What are the best, lasting quality of life improvements you could get for $500 in total? (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

If you cook and don't have a good knife, get a Victorinox Fibrox chef knife, preferably 7"ish, and an inexpensive whetstone. I use the back of a coarse leveling whetstone and a 1000/3000 grit combo whetstone. Neither should be above $20ish on Amazon. Use the knife especially to prepare vegetables and mince garlic and ginger.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

A standard chef's knife is 8" and I think the fibrox only comes in 8" and 10"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's the 6" which is also very good and not expensive at all. I'd get the 8" over the 10" as a shorter blade means you have to do less sharpening.

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