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.
Garlic and lots of veggies
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Following Big Kitchen. Twitter name is jsallis1
Liked Averie Cooks
Follow you on Twitter and tweeted https://twitter.com/#!/chipdip2010/status/198915802425069569
I’d say I cut onions and garlic the most.
I have Facebook Liked Averie Cooks
I follow you on twitter with user @elangomatt and tweeted about this giveaway https://twitter.com/elangomatt/statuses/198907234829340673
I have a 10″ chefs knife from Victorinox that I really like a lot.
I use knives for chopping veggies.
i like averie cooks
I generally use knives to cut steak
I have knives that have cost a lot more, but my fave is probably the paring knife given to my (farmer) husband many years ago by a seed corn company. I think I use it every day and it’s still in great shape. Thanks DeKalb!
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I have a Chicago Cutlery knife that I use almost every day.
I just moved into my new townhouse, and we havent bought any knives yet!