October 22, 2009 - 7:25pm
knives
Has anyone tried the Pure Komachi 2 knives?
I love their original tomato knife and the bread knife is stellar, or would be if it were an inch or so longer.
The series 2 knives look even tackier than the originals & are about half the price. I was wondering whether the quality has changed.
Patsy
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I love the tomato knife too - works great for scoring, but am not at all impressed with the Pure Komachi bread knife and it's now relegated to other tasks (cutting veggies).
I switched to the Swiss Forschner Victorinox bread knife, which is 10 1/4 inches long and quite awesome as there's flexibility in the blade. A very cool tool.
I went the other way - from the Forschner (admittedly 10 years old) to the PK!
so does the American Test Kitchen, who also recommends the Victorinox 10" Chef Knife (about $25.00). On the test kitchen's recommendation I bought the chef knife. It's all but replaced my heavyweight, twenty-year old Henckel; but I still use it to halve winter squash, and pumpkins. Because of my satisfaction with the chef knife, I recently purchased the bread knife. It's the best, I've ever owned, and the least expensive.
Like you, I use the Komachi tomato knife for scoring boules, rye breads, and sandwich loaves; but I still use a lame for batards and baguettes.
David G.
I've worked as a professional cook/chef for 35 years. Victorinox knives are the best..... for the money I should say. You can spend a lot of money for what some would consider a better knive, but not for me. Victorinox knives are well balanced, keep and edge well, sharpen easily, will last a lifetime if taken care of properly, they make every culinary knife one could dream of, and they don't cost a fortune. I have a 10 inch Chef's knife, two cheap paring knives, a 10 inch serrated bread/tomato knive....and these perform just about every kitchen duty one can imagine. The only other knive I've every used was a long thin bladed with a wavy (not serrated) edge that I used to slice smoked salmon very thin...but I don't need this knife at home.
I love Caphalon's Contemporary knife series. I prefer those knives to some of my Henkle knives, to be honest. I got Henkles as wedding gifts, but last week looked at the knives I *use* to see who made them, and was surprised to find that 4 out of 6 were CC instead of H.
Ria
Most of my knives are all-stainless cheapies I bought at Target. I didn't want to feel guilty about putting them in the dishwasher. And a sharpener.