Nakushima Damascus Another knife arrived today and again from a Kickstarter campaign I pledged last year. The knife was designed by the Dane Aske Bisgaard Pedersen. It’s made of VG-10 covered by 66 layers of Damascus steel. It has a Rockwell hardness of 61-62 HRC. Together with the Fiery Phoenix the hardest knives in the …
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Forged Brute Nakiri
Forged Brute Nakiri Received this beautiful knife for Christmas from my lovely wife. It’s the Nakiri of the Brute series made by Forged. Forged is a brand of Style de Vie Authentique.It has a very brute, simplistic but very intriguing design. The concept is just one piece of steel, like it a lot. Forged completely …
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BARE Knives
BARE Knives Another Kickstarter campaign I backed this year. The knife has a unique texture of mountains on the flanks. The looks are really great. Upon arrival I took the paper test and it failed miserably, it wouldn’t cut at all through the paper. I needed the strop it for 15 minutes on the leather …
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The Misen Carbon Steel Pan
The Misen Carbon Steel Pan They finally arrived! Another Kickstarter project I helped funding, back in February. They should have been delivered in June, so quite a delay here.At Kickstarter there’re lots of complaints. Mainly about the delayed delivery of course, but apparently also about the poor quality, damaged in transport, rust, … Not much …
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Tuo Cutlery – TC1411 Nakiri 6.5″
Tuo Cutlery – TC1411 Nakiri 6.5″ Osprey Series A second knife from the Tuo Cutlery knife makers. This time instead of a Chef knife, a Nakiri. A Nakiri knife is a traditional Japanese vegetable knife. Nakiri knife is suitable for mincing, slicing and dicing several meat. The Nakiri is a double bevel edged knife with thin blade …
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Koi knives – The Gyuto Knife Mach #2
This knife arrived yesterday. I ordered it on Kickstarter, have been supporting quite some projects there lately. It’s the Gyuto Knife Mach #2 from Koi Knives Australia.It’s made from AUS-10 stainless steel with a nice damascus look. The handle is made from Blue Gidgee wood, gathered in the great Simpson Dessert in central Australia by …
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Comply Truegrip Pro Premium Tips
Comply Truegrip Pro Premium Tips These memory foam eartips are finally arrived. Yes, the UPS priority mailing took exactly 30 days… Where’s the priority in that? Anyway, about the tips. They’re absolutely amazing. The sound difference is huge. I found myself pushing harder and harder with the regular tips to get a tight fit. After …
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Miyabi 7000D Gyutoh
Another nice chef knife for the collection. It’s my first real Japanese knife, the 7000D Gyutoh from Miyabi. It’s sharpened at 10° which make it feel extremely sharp, by far the sharpest knife out of the factory I ever had in my hands. It’s made of CMV60 Cryodur steel. Cryodur stands for the hardening technique …
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de Buyer Carbone Plus
Time to throw away the toxic non-stick pans and start a different way of roasting. Namely frying in carbon steel pans.These types of pans are relatively unknown in Belgium / Europe in normal households. Perhaps the extra work is a reason. You have to burn the pans before you can use them. The pans arrive …
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Tuo Cutlery Fiery Phoenix Chef knife 8″ TC0703D
Another knife for the collection. Isn’t she a beauty? I present you the Fiery Phoenix 8″ Chef knife from Tuo Cutlery. This one is made in China of AUS-10 Damascus steel. It has a hardness grade of 62 HRC, that makes it for now the hardest knife in the collection.The sharpening is very smooth and …
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Wüsthof Ikon 9″ – 230mm – WU1010530123
This is the newest addition to my knife collection. The Ikon 9″, a German made 9″ chef knife from Wüsthof. The knife is forged of X50CrMoV15 steel which gives it a hardness grade of 58 HRC. The handle, the workmanship, the quality, they are all exceptionally good. Keep on eye on https://egregius.be/knife-collection-overview/ for more knives to …
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Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2
After the huge V-Moda Crossfade M-100 headphone, which of course I’ll continue to use, I bought the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds. Main reason I choose these are the vast number of reviews that state that these are absolute top in sound quality for earbuds. They do deliver that expectation. The sound quality is …
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Misen Kitchen knives
I got to know the company Misen through Kickstarter. They had a campaign there for carbon steel pans. After some searching I learned that their knives got pretty good reviews so I ordered the 5 piece Essentials Knife Set. The knives are made from Japanese AUS-10 steel ( except the serrated is from AUS-8 steel) …
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Chroma Cutlery type 301 designed by F.A. Porsche
I recently developed some kind of addiction to buy nice kitchen knives. Especially chef knives are my favorite. Below are some images of my first real knife set. About 15 years ago I bought the Chroma Cutlery type 301 series. Back in the days these knives were all over television. About any chef that had a …
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Apple iMac 27″ 2020
The new iMac 27″ 2020 has arrived and in use since several days. Not that my previous iMac was broken, slow or anything. Just wanted something new, something bigger, something faster. So I went for the i9-10910 processor. That’s a Intel i9 10th generation 10 core with a baseclock of 3,6Ghz and Turboboost to 5Ghz, …
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