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Help KWilk Pick a Graduation Present

post #1 of 46
6/13/09 at 8:28pm
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When I come back from externship, and am in Chicago for a week for graduation, I will have my choice of a couple graduation presents. I'm relatively stuck between these three, but I'm sure I'd be equally ecstatic about any of them. BTW, this is a gift from myself, not family or anything.

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post #2 of 46
6/13/09 at 9:24pm
I voted for the Shuns. What are your current knives?
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post #3 of 46
6/13/09 at 9:41pm
If you pick the meal, I'd not go with a steak house, no matter how good of a steak house it is. Alinea over that for sure. You need to keep on the expansion and experimenting theme.
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post #4 of 46
6/13/09 at 9:51pm
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I voted for the Shuns. What are your current knives?
Right now, most of my kit is the school-given kit of Messermeister. They're fine, and hold a relatively good edge, but they're a little heavy for my liking and the blade is a bit thick, IMO.
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If you pick the meal, I'd not go with a steak house, no matter how good of a steak house it is. Alinea over that for sure. You need to keep on the expansion and experimenting theme.

Hell no to a steakhouse. If I get a meal, it will definitely be the kitchen table @ CT or the tour at Alinea. Both are $225.

Edit: Did you think I meant Charlie Palmer? I mean Charlie Trotter's, a truly great restaurant and a Chicago culinary landmark.
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post #5 of 46
6/13/09 at 9:53pm
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Right now, most of my kit is the school-given kit of Messermeister. They're fine, and hold a relatively good edge, but they're a little heavy for my liking and the blade is a bit thick, IMO.


Hell no to a steakhouse. If I get a meal, it will definitely be the kitchen table @ CT or the tour at Alinea. Both are $225.

Edit: Did you think I meant Charlie Palmer? I mean Charlie Trotter's, a truly great restaurant and a Chicago culinary landmark.

Yup, I thought you had a steakhouse as a pick. My mistake.
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post #6 of 46
6/13/09 at 9:55pm
Charlie Trotter is a Chicago establishment, but Alinea's is way more "foodie"

If your knives aren't great, a nice knife is something you will enjoy every day for a long time to come...
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post #7 of 46
6/13/09 at 10:05pm
Definitely something you will keep over time (e.g the chef knife) over an experience like a great dinner.
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post #8 of 46
6/14/09 at 12:42am
Get a set of knives. You'll have those for years to come, and you'll always remember who gave them to you and why whenever you use them.
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post #9 of 46
6/14/09 at 12:54am
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Get a set of knives. You'll have those for years to come, and you'll always remember who gave them to you and why whenever you use them.

Well, this wouldn't be a set. This would be a single, $300 knife. Plus, it's me buying it. If it were someone else, I'd allow them to choose any of the three for me, because I see good choices in them all.
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post #10 of 46
6/14/09 at 12:59am
is this your money paying for all of these things
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post #11 of 46
6/14/09 at 1:07am
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is this your money paying for all of these things

Yessir.
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When I come back from externship, and am in Chicago for a week for graduation, I will have my choice of a couple graduation presents. I'm relatively stuck between these three, but I'm sure I'd be equally ecstatic about any of them. BTW, this is a gift from myself, not family or anything.
Vote pl0x.
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post #12 of 46
6/14/09 at 1:09am
you would go to dinner by yourself?
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post #13 of 46
6/14/09 at 1:10am
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you would go to dinner by yourself?

Yeah. I'm fine with that. Or if I had money I'd take Lish. Wouldn't you go somewhere alone?
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post #14 of 46
6/14/09 at 1:12am
maybe at like a dinner or a coffee shop, but not for some really expensive special meal, you'd want to share that experience I would get the knife
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post #15 of 46
6/14/09 at 1:15am
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Well, this wouldn't be a set. This would be a single, $300 knife. Plus, it's me buying it. If it were someone else, I'd allow them to choose any of the three for me, because I see good choices in them all.

My answer would still be the same, except get yourself a really nice knife. Something you'll cherish for the rest of your career.
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