I Have A Strange Kink
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pantryslutI really should call it a preference, though:
I seem to really like French knives.
Yes, I am a sucker for a Laguiole folding knife, although they are generally expensive enough that I do not yet own one.
Yet.
I'll find an excuse someday.
Meanwhile, though, my absolute favorite knife ever is the Opinel. I love it because it's so simple! Four parts! And yet so handy and so sharp. It is the perfect picnic knife. In a more innocent time, I listed it as one of the essential lesbian travel items for an article I was writing.
It has also been brought to my attention that I seem to prefer French-style kitchen blades to the heavier German ones. (Nonetheless, I live with a man with a Solingen fixation, so the knives I own are German in steel and French in style. Maybe someday I will do something about this.)
I have no idea what makes French knives so compelling to me, what their common features are. And in general, I am not a Francophile (nor am I a French-hater; I am assiduously neutral, thank you). But I am forced to admit that there just might be something going on.
P.S. OK, considering what I do with some of these blades, maybe also a kink.
I seem to really like French knives.
Yes, I am a sucker for a Laguiole folding knife, although they are generally expensive enough that I do not yet own one.
Yet.
I'll find an excuse someday.
Meanwhile, though, my absolute favorite knife ever is the Opinel. I love it because it's so simple! Four parts! And yet so handy and so sharp. It is the perfect picnic knife. In a more innocent time, I listed it as one of the essential lesbian travel items for an article I was writing.
It has also been brought to my attention that I seem to prefer French-style kitchen blades to the heavier German ones. (Nonetheless, I live with a man with a Solingen fixation, so the knives I own are German in steel and French in style. Maybe someday I will do something about this.)
I have no idea what makes French knives so compelling to me, what their common features are. And in general, I am not a Francophile (nor am I a French-hater; I am assiduously neutral, thank you). But I am forced to admit that there just might be something going on.
P.S. OK, considering what I do with some of these blades, maybe also a kink.
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Date: 2007-09-30 05:18 pm (UTC)French know their cooking.
Are you framing the knives, or using them? 'Nuff said.
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Date: 2007-09-30 05:20 pm (UTC)Bean got it for using at the RenFaire when she was just a wee Sprout. It's gotta be 25 years old or more. The ring won't rotate anymore, so it doesn't fold, but it's still one of the best small knives we've got.