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.
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I use a cheap knife from walmart
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I use knives mostly to chop up my meat.
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I chop onions most with my knives
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I don’t have a favorite knife because all of ours are so dull. Ugh, it’s so hard to chop anything. We do a LOT of chopping, from fruits to veges and lots and lots of herbs.
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I have a large knife that I like to cut everything with but it has become very dull(but I still use it).
I mostly chop veggies for soups and stir fries. Thanks for the giveaway!