Quarantine Kitchen with Brennan Dates Day 34 ON SUPER YACHT LOCKDOWN - Knife Block Hatred
Season 1, Episode 114, Jul 09, 2020, 06:00 PM
Isolated in a super yacht galley on anchor for an 8 week charter in the Caribbean
Knife Block Hatred
If you have a knife block and you love it, then I apologize for all of the reasons I present in this video as to why they're very strange and gross. I realize that I'm in the minority on these views and I'd say most people have a knife block in their home. I'm not sure why. I haven't been in one restaurant kitchen or yacht galley with a knife block. If the professionals think a knife block is dumb why does the general public seem to NEED them with the very essence of their being? The only thing worse than a knife block is throwing your knives into a drawer as if their sharpness was completely irrelevant. A knife really only does one thing, it cuts. In order for it to cut it needs to be sharp. It's like having a toilet with no water in it. You can still use it but you're not using the toilet as it was designed. Love your edges.
Remember the bra burning of the 60's? I know its summer but lets light those knife blocks on fire and feel the warmth of their deaths on our faces. Smile and know you did the right thing. You did the smart thing. You raged against the machine. Do it for your knives.
Hasegawa cutting boards are amazing. I didn't have one on this job but I've used them before. They are by far the lightest, cleanest most cleverly designed cutting that I have ever used in my 27 years of cooking professionally. Having your cutting board up off of the counter helps if your over 5 foot as it gets the cutting board to the proper height for cutting. Counter top heights haven't changed in a couple of hundred years, while humans in general have gotten taller. That is separate rant.
This a link to a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X5GI3cCoqo&t=28s
I know my cutting board is dirty in this video. I just had to look at it for the absurd amount of hours it took me to edit this video. It annoyed me too. However, cut me some slack. We filmed this in the middle of a work day in the middle of an eight week charter.
For more on Brennan Dates please head over to his Facebook @oliveoilandgasoline and Insta account @oliveoil&gasoline
Knife Block Hatred
If you have a knife block and you love it, then I apologize for all of the reasons I present in this video as to why they're very strange and gross. I realize that I'm in the minority on these views and I'd say most people have a knife block in their home. I'm not sure why. I haven't been in one restaurant kitchen or yacht galley with a knife block. If the professionals think a knife block is dumb why does the general public seem to NEED them with the very essence of their being? The only thing worse than a knife block is throwing your knives into a drawer as if their sharpness was completely irrelevant. A knife really only does one thing, it cuts. In order for it to cut it needs to be sharp. It's like having a toilet with no water in it. You can still use it but you're not using the toilet as it was designed. Love your edges.
Remember the bra burning of the 60's? I know its summer but lets light those knife blocks on fire and feel the warmth of their deaths on our faces. Smile and know you did the right thing. You did the smart thing. You raged against the machine. Do it for your knives.
Hasegawa cutting boards are amazing. I didn't have one on this job but I've used them before. They are by far the lightest, cleanest most cleverly designed cutting that I have ever used in my 27 years of cooking professionally. Having your cutting board up off of the counter helps if your over 5 foot as it gets the cutting board to the proper height for cutting. Counter top heights haven't changed in a couple of hundred years, while humans in general have gotten taller. That is separate rant.
This a link to a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X5GI3cCoqo&t=28s
I know my cutting board is dirty in this video. I just had to look at it for the absurd amount of hours it took me to edit this video. It annoyed me too. However, cut me some slack. We filmed this in the middle of a work day in the middle of an eight week charter.
For more on Brennan Dates please head over to his Facebook @oliveoilandgasoline and Insta account @oliveoil&gasoline