You all will laugh and I am clearly not trying to start a culinary off shoot for our thread! But I grew up with no Mother, I know explains a lot right? Anyway as a result, I love to cook, as does my Father and our boys. We all, as the man of the house do the majority of the cooking. And I don’t mean weekend breakfast, I mean dinner every single night kind of cooking! So anyway long story short I love to go to culinary classes, ultimately I decided to take a knife class from a renowned chef/Knife master. It was coolest cooking class I have ever taken. Our family watches me cut slice chop in the kitchen and asks me to teach them. Kind of funny. The key is not my knife skill but the quality of knife! Makes all the difference in the world! I have been toying with getting a forge to produce my own knives, but what I know about knife making wouldn’t fill a thimble. Just looks like yet another black hole for money. If I do that I might as well buy a boat!