Text 20183, 86 rader
Skriven 2007-09-09 03:32:27 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 20139 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: knives, was heat levels
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HI RUth,

Ruth Haffly wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

RH> Sort of an odd place to buy a knife. (G)  Then, too, I've seen
RH> vendors of all sorts of oddiments of tools st up at flea markets and
RH> suchlike.

 RW> I bought a real nice set of knives including a good butcher knife,
 RW> paring knife etc. Great assortment of kitchen and food prep knives in
 RW> fact.  Bought it at the Iowa state fair.

RH> Guess I ought to go to a state fair sometime.  Never even been to a
RH> county one as far as that goes. But, I've been to the Dippemesse in
RH> Frankfurt several times; (G) it's a spring and fall carnival with
RH> vendors of all sorts of wares.  I'd skip the rides, get some cotton
RH> candy and hit up the salt glazed pottery tent.  I've got several
RH> crocks in my kitchen (holding tools) that I got there.  One time
RH> Steve rode the quad loop roller coaster and came off looking rather
RH> green around the gills.

I used to love all those thrill rides when I was a kid, but after I met a few
CArnies I wasn't so sure. ONe assured me though when he saw me looking rather
green after going on one with my kids that I was safer on the ones they break
down and put back together every week when they move from town to town than I
was on the rides at those theme parks where they set 'em up at beginning of
season and don't inspect them again all
year.

 RW> I was working a public information booth for National FEderation of
 RW> the Blind in the stall next to him.  IN fact he was one of these guys
 RW> with the "watch me cut through this can ... " then slice the tomato

RH> Sounds like the Ronco 6 Star set we got thru an infomercial while we
RH> were in HI.

This guy used to tell folks that they might have seen the ROnco commercials,
but these were the real deal and they were the cheap imitation. WHEn I bought
them I was doing the "yah right" thing but the price was so darned good I
couldn't pass it up.  Paring knife, good butcher knife, four steak knives; a
couple of other good cullinary tools.

 RW> I'd lost a bunch of good culinary tools and equipment to first wife
 RW> and then a storage unit burglary so when I married second wife we had

RH> No fun.  We had a cheap set that Steve bought in Monterey while
RH> waiting for me to arrive with our kitchen set up,not that we had any
RH> good knives in it. The best knives were a serrated small bread,
RH> serrated paring and regular paring I got at a hardware store in
RH> Guendelwald, Switzerland for the equal of maybe $7.50, total.  I
RH> also had a good knife I got at a yard sale for $1 that the handle
RH> has been repaired several times.  Now we're beginning to assemble a
RH> set of better quality cutlery but I'm still keeping those 4.

Kathy had a good set before the house fire after Katrina.  SO far though we
don't have any real decent cutlery.  I don't abuse such tools and still I broke
the paring knife and one other out of this set. The one thing I do which taxes
a knife a bit is I like to cut nice thick wedges of COlby cheese to eat
alongside a sandwich now and then.  THey can be a challenge for cheapo knives.
THose little wire cheese slicers do alright if you like nice little thin strip
slices of cheese, but I like a big chunky wedge of cheese to go along with my
sandwich occasionally <g>.

 RW> watched this guy's demo and the price was reasonable.  I actually
 RW> liked that set, and it was still going strong when we split up 7 years
 RW> later in 1988.  I think I let her have it along with most of the
 RW> kitchen stuff as I was going back on the road playi

RH> Probably better than the Ronco stuff then.  We had to take advantage
RH> of their free replacement program on one within about 18 months.  I
RH> think as we replace with what we really want, we'll get rid of that
RH> set. 

I never bother to ask for replacements of cheap junk like that.  I figure if it
breaks under normal wear and tear then I really don't want to deal with it.

That still has to be best set of cutlery I've ever owned.  YEs I think I did
get the stone out to sharpen a couple of them, but I've always believed in
taking care of my knives and keeping a good edge on them. Old grandpa always
taught me if you take care of your tools properly they'll take care of you <g>.

Regards,
           Richard
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