New Knives

New Knives

I promised I would post a picture of my couch, but I'm going to go back on that. That'd kinda be a boring answer to the Vox Hunt, so I decided to pass.

I do want to show off some new kitchen gadgets I received yesterday. In my quest to get off of eating so much frozen preprocessed foods, I've been consulting with my friend Wassy who's a much better cook than I and been making some necessary upgrades to my kitchen equipment.

The first thing I needed to do was to upgrade my knives. I had these little things that came in a package deal from wal-mart I believe, which served me ok for a while but really didn't cut anything exactly. Which makes it difficult to prepare food, especially to cut meat. Or well, anything.

So I scouted around and did some research and settled on a 3 piece set of J.A Henckles TWIN Signature knives. But then I got scouting around some more and decided that I only really needed the Chef's knife and a utility knife, so I decided to try to buy something in the Four Star series which higher quality and more expensive. But then I found this awesome deal on a 5 piece gift set from the TWIN Four Star II series, which is the newly updated version of the Four Star. It has an 8" chef's knife, a 6" utility/sandwich knife, a 4" paring knife, the sharpening steel and a hardwood block for storage.
 
I was a bit skeptical due to the amazingly low price (roughly $400 below MSRP and by far the cheapest price I could find for this particualr set anywhere), but I e-mailed the company asking why it was so cheap and they revealed some slight box damage. So keeping in mind amazon protection policy and the merchants return policy (it was a 3rd party merchant on amazon.com) I put in my order. They arrived a week later, exactly what I ordered, and genuine. So I pretty much scored the deal of the century on this one.

I made some chicken alfredo with them last night and…oh my god…how did I ever survive without them? Cutting the chicken was like cutting through butter, to overuse a phrase. And I've managed to still have all of my fingers left, so definite bonus. Now I can really start getting more serious about preparing fresh and tasty food for myself.

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