The... Smeg.... Kitchen Knife. Tested

[@hmansion]

These knives are gems…only backwards.

[@warpedweirdo]

Hey, good catch! I think I'll make a competing knife brand, call it amgems.

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

@@warpedweirdo i'd instantly buy a whole set of your knives!

[@lonewolf597]

Battoning carrots! POWER MOVE!

[@gregmccormack5709]

😂❤👍

[@zoiders]

I used to work for a Smeg wholesaler. Red Dwarf will never be off the the television. Smeg freebies are normally quite nice.

[@alexouretski115]

I hear “SMEG-ma” in my head whenever I see or hear it’s name😂

[@CombatBanana]

Same 👍

[@budthecyborg4575]

0:02 "Internal Screaming" 1. He left about 20% of the apple on the core. 2. He cut the apple with the sticker, and he probably ate the sticker.

[@mikececconi2677]

The sticker is where all the S E C R E T V I T A M I N S are!

[@23Scadu]

Finally a video for all the smegheads out there.

[@gregtomamichel973]

You're a smeghead.

[@PMCKnivesAndTools]

In Scotland our big, evil supermarkets are Asda (which is ((or was?)) part of the US evil megacorp Walmart) and then Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's etc then the posh ones (read: pretentious and overpriced) like Waitrose or Marks & Spencer. I usually shop at Lidl or Aldi when possible. I want to see a supermarket evilness tier list. Where the big megacorp ones are compared to pull through carbide sharpeners.

[@davidneal6920]

4 years ago a New Zealand supermarket chain ran a SMEG knife give away. It was their most successful giveaway ever. Being kiwis we went slightly crazy over it….. I managed to get the whole set. Best thing was the knife stand. They are ok knives. Great with the tidy knife stand. Still got the whole set in my kitchen and use them daily. So pretty good use overall. Even passed the kiwifruit cutting test 🇳🇿 🇦🇺

[@waveman0]

I have three of them now, the one you feature (Utility), paring and smaller utility, so I am pretty happy with them. Edge retention is good, just touching up on the steel is necessary.

[@dlrmon1]

I tried a few Cold Steel 4116 kitchen knives, there okay. Have a Enzo kitchen knife in 12c27 with a thin geometry that works great. I purchased a few TwoSun kitchen knifes in 14c28n as gifts, I was so impressed for the price I had to get a few myself...

[@machinaexmente2729]

LOOOL. Time to rewatch Red Dwarf!!

[@dlrmon1]

I haven’t seen a Woolworths in the US since the I first started seeing mall’s. I think they survived as a catalog company here. My local sporting goods store still sells their winter clothing lines.

[@feralgrandad4429]

It's was Woolworths (Woolies) here too. But they went bust in UK. Aldi/Lidl rocks here too..... Smeg knives are only available here in UK in the Knife block set apparently at 232 quid. Bloody w**kpuffins! 😁

[@geoffjackson6899]

Doing a smeg review with those unsightly and mysterious stains on your trackie dacks reflects absolutely first class production values. Well done.

[@TCMx3]

those stones could use a bit of a dress with an atoma. IME lower grit synthetics especially can clog and lose their effectiveness. I have also found maintaining flatness helps a lot, even if it maybe nominally lowers the life of the stone.

[@luisytacc]

Big evil duopoly here is Pingo Doce and Continente, and Continente did indeed do a SMEG cutlery point trade-in thing.

[@Er0S3nnin]

Just 2 recommendations. Depending on the task the recommended universal finish is about 1-3k, to have more bite, but still glide. This steel is usually maxed at about 55-6 range in production knives, so I would finish at about 2-3k. Don't put stones with water on/in them directly in the cases, it wouldn't harm them to clean them occasionally or flatten. nagura will also help.

[@kerryrwac]

Coles is a bookstore in Ontario Canada under the Chapters/Indigo corporation. Sobey's, The Super store, Freschco, food Basics, Longos are grocery chains. Canadian Tire and Princes auto are our versions of Supercheap Auto, though Canadian Tire sells everything but food. Walmart and Giant Tiger for groceries and clothing and anything in between.

[@tombrown4683]

Hi Pete, Walmart has a lock for most here. Winn-Dixie - higher prices with discounts if you sign up. Publix is the high end- best meat, produce (in store), seafood, bakery but have great buy one get another deals. I'm in the southeast U.S.

[@freestatefellow]

Fair variety of grocery options here in the upper Midwest USA. Costco is the best balance of value and quality, but requires a subscription and everything is in large packages. Sam's club, Cub foods, Hyvee, Kowalskis all have varying levels of quality and value. Local food coop is actually the best place for top quality produce and often their bulk section prices out better than conventional stores. Wife prefers if all the Kitchen knives match. I'm slowly piece by piece converting us over from Wusthoff to Shun.

[@joi777]

Time to watch some seasons of the good ole Red Dwarf series!

[@Markkus12]

I know…crap knife, but going from stone to stone without wiping the blade is almost as bad as watching you dull the edge on the brick! Lol. Thank you for the great vids!!

[@davidheath2427]

That was not just any brick . Bricky has feelings too .

[@Lack_of_response]

in the US, our supermarket duopoly is wal mart and kroger, and kroger is trying to buy the next-smallest one.

[@berghofer7938]

1.4116, if I recall correctly, is generally heat treated to around 55 Hrc. So, yeah, I mean, it will do work, but it is on a way more "common" level compared to the steel types knife guys usually deal with..

[@bokusimondesu]

Smeg... Half decent appliances with a fancy front.

[@ajhoward8888]

They're making new episodes of Red Dwarf. Long live the Smegiverse.

[@emersonmsd]

Nice. Try the BPS Rosemary. It comes with a leather sheath.

[@jamieluvsknives3912]

I’ve tried a bunch of different kitchen knives but they all went dull so fast I had a friend recommend shun so I bought a few and now there the only ones I’ll buy

[@mcsquirgle]

My evil grocery store chain is so evil I can't even get a free knife from it. I think the points system gives you reduced cost per gallons of gasoline at a participating gas station, but when I have tried to use it I don't get any discount.

[@christamu2]

17 minutes and 37 seconds of Fixed Blade Power Moves.

[@krissteel4074]

It looks like the kind of kitchen knife that someone would SHAMEFULLY put in a dishwasher and it'll be completely fine. Which is basically 90% of humanity that have dishwashers. While I don't particularly like the welded on, all metal handles they are pretty bomb proof and it'll survive being dropped on tiles, subjected to abuse cranking open your milo tin lid and probably dragged through one of those pull-through sharpeners like the inquisition getting a confession out of someone. You could complain we deserve better knives from our supermarket overlords, but if we're honest. Most of us don't deserve better! 😁

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

i gave my smeg a ma, no wait, my ma a smeg and she loves it!

[@mikececconi2677]

A shirt of your cat, screaming his metal scream, but his name in that weird death metal font that people can just barely read.

[@markod7662]

Mrs B.J. Smegma of 13, The Crescent, Belmont also uses this knife brand 😂

[@MBroam]

Here in Georgia so south that we are almost Florida, we have a choice of evil supermarkets. Walmart, Winn Dixie (over priced coupon scam groceries), Publix (over priced but a pleasure to shop there) and a newly added Aldi which has great prices but sometimes never again has that frozen food that you got that one time that was delicious.

[@jeremymcadam7400]

Surprised to see Walmart operating in an ex combloc country

[@MBroam]

@@jeremymcadam7400 Wrong Georgia, hence the Florida comment...

[@jeremymcadam7400]

@@MBroam there's only one country named Georgia?

[@LUC.Knives]

Most of these highly mass produced kitchen knives are actually heat treated really low, like low 50s

[@2adamast]

Had to go google "smeg" for the question "what is smeg british slang" to catch the sensibilities of our tattooed reviewer.

[@jeremymcadam7400]

This is Australian

[@2adamast]

@@jeremymcadam7400 It's complicated "used by punks before made popularized by the british television show Red Dwarf dispite popular belief smegs origins did not have to do with smegma which is a crusty substance that develops underneath foreskin"

[@patkal3987]

58 to 59 hrc seems a bit high or not? I don't know if 1.4116 even can be hardened to that point. Around 55hrc is usually where it's at. Anyway nice to see ur continous upload of content. Greetings from germany!

[@markod7662]

I think wüsthof classic icon is this 4116 steel and it is 59 hrc i believe. And that is the best german mass produced knife.

[@paullmight42]

I mean......ME....I WANT BACON....

[@sic5168]

My mrs went home to see her dad for the first time in years. Sent me a pic of an outside breakfast, looked nice apart from the husk knife I spotted… after 2 weeks I am still traumatised, even ordering a trc South Pole in mc hasn’t helped

[@Darrenski]

Oh dear. Do you have children? That could be hereditary you know!

[@Darrenski]

@sic5168 btw I have one of the early south poles without the hollow pins. Just a perfect knife. Between that and my garberb I'll never need another knife so a clearance sale is being organised soon to get rid of about 20 knives that only collect dust. But you'll love the trc. Along with chris reeve knives they're the best finished knives you can buy, only they're actually good, unlike everything reeve ever did apart from the sebenza.

[@jeremymcadam7400]

Liked for the colesworth sentiment

[@BrentonCarr]

my tip isn't fragile, but it is sensitive.

[@Darrenski]

Oh give it time. You lose all that with age

[@warpedweirdo]

​@@Darrenski Slam it in the car door, tenderize it with a hammer; nothing And then what? Hours spent grinding, a real workout for sure, but you can't squeeze water from a --rock-- desiccated sponge.

[@kevola5739]

You know you are watching a pro when he has an un-sharpening stone.

[@PMCKnivesAndTools]

Can we get a video where Young Brickie is used as the sharpening stone? If you can sharpen on a toilet, then you can sharpen on a brick, right? Right? RIGHT!

[@efiksas2]

Is this the steel that Victorinox uses also?

[@DanielJacksonisbiggerinside]

The only thing better than bad translations on advertising/manuals for cheap products in bad translations in advertising/manuals of expensive high-concept products: "For over 60 years, Smeg have designed, and continue to design, appliances to adorn homes around the world, and Italia Independent, a brand of creativity and style, have contaminated two icons: the FAB28 fridge and denim. Is it art for art's sake? No, it is creativity for the home, style for every day." Contaminating icons with denim-clad refrigerators. Keep it up, Smeg.

[@zoiders]

Can you speak and write fluently in Italian?

[@donaldmcgregor8152]

I do the exact same thing. We shop at Aldi for about 90% of our groceries. And have to go into Jewel, target, or Walmart for the name brand stuff that Aldi doesn’t carry. It saves you so much money! And I prefer everything at Aldi except the meat, Aldi meat really sucks by us.

[@peetsnort]

I had an excellent daddy rump for 499 .about 475 grams for 30 day matured in Ludlow uk

[@gaberoo9099]

Italian brand I was told (I'd seen a coffee machine with that brand and asked at a kitchen store).

[@morgizmo87]

Walmart and amazon are our big evil duopoly.

[@cwooley89]

Khols in the US is more of a discount clothing store, no food at all. Wonder if they're the same company?

[@LisaInTheSkyMU]

They are different, it’s Coles in Australia 😊 and it’s publicly listed with shareholders.

[@theMeshtar]

Smeg...head! IYKYK 😊

[@TheKimjoh560]

They have to be expensive, otherwise people wouldnt think they make a good product with a name like that 😂

[@9mmmike642]

Aldi here in America is about the same. Off brand, cheaper, and typically just as good.

[@J_Dukes]

Rather not think of ball sweat when prepping my dinner for the night

[@BjCmeadows]

I've never heard of this brand in the US.. what an unfortunate name! Great entertaining video as always Pete

[@aamirsiddiqi]

Do more chef knives review but cheap ones from brazil, portugal and spain like tramontina, mundial, arcos.

[@matsalm2943]

I presumably have more than 20 outdoors knifes. Many more thenI will need in my life. However the knifes I use every day are my kitchen knifes. I like cooking so my kitchen knifes are used much more than any of my fällkniven, Casström or my custom handmade knifes. I have 2 knifes are presumably close to 50 years old. One is a carbon steel Sabatier chef knife. It is the knife I will use for cutting up a chicken. It is sharpened like a Japanese chef knife. It is a tough steel that never rolls or get any damage. However it dulls faster. My most used knifes come from Hattori. A famous japanese knife that also maker that also happen to act himself in the cult film Kill Bill. My first knife Bought from them was the Chef knife, Since then I have bought 3 more of them. I could only get them when the USD was weak. They are the best knifes I aver owned.and since the first one I bought I have only stropped them sharp. Mr Hattori have signed all my knifes and he is over 80 years old. I you want to test the best kitchen knifes available you have to get your hands off one of his nifes. My kitchen knifes are presumably among the first damascus knifes he produced. If you compare that to any of his knives you will understand why his knifes are sou famous. You learn more here: hattoricollector.com

[@DrFrankLondon]

It's not necessary to start on a Shapton pro (kuromaku) 320# or a Shapton Rockstar 500#, you can perfectly start on Shapton Pro 1000# to fix the edge on such a soft steel, but it gives you great experience. I would finish off on a 5000, on a Naniwa Pro series, a Shapton Glass or a Suheiro Rika 5000#. Then move on to a 2 micron Jende nano cloth strop in whetstone size, so you don't round your edge on a padel strop. Just my opinion based on 30 years of Whetstone sharpening.

[@2Bstrifeless]

What sort of a sociopath chops their onions with the paper skin layer still on them!?!? I thought we knew you Pete... Oh nevermind, all straight into the bin.

[@ajhoward8888]

The first thing I saw from this brand was a toaster. If that's not a Red Dwarf joke, I don't understand anything anymore.

[@sloanNYC]

I've been a fan for quite awhile, but leaving that sticker on the Apple in the intro... triggering!!!!

[@nandayane]

it looks like a fine knife to get for store points.

[@ChristopherChociey]

Yes, but will it baton Australian hardwoods.

[@mohammadmobassir2363]

I’ve decided to get the Ryusen Hamono Blazen Gyuto 210 mm and Haruyuki Zanpa Gyuto 210mm. Which one do you think is better for home use?

[@gaberoo9099]

Aldi had a very decent affordable (299 australian bucks?) alternative to the uber-pricey Thermomix (>2000 US bucks). Only available in australia I gather?

[@cal1776]

I cut apples into 3 pieces,I am rarely hungry enough to eat 4.

[@Multicam44]

What a terrible name for anything kitchen related. "From the makers of Shit knives and forks, comes the SMEG cheese and butter knife set." 🤮

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

whoever picked that name is a legend🤣

[@nicodabastard]

Don't forget about the dingle berry spoon and the cum mugs!!

[@LairdDavidson]

Smeg have been around a long time. They are really big in the luxury end of kitchen appliances here in the UK.

[@zoiders]

SMEG are Italian. SMEG don't have to apologise to you for not naming them self in English. They have been trading for decades and while they do charge a premium for the name in many circumstances they have never made anything that I would call crap.

[@peetsnort]

Why haven't you got an end grain chopping board..?

[@CallMeDave2]

Bamboo cutting board?

[@LairdDavidson]

Bamboo cutting boards are an absolute no no. Unfortunately they are very common now because they are cheap to make in China.

[@Grayson_Baker]

Whenever I say Smeg, I say it like Kryten from Red Dwarf

[@MrDarrylR]

In Louisiana, USA, I also shop first at Aldi (Aldi Sud), then at ethnic Indian and Chinese markets, then at Trader Joes (Aldi Nord), and then, only for ingredients none of those carry, at mainstream grocers. Its a pain in the ass, and I'm somehow pleased to know those on the opposite sides of the planet have similarly dysfunctional grocery retail. Regardless of where we're born, capitalism has failed us in the very same ways.

[@Chappvid]

Thanks!

[@CedricAda]

thanks be to you! very generous ☺️

[@Chappvid]

Thank you! A tiny percentage of the value and entertainment I have received from your work/content!

[@cpzmelbs]

Nice smeg dude

[@SwedishPete]

K..k..k...k KATT!!

[@brandonwilson896]

this is america, weve. got all the big nasty chains.

[@Wolf_K]

The handles are likely full of sand. I’ve seen them made like that before.

[@CedricAda]

Full of Sand!? This is so curious to me I am probably going to cut it open haha

[@Wolf_K]

@ lol. I’ve seen them made where they pour the sand in….might have been Global, I’m unsure.

[@vonWeizhacker69]

edeka, aldi and rewe in Germany

[@cloudcleaver23]

The amount of Fire Emblem: Three Houses music in your videos always gets a double-take from me. Streams I wouldn't expect to cross.

[@lenny7228]

Coles and woolworths are owned by the same people, their not competing against each other they are competing with each other

[@MNWoodland]

He really batoned the carrot

[@lordnicenstein5105]

Remove the apple's sticker before cutting it ,you damn savage😂 Btw pork is pretty bad for cats, but honestly looking at him, I feel you gave up improving his diet long ago😅

[@ras9182]

Shame I would have liked to see a big knife sharpened 16:37 on the kme

[@paullmight42]

Smeg was a very very poor name choice....

[@halfbaked3373]

Smeg lol

[@benneuls4142]

😂😂

[@RichardPoogerman]

Aldi is the best supermarket in the galaxy.

[@stephenwallace2423]

Is it considered ironic for a Matsato advert to be shown as an intro to a Petey and Basil video? Or perhaps even more ironic that Matsato are creating revenue for Pete!? 😳

[@12monkey57]

Anybody interested in Al Mar Eagle HD in ZDP-189? I have a line on some, and trying to gauge interest

[@danielleclark-zack864]

@4:42... Just why tho???

[@lesliestjohn101]

If people drink when you say smeg they will die

[@StevanMilesevic]

SMEG has been around since the 1940s -- so long before that overhyped TV show. Not sure why you get so hung up on the name. They are currently offering these here in Germany at a supermarket called EDEKA and I'v been considering getting a few since I don't have any decent kitchen knives after my move.

[@CedricAda]

well these would be good choices at that price. yah red dwarf staine dmy brain as a 13 year old and I cant unlink it

[@user-ww4od4jl1f]

*bamboo chopping board is the worst possible!!! Test failed*

[@CedricAda]

its not bamboo tho

[@user-ww4od4jl1f]

@@CedricAda *Sorry, but this is just a pure bamboo cutting board. A board made of glued bamboo. Most likely Made in Vietnam.*

[@gaberoo9099]

I think I'll stick with my Japanese kitchen knives (all way more affordable than this and in better steels: HAP40, 52100, etc).

[@ChristopherChociey]

Similar to Coles in US- WALMART, WALMART, WALMART. We also have Aldi's. A better name than Smeg- how about MEH.

[@billybunter3753]

You have to review the new Halfbreed Blades LBF-01 Gen 2 for us! Let's see if the new LINQ lock stands up to the task! 👍🇦🇺🦘

[@Brain_Slugs]

walmart

[@gaberoo9099]

625 dollars for a knife block and 4 knives???

[@JacobBrantley90]

Reminds me of smegma 😂

[@peetsnort]

Not to mention binning all the onoion etc. My mother would whip us with a jockey whip for wasting food

[@Allan8080]

Har den samme

[@onesky8647]

Not to be pedantic, but there is a thing called a "dressing stone" (usually 600 grit) which is used to clean wet stones before use. A dry white eraser can be used in a pinch before wetting the stone as well. :)

[@Kraakesolv]

He's used those before, I learned about them from him in fact. Guess he just didn't bother now.

[@antoinedoinell]

Pete, you got to work on your kitchen knife grip…😫

[@peetsnort]

Yeah .he did admit he's not a kitchen type. But yeah choke up

[@antoinedoinell]

@@peetsnort Totally. He's mentioned that a couple times in the past. Not trying to hate. It's just the chef in me trying to advocate good technique and safety. Thumb and index finger pinching blade, three fingers around handle.