I love to cook. Way back when, I started doing it out of necessity. I had to learn how to feed myself. But I found out that I enjoyed it, and especially enjoyed eating the end results. Turned out that so did the kids and my darling wife.
Still, my talents ran to the very basic, preparing nothing fancy family meals. Lots of pasta, rice, some tuna, maybe some chicken, and plain vegetables. But after I started working in Italy a whole lot back in the nineties, I watched friends cook and I began to try to create some more adventurous meals.
I also started including more advanced cuts of meat into my recipes, which was great. I also love to grill. So we would fire up the Bar-B-Que and have a big time. But I was still buying almost of our meat pre-cut, so knives weren’t a big part of my kitchen utensils. That slowly changed.
I always had a bunch of random knives, never any matched sets, and occasionally I got a few good knives along the way. Nothing great, and usually as a gift, but I didn’t realize how much I needed a really fine meat cutting knife until a few years ago when I got a Cutluxe.
Now I can hardly imagine cooking without one, and Cutluxe makes some of the best. They set out to perfect the original and most essential kitchen tool and I’d say they have done a good job. No need for any high tech or complicated gadgets, just the real deal best possible knives at the best possible price.
They spent time working with professional gourmet chefs to find the details of how a great cutting knife performs. Then they incorporated that knowledge into designing exceptional kitchen knives at prices that all chefs, even a seat of the pants one like me, can afford.
They have also always kept their focus completely on cutlery, you might say that knives are their lives. So you will not find any other kitchen or cooking products on their extensive, and easy to use website.
Cutluxe is constantly honing their skills in pursuit of the best performing knives in their price range. And we agree that they are certainly comparable to many of the more expensive ones we have looked at.
Let me jump back to what we were talking about before, not even realizing the need for a good knife. I’ll bet a bunch of folks are still in that position, and I certainly get it, because I did it for years. Not too worried about sloppy cuts or using the wrong knife while thinking that it didn’t really matter.
But I will say this, there was always one day out of the year that it did matter, and it still does… Thanksgiving.
So let’s Talk Turkey.
We have all seen it, or worse yet been a participant in the destruction of a beautifully roasted turkey. The oohs and ahhs and looks of delight that went around the family and friends when the platter of poultry was placed on the table quickly turn to expressions of shock and dismay as the meat gets hacked mercilessly.
It is not OK to destroy the bird by using a dull, or completely incorrect blade on it. And don’t even get me started on one of those electric monstrosities. Still, it wasn’t until I tried a Cutlex carving knife that I came to understand this. I mean, I knew something was wrong while I was doing my annual mutilating of the fowl, but never thought to get a better knife. I can hardly believe it took me so long to come to my senses.
But here is some very good news, you can be a whole lot smarter than me. Yup, I know it’s hard to believe, right? All kidding aside, it is not too late for you to put all of those bad Thanksgiving turkey carving disasters behind you and order The Cutluxe Carving Set with a 9” Carving Knife and a 6” Carving Fork.
This is the perfect holiday problem solver and there is still plenty of time to get your order in before it’s time to carve the Thanksgiving turkey. Don’t worry, orders are shipped in just a few days with free standard delivery, or you can choose express delivery to speed things up even more.
Either way you will be the hero at this year’s turkey day celebration. Maybe even more popular than the parade or the game.
David & Veronica, GypsyNester.com
