[Sca-cooks] Essential Knives?

[Daniel And elizabeth phelps]

Mom doesn't cook much of anything off the general run of what a 1940s/50s raised Michigan house wife might cook. Chinese cleavers are small and thin bladed?  Were I to put a cleaver on the essentials list I would include a medium size one like the 6 or 7 inch Sabatier I own. It is thick bladed and will chop through small bones with ease. The problem with it is that my wife is scared of it.  Thus such might be to formidable for some?  Be that as it may... five essential knives: a cleaver, a chef knife, a boning knife, a paring knife and a bread knife?

Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gretchen R Beck" <cmupythia at cmu.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:44:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Essential Knives?

What kind of thing does she cook or want to cook?  If this fits it, then it's a good set. This seems a good general set, although to my taste, I'd add a cleaver (if she does Chinese style food).

toodles, margaret
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From: Sca-cooks [sca-cooks-bounces+grm+=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] on behalf of Daniel And elizabeth phelps  [dephelps at embarqmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:58 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Essential Knives?

What four kitchen knives do people think essential?  I'm thinking a chef's knife, a boning knife, a paring knife and a bread knife.  The question comes from the following.  While visiting my mom I saw that her cutlery was junk.  Per her request
for good cutlery I'm sending her three high end German knives; an 8"
chef's knife, a 6" boning knife and a paring knife.  Bought them for
roughly $1 to $2 a piece at estate and garage sales.  Total at Bed Bath and Beyond with tax
would ring up roughly  $150, $90, and $40.  Less if any were on
sale.  People look but they don't see.

Do people think that those three plus a bread knife should do?

Daniel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Melinda Smith" <mkvanden at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 9:35:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Just Purchased

Score!!!!!


On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Went to an estate sale yesterday and bought, in great shape, a big William
> Sonoma, made in France, heavy duty roasting pan complete with a heavy duty
> rack for $8!!! I've been wanting one ever since seeing such used on "cooks
> Country Kitchen."
>
>
> Daniel
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