I recently received these two knives from Big Kitchen
Mercer Renaissance Forged Riveted Hollow Edge Santoku Knife, 7 Inch
and
Mercer Renaissance Forged Riveted Chef’s Knife, 8 Inch
If there’s one piece of kitchen equipment that is mandatory, it’s a good knife.
Trying to cook, chop, slice ‘n dice, and simply be productive and efficient in the kitchen is impossible without a proper knife. Lightweight, flimsy, and dull knives are intolerable and I won’t use them.
When I am in the kitchen, I tend to put one (big) knife in my hand and keep it there until everything is chopped, sliced, minced, quartered, cut, and ready. Paring knives and smaller knives have their place, but I prefer bigger knives, in general.
Don’t be scared of the Big Guns.
From cleaning and slicing pineapple
to cleaning and chopping heads of lettuce
To chopping oranges and cucumbers for and Cucumber Orange Dill Relish
to cleaning and slicing watermelon
To dicing the Snickers bars for Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Or chopping the candy for 3 Musketeers Marshmallow Candy-Stuffed White Chocolate Cupcakes with Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream
…Not a day goes by where I don’t have my knife and cutting board out and in use. Repeat x17 times. Before noon on most days.
These Mercer knives are built solidly, feel nice in my hands, are heavy enough but not too heavy, and most importantly, they get the chopping job done.
If you’d like to enter to win these two knives, comment below:
1. What’s your current favorite knife and how often do you use it? (links welcome)
Or
What do you tend to chop or use your knives most for? (links welcome)
2. For a second entry, Twitter Follow @AverieCooks and and then tweet the following:
“I want to Win a Pair of Fabulous Kitchen Knives in the @AverieCooks @BigKitchenStore Giveaway https://tiny.cc/jbcpdw”
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Contest ends Saturday, May 5 2012 and winner will be chosen randomly. Open to continental U.S. residents only.
My old chefs knife that not even sure it’s history
Been great but time for a new knife
With a new adventure in cooking at local foods cafe
Lots of gorgeous heirloom organic produce to chop
My favorite knife is my sushi knife I use it to help cut my delicious avocado and sweet potato sushi rolls;)
two knives i love when cooking is the cheif and butcher kife. I could really use a new knife right now
My favorite knife is the butcher knife. Id be cutting up meat
I currently use a 7″ Henckels, but I would love to switch to a japanese blade! I use it for everything except for tomatoes, which I think are too delicate for such a big knife!
I got my favorite knife several years ago from my Mom. It’s a great old knife that I use all the time.
I wish I could say I have a favorite knife set that I use. But in my 12 years of marriage, we have yet to have a great knife set. That is why I would LOVE to win these knives!
My favorite knife is a henkels 5 star chef’s knife. I chop everything with it. Actually, I have 2 of them!
I use knives all the time, but mine are horrible. I try to sharpen them, but they’re never sharp enough. It’s so frustrating. I’m always chopp;ing something; either fruit, veggies for salad, or veggies for dinner.
It’s a chicago knife that is all one piece.
I use my serrated knife the most. I use for tomatoes and bread.