The "Shit I just bought" thread

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Jait

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Grimmlokk_sl said:
Vaguely related to the knives subject: One of my brother in laws is a sous chef at a pretty high end joint. One day hanging out I mentioned how sharp his knives looked as he was rolling them up. He said he saw someone recently slip up with theirs just a TINY bit and cut their finger clean to the bone and sever some nerves.

High end chef knives scare the fuck out of me since then. I tend to cut myself on random every day shit like the dryer, or a screen door. The idea of using these razor sharp utensils on the reg is something my clumsy ass just can't think about.
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Little known fact tho: When Chefs/Cooks cut themselves it's almost no big deal. Doctor's will tell you that the cut is as good (straight and clean) as any scalpel, and rarely requires stitches. Just bandage it over, and you're good to go. My left thumb is pretty scarred, it's the only finger I ever hit, but I've taken it to bone about 3 times. Never had a stitch in me. The duller the knife the more likely you are to bounce it off the product or make a mistake and cut yourself. You want that puppy as sharp as can be.

The worst cuts in the kitchen come from serrated knives and believe it or not "Darnell" which is clear plastic wrap, with a serrated edge like aluminum foil has to cut it. I've seen 2 cooks while pulling out sheets of it, run their arms across the blade on mistake. Not pretty.
 
Lenas

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Blunt knives are more dangerous than sharp knives too, because you have to use them more forcefully. No one should be scared to handle a knife, basic cutting skills are pretty simple.
 
Falstaff

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making a sort-of fist and using your knuckles to push/hold food you are slicing/chopping/cutting helps keep your fingers safe if you are nervous.

also just be slow. no need to break some fucking record cutting food.
 
Joeboo

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Snag a propane tank gauge online, or at Bed Bath & Beyond or a Hardware store. Nothing worse than running out in the middle of cooking something. Think I got mine for like $15 at BB&B a few years ago.
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Brahma

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joeboo_sl said:
Snag a propane tank gauge online, or at Bed Bath & Beyond or a Hardware store. Nothing worse than running out in the middle of cooking something. Think I got mine for like $15 at BB&B a few years ago.
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The tank I snagged has it built in.
 
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Bought a 13.3" Macbook Pro Retina model last week. It's a great machine, but the Intel HD 4000 struggles to push all those pixels if you do anything graphics intensive. I decided to sell it and try the 15" model.
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mkopec

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Word of warning, dont buy Chryslers....

They might look cool, they might feel cool, but in the end its too bad but its still a fucking Chrysler.
 
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Jait_sl said:
Yeah, my post came off wrong. Globals are definitely in every good Cooks' top-5. My personal problem with them are the handles and the blade. We do a lot of stupid shit with our knives (including opening large cans). I see Globals every day, use them a lot, but they fuck with my callouse on my knife hand and the blade breaks rather easy so I tend to avoid them. They hold an edge as well as any knife I've used, and that's a big +.

Shun's are really overpriced in America, but if you ever get a chance there's nothing closer to a Samurai knife. You can drop a fucking napkin on the blade and it'll cleave it in half. The only problem with the higher grades of steel is you also need a higher grade of sharperner... Anyways, enough derail. Just liked seeing some good kitchen knives show up in this thread
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By sharpener I assume you mean a honing steel. You should buy a nice one regardless, but Shun's have actual free sharpening for life. Just ship them to Shun and they'll sharpen them and send them back.
 
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Tarrant_sl said:
Why would you buy a 3D tv Sean?
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Because it comes as a standard feature on every high quality TV now? I don't care about it at all. The ST60's insane image quality and black levels for the price is why I got it. From all accounts there's really nothing that compares to Panasonic Plasmas for Price/Performance. Hell, even just Performance in general for that matter.
 
Tarrant

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No, it doesn't.

I would also disagree with your opinion of Panasonics as well but I feel it's more a personal experience thing than anything else. I've owned 3 of them over the past 4 years and all of them have had something wrong with them. Last one I had was a large plasma about 7 months ago that one day just decided it wanted to go on being a paperweight and nothing else. I'll never buy another one.

Not trying to rain on your parade, sorry. It's always awesome when you get something you've been saving for. Enjoy playing your 9 million video games on it man, I'm sure it'll be a pretty sweet experience.
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Noodleface

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Sean only leaves one video game in the queue at a time, the 9 million are behind him. Dude is a beast.
 
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That's too bad, I've heard nothing but good things about them. If something's wrong I'll just make them enforce the warranty until I get a good set, I don't fuck around with that shit.
 
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Tarrant_sl said:
No, it doesn't.

I would also disagree with your opinion of Panasonics as well but I feel it's more a personal experience thing than anything else. I've owned 3 of them over the past 4 years and all of them have had something wrong with them. Last one I had was a large plasma about 7 months ago that one day just decided it wanted to go on being a paperweight and nothing else. I'll never buy another one.

Not trying to rain on your parade, sorry. It's always awesome when you get something you've been saving for. Enjoy playing your 9 million video games on it man, I'm sure it'll be a pretty sweet experience.
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Going to have to defend Sean here. If you go strictly by ratings and reviews the Panasonic plasmas are some of the best TVs you can buy for the money. Sucks that you had bad experiences, but that's definitely the exception and not the rule. To be honest, 3 bad in 4 years is almost lottery winning luck, no matter what the brand. There is no brand that I'd consider "decent quality" that has that frequency of failure. You just had horrible luck, and it could have happened with any brand. There are many of us on this board alone that have had nothing but positive experiences with Panasonic plasmas.

Also, while you might be able to buy a 60" plasma without 3D if you try, most of them do actually have it whether you want it or not. Particularly if you decide you want a specific brand, like the Panasonic plasmas. Sometimes the 3D ones are the newer technology as well, so you either buy last year's tech with no 3D or today's with. And typically for not much difference in price. So why not? Eventually 3D will die like we all hope, but the tech will pretty much be standard in TVs for years to come.

You'll love the TV Sean. I have the 55" version, and it is awesome. Consider doing the 100 hour burn-in before actually using it, because I would imagine you'll be playing a ton of games on it and UIs and HUDs and the like played for a long time after you first buy it can definitely affect the brightness of the various pixels.
 
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