I work with some bigger ultrasonic cutters/welders and the thing I didn't see in the video was the horrible noise they make. He says the knife makes no noise but they also don't have the noise on for the shots of the bigger ones so I'm suspicious.
Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
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It's a proprietary form factor, so you're gambling on replacements being available down the line. I don't think it'll be easy to rebuild the battery pack without compromising the casing.
3d printer and couple of cells and I guess a board will get the job done.
Or chuck it out as e-waste and buy the shiny new one
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#164This 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.
This is nonsense and your cynicism is unwarranted. I personally know Scott. He's worked on food tech in Seattle for decades, and developed the product and fundraised for Seattle Ultrasonics locally. Ultrasonic knives are historically large footprint devices used in commercial/industrial food prep. The innovation here is making ultrasonic hardware compact enough to fit in the knife handle.
Sadly Howard Schultz moved the Ultrasonics to Oklahoma City a while back.
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3000/8000 is a bad one. Both are way way way too fine. I'd very much like anything similar to 300/1200 + strop or so. I can shave with that. Also I'd not use a soaking whetsone {anymore} (my spouse resents them for being that messy).
300/1200 is too coarse for AUS10. 3000/8000 is too mild (perhaps better for finishing). I suggest 1000/3000(or 6000).
Never heard it would be too fine for some steel. 300 is for creating a new edge or fixing chips or otherwise broken edge, 1000 and 3000-4000 is enough for maintaining a chefs knife. And if you can't get a knife sharp on 1000 you need to fix your technique.
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I thought I recognised the name - Bourbon Moth is the guy who faked a video of oily rags self-igniting to make a video to advertise fireproof bins for woodworking. This one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gqi2cNCKQY Debunking: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtU3bYyCtA
It's interesting that AvE devoted multiple videos to debunking oily rags but believes 9/11 was an inside job.
Writer Jack London's mansion,The Wolf House, that he was building up in Sonoma county was destroyed by a fire that investigators later attributed to the spontaneous combustion of oil-soaked rags in the dining room...
Re: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
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#168Elsewhere on the thread I pointed out that I'd noticed the video doesn't show anybody doing actual prep; making an easy but deliberate thin slice of a tomato is one thing, quickly dicing an onion or a bell pepper is a very different thing. To that observation I'd add (h/t my Slack friends) this interesting site Seattle Ultrasonics stood up: https://seattleultrasonics.com/pages/knife-database One thing I notice here i…
My question for this product is entirely different: It's well-known that ultrasonic sound can still damage your hearing despite being inaudible or nearly so. Does this?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ok congrats!
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#170cue the vibro-stab themed "thats not a knife....."
and hey for extra murderyness it could be paired with a shock zapper