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Posts tagged “knives”

5 Ways to Use a Serrated Knife...Other Than Cutting Bread!

We all have at least one of these long, wicked-looking, and many-toothed knives laying around in a drawer. Unless you make or buy whole loaves of bread, chances are that knife isn't seeing too much ac...

Colorful Knives! Pure Komachi 2 Knife Set

Look at these colorful knives! Would you like knives this colorful in your kitchen? ...

Leaving Town? Drop Off Your Knives to be Sharpened

Yesterday Sara Kate posted a great how-to on sharpening your knives at home. If you have the tools, it's easy to do. But just like there are people who prefer to buy pizza dough rather than make it fr...

Reader Gallery: Knife Storage Solutions

Yesterday we asked you for your best knife storage solutions. Where do you store your knives? Do you hang them on the wall? Throw them in a drawer? Well, several of you responded, and here's a look at...

Survey: How Do You Store Your Knives?

We want to see how you store your knives! As you are cleaning up extra tools and decluttering cupboards, are you making changes in how you store and organize those most essential of kitchen tools: the...

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

What's the Best Kind of Cutting Board? Plastic, Wood, or Bamboo

While shopping for a new cutting board recently, we heard all kinds of conflicting advice on which was the most green, the most sanitary and the least damaging to our knives. So we're setting the reco...

NYC Events: Free Knife Skills Demo, and Other Hands-on Classes

Whenever we encounter someone who likes cooking but doesn't quite love it, one of two things is almost certainly true. Either they're not cooking with a sharp knife, or they don't really know how to u...

Cooking Advice from Pears On A Willow Tree

In the book Pears On A Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk, which chronicles four generations of Polish-American women passing down culinary traditions to one another, the matriarch of the family tells her...

NYC Event: Knife Sharpening at Broadway Panhandler on Saturday March 15

If you haven't sharpened your knives in a while, maybe helping out a worthy cause will inspire you to get the job done. This Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Broadway Panhandler is hosting a Knife Sha...