Food Thread

AdkEric · Jun 11, 2022

Reach said:
I will second the winner of the day! That makes me jealous, I was thinking about going out and buying a steak tonight, but after spending at least five or six hours on the road every day this week, the last thing I wanted to do was drive 40 minutes to the nearest steakhouse, so I settled for a spaghetti from a pizza shop. I am still amazed that there are at least nine pizza shops within 3 miles of my house, and no steakhouse closer than a 40 minute drive away.

Thanks! It is similar around here, pizza places on every corner, but I'm about 45 minutes to a steak house. There is one great restaurant in town that does a very nice steak, but unfortunately they are selling the business and retiring.

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

VenasNursery said:
Waiting on you to open a restaurant?
And the address?
Jk looks good and I like exploring different tastes

What's Jk ?

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
What's Jk ?

It means “Just Kidding”.

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

VenasNursery said:
Waiting on you to open a restaurant?
And the address?
Jk looks good and I like exploring different tastes

Years ago, I would have the occasional dinner party. I would write-up a "formal menu" for each place setting.

The menu header was: "Sawmill Bar & Grill".

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

Bread baking day. Loaves are 7 - 8" diam.

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
Bread baking day. Loaves are 7 - 8" diam.

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Those look good. What brand of knife is that?

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

@Reach - 10" Solicut, German. Very nice.

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
@Reach - 10" Solicut, German. Very nice.

It looks very nice. I’ve never heard of that maker, but they appear to know what they’re doing.

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

Reach said:
It looks very nice. I’ve never heard of that maker, but they appear to know what they’re doing.

I originally saw an 8" Solicut bread knife at King Author Flour in VT; but I wanted a longer blade.

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

FYI

FIRST CLASS ital. bread knife, 10" | felix-solingen.de

FIRST CLASS ital. bread knife, 10" - The extraordinary, Italian design of this FIRST CLASS bread knife is very impressive. The particularly long blade (26cm) and the rounded tip make it a classic desi

www.felix-solingen.de

I have not seen it, but I'll bet it nice; But $$$:

10" Bread Knife

No kitchen is complete without a bread knife. The STEELPORT Bread Knife is designed to perform equally well cutting bread with hard crusts and softer loafs. It can also be used as a serrated slicer for cutting through BBQ meats, and other hard crust foods. The STEELPORT Bread Knife features a...

www.steelportknife.com

VenasNursery · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
Years ago, I would have the occasional dinner party. I would write-up a "formal menu" for each place setting.

The menu header was: "Sawmill Bar & Grill".

That’s what what I’m talking about

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
FYI

FIRST CLASS ital. bread knife, 10" | felix-solingen.de

FIRST CLASS ital. bread knife, 10" - The extraordinary, Italian design of this FIRST CLASS bread knife is very impressive. The particularly long blade (26cm) and the rounded tip make it a classic desi

www.felix-solingen.de

I have not seen it, but I'll bet it nice; But $$$:

10" Bread Knife

No kitchen is complete without a bread knife. The STEELPORT Bread Knife is designed to perform equally well cutting bread with hard crusts and softer loafs. It can also be used as a serrated slicer for cutting through BBQ meats, and other hard crust foods. The STEELPORT Bread Knife features a...

www.steelportknife.com

That’s not a bad price, I paid about a little more than that for my Global 9”. I just bought my mother one the other week for her birthday, too.

That Steelport looks good, but those are a little expensive, even for me!

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

Reach said:
That’s not a bad price, I paid about a little more than that for my Global 9”. I just bought my mother one the other week for her birthday, too.

That Steelport looks good, but those are a little expensive, even for me!

I really don't like the metal Global handles; too slippery for me.

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
I really don't like the metal Global handles; too slippery for me.

I’ve never had that problem, but I could see how some might. Overall I like them, but the paring knife handle is a little thin for my big hands.

GregManning · Jun 11, 2022

FYI – knife sharpening, touch-up, etc.

Over many, many years ALL of my high-quality knives have had to have the blade spine top edges “softened” for acceptable handling. (Only exception has been recent SteelPort purchases)

I have filed, ground, buffed, etc the sharp edges on the top of the spine.

Wavy edge blades (“serrated”), such as bread knives, can have sharpness touched-up using:

DMT Diamond steel to “sharpen” the grooves.
Lightly dress the opposite flat surface to remove light burrs.

Link - DMT Diamond steel:
https://www.dmtsharp.com/sharpeners/sharpening-steels.html

Reach · Jun 11, 2022

GregManning said:
FYI – knife sharpening, touch-up, etc.

Over many, many years ALL of my high-quality knives have had to have the blade spine top edges “softened” for acceptable handling. (Only exception has been recent SteelPort purchases)

I have filed, ground, buffed, etc the sharp edges on the top of the spine.

Wavy edge blades (“serrated”), such as bread knives, can have sharpness touched-up using:

DMT Diamond steel to “sharpen” the grooves.

Lightly dress the opposite flat surface to remove light burrs.

Link - DMT Diamond steel:
https://www.dmtsharp.com/sharpeners/sharpening-steels.html

Thanks for the tip. I have one diamond file, I also have a nice set of Japanese water stones that I use. I don’t fool around with serrated knives though, I’m too lazy for that. The local knife shop does some really fine quality sharpening. I’m actually going to send them a pile of knives soon, if I can ever remember to take them along when I am out that way.