I'm sharpening knives today. This has been long overdue, almost a week, and keeping dull weapons are an insult to their sharpness.
My preferred method is usually gliding them at a 15° angle on a whetstone, and keep doing it until they are sharp enough to slice air.
How do I gauge their sharpness?
By chopping a tomato. More often than not knives tend to mash the tomato instead of chopping them, only because their ends have gone blunt, and many a times in results in knife blade slipping across the tomato skin and cutting cook's finger.
In order to receive less cuts in the kitchen, keep your blades sharp and wits sharper.
Sharpening knives is a meditative process, and `i'm wondering what's keeping me from listening to an audiobook while doing so.
I've a couple Japanese santoku knives that need sharpening, and of course my big fat cleaver.
Also, in the process of roasting some chickpeas to make a delicious protein snack.
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Morning work out feels good, and I think this winter I'm sticking to this routine.
Feels good to bathe your sore body in piping hot water. Almost feels like it melts the aches away, only that they resurface a short while later. Good thing to have aches too, can't have the body acclimatizing to work outs. It's important there be a change or else, how will you know the strengths and limits of your own body. Also if you stick to doing the same exercises, its effects start diminishing, and you system adapts to working that way.
Gotta keep things interesting.
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Read a story, or rather chronicles. To say that it's a whirlwind of mad happenings would be an understatement.
More like an LSD fueled rainbow that changes colours with every blink. How do you do it..? sighs
My preferred method is usually gliding them at a 15° angle on a whetstone, and keep doing it until they are sharp enough to slice air.
How do I gauge their sharpness?
By chopping a tomato. More often than not knives tend to mash the tomato instead of chopping them, only because their ends have gone blunt, and many a times in results in knife blade slipping across the tomato skin and cutting cook's finger.
In order to receive less cuts in the kitchen, keep your blades sharp and wits sharper.
Sharpening knives is a meditative process, and `i'm wondering what's keeping me from listening to an audiobook while doing so.
I've a couple Japanese santoku knives that need sharpening, and of course my big fat cleaver.
Also, in the process of roasting some chickpeas to make a delicious protein snack.
--
Morning work out feels good, and I think this winter I'm sticking to this routine.
Feels good to bathe your sore body in piping hot water. Almost feels like it melts the aches away, only that they resurface a short while later. Good thing to have aches too, can't have the body acclimatizing to work outs. It's important there be a change or else, how will you know the strengths and limits of your own body. Also if you stick to doing the same exercises, its effects start diminishing, and you system adapts to working that way.
Gotta keep things interesting.
--
Read a story, or rather chronicles. To say that it's a whirlwind of mad happenings would be an understatement.
More like an LSD fueled rainbow that changes colours with every blink. How do you do it..? sighs
