Turkey Carving Knives

[mbkryan]

I know some of y'all are using your knives for carving turkey today. If you are a knife nut using a custom carving knife, a cold steel espada XL, a SAK, etc. for carving a huge bird, then lets see some pics!

 

[Cobalt]

This one.

 

[SharpieB]

Whatever my father in law decides to cut the turkey with. Hard to drink beer and cut a turkey! I might let him try my Kershaw Camp 18” for fun though. We use the usual mid-priced Henkels and Wusthofs in the kitchen for big jobs generally.

I will be using a Spyderco Manix 2 for prepping Brussels sprouts and other veggies though.

 

[Puleio]

My kitchen knives are Henkels, and my wife's are a Calphalon set because of the handle ergonomics. The Henkels keep an edge well; the Calphalons are ok. I touch them all up every 2-3 weeks on the sharpmaker, depending on how rough we are on them.
For carving, Henkels 10" chefs knife is my first preference. Nice and thin.

Of course, this year we are cooking a duck instead of a turkey, and it is going into the oven already quartered, so the carving job will be a bit different than usual.

Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the holiday.

Edit: Changed out 'Cuisinart' for 'Calphalon'. I was in a rush the other day and mistyped... only realizing the issue as I was putting clean knives back in the block today. Ooops.

 

[knarfeng]

Grandfather's carving set. It dates from about 1900. No stainless steel in those days.

 

[mb>]

Happy Thanksgiving! Hot off the grill. Let's eat...

 

[David T. MacNeill]

My Bark River Northwind. 8~)

 

[Velitrius]

This one.

Wow Cobalt... Jerry must really have it out for the noble bird. No pardon could save a turkey from that.

Grandfather's carving set. It dates from about 1900. No stainless steel in those days.

Very classy, Frank. Sometimes stainless just need not apply.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

I used to use a carving set, but now that I smoke my bird low and slow I don't have to carve a thing.

I was actually just picking bones out of the meat as it just fell apart into a pile of delicious tender morsels

My carving days are done

 

[Hickory n steel]

Halved Cornish hens not turkey, but that's just how we do it in my house.

Btw yes I probably do need to take some oven cleaner or something to my rotisserie

 

[katanas]

Steely, that's disgusting. Cutting the turkey is part of the tradition. Please forward said turkey like substance and I will see to it that the poor (who have no alternative) get to chuck it down as best they can.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Steely, that's disgusting. Cutting the turkey is part of the tradition. Please forward said turkey like substance and I will see to it that the poor (who have no alternative) get to chuck it down as best they can.

I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing, I do not eat turkey.
Lemmon pepper rotisseried Cornish hen is 10x better than any turkey could ever hope to be if you ask me.
Everyone has their own tradition and this is mine, I know people who eat ham, roast, salmon, turkey, goose, and turducken on Thanksgiving. There's no such things as " THE " traditional Thanksgiving.

 

[NJBillK]

Becker BK5, that I thinned down to .025 BTE, with a hair whittling edge and a satin finish.

 

[Puleio]

We live about 1500 miles from the rest of the family.... and my mom just sent a picture of my little brother (the professional chef) carving their turkey using the AG Russell Folding Cook's Knife II that I gave him last year for Christmas.

I just had to share that. Now, back to the family.
Enjoy

Side note: the duck I mentioned earlier turned out fantastic and carved easily. I served it over shallots and chard cooked in the duck fat with mashed potatoes, roasted broccoli, and cranberry sauce, it was fantastic. yummmmm

 

[katanas]

Hickory, I was referring to steely-gunz post #9. I am aware of the existence of many traditions, however he violated that turkey by not giving it the dignity of a "thousand cuts".

 

[GatorFlash1]

I like the Victorinox Fibrox boning knife for turkey. There is wide assortment of Fibrox knives in my kitchen from Chef 8" to a great filet knife.

If you have never heard of this Swiss Army Knife related product check this out.

 

[22-rimfire]

This is one time a big thin slicing knife comes in handy. We shared turkey day dinner at my wife's daughter and I did no turkey cutting; only eating. I did notice that the the white meat "slices" were thicker than I generally prefer and that is usually because the knife wasn't all that sharp.

 

[91bravo]

I may have went a little overboard, but I used the CPK BC to carve the turkey yesterday!

 

[OldNavy]

I used the one on the top.

A 240 mm Zakuri , Aogami Super Kurouchi Gyuto it's my daily kitchen Beater
but it takes an insane edge.

 

[BladeScout]

Surprised nobody used a smatchet ...