About 18 years ago I was visiting a friend in San Francisco, I was helping her prepare dinner when she said "you gotta try this knife" it was shortish and half knife and half cleaver but thin. I loved it, and asked where I could buy one.
They were sold in China town for about $3 each.
I bought 4 or 5 which sounds strange, but I was that impressed.
I kept one, and gave the rest away to friends.
We still have our knife, that my wife refers to as 'That knife' or 'the good knife' which causes me to roll my eyes as we also have Zwilling Henckels and Sabatier knives in the kitchen. But the cheap Taiwanese still seems to be the Go to knife most of the time.
The reason I bring this up now is, last night we had one of those knife receiving friends visit us. In conversation it came up her knife was taken along to a Potluck dinner in the summer, and somebody had taken it home with them. Where could she get another?
I brought our knife out and looked up the brand on the internet. http://www.amazon.com/Deba-Style-Flexible-Knife-171-Kiwi/dp/B003LIX4QA
Seems I'm not the only one raving about them, they have quite a following. and apparently still sell (other than amazon) for about $3-4.
Now let me say. I no financial interest in Kiwi Brand knives, and if people here expect a high quality product (in appearance) they are going to be dissapointed.
They just work very well.
They were sold in China town for about $3 each.
I bought 4 or 5 which sounds strange, but I was that impressed.
I kept one, and gave the rest away to friends.
We still have our knife, that my wife refers to as 'That knife' or 'the good knife' which causes me to roll my eyes as we also have Zwilling Henckels and Sabatier knives in the kitchen. But the cheap Taiwanese still seems to be the Go to knife most of the time.
The reason I bring this up now is, last night we had one of those knife receiving friends visit us. In conversation it came up her knife was taken along to a Potluck dinner in the summer, and somebody had taken it home with them. Where could she get another?
I brought our knife out and looked up the brand on the internet. http://www.amazon.com/Deba-Style-Flexible-Knife-171-Kiwi/dp/B003LIX4QA
Seems I'm not the only one raving about them, they have quite a following. and apparently still sell (other than amazon) for about $3-4.
Now let me say. I no financial interest in Kiwi Brand knives, and if people here expect a high quality product (in appearance) they are going to be dissapointed.
They just work very well.
