[geeks] food geekery question

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:16:40AM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
>> But beyond that, if you're going to be doing a lot of food prep at home, 
>> the most important investment you can make is a set of really good 
>> kitchen knives.  If I lost the blender, mixer, processor and every other 
>> small appliance I would be fine as long as I had my knives.
> 
> Of course, a reasonable set could be two good chef knives (or Santoku)
> in 8 and 10 in lengths, a cheap bread knife, and a modest pairing
> knife. 

Personally I go with a 10" or 12" chef's knife, a 10" slicer, and a pair
of utility knives (4" and 6").  I use swivel parers rather than a paring
knife.  I too would like to add a proper cleaver to my set at some
point, and this bread knife:

http://www.knifeoutlet.com/shop/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=MACSB105


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