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:
Pinterest Follow & Re-Pin Something of Mine
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.
I have a set of sabitere knives from france. excellent but getting dated. These would make a nice addition to my set.
I already follow you on Pinterest, and just repinned one of your awesome kid-friendly no-bake snack bars! :-)
Knives are so important. I love my Chef’s knife and use it every day, for chopping just about everything. It’s a staple in my kitchen.
I chop herbs & garlic the most.
My favorite knife is my Chinese cleaver. I use it for darned near everything (except for slicing bread!). ;) Thanks.
i have a ceramic knife and use it pretty often. it is a chefs knife and i cant remember the brand. i like it.
Following you on Pinterest (Cynthia Conley)
Pin:
https://pinterest.com/pin/139893132145448135/
Following @BigKitchenStore on twitter (clc408)
I have a medium size serrated knife that I use for so many things. It’s wonderful for pineapples and slicing everything.
and I already facebook like you as well!
I already instagram follow you (username: eatlearndiscover)
followed and tweeted!
I’m in love with my chef’s knife! I’m a huge salad fan, so I use it to chope just about anything and everything. Never used a santoku knife before, though! I’d love to have a really good set.
My favorite knife is a Guy Fieri knife, a very little one, not a paring knife but sort of mini santoku. I really need some good knives.
chrisdeglen(at)gmail(dot)com
Funny you write this..I was trying to secure a Guy F. knife for this giveaway because they look great!
I follow you on Pinterest and repined the white chocolate cookies and cream fudge
Blogged about your giveaway.
https://bestfreesamplesinmail.blogspot.com/2012/05/free-knives-giveaway.html