What I learned about Japanese Kitchen Knives so far
In 2023 I stayed in Bali for 2 months and was hooked filleting fish. How one incident in Bali changed my life On a plane coming back to Japan, I kept thinking about filleting fish. So I got off at Narita and headed to Kappabashi to buy myself a good kitchen knife. Since then, I now own 5 kitchen knives. In Tsukiji, the master told me, when you fillet fish there are two things that are most important. Learn to keep the knife sharp Fillet the fish along the bones. That's it. The most important is 1. Things become very easy when 1 is met, while it's a vicious cycle if 1 is not met. When I improved on keeping the knife sharp day by day, other essentials came as I continue doing it. I also have a few things I didn't know when I bought the knife which I wish I knew then, so I want to share that with you today. Which Knife should I buy? The obvious answer is, it depends on what you are going to do with it. In Kappabashi, I told Makoto-san, the knife sommelier at Knife Shop TDI a...