I came back today to work after a week in Malta (more will come later about it) to find all these presents (that i bought myself) awaiting for me (got them delivered at work) !
The “Paris Classic” knife is forged while the others (4 “Paris Bistro” that are included in the “4, 3, 2, 1, à table !” package along the pepper grinder) are not but they all are made from the same kind of steel (Nitrox® R which has a 59 HRC hardness) which is the same used on the C.A.C. knife used by the French army and the gendarmerie.
One of the knives end was not finished perfectly :
So i did a quick honing, using leather strops and honing compounds but i only did 2 knives so far (this one and the forged one) and only took pictures of the imperfect one before the operation :
Before honing, the forged one was clearly cutting better but now they are quite closer as i can cut with ease a 80g printer paper with only the hand with the paper moving.
It already cuts better than my “real” Laguiole (from Laguiole Production) that i use to learn how to sharpen and hone.
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The corkscrew which is in oak and has an “infinite loop” mechanism : you turn until the cork is totally on the corkscrew then you can pop it out :
The “Paris Chef” pepper grinder in a 18cm version (it exists in multiple sized and materials) which has the U-Select mechanism which allows to change the coarseness very simply :
The “cap” is a single piece of stainless steel and looks very nice :
Behind the boxes, a nice graphic :
Don’t have much fresh food left so i ordered a pizza and tried both my new tools on it, i tried to do a slim slice which did work quite well as i was able to get the slice out without braking it after taking the picture even if the pizza was still quite fresh (it was like 10 minutes after being cooked) :
