what did you carve the turket with?

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psy-ops

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since I am the knife guy of the family. I get the honors of carving the bird.

I used a 8" sabatier carbon slicer. it was awesome. thin slices I didn't embarass myself this year. I am getting better at it and I also have the perfect knife for the job.
 
oh, in my house we have turkets

they are slightly dumber than turkeys :o

they have a hard time spelling stuff it isn't that they aren't educated, it is that they rush and don't proof read their posts. ;)


:o :o :o
 
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The TURKEY Carver of choice in todays uncertain world!!! :p:):p:):p
 
....and I thought you'd take a Sebenza for sure -giggle- :cool:



"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
It was a 7" Sabatier (Hoffritz) utility blade. I brought it with me since I knew I'd be the turkey-carver and all the kitchen knives in my sister's house all duller than a doorknob.
 
This year I used a George Young 4 inch kitchen knife. The paper thin blade stock is Stellite 6K. It's a dyed in the wool slicer.
 
A genuine, original, handmade, pre-Gerber Murphy carving set.

Thank you. Thank you. No applause is necessary. I'm just doing my duty to uphold the knife collector's Thanksgiving day responsibility. Thanksgiving is our only national holiday in which a knife plays a key role.
 
DDR Mad Max..folding turkey carver...................from thick to thin slice.....

and how could I not be the one to carve the turkey, when I spend the whole year "flashing" knives.....;)
 
I went to a friend's house and brought a hand-forged Murray Carter yanagi-ba (hope I'm spelling that correctly) with a 12" blade and ebony handle. It's a sushi/sashimi knife with a chisel grind, but I've found that the characteristics that allow it to slice fish so delicately also make it a great turkey carver. It's insanely sharp----and needed to be because the turkey was pretty dry and a normal knife would have crumbled the white meat.

I also brought along one of Murray's wabochos to handle all the vegetables. The downside was that it created a lot of extra work for me, since I won't let anyone else touch those knives. Then again, using Murray's knives isn't really "work".
 
We're having our turkey tommorow, but in years past I usually use my J. Marrtinnii 6 inch fillet knife. Works great, nice thin slices, gets really sharp!

Steve
 
I used my Murray Carter blades as well.
 
Nothing ! Went to relatives house but i had a MT UT6 and a Emerson CQC6 on me plus the ever present JSP V-gar system, surefire E2 and cell phone.
 
I carved our's with a large recurved Ruana camp knife. The "Finn" style I believe Vic Hangas & Sons call it. 10 inch blade, so no need to "saw". You just place it forward and draw it through. Worked like a charm. Last year we used a large Randall Model 4, but the Ruana performed much better.... :)
 
I'm so glad you asked, I carved this years turkey with a gift carving set from samhell AKA James Day. The knife took an amazing edge and the slices were picture perfect. The rest you can see from the pic, (which isn't one of mine). My guess would be this set was made back in the 1930's.

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Thanks James.
 
I have a huge confesion to make. For the past several years, after being "turned on" to the practicality...I use an electric knife on the bird. :eek:

Sacriledge, I know. But I've found I have much better control over slices when I can just move the electric knife down, instead of cutting back & forth with a regular knife. Especially if the bird is still warm and the slices don't hold together that well.

The electric is without a doubt the best for taking off legs & wings, where you need to separate joints without losing meat or ripping the friggin' limbs apart with your hands. Just bend against the joint, put the knife there and let it do the work.

I always take off the legs & wings, and put one horizontal cut along the bottom of the breast as far as it will go, that way the slices just fall off when I bring the knife down into the lateral cut.

My philosophy is - have fun, enjoy your toys, enjoy your romantic attachment to the old ways,...but when there's work to be done - the best tool for the job. Just the same as I don't use up the edge on my good knives to cut carpets (I use a Stanley 99 instead), I use what works best for me when bird carving.

Sincerely, Your unrepentant power tool user,
RH
 
An electric knife? Oh, the horror of it.

I say we banish him. There's just no option here.




Oh, and PhilL, do you use that holding mechanism on the back of the fork? I've never been able to get that thing to work right.
 
Originally posted by Gollnick

Oh, and PhilL, do you use that holding mechanism on the back of the fork? I've never been able to get that thing to work right.
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Yeah Chuck, it flips right down and works great.

I think banning is too good for that electric knife guy, let's burn him at the stake. :p
 
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