today on Knife Banter we're talking about two of my favorite things
knives and food oh yeah let's talk knives!
what's up guys today on knife banter we're talking about pocket knives
and food prep! I've got Jamie here with me
he's got some knives i've got some knives here's the question
how often are you eating or preparing food
and you need a knife and you just grab whatever's in your pocket?
Dude i do that all the time that's what this knife banter's about
perfect let's do it okay our first knife on the table is the CRKT
overland this is a schwarz design this is a warren cliff blade but you see how
the handle is recessed right here you easily can get your fingers
underneath and get that knife on a cutting board
jamie what do you think? Going back to what TJ said on the i
guess the onus of why he designed this particular knife is he wanted a knife
that would be useful as kind of a general edc for over
landing right but to what you're talking about when
you're over landing you're also don't have a full kitchen knife set
with you right? So this knife is you're able to kind of
get that blade flat on a cutting board you cut tomatoes you need to cut fruit
whatever you can do your food prep and you have
that nice you know blade shape to help you out in that process. I totally
agree i think that especially being out camping
hiking whatever it's nice because it still has that grippy g10
it's got the jimping it's got a deep carry pocket clip and it's a slim knife
right so whether you're cutting apples or
preparing steak you know i feel like this blade shape is
really utilitarian and it kind of follows a lot of the lines of
knives you'll find in the kitchen. Knife is great for edc just general edc
tasks but also you know fairly adept at cutting on
a cutting board so it's pretty cool. The overland is 55 bucks on the website
if you think it's a good food prep knife maybe it should be in
your pocket. You guys tell me agreed agreed so
my next knife this knife i feel is very similar to the overland in in theory i
guess... um this is the Spyderco Spydichef.
This is actually designed specifically for food prep
it's a martine swish design i always mess up his last name because it's not
spelled anything like like swish um same person that designed
the the swish bowie uh the new sway back
from spyderco oh okay so this is a spidey chef and
again following kind of the same type of design concept as the overland
is you kind of have this s-shaped design which allows you to get
your hand up and off the surface so when you're cutting things like again you're
cutting tomatoes you're cutting fruit you're cutting
steak whatever on a cutting board you can get your hand
up and off the the surface that you're cutting on.
This particular knife comes in LC200N so very
highly corrosion resistant steel also great for you know
your cut up a steak you kept an orange and you just shove it back in your
pocket you're not going to have to worry about it rusting
right right again titanium as well so don't have to worry about that rusting
either. Blade length is 3.32 inches it's a sheep's foot blade
it also comes with a nice wire clip. Are you a fan of wire clips Kurt? I actually
am i really like the wire clips it's most of the time they're a deep carry
clip and this one is they're light and out of the way and it doesn't
have sharp edges i mean it's it's a round
wire clip that honestly i think is probably one of the better clip designs
that not very many people take advantage of.
Spyderco definitely does a really good job with their wire clips and this is
definitely no exception. This knife goes for $234.50 on the website so quite a bit
more expensive than the overland but you get a little bit more premium
materials. There's also you get a half inch
more blade the the overland is a three inch
knife. Yeah so if you need a little bit more length to blade you
got a bigger tomato you got a bigger orange there you go you got more length
to it so. Again $234.50 on the website that is
the Spyderco Spydichef.
Up next i have a Spyderco pacific salt number two! Now Jamie
here's the question have you ever just like
looked at a serrated knife and said man that looks a lot like a bread knife?
You know a a time or two just time or two a time or two. Guys whether
you're cutting a french baguette -expecto patronum-
This thing is cool and the serrations totally work for this.
I've used serrated knives in the past but this one
is cool from Spyderco because you got H1 steel
you've got your grippy polymer handles it's a lock back simple you can easily
clean this knife but those serrations that's what just
gets that bread cut. Right and that's the reason why i
made it on the table so like if you're out there on a picnic and you
got your french baguette out that you're pulling onto your paper bag and you just
need something to cut that uh you got an H1 serrated blade there um
perfect for that. I think so too I literally have
over the last years of me working here i keep checking the site and i'm looking
at serrated blades i'm like oh man that would be kind of nice to have in my
kitchen drawer. It's probably not the best bread knife in the world like you
have it's it's you know flat saber ground or
whatever so the stock's a little bit thick maybe for
a hardcore bread knife but in a pinch you got a spyderco salt in
your pocket and you need to cut your french baguette
there's there's a good option for you. And for a hundred bucks on the website
why not? There you go all right man what else you got? So speaking of french
baguettes i feel like i have the perfect
french picnic knife -four miles an hour- oh
okay yeah so this is the uh swiss army knife climber
and the reason i say that is because you have a ton
of useful picnic tools at your disposal so first one being obviously you have a
corkscrew. Now if you have a piece of private land in
the u.s or if you're abroad you can crack open a nice bottle of
chardonnay with this
that's the first reason. That is convenient! You also have
a parcel hook so you got your wheel of cheese wrapped in butcher paper and a
twine you just you know pick that bad boy up
and no problems right there. You also have
uh a decent blade on here so this blade is two and a half inches
super thin and slicey so doing any of the tasks you need
uh an actual knife blade for. And can opener you got that can of olives
you need for your for your french picnic you got a can opener you can open that
up throw it in the salad it's perfect. So there's a lot of useful
tools on your victorinox climber for things like picnicking i think it's a good one like uh i didn't
touch on a lot of different tools there's a scissors in here
there's an awl there's a can opener a lot of other useful tools as well but
picnic specific food prep specific tools victorinox
climber good option. $31.99 on the website. Well
and the climber that has the most food prep tools
on it is that right? It's got the most tools in general where
most of these other knives were just talking about blades right
this has the kind of a whole gamut of things you can
use. So potentially the ultimate picnic knife?
The ultimate picnic knife i'm going to say it right here that the victorinox
climber is the ultimate picnic knife especially if you're in Europe. Boom
all right guys up next on the table is the benchmade
Bugout! Now you guys know me and i love my Bugout.
We won't take too much time on it we'll try not to.
This thing's sweet s30v steel you got your polymer handle you got the mini
deep carry pocket clip the axis lock dual thumb studs this thing is sweet
it's a three and a quarter inch blade super thin super slicey do you think
this could be used for food prep? Yeah i think it works great in the kitchen.
I think the interesting reason why it's on the table is
kind of the history between the you and i thing.
Right yeah so i used to uh send Jamie photos
of me using the bug out with whatever food i was eating or making or anything
and i kept saying hashtag anything and he's like you cannot
cook with this knife and he's probably right you can't cook but you can
definitely food prep and you can definitely eat with this
knife. I don't even know how many photos i've sent to you maybe maybe we can get
those to pop up right here i have no clue
but check this out it's super light always in your pocket premium steel
easy to clean. Sometimes you cut a tomato or an orange and that juice gets in
there i'm sure that acidic juice isn't good for the oil.
I think as long as you keep that little omega spring wafer intact
like it's pretty easy to take apart and put it back together as soon as you
start digging into the omega springs it gets a little
it gets a little spicy.
-Oh my tears are hot!- But uh other than that like it's not too bad
and to your point like it's a great edc knife overall right we talk about the
bug out all the time but it's got that nice high flat grind on it
and it's a nice a thinner stock so like if you needed to cut through
an apple you needed to cut through certain items like it's great for that
so $130 on the website this may okay this is my favorite
food prep knife let's just we'll say that. What else you got Jamie?
Okay speaking of like slicy blades um i think when you ask
people what's a great kitchen knife what's a great food prep knife the open
Opinel knives come up a lot and i believe the reason
for that is because of the thin blade stock and
they just come so dang sharp and they're reasonably
priced. So this is the Opinel number eight in
carbon steel you can get these in stainless steel you can get these in
different wood configurations. This the number eight is a 3.25 inch
blade like i said it's a carbon steel blade it
does come with this twist lock so Opinel's work they're just a
friction folder you open them up and you twist this collar and it locks
closed. My favorite thing about the opinel
thinking of that with food prep i just imagine what are those boards
with like miscellaneous cheeses and meats
charcuterie boards. Yes that is where that knife belongs
super slicey flat grind i just imagine that being like
oh yeah okay this is s... How do you say it?
board and i need a knife for the charcuterie board
and i think the opinel with the wood handle has that like
nostalgic look that fits a chacutrie board yeah there you go so like
if you're cutting cheese you can't have a big
thick blade to get through cheese because cheese is you know fairly
difficult to cut through it's a great cheese knife and it's $15
on the website so this is a super affordable
uh easy way to get a food prep edc in your pocket.
All right guys my last knife on the table is the Gerber flat iron.
Now we were talking about food prep there's no way you can leave a cleaver
out right? I mean cleaver it just makes sense.
I think the interesting thing about cleavers is they're fairly
non-threatening so if you're looking for something to pull out at a picnic or
something like that you need to use it for food prep purposes
cleaver blade it's not pointy it's not you know any of that.
So right that's that's i think is one of the appeals to a cleaver.
I think that the flat iron could be used in a lot of food prep aspects
but i think what we're looking for is slightly different shape basically
i feel personally like if the cleaver was a longer blade that would make sense
just because you can't get your hands under and chop
but it definitely has the look of a kitchen knife of
i mean literally a meat cleaver yeah it's like a mini version of that i think
there's some things it's hollow ground so if you're going
through thicker items where you're going to be cutting up into the hollow ground
it's probably not going to pass through items as well as like a flat grind will
but it does have a nice uh like square tip so you can do more
intricate work if you you know want to cut designs in a
tortilla or something. Right and for thirty dollars and ninety-five
cents you'd get a flat iron. I when these first
came out i was like oh it's like a little mini spatula!
Yeah maybe you could use it with that i'm gonna go home and flip pancakes with
my hair yeah let me know how that turns out
i'm curious. All right my last knife on the table!
This is an interesting one and it's showed up on Knife Banter i think once
before. This is the Boker Magnum outdoor cuisine
three. So it's a little bit of a mouthful i don't
i've never seen the one and the two so i don't know um it's a little bit
bigger blade you've got a 4.75 inch blade.
It is 440A it does not have a pocket clip
which is interesting and i think this is geared towards kind of like a
camp kitchen knife type deal it's got a nice thin blade stock and i
think that's probably one of the main selling points to this knife you got a
full flat grind you have a nice thin stock
i think this one would go through basically any
food that you would throw at it with ease i'm just thinking about like
tomatoes and peppers and all sorts of vegetables meat
that type of thing. I think as far as just
a pure food prep knife maybe not as much towards the edc
side but just as far as the best for food prep that we have on the table
this might be the one and it's $19.95 on the website so
it's a pretty smoking deal! That is a really good knife.
I honestly i feel like a lot of the the positive comes from
the longer blade the blade length i mean and
the handle is long to counter the blade length and so you can kind of back up on
that handle and get a little more blade edge that's probably going to be down on
your cutting board. Yeah so if you've got bigger items that you're trying to
trying to get through i mean you could probably get through a grapefruit with
this thing you got you got a lot of blade there so
this is an interesting knife um comes in a liner lock yeah i
i think as like i said before just to reiterate i think this is probably the
best food prep knife that we have on the
table. All right guys that's what we have on the table. Jamie
if there was one knife on the table that you would carry with
the intentions of food prep what would it be?
I think it's a pretty easy choice for me
i've been crushing on the spyderco spidey chef for a long time i've carried
it for on numerous occasions as far as
balancing that good for edc but can also be used for
food prep i think this does it beautifully
it's got a beautiful rust resistant seal that holds an edge pretty decent so
I think that's a big selling point for me so spideychef for me.
I totally agree with you Jamie i think that the spideychef
is the best of both worlds uh and it's easy to edc
there's a lot to love about that knife. All right guys
let us know down in the comments what knives you use for
your edc food prep and that's it! Jamie thanks for being on and we'll
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