TL;DNR I paid too much for Chinese knives that are pretending to be good Japanese knives. Oh and here's a pic of them.
While I'm not a knife fanatic, I do really like a nice one. I currently use Global knives which I love, I just ordered my 1st smoker and since I don't have a boning knife and no suitable slicing knife I decided to order a couple. I Googled good brisket knives and almost all of links mentioned the Dexter as a top choice. Even saw that Malcom Reed swears by it, and he's pretty legendary. I was pondering ordering it, but it looks cheap to me. Reminds me of something a lunch lady at an elementary school would use lol. I understand it's a great knife, maybe *probably* even better than the one I ordered, which was almost 3x as much. But it looked plain and was serrated so it reminds me of a bread knife. I was this close to ordering Moe Casons signature brisket knife, but thankfully he doesn't have a matching boning knife. I say that because his brisket one's $300 lol. With my semi OCD I wanted the 2 I bought to match. Knowing the Dexter's would be my best bet, and cheapest I still ended up going with Dalstrong Phantom Series because the eye candy aspect won me over. I suspect these knives will be a lot better than the "worse knives evar!" comments I see scattered all over the internet. But I dunno maybe I'm wrong, a dude on a YT video commented "Dalstrong are the worst, a plastic KFC knife will be sharper" I think maybe he was exaggerating, and if not I guess I'll try a KFC knife to slice my 2nd Brisket.
Say what you want about the quality of their actual knives, but Dalstrong sure knows how to package them. The presentation's just amazing, they excel at 2 things, marketing and eye candy. The Phantoms are 1 tier under the Shogun, so they should be pretty decent. Or the worst knives that ever existed depending on who you ask lol. I didn't get the better Shoguns because I like how the handles on these look (smart eh?) IMHO these are some sexy knives, not that the Shogun's are ugly they look great too. I did save some $$$ though too which isn't a bad thing. Dalstrong might be form over function here, dunno I haven't used them yet. And the boxes are magnetic and blue or purple depending on the angle you look at them, which are both totally valid reasons to chose a knife. Yes the knives are overpriced, but at least with how fancy the packaging is I felt like they weren't. I don't even have my smoker yet so I can't test either. But the week I get it I'll use em on a brisket and report back with pictures. Because I associate a pointy end with a "sharp knife" the slicing one with the round tip looks like a huge extremely dull butter knife to me, but it's razor sharp on the paper test, probably as sharp as my Global chef knife. The boning was sharp but a little less impressive on the paper test. I also like the nice plastic sheaths they come with. My $150+ Globals came with cardboard ones I threw away. I like Dalstrong's boxes too for storing. Hopefully they're not bad, reading up online apparently using the wrong knife used on a brisket can cause all the juices to come out and you'll be left with a tough dry chuck roast :(
And another cool to me, but totally useless thing, when you pull the slicing one out of the sheath fast it makes a*shhhhhhthhh* sound like when a Samuari pulls his sword out in a kung fu movie. Although doing this I nearly decapitated my thumb so it's probably not a good idea to play around lol.
I like pictures of knives, so if anyone else does too, here's one.
While I'm not a knife fanatic, I do really like a nice one. I currently use Global knives which I love, I just ordered my 1st smoker and since I don't have a boning knife and no suitable slicing knife I decided to order a couple. I Googled good brisket knives and almost all of links mentioned the Dexter as a top choice. Even saw that Malcom Reed swears by it, and he's pretty legendary. I was pondering ordering it, but it looks cheap to me. Reminds me of something a lunch lady at an elementary school would use lol. I understand it's a great knife, maybe *probably* even better than the one I ordered, which was almost 3x as much. But it looked plain and was serrated so it reminds me of a bread knife. I was this close to ordering Moe Casons signature brisket knife, but thankfully he doesn't have a matching boning knife. I say that because his brisket one's $300 lol. With my semi OCD I wanted the 2 I bought to match. Knowing the Dexter's would be my best bet, and cheapest I still ended up going with Dalstrong Phantom Series because the eye candy aspect won me over. I suspect these knives will be a lot better than the "worse knives evar!" comments I see scattered all over the internet. But I dunno maybe I'm wrong, a dude on a YT video commented "Dalstrong are the worst, a plastic KFC knife will be sharper" I think maybe he was exaggerating, and if not I guess I'll try a KFC knife to slice my 2nd Brisket.
Say what you want about the quality of their actual knives, but Dalstrong sure knows how to package them. The presentation's just amazing, they excel at 2 things, marketing and eye candy. The Phantoms are 1 tier under the Shogun, so they should be pretty decent. Or the worst knives that ever existed depending on who you ask lol. I didn't get the better Shoguns because I like how the handles on these look (smart eh?) IMHO these are some sexy knives, not that the Shogun's are ugly they look great too. I did save some $$$ though too which isn't a bad thing. Dalstrong might be form over function here, dunno I haven't used them yet. And the boxes are magnetic and blue or purple depending on the angle you look at them, which are both totally valid reasons to chose a knife. Yes the knives are overpriced, but at least with how fancy the packaging is I felt like they weren't. I don't even have my smoker yet so I can't test either. But the week I get it I'll use em on a brisket and report back with pictures. Because I associate a pointy end with a "sharp knife" the slicing one with the round tip looks like a huge extremely dull butter knife to me, but it's razor sharp on the paper test, probably as sharp as my Global chef knife. The boning was sharp but a little less impressive on the paper test. I also like the nice plastic sheaths they come with. My $150+ Globals came with cardboard ones I threw away. I like Dalstrong's boxes too for storing. Hopefully they're not bad, reading up online apparently using the wrong knife used on a brisket can cause all the juices to come out and you'll be left with a tough dry chuck roast :(
And another cool to me, but totally useless thing, when you pull the slicing one out of the sheath fast it makes a*shhhhhhthhh* sound like when a Samuari pulls his sword out in a kung fu movie. Although doing this I nearly decapitated my thumb so it's probably not a good idea to play around lol.
I like pictures of knives, so if anyone else does too, here's one.
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