One True Knife

I was in heaven last night.

In addition to the wonderful weather (in which I ran 6 miles at 6:30pm, instead of waking up at 5am as I've been doing during the summer), I went shopping. In a couple of months, I will be moving to a new townhouse, so I've been slowly buying things for it (more like replacing my old things for newer, better things). A couple of weeks ago, I splurged on fancy sheets. Now I've been eyeing a variety of pots and pans and knives at Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Yesterday, I bit the bullet on my knife purchasing. I like to cook, and I know that cooking is better/more fun with the right knives. Therefore, I want a very nice set of Hinkel knives. I hemmed and hawed about buying a butcher block of "ok" knives and then slowly buying the expensive ones. But then I was talked into just beginning the expensive collection now. Ok. Let's do it.

I bought a Hinkel Four-Star Professional Santuko, and a pairing knife, and then the wood block came free, since I spent over $100 on two knives. I know that sounds crazy, but it's not like I spend hundreds of dollars on clothing and jewelry. I'm very minimalistic. Plus I got one of my extra stipends and I wanted to spend some, before putting the rest into savings.

So last night, after my great run in Sugarland (during which I discovered Lost Creek Park and fell in love with it!), I had great fun slicing and chopping. Wow. That santuko knife slices raw meat (I need to be careful with my hands since I know they can cut flesh), finely chop jalapenos and onions, lemons and tomatoes. I have never had so much fun chopping.

My next purchase: a pot that I've been salvating over for a while.

Watch out world, there will be a lot of cooking from me from now on!