Kitchen utensils are at least as important as the cooking itself, for creating the perfect meal. I've seen a German cook once, on a pro veggie television, cooking with nice fry pans, but cutting with a minuscule knife directly on the table, taking all the components with his sausage like fingers, and throwing them in the pan, after he poured olive oil directly from the bottle, some commercial brand, always the same, saying: "and now, after the pan is hot enough, four soup spoons of Mediterranean olive oil..." I've seen another filthy guy, also for several times, cooking "traditionally" on a minuscule hollowed cutting wood board, with a mockery of a knife, thin, short and hollowed as well. This late one's frying pans were old, small and had a filthy look, like their handler. The next video shows the forging process of a high quality knife blade, close to Tarantino's Hattori Hanzo, :) Making Japanese knives - knife forging by Master Blacksmith Keijiro Doi from Chef Hudson on Vimeo. These are the products, their prices not being thousand of dollars per piece, as the video might have suggested, but a few hundred dollars. The steel is also very important. This seems closer with one in the video, but what comes next is a must. The next one is generic, just for the … [Read more...]