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 Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz 
Sep 3  # 16 of 25
RE: " Lost all my tools 3 years ago and when I went to replace them (thank goodness for insurance), found they had changed the Wusthof chef's to make it more ergonomicaly correct?"

Nan- I too lost many knives when working at the Kenai Princess Lodge in Cooper Landing back in the early 90's. Guess where I replaced them? Wandered in the Pawn Shop in l'il ol downtown Seward one day and low and behold a cook on one of the crusieships had pawned his bag of knives & gadgets, and I picked the whole bag up for a song! Seems the pawn shop owner had no idea of the real value of a simple bag of Henckels and Trident Wusthofs!
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 Posted By: Keziah 
Sep 3  # 17 of 25
I think those adverts are a joke. I have not seen those knives advertised over here yet, but no doubt they will make their way over the Atlantic.

I like Kitchen Devil knives, they are fine for every day household kitchen use. They seem to last for years.

How they would fare in an industrial kitchen, I wouldn't like to hazzard a guess.
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 Posted By: jglass 
Sep 3  # 18 of 25
Well I went to Kmart today to pick up a new dog bed for the pooch and they had tons of kitchen items on clearance. I normally do not buy anything by Martha Stewart except my cutting board. They had a nice set of rosewood handle triple riveted knives by Martha Stewart that had been marked down several times. The set had started out priced over $98 then marked down to $38. I opened the box and checked them out. One large nice chefs knife, a large bread knife, kitchen shears, big butcher knife, sharpening steel, 2 paring knives and 6 steak knives. They came with a rosewood storage block. All in all I am very happy with it. It is a nice set and well worth $38.

I found a 3 1/2 quart enamel coated cast iron pot with lid for $17 on the clearance isle. You could see where it had been marked down time and again. I get to the checkout and it rings up for $25 and she calls in the back and they tell her it is $29 lol. Now if it is marked a price they have to give it to you for that so they call up the manager who grumbles but gives it to me for $17.

Now I got the dog a bed for arthritic dogs that was $69 and the tag said it was $32.99 on clearance. She had to call in the back and they bring her up a upc number to punch in and it comes up for $29 lol. It was so funny :rolleyes:
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 Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz 
Sep 4  # 19 of 25
Good buys, janie! I TOTALLY trust Martha's products.
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 Posted By: jglass 
Sep 4  # 20 of 25
I'm pretty happy with them. I gave them a good run through last night chopping some different items. They did well with tomato, potato, onion and butternut squash. Comfortable to the hand with good balance.