Sunday, November 1, 2009

Invest in Quality Knives for Better Food Preparation

By Moses Harun

Now in it's second century, Farberware offers a number of kitchen gadgets and accessories running the gamut from small appliances to barware to food storage containers. One of this company's notable product lines is its cutlery collections, which consist of five series. As seen on its website, these five include the Farberware Millennium, the Stainless Soft Grip, the Farberware Classic Series, the Farberware Professional and the Farberware kitchen knife sets, all of which feature non-slip handles.

Product Features

The Millennium series is made with stainless steel handles and fine-edged blades that are dishwasher-safe, which means they are more user-friendly than the majority of high-end kitchen blades. The Stainless Soft Grip series includes the same features as the Millennium series aside from the fact that hand washing is recommended. The Professional Series can boast about the same features as the other series as well as the fact that professional series handles use three rivets to add durability and strength.

The Classic Series and the Ultraedge Pro Series of the Farberware kitchen knife set reportedly call for no blade sharpening because of their high-carbon stainless steel blades, which have become admittedly the most popular blades for cutlery recently. With their non-slip handles constructed from polypropylene, and Faberware makes a great product. All you need to remember, though, is which Faberware knife set calls for hand washing rather than dishwasher cleaning.

Advantages

Well, if you are the kind who doesn't clean knives as you cook, but prefer to throw your cutlery into your dishwasher, the Farberware Millenium knives are just the thing for you. Even with the Millenium knives, you will want to realize that even the highest quality steel will rust after years of contact with the detergents employed by your dishwasher.

Also, some of the Farberware knives are formed from high-carbon stainless steel, a material proven to be highly-resistant to discoloration and rust. Even though this kind of metal is not as straightforward to sharpen as the more pedestrial stainless steel edges, the supposed "no need for sharpening" feature means you shouldn't have to worry about it.

The Cuisinart blades are normally forged, not cold rolled, which makes for better balanced blades that are light in your hands but heavy on whatever you're cutting. But naturally, these abilities are seen in many forged knives, so that's hardly anything to have a party about.

What's more, if you are a person who would prefer to enjoy coordinated utensils but loses them more than usual, you may be happy to note that the pieces of any Faberware knife set could be bought at any better retailer around the country. After all, Farberware is nearly everywhere!

Disadvantages

The relatively narrow handles of nearly all pieces in a Faberware knife set can create a problem for people with large hands. While the blades work satisfactorily normally, getting a good grip on the handles can be difficult, especially when your hands are wet.

An unfortunate aspect of the "no need for sharpening" feature, this might be relevant only to successive uses, because you still will have to sharpen the knives right out of the store. When you've sharpened them, you can merely do the maintenance to make the knives as sharp as possible. (Apparently, the "no need for sharpening" assertion is just a marketing gimmick)

The final judgment concerning a Faberware kitchen knife set: It's an average product which might be acquired for an average price. For more demanding kitchen jobs, you might as well part with more money to purchase the proper kind of knives. For daily tasks in your home, a Farberware kitchen knife will serve just fine.

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