What's the Deal With Carbon Steel?

[buzzard767]

Originally Posted by Medwayman

I only have a few standards for the steel I use in the kitchen.

That the iron be mined from an untouched vein of ore under the precise point of earth's magnetic north. Forged in the heat of flowing magma from the earth's core by the hand of Hatori Hanzo himself.... folded and beaten into 33,000 layers, one layer for each prayer said over the blade. Quenched in the sub-freezing run off of a virgin iceburg, frozen in antiquity under conditions of absolute geologic integrity.

[CookNow]

Medwayman: Is your actual name "Thor," by any chance?

[Medwayman]

Originally Posted by CookNow

Medwayman: Is your actual name "Thor," by any chance?

What is Thor's hammer, Mjolner, but a dried sponge at the end of an old stick, when compared to the greatness of my pearing knife?

[Andy M.]

Originally Posted by Medwayman

I only have a few standards for the steel I use in the kitchen.

That the iron be mined from an untouched vein of ore under the precise point of earth's magnetic north. Forged in the heat of flowing magma from the earth's core by the hand of Hatori Hanzo himself.... folded and beaten into 33,000 layers, one layer for each prayer said over the blade. Quenched in the sub-freezing run off of a virgin iceburg, frozen in antiquity under conditions of absolute geologic integrity.

Well, DUH!

[EastWestknives]

I saw some of those Walmart last week. Except I think they were only 30,000 layers. But at 39.99 for the whole set... what's a few thousand layers?

[Medwayman]

Originally Posted by EastWestknives

I saw some of those Walmart last week. Except I think they were only 30,000 layers. But at 39.99 for the whole set... what's a few thousand layers?

Thats Walmart for you. Destroying the art in everything in the name of mass distribution. Probably have imitation unicorn horn handles too.