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Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Post by prmoustache »

pier25 wrote: post #70
ok_computer wrote: post #65

This is a QVC product with the name of a US tech city slapped on it. Signed, a guy living nearby the home of QVC in a decidedly non-tech area of the US. Ps. don’t buy future e-waste kitchen ware unless you have accessibility reasons. You can get a good-enough victoronix 8” chef knife for $65 (I paid $36 a long time ago) and a world class chef knife for less than $250.

how do you sharpen it?

In my case I just wait for the sharpening knife guy who pass once a week in my neighborhood. It is quite easy as I am working from home and he plays those distinctive panpipes notes.

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Post by asah »

appcustodian2 wrote: post #87
xandrius wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whetstones, pretty cheap only and not as hard as it seems.

just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and materials. i'm surprised at all the apparent knife enthusiast posts trashing this device. I take my victorinox (which is absolutely nothing special and surprises me that it costs $60+ dollars) to the farmers market for sharpening but sharpness isn't even the proble…

my new favorite kitchen gadget is small deli slicer, $75 on amazon.

minor pain to clean, but MUCH faster than a knife, totally safe (pusher keeps fingers away from the blade) and you get precise thickness cuts every time, which means they cook precisely too.

Especially good for vegetables like potatoes, onion, eggplant, etc.

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

#143

Post by dzhiurgis »

maqp wrote: post #94
dzhiurgis wrote: post #86

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Wet stones are hard. Rolling ones are easy albeit “real” knife aficionados don’t like it.

They're really not. All you need is an angle guide you stick to the knife. Something like https://setamono.co.za/products/knife-sharpening-angle-retai... With that all you need to do is pretty much go back and forth. Note that the whetstone eventually wears them out too. Something to grab while you're at it, is a truing stone to take care of the whetstone as it _will_ wear out unevenly making the sharpening a pain.

Thats 2-3 extras over rolling sharpeners

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Post by SilverElfin »

pukexxr wrote: post #136
tptacek wrote: post #76

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Say more? I'd love to see a takedown of this, but this isn't one. QVC does not appear to sell this product, nor would its performance differ whether or not QVC did.

This is a semantic argument. This product smacks of being a garbage kitchen gadget. Whether or not it's a QVC product, it certainly looks like cheap white-label alibaba junk. Just look at that handle. Did they just slap a knifeblade into an electric nosehair trimmer? I'd try one out of professional/academic curiosity (I'm a chef), but am highly skeptical of this product. It looks like absolute trash. All the people s…

They actually had an industrial design studio come up with the design. It isn’t white labeled “Alibaba junk” and to my eyes, it doesn’t resemble that either.

> I've got knives that I've had for over 20 years that perform as well as this thing appears to (in the slick prepared advertisement).

You have knives that can not have potatoes stick without scallops in the blade? Or that can atomize lemon drops? Or that can cut through bread easily without a serrated edge? What I’m seeing in the video is a lot more versatile. But I can see needing a smaller utility knife still.

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

#146

Post by prmoustache »

karmanGO wrote: post #29
whyenot wrote: post #28

A good quality well sharpened knife already works incredibly well, doesn't cost $500, doesn't need to be recharged, and isn't going to be e-waste in 5 years (when the battery fails). It's a cool idea, and I hope it is commercially successful, but not for me.

The battery is comes out for recharging, so replacing a dead battery should be trivial

The dead battery is still e-waste and recycling isn't a magically neutral activity that brings back one new product out of an old one with no loss or energy spent.

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Post by jitl »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #120
saaaaaam wrote: post #58

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It absolutely is. I’m a former chef and have great knife skills but would love one of these.

What would it do that your current, well-maintained, very sharp knife doesn’t?

drop potato slices with less fuss

I’m a decent home cook with decent knife skills and i take my knives to a sharpener from time to time, I have tech job salary, I preordered. Seems neat.

Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

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Post by rplnt »

pukexxr wrote: post #136
tptacek wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Say more? I'd love to see a takedown of this, but this isn't one. QVC does not appear to sell this product, nor would its performance differ whether or not QVC did.

This is a semantic argument. This product smacks of being a garbage kitchen gadget. Whether or not it's a QVC product, it certainly looks like cheap white-label alibaba junk. Just look at that handle. Did they just slap a knifeblade into an electric nosehair trimmer? I'd try one out of professional/academic curiosity (I'm a chef), but am highly skeptical of this product. It looks like absolute trash. All the people s…

> All the people saying this knife does anything remarkable clearly have no experience in maintaining a decent knife blade.

Yes? I mean, that's one of the main points of the gadget, as said in the advertisement.

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