What did you use to carve the turkey?

[knarfeng]

Okay folks. It is food time (or at least it will be soon on the West Coast). The turkey, or ham, or something large and juicy is ready to be carved. The blessing is said. It's time to carve.

I will be using my grandfather's carving knife that dates from about 1890. Carbon steel, cuts like anything. Works better than any of my stainless kitchen knives. Just have to make sure I clean it as soon as I'm done.

What did you use?

 

[ashtxsniper]

my teath yum

 

[mete]

I used my 8" Henkels slicer which I made sure was VERY sharp. The host watched as the white meat fell apart and asked 'what's the matter is your knife dull ?" I said " No it's falling apart because the meat is overcooked " ,as usual !!! Anyway the special turkey tasted ok as did the rest of the meal and I brought home some leftovers to have tomorrow.

 

[jude_061]

we just tore it apart like savages. feathers were everywhere. its just a bird carcass, so we didn't want to waste a good knife on it.

just kidding. pete sharpened up the old stainless carving knife.

 

[boobar]

I used my Wusthof 8" carving knife and carving fork.

 

[dwatts67]

This year, the 22 lb bird was carved with a Himalayan Imports Seax. Great carver after I thinned out the edge a bit.

cheers,

--Dave

 

[Eager]

Old Hickory 10-in Cook knife. It worked great. I've found chef's knives work better for me at this than my carving knife.

http://www.knivesplus.com/QN-7910-Old-Hickory.HTML

This isn't a knife I use much. I tend to dull knives by carving a bird, so I didn't want to dull my nicely sharpen regular kitchen knives (MACs, Globals, and a Messermeister Asians in AUS-8).

 

[tim8557]

Actually, we ate at our son and daughter-in-layws house, so for the first time in forever, I never had a knife in my hands all day. He did make the side comment to the guests, "I made sure that I sharpened the blade cuz I knew that my Dad would be checking". Good kid, he learns well.

Of course, then he went to slicing on a ceramic platter but I got him straightened around on that issue quickly.

What a great dinner it was!

 

[JTC]

Well I'm kind of embarrased to admit I used my Cold Steel R1. I just had to cut someting with it. It worked fine but it was a little hard to cut with the turkey falling apart.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Queen Winterbottom Bone Carving Knife.

 

[sceva]

Gerber carving set. Gerber Balmung knife and Ron fork.

 

[fedaykincmndr]

Buck SBMF
...I need some good kitchen knives!

 

[SOLEIL]

An old and very good Kershaw blade trader set.

 

[cockroachfarm]

A Spyderco Police necklace knife. We'll be done around April, 2007.

 

[Phydeaux]

unfortunaely a POS cheap serrated knife at my in-laws. I can only kick my self for that one because I forgot to take one of my own knives with me. They turkey still tasted good, just a not as neatly cut up.

 

[alittle_edgy]

I walked into the kitchen to find my aunt slaughtering a ham with an electric fillet knife. I think the turkey saw what was happening and ran away. Can we start a thread for collectors of late seventies models electric fillet knives? (kidding, please let's not.)

 

[jude_061]

aren't they supposed to be DEAD? BEFORE you use the electric fillet knife? talk about rare meat...

now, about the EFK thread, one time, at knife Kamp...

 

[Midget]

strider BTSS

 

[Gollnick]

I used my Murphy carving set.

In the 1930's David Zephaniah Murphy was an automechanic for a local Ford dealership. Ford was experimenting with Aluminum pistons and having a lot of troubles, so much so that they told the dealers to stop sending the bad parts back and just throw them away. Murphy kept the pistons from his dealership and figured out how to melt them down and recast them to make handles for the knives he made in his spare time. He made mostly kitchen knives and table knives. He sold them door-to-door in the better neighborhoods. And so it was that he knocked on the door of a local marketing/advertising executive, Joseph Gerber. Gerber was so impressed with the knives that he agreed to buy all that Murphy could make. Gerber then marketed them under the Gerber Legendary Blades brand. In December of 1941, Murphy (who had grown dissatisfied with the cut that Gerber was giving him) abruptly stopped making household knives and shifted his whole effort to combat knives which he sold directly the military to support the war efforts. Today, Murphy combat knives are highly sought-after collectibles often fetching over a thousand dollars. Gerber had to get his household knives made elsewhere. But, the design which we, today, know as distinctly Gerber, was Murphy's. After the war, the two fought a bitter legal battle ending in Murphy's bankruptcy.

My set is original, pre-Gerber Murphy and in the original, hand-made presentation box.

I originally bought it thinking it was old Gerber to give as a wedding gift. When I got it home and lifted the knives out of the box and found them marked "Murphy", I was dissappointed thinking that they were monogramed and, therefore, not suitable for use as a wedding gift. I went at a local knife shop to get another carving set and happened to show the clerk my old Gerber set and I got set straight on what it is. Needless to say, I bought a new set to give to the wedding couple and kept the wonderful Murphy set to use for special occations myself.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

Vaquero Grande.