Turkey Knife

[stargawker]

Ok, in another forum here someone posted what to carve a turkey with and there were a lot of joke suggestions. I laughed when I got to the "baton through the carcass" part.

But in all seriousness, what KITCHEN knife do you all use for carving a turkey? I have always used an electric knife (the only thing I use it for all year) but now that I am starting to collect better kitchen knives, I am wondering if it could be more fun to use a manual knife. Pictures welcome of course.

 

[arty]

I got a 10 lb small turkey this year and used a Warther 7" slicer. It is made from S35V and works well as a carving knife or boning knife. For a bigger turkey, a longer blade would be helpful

 

[Vaporstang]

I use a LamsonSharp 8" plus (the closest thing I have to) a boning knife. We usually have larger turkeys; this year's was the smallest I remember and it was 18 1/2 lbs.

I did watch a couple of videos on carving a turkey and one of the "America's Test Kitchen" ones used a boning knife to remove the breasts and then an electric knife to slice the breasts......

 

[Fritz MacKrieg]

Ok, in another forum here someone posted what to carve a turkey with and there were a lot of joke suggestions. I laughed when I got to the "baton through the carcass" part.

But in all seriousness, what KITCHEN knife do you all use for carving a turkey? I have always used an electric knife (the only thing I use it for all year) but now that I am starting to collect better kitchen knives, I am wondering if it could be more fun to use a manual knife. Pictures welcome of course.

I used my Konosuke Fujiyama honesuki, and it was brilliant! My mom had never seen a turkey stripped of so much meat, and cutting through the wing joints was a breeze. I removed the breasts whole, and sliced them with my gyuto on the chopping block.

 

[stargawker]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I may try some of my manual knives this year instead of the electric.