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Anyone looking for a set of kitchen knives, I recommend that they go to the closest restaurant supply store instead. Get a whole bunch of basic, good quality knives for a good price
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Seconded. Get the knives you need and want, don't buy a knife set. Or come talk to us in GWS, we don't bite. Not without consent at least.
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Mar 14, 2021 20:57
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It's this Winix True HEPA 4 Stage Air Purifier with Wi-Fi and Additional Filter Please don't grab things from other people's carts. It's very rude.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:35
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What the gently caress? That’s an excommunicable offense from the Church.
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Mar 14, 2021 21:40
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Bum the Sad posted:Please don't grab things from other people's carts. It's very rude. 
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Mar 14, 2021 22:10
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Maybe that kinda poo poo flies at Sam's Club... I don't know, and frankly I don't want to.
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Mar 14, 2021 22:41
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i live by the costcode
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Mar 14, 2021 22:53
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Your Costco card is a PRIVILEGE not a RIGHT. If you can’t uphold its values (plus free refill), you don’t deserve to carry it.
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Mar 14, 2021 22:59
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But I know they dont want me in the drat club They even made me show ID To get inside a Sam's Club
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Mar 14, 2021 23:20
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thathonkey posted:i live by the costcode
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Mar 15, 2021 06:01
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poisonpill posted:Anyone looking for a set of kitchen knives, I recommend that they go to the closest restaurant supply store instead. Get a whole bunch of basic, good quality knives for a good price cannot quote this enough
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Mar 15, 2021 06:31
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We have a Chicago cutlery block of knives and while nice, the only knife that gets ANY action is the bread knife.
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Mar 15, 2021 06:56
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fischtick posted:We have a Chicago cutlery block of knives and while nice, the only knife that gets ANY action is the bread knife.
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Mar 15, 2021 09:48
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Chef Knife Bread Knife Pairing Knife It's all you need
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Mar 15, 2021 15:46
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Slotducks posted:Chef Knife are you vegan? do you not cook giant hunks of meat? stabby prongs and carving knife are the best
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Mar 15, 2021 16:30
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yall need to pay respect to the real mvp - the utility knife
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Mar 15, 2021 16:39
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After 12 years of using a good enough carbon steel Wolfgang Puck infomercial set of knives and various Victorinox fibrox knives, all of which I kept reasonably sharp, I don't regret my $400 Henckels Zwilling Pro set I bought at Costco one bit. Really though, the Victorinox Fibrox are very good for the price, much better than the look of their handle suggests. Go to the kitchen knife thread if you want to get recommended Fibrox or read endless discussion of nerds debating which ultra-niche Japanese knife to buy.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:04
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i got 3 fibrox they are great knives for the price. now i need to learn how to sharpen them though i got the whetstone just need to get off my rear end
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Mar 15, 2021 17:21
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Martman posted:Do you only eat bread? You'd think so by looking at me. Bread knife. Paring knife. Japanese chef's knife (knives, my wife knows a knife guy and I get them as gifts sometimes) 6" Victorinox for the kid to help with prep. We're practically birdatarians, so there's not a lot of meat slicing going on. What red meat we eat is mainly stuff like flank steak or chuck in stew/chili form, so there's nearly zero need for the row of steak knives on the block o' knives.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:29
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I only ever find myself using a chef's knife, and a serrated knife for things like tomatoes.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:33
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FCKGW posted:We bought a couple of the Winx air purifiers back then the wildfires we’re bad here in CA. One in each bedroom and one in the main living area. They’re completely silent and go into a bedtime mode where they turn off the LEDs which is nice. It absolutely hates when I cook with even a smidge of wine. I like to watch it go all "RED ALERT RED ALERT" after a fart, too. Look, I take my entertainment where I can get it. Also, be aware: The C545 and the C555 do NOT use the same filters. The C545 is a smaller S type filter that I had a bitch and a half of a time trying to find.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:34
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Ok but what brand of poop knife do ya'll recommend?
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Enos Cabell posted:Ok but what brand of poop knife do ya'll recommend? knowing you https://www.costco.com/craftsman-60v-hedge-trimmer-%2526-one-2.5ah-60v-batteries-with-charger.product.100576913.html
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schreibs posted:are you vegan? do you not cook giant hunks of meat? stabby prongs and carving knife are the best Vegetarian yes So yeah you might get some value out of a dedicate knife for cheese as well. Thanks for the reminder.
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Mar 15, 2021 18:35
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For me the deciding factor on knives are the handles, how they feel for chopping etc. I got a few individual henckel 5 stars because I love their long handles, they’re super comfortable to use. Back when department stores were a thing you could count on the good brands of knives getting pretty nice discounts a couple times a year.
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Mar 15, 2021 18:37
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I got a standard Chicago Cutlery set. I use the chef's knife about 95% of the time. I don't make much bread so I don't use that knife often. I like the included steak knives. I also learned (a little) how to use a honing... thing... and I'm surprised how much those things work. I'll wait until my blades get super dull to the point where it's dangerous before I replace them.  I'm about to google if air purifiers are worth it. That Costco one sounds amazing.
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Mar 15, 2021 20:15
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I only cut bread, whats the knife for me?
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Mar 15, 2021 20:19
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I also learned (a little) how to use a honing... thing... and I'm surprised how much those things work. I'll wait until my blades get super dull to the point where it's dangerous before I replace them. If they get dull, you don't replace them, you just take them to a cutlery shop and have them sharpened. Honing doesn't sharpen the blade, it re-aligns the blade edge. No material is being removed. Actual sharpening removes a bit of blade material to restore the sharp edge.
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Mar 15, 2021 20:21
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Just buy a whetstone. You should never have to buy more than one chef's knife in your life
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Mar 15, 2021 20:25
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One thing that all nice knife households need is the knife we call the "gently caress you knife" or the "gently caress off knife". This is the knife you use in one of two situations: ones where you are knowingly using the knife in such a way that if you saw someone else using a good knife for, you'd tell them to go gently caress themselves, or that's the knife you give someone to use if you know they don't treat knives well. I know it's bad to use the tip to pry open the spice jar, I know it's bad to toss in the dishwasher. I don't do that to my nice knives. This is the knife you don't give a poo poo about. It's almost as important as the good knives we have in our house. This isn't a good knife. The handle sucks, the blade doesn't hold an edge. It hangs on the magnetic knife rack with pride, ready to be abused.
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Mar 15, 2021 20:26
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I don't really go into GWS but I have this thread bookmarked, it's great: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3846213 Buy a couple of really nice knives and learn to sharpen yourself or find a local person who will hand sharpen your knives for $5 - $10 a piece. Chances are they have been doing it for years and will do an amazing job and you get to support them. But if you're lazy there are plenty of mass-produced knives that come sharp as hell and aren't too expensive. The Victorinox paring knives are like $6 and rock solid so you could basically treat them as disposable if you wanted.
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Fashionably Great posted:One thing that all nice knife households need is the knife we call the "gently caress you knife" or the "gently caress off knife". This is the knife you use in one of two situations: ones where you are knowingly using the knife in such a way that if you saw someone else using a good knife for, you'd tell them to go gently caress themselves, or that's the knife you give someone to use if you know they don't treat knives well. We call ours the murder knife because every time we pull it out, someone does something stupid and gets hurt. It randomly disappeared one day and I haven't seen it in a while. It's probably better that way, we've had no accidents since.
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The murder knife in our house is pretty much any random butter knife from the drawer. I'll use 'em to clean out the Roomba, or pry a lid, or get the pull-tab up on a can of tuna or something. We so rarely use them and have so many that I figure nobody's gonna notice the wear and tear. One more knife I forgot about: a while back I was spatchcocking a turkey and I absentmindedly used my super nice birthday Japanese kitchen knife, which resulted in some horrendous gouges in it. My wife took it to the knife guy, and while he fixed it he's like "give this to your husband and tell him to never do that again." It's an enormously heavy knife, like a cleaver but way more knife-shaped. Comes out a couple times a year. Very intimidating. Sharp as balls, and what doesn't get cut by sharpness gets split open by shear weight.
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Fashionably Great posted:One thing that all nice knife households need is the knife we call the "gently caress you knife" or the "gently caress off knife". This is the knife you use in one of two situations: ones where you are knowingly using the knife in such a way that if you saw someone else using a good knife for, you'd tell them to go gently caress themselves, or that's the knife you give someone to use if you know they don't treat knives well. When I was a kid we had a pair of as seen on TV Ginsu knives. We used them for all kinds of dumb things. The forked tip made a good bottle opener, the serrated blades meant you could use them for sawing stuff. One got left outside for awhile and the dog chewed up the handle but it kept on trucking. I would never have used one for cooking, but drat they were good utility knives.
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Ok so according to PubMed, 7,000,000 people died of air pollution in 2012 and it's the single biggest health risk in the world. Indoor pollutants contributed to 3.8 million deaths annually according to WHO. Well that sufficiently terrified me enough that I may pick up one for my bedroom and one for my living room. Amazon has them for about $170 so $99 is pretty good.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Ok so according to PubMed, 7,000,000 people died of air pollution in 2012 and it's the single biggest health risk in the world. Indoor pollutants contributed to 3.8 million deaths annually according to WHO. The usual price drag on these is of course the filter, but they do indeed pull their weight. We got a Winix from costco for our basement with the cardio equipment and cat litter boxes, and whenever the boxes get cleaned it goes into RED mode, but within 10-15mins you cannot even tell. Does a great job for dust / smells. of course dont overload it with a room thats too big, but yeah. Also these are great for noticing that whenever you use your gas burners that the air purifiers will kick in. One of the largest sources of home pollutant particles is your gas burners. YEEhaw.
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We picked up a magical air cleaner box today and it’s doing it’s thing. I even hooked it to the internet and the app over time will tell me whether or not the air is good or bad. High tech. Also it’s probably leaking our information too. Also, I’m not a whiskey drinker but I got the cheap but evidently well-regarded bottle of blended Canadian whiskey. I was tempted by the Kirkland Irish whiskey, but I don’t know. Also the Kirkland Irish cream is so cheap and looks fine but... I don’t know. Found the brown sugar boba ice cream bars this time, and wow. Nice. Smoked almonds are on sale and good.
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RocketLunatic posted:Found the brown sugar boba ice cream bars this time, and wow. Nice. That's an unexpected and welcome combination. I'll look for them! Probably getting the kid the Body Glove inflatable SUP on my next trip. It's $100 cheaper than Amazon's most favoritest no-name inflatable SUP, and it looks like it's built like a tank. Picked up the LG 32" Class FHD IPS FreeSync Monitor at $179 to replace my 21" Dell I stole from work like 15 years ago. I was a little turned off that it has a kinda glossy screen, but goddamn do the colors look good on it. It's only 1920x1080, but that's all I need to shift some docs off my laptop screen.
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FogHelmut posted:After 12 years of using a good enough carbon steel Wolfgang Puck infomercial set of knives and various Victorinox fibrox knives, all of which I kept reasonably sharp, I don't regret my $400 Henckels Zwilling Pro set I bought at Costco one bit. last time I was in there was 2015 and I was looking for a gift for a now-ex two relationships ago are Chinese cleavers still hot or are they passe?
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BONGHITZ posted:I only cut bread, whats the knife for me? Chef’s knife. Bread knives are only for bread FRESH out of the oven.
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