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.
I have a Zwilling J.A. Henckels knife I got as a wedding gift and it is awesome! I use it every day to chop something up for dinner!
My husband is the chef in the family and he needs a good set of knives. Also, we’re on the Atkins diet so lots and lots of vegetable chopping going on in my household. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’ve got a Cutco knife that is great for trimming meat. We are big pasta fans, so I probably only use this knife three times a week.
usually chop veggies
I chop up a lot of peppers and onions.
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My favorite knife is a Shun Santoku Chef’s knife. I use it for everything!
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I have some pretty horrible knives right now :( I lust after the knives at Williams and Sonoma constantly but definitely can’t spend the money right now! Funny story actually… I got suckered into buying a knife set at Kroger (of all places…the horror! I am so embarrassed to admit this!) during a demo. The knives could literally chop into ANYTHING. That, or the salesman was a pro! haha. Anyway, I would LOVE a beautiful knife!
I use large knives for almost everything, mostly veggies!
I think it’s a Kitchenaid knife and I use it every time I make a cooked dish.
I follow Big Kitchen on twitter =) (MizVickik)
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I tend to use them to chop vegetables, especially onions and carrots. Thanks!
My favorite knife is an ulu that I use for cutting vegetables.
I usually chop vegetables and oninon