Kramer Knives : A meeting of seven local chefs, one master bladesmith and lots of knives
Category Business | Sunday, July 4th, 2010Stuart and I had lined up some great ingredients to cut and put our knives to the test: a side of hamachi, fresh porcini mushrooms, onions, squash and some hard carrots for good measure. But Bob brought out the ingredient that he thought we should cut first: a 1/2” thick hemp rope.
I looked in horror as he proceeded to punish a beautiful 8” chef knife with an iron wood handle, sawing off pieces of rope. He was putting a knife (with a pricetag over $1000) through the Ginzu test. Yikes. He then put he knife on a sharpening steel and purposely made the knife’s edge roll to one side.