[Sca-cooks] What kind of class would you attend?

Guenievre de Monmarche guenievre at erminespot.com
Wed Jul 1 13:19:08 PDT 2009


Oooh! Oooh! I would love to be part of an informal knife skills class. And
if you're available on the right day, well, I have a Rather Large Baronial
Pavilion that I bet we could take over a corner of, as long as it wasn't too
many people. (like, 5-6, not 20)


Guenièvre

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Kingstaste <kingstaste at comcast.net> wrote:

> I teach Knife Skills classes all the time, including sharpening.  I would
> be
> happy to meet up with you to give you a primer at Pennsic if you like.
>  I'll
> be there the second week.  I would offer my camp, but we are going to be
> small and tight on space this time around.
> Christianna
>
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>
> Gunthar asked:
>  >So, what kind of class would you like to attend that is never or rarely
>  >taught?
>
> Two, actually.  The first is a "make me do it and practice the
> technique" knife-sharpening class.  I don't know how to do it.  I have
> an electric knife sharpener that sits quiescent; I have my father's
> whetstone; I have those two chopstick-like ceramic thingies that were
> popular in the 70s or 80s. (They stick upright a different angles in a
> board and you swipe the knife down them one at a time which sharpens
> both sides.
>
> The second is one I attended and then forgot how to do - how to cut up
> an onion in a reasonably professional manner.  I invented my own
> technique years ago and need to learn - and practice - something else
> (especially with sharper knives than I have!)
>
> Alys K.
> --
> Elise Fleming
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