Demo Tip for New Forged Steel Paring Knife

[cat]

I am SOOO impressed! I had a day-old bagel in the fridge that I decided to cut and toast. I used my new forged steel paring knife and it cut through the bagel like butter! It was SOO easy and effortless to cut the hard, day-old bagel!!!!! Gonna do that at my next show to demo the knife!

 

[raebates]

Excellent idea! I am a stickler for great knives. I've been soooooo excited about these new ones.

 

[cat]

By the way, just so it's easier to demo, I laid the bagel flat and cut it in half across the hole, so that I could stand up the half bagel on the cut side (so it's an arch) and slice it down the middle that way. Does that make sense? It's so you have a flat surface and the bagel isn't rolling as you cut.

 

[lisacb77]

I've also found cutting a cucumber w/the Sankuto is a good way to demo that. I get a guest to come up and do it

ETA: The guest that did this at a show last week booked a catalog show for Oct. Wonder if it was b/c she tested the knives

 

[jaye]

Cutting a bagel that way is soooo much safer... you should give that as a cooking tip at your shows anyway. People go to the hospital all the time needing stitches for cutting themselves when trying to cut a bagel!
GREAT IDEA!
Thanks for sharing!
Jaye

 

[PoseyMom]

Jaye -- how do you put it in the toaster if you cut it like that though?

 

[jaye]

I would think that you could put it in the toaster the same way... just do it 2 times (since the bagel is in 4ths...)

I just remember hearing on some programs the statistics of people who go to the ER for bagels... it's not funny... but it is... (in a non-funny way)

That's my thinking... then you can use the bamboo tongs to get it out of the toaster if it falls.

Jaye

 

[PoseyMom]

oh! oh! I see! Put the bagel back together to make the sides halves again! Clever bagel eaters.

 

[jrstephens]

A guest slices a squash with my forged utility knife last week and then purchased it! They rally get to feel how great they are when they use them. She had other guest trying it out too!

 

[gilliandanielle]

I don't have any of the knives yet, but this really makes me want one!!