What is Your Favorite Best Knife To Use To Carve Turkey, Etc.

So, yesterday we’ve thoroughly carved the turkey.
This is my choice for the day after, to spread mayo on a major league turkey sandwich!!
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Have a Cutco carving set that is only used to carve turkeys. Bought it 10 years ago and hasn't needed to be sharpened.
 
The assisted living facility I'm living in only gets turkey breast. They use an ULU to slice (and for some residents, dice)
Prior to coming here, I bought only the choice cuts (IMHO): Gizzards & Hearts, (one of the grocers has 2 pound packs around TG) and a couple drumsticks or thighs. I like the dark meat. Fowl breast is dry ... kinda like instant coffee or Cappuccino before adding water ... or my mum's pot roast ... fried/baked/broiled chicken ... vegetables ... (cooking was not one of her fortes.) ☹️
I just used whatever knife was in my pocket to make them bite size, or to cut the thighs and/or drumsticks into turkey nuggets. 😁👍
 
Funny (well, kinda) thanksgiving story. Few years ago, I had a 8”Farberware serrated bread knife that was a real dog. I was just about to throw it in the scrap bin, but at the last minute I decided to experimentally grind the serrations off and rework the geometry. Surprisingly, it improved that knife to where it became my favorite stainless slicer.

Usually, some friend or another invites me to their big family reunion Thanksgiving dinner. Knowing I’m a knife guy, usually I am asked to bring a knife to carve the turkey. Sometimes there’s a family member there who wants to use their own hunting, fillet or electric knife, so we each carve one side, kind of like a friendly contest. Hard to determine a loser, because you can’t carve the meat out of it. I have a couple parlor tricks up my sleeve.

Anyway, this year the diners included a young boy about 10, who had just deer hunted his first season. He didn’t harvest a deer himself, but his older brother did, and let him help skin and process it. So this kid is ALL excited about cutting meat.

He hauls out his hunting knife, inherited from his uncle, I think. It’s a Solingen bowie with a stag handle and brass hilt, sorta worn down but still useable, and duller than sin. He lays into one side of the turkey and starts gouging out chunks. I ask his dad if I can show him how to sharpen it, and demonstrate on an old oilstone dug up from somewhere. Then I show him how to burnish on my F. Dick smooth steel, and we achieve a big improvement in the edge when he goes after the turkey again. He slices up one side, and I tell him, “keep on going bud, carve the other side too” which he does with enthusiasm. His mother bones out the thighs and drumsticks with her paring knife, and the kid has a mile wide smile as he lugs the platter over and hoists it up on the table.

When we sit down to eat, he cuts his food apart with that hunting knife - not just the turkey, but his asparagus and mashed potatoes and stuffing too. His relatives comment on how well the turkey was cut, his brother gets a big kick out of saying “I’ll never have to dress another deer again”, and the boy is just beaming.

I think he’ll grow up into a knife knut for sure. And I’ll never get to carve another turkey at his house.

Parker
 
I this Love stainless serbian Knife , shape is better and mire handy than the original one. 3 Layer Blade looks excellent.
Also cutting is a plesure with this very scharp knife.
 
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