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”
3. For extra entries and you must leave a separate comment for each:
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or post this Giveaway on your blog
Contest ends Saturday, May 5 2012 and winner will be chosen randomly. Open to continental U.S. residents only.
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I use my knives mostly to chop veggies, thanks for the chance
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I use my knives the most for chopping onions and tomatoes
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Kat Riley
I tweeted this great giveaway. https://twitter.com/#!/1MommaMary/status/198220463481159683
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https://twitter.com/#!/rilekat/status/198220321516556288
My best knives are from Pampered Chef. I know, not on your radar, but they were a gift and considering what I had prior, they are pretty amazing. I use them almost daily.
I like to make chopped lettuce and vegetables for salad.
My current knife is a small pairing knife, it works perfectly for most tasks. Unfortunately my bigger knives are so dull they couldn’t cut through butter!
I liked Averie Cooks on Facebook: Ann Fantom
I really like the few Cutco knives I have- hubby used to work for them. But those are the only nice knives I have- I’d love to win these! :)