]

some people believe that even stainless steel in kitchen knives plies a certain taste, I have heard that some Japanese sushi chefs prefer to use ceramic blades because they do not react with food all, given the genteel uses that slip joints are often put to. do you think we will ever see a ceramic bladed slip joint?

 

[malextwo]

GibsonFan - thanx for the info. I've printed it to try on an incoming Case CV. Mike

 

[Will Power]

This reminds me of a thread I left a couple of weks back.I'm still getting patina on a Weidmannsheil but it remains blue silver rather than black. And carbon most certainly does STINK preety strongly too:barf:

Once again, I begin to wonder what all this hoo-hah about carbon is and the sneering at stainless that seems to be de-rigeur

No, I've decided.Stainless is better all round! now I'll get lambasted!

 

[Myal]

to make a nice , almost instant patina on a carbon steel blade , I found it is hard to beat just sticking the blade into a green coconut husk .

its pretty instant too , when its as dark as you want it , rinse and dry your blade .

the only difficulty can be finding a coconut to use ....

Im not joking tho , when we go for holidays , my Opinel is almost black from opening coconuts

 

[runninmike]

If you have access to some film developer, instant blue.
I work in an art dept and the bottles sometimes need to be cut open at the top. If the blade remotely touches a drop of developer, it turns blue/black right away.
Best-MC

 

[Will Power]

Aha! Interesting, but does it stay that colour?
wonder if there are health issues with that method?