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  • shootersix

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    my daughter just switched collage and majors (from music management to culinary arts) and had to buy a set of chef's knives...$380.00!!!!! holy crap!.......and I thought my knife habit was expensive!!!

    its a set of mercer knives (7 knives, a steel, grater, and knife roll)?

    I assume its a ok quality set of knives(it came from the bookstore at ivy tech), but I look at it this way...she better start cooking good meals at home now!, I should eat like a king!
     

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    Most of my good kitchen knives were around $100 each...some more some a bit less. Worth every penny though.
     

    rhino

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    Mora should make some bigger knives in chef's preferred patterns.

    Their current knives make the best paring and steak knives around.
     

    ghuns

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    My favorite kitchen knives came from garage sales and say "Old Hickory" on them.:laugh:

    Thats relatively cheap, Shun makes some very cool very expensive stuff

    I have been checking those out lately. The wife wants to get the daughter a knife set for a wedding present.


    I offered to buy a Shun set and keep them and give the daughter my Old Hickorys. She said no.:(
     

    shootersix

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    Seems cheap for a good set of kitchen knives.

    it was from the ivy tech bookstore, so I assume middle of the road quality

    Ummm. If she hasn't used them yet, that same set is available on Amazon for about $167, plus tax and shipping.

    I think she had to buy them from the bookstore, plus she needed them today (she waited till the last minute to sign up) and I went to the factory website, they didn't have the exact set she bought, hers came with an oyster knife, some kind of fancy cheese grater, and a few other things

    Usually I can only get one knife for $380.

    I'd think you'd make your own?, if she stays in "fancy chef cooking" (I typed that in a "redneck style") I'm sure she'll end up getting a better set after she graduates, (my fiancé works in a nursing home, and told her after she graduates she could get her a job starting at 25.00 an hour)
     

    danielocean03

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    Good blades aren't cheap. Buy once, cry once. Having said that, I would get the best price you can on them for the first set. Return them to Ivy Tech and get the same set on Amazon as the other poster up-thread advised, that's a good call.

    They'll likely not be the last set she ever owns and saving $120 on a set is nothing to sneeze at. If she sticks with it, just wait until you hear the name "Bob Kramer" when it comes to kitchen knives. Shun stuff is seriously awesome also, (part of KAI like Kershaw and Zero Tolerance.)
     

    shootersix

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    ok last night I looked at the set, it comes with a suitcase, a clam knife, oyster knife, a silicone spatula that's good to like 600 degrees, a icing bag, tips, thermometer, like 7 knives (including the clam and oyster knife) a sharpening steel, and more items that I'm sure i forgot about.

    I went off what my daughter told me over the phone, not knowing that what all was included in the set.

    so now looking at what the knife set costs by itself, I think 318.00 for the whole kit n caboodle isn't as bad of a price as I initially thought.

    but in two years, im sure she'll need a good set.
     

    saintnick81

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    That is not a bad price for a beginner set. As she progresses in her skills she will upgrade her set a knife at a time as she learns what she likes. That's where it starts to get expensive.
     

    JettaKnight

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    Clam knife? Oyster knife?! Holy Unitaskers, Batman! A plain ole butter knife will do the trick.

    Must have knives:

    • Chef
    • Parring
    Should have knives:
    • Boning
    • Bread (serrated)
    May have knives:
    • Santoku
    • Cleaver
    Waste of money knives:
    • Oyster / clam
    • anything serrated and under eight inches

    That's six knives at the most. I can't think of any task that can't be done with those. ...Well, maybe an electric knife for T-day.



    What kind of thermometer?

    The king these days in the Thermapen Mk IV - which runs $99; buy once, never regret it. If you're vocation is cooking you need one. If not, you could get by with the lesser priced Lavatools Javelin. I bought one on discount and it's my most essential kitchen tool after my knives and cast iron.
     

    rhino

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    There is merit in purchasing the exact tool set recommended for an academic program. Some instructors really prefer that everyone have the same tools.
     

    Tactically Fat

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    Culinary school?

    She'll eventually learn that most restaurant chefs don't really care if their underlings have culinary school experience at all.

    My sister in law had her mom pay for her $40k ASSOCIATE'S Degree from Cordon Bleu in Chicago.

    She could only get a few crap jobs while in the Chicago area - then got a few crappy jobs near Sydney Australia. Like paid under the table crappy jobs - and then was downsized from those. She's been freeloading off her boyfriend and his brother for like two years now.

    Your daughter would probably be best served by just working in kitchens and learning EVERYTHING she can.

    Definitely for the best that she's going through Ivy Tech, though, as opposed to those rip off big name schools that aren't even accredited.
     

    shootersix

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    Culinary school?

    She'll eventually learn that most restaurant chefs don't really care if their underlings have culinary school experience at all.

    My sister in law had her mom pay for her $40k ASSOCIATE'S Degree from Cordon Bleu in Chicago.

    She could only get a few crap jobs while in the Chicago area - then got a few crappy jobs near Sydney Australia. Like paid under the table crappy jobs - and then was downsized from those. She's been freeloading off her boyfriend and his brother for like two years now.

    Your daughter would probably be best served by just working in kitchens and learning EVERYTHING she can.

    Definitely for the best that she's going through Ivy Tech, though, as opposed to those rip off big name schools that aren't even accredited.

    im a single parent, with a crappy paying job, and its ivy tech, she will graduate with ZERO debt, in fact she'll make money going to collage, she should get about 1500.00 back each year (3 grand total), she can use that to pay off (some) the two years she took at ue, 32 grand her first year, and 33 her second, but she got 28 grand a year in grants and scholarships, so she owes uncle sam about 10 grand in student loans.

    I'm trying to talk her into management of a kitchen, my gf has said she can get her a job starting at 20-25 an hour, my gf works as a social worker in a assisted living center, and is close to getting an ait (admin in training) and should be able to hire her, or get her hired in another building.

    a friend of hers works at Tropicana (used to be casino aztar) as a bakers assistant, and her boss is also a teacher at ivy tech, and has already put a good word in for my daughter.

    ive always told my daughters "a million dollars a year aint enough if your not happy doing what you're doing", she tried to get into the culinary arts program at the evsc tech center, but they didn't take her, I see the biggest problem with big name schools is that in the area they are in, they don't need chef's I doubt Chicago or Louisville has any problem hiring chef's, they both have big name culinary arts schools, even here in e'ville I doubt they have a "chef shortage", but if she finds a place, and enjoys it,(even if she's not the head chef) then she'll (and in turn I'll) be happy
     
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