What are your unconventional kitchen tools/utensils you were skeptical of at first but feel you can’t live without?

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    7 months ago

    I have a shameful ikea sharpener (you know, one with a sort of a wheel you roll the blade against) but it is amazing.

    Roll roll slice & dice!

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Nothing shameful about it. It gets the job done to a satisfactory level. What more can you ask for?

    • amio@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      Whatever works, of course. I’m not trying to go all hipster, I just think it’s sort of pleasant work with the whetstone, and having crazy sharp knives is weirdly satisfying.

    • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Its okay and does the job, but learning to sharpen on a stone can be done in a spare afternoon with a youtube video and a 5 dollar diamond stone from ali. Your knives will thank you.

      The 2 big problems with pull sharpeners is that they sharpen parallel to the blade, making the knife edge more brittle and they deepen defects in the blade, so if there are even tiny dents in the edge, the pull sharpeners will make them larger over time.