I would totally rub my cock on these, but I'd probably end up cutting it off

[Jasper]

1) Duller knives are more dangerous.  Keep that shit as sharp as you can.

2) Do this:



But keep your thumb away from the cutting point.

[Suu]

Made in Japan, and Japanese steel are not the same thing.

La dee fucking da.

[East Coast Hustle]

Just how much were these knives anyway?

The one I want:

http://www.metrokitchen.com/product/KJ-KT-155-HIP-D

that IS nice, but I have trouble imagining it's $100 better than Kyocera's normal ceramic chef knife.

[East Coast Hustle]

the one with the walnut handle needs to be sharpened a bit more, but the one with the black handle is actually sharper than my water buffalo knife, which was previously the sharpest knife I had ever seen (and a gift from Jacque Richard), let alone owned. 90% of what I do is run-of-the-mill slicing and dicing, and it's like whatever I'm cutting isn't even there. I'm pretty sure I could behead someone cleanly with this blade, if it were long enough.

Swote. I've lately been getting some decent knives as presents, several orders of magnitude better than the cheap(est) set I had before.

Similar to having a clean and relatively spaceous kitchen, sharp knives just make cooking more fun.

Do you have any tips on how not to cut off parts of the tops of your fingers, or is that basically just a matter of being insanely careful?

Cause it seems, the sharper the knife, the sooner and more splattery I manage to fuck up some part of my hand.

when you're slicing/dicing, the hand that's not holding the knife should have the fingers loosely tented with the tips of the fingers slightly curled inwards so that your fingernails act as a sort of guide/failsafe, rather than the flesh at the tips. That said, you're generally MUCH more likely to injure yourself with a dull knife than a sharp one.

ETA: or, just see Siggy's post.

[East Coast Hustle]

Just how much were these knives anyway?

I got them on ebay and paid around $100 for the two of them, but realistically for a knife like this you could expect to pay anywhere from $200 to $300 each. I'd have been quite happy to pay $200 for each of these knives.