Some of our viewers who shop at NCX may have noticed that the other day we had a
Jinsu knife set on sale and uh I had a
quite a few requests to do an unboxing. So, I'm going to take it one step
further, and I'm actually here at Eugi's Japanese Tapest in Vancouver, where
um one of our employees, um, well, his
name's Ruji, but that's actually nothing to do with the name of the restaurant, but his brother happens to work here,
and he arranged for me to come in and not only do an unboxing of the Jinsu
knife set, but also give you guys a short demonstration using the knives.
So, here we go. All right. So, as promised, this is the
unboxing video for the Jins Su Essentials set. So, this is a
fivepiece bake light prep set. Yeah, I'm not actually quite sure what the
pronunciation is of this is. As you guys know, this is Linus Tech Tips, so knives
are not exactly my forte, but here we go. We'll just have a look at the box.
See what Jinsu has to say for themselves. Here we've got serrated blades. Okay, so they're commercial
quality serrated blades. Never need sharpening. Many professional chefs
recommend and utilize this maintenance-free design. Okay. And then
we also have a Sanu knife. Santoku knife. Okay.
The set includes a fine-edged Sanu knife expertly designed for fine slicing and
effortless chopping. So here's all of the stuff that is included. Actually,
this says five piece cutlery set includes. So you got four knives as well
as a block to store them in. You've got bake light handles, natural wood knife
block, and serrated blades. They mentioned that again. and the Jins Su
story. Several decades ago, a knife was created created that to this day remains
the sharpest knife on the market. It is the Jins Su knife. And if you want to
hear just like zoom in a little bit so that uh just move a little closer. You
don't need to worry about the zoom. We have an apprentice cameraman today who
is one of the employees here at Eugi's Tapas. So uh there you guys can read
that if you want. And uh let's go ahead and get this opened up. So I'm going to
use my uh my trusty Spyderco to open up
this other knife. And there we are. We
will find out exactly what's going on inside this box. So, the first thing
we're going to find is environmentally friendly corrugated cardboard packing.
It's a lot better than foam. I do prefer to see that versus a foam alternative.
We have Okay, caution. Sharp objects. Open with care. I didn't imagine that
when I was opening up a uh knife set that I might find some sharp objects.
So, it's very helpful of them to uh to mention that for me. Here is our wood
knife block, which as long as I can find an opening on one side or another. There
we go. I'll be able to show you guys.
So, yeah, it's not, you know, single piece construction or anything, but it
looks reasonably all right. There's a package of do not eat, so make sure you
don't eat that, please. And uh we've got so yeah, you got yeah, it's made out of
like about six different pieces of wood that are all sort of uh pressed together
and glued, but when it's actually sitting on your counter, it doesn't look too bad. It's got little plastic feet,
so uh shouldn't scratch anything, which is uh which is also nice. And let's open
up the caution sharp objects open with
care package. So make sure you're not like, you know, running around while you
try and open this up cuz that could be dangerous. There's a tip for you. All
right, here we go. Jins Su bake light set. Limited lifetime warranty. So, they
are warranted to be free from de defects. The knife will be replaced free
of charge by sending $3 per knife to cover postage and handling fees to that
address. Cool. Good stuff. All right. Here are the four knives which come in
individual plastic packages and then with paper sheets that somewhat cover
the blades. And uh the thing about a knife package is you probably don't have
to uh cut it open because you can do that from the inside. So there is the
6-in chef's knife with the serrated edge
on it. It's made of stainless. Okay. There is the uh handle. Like I said, not
a knife expert. I'm not going to be able to tell you guys nearly as much about
this off the top of my head as I would with say, for example, a motherboard or
other computer component. And next, we have the 5-in
sanu. All right, so that's knife number two. Finally, we have the 5-in utility
knife, which has the same uh the same shape of serrated edge as the 6-in
chef's knife. And here, why don't I put these in here as we go along? So, this
gu is going to go here. This gu is going to go here. And then, last but not
least, we have the 3 and 1/2 in pairing knife. Also a serrated edge. So, thank
you for checking out the unboxing. There's still more to
come. So, this is George. This is Ruji
from our RMA department's uh brother, and he works here at Eugi's Tapus, and
he is going to be helping us with our knife demonstration. So, the first
object that we are going to slice up is
uh please introduce that for us. This is a basic English cucumber.
Excellent. I hope you guys got a good look at that. It's a very complicated
thing. So, uh, George, please tell us about which knife you would prefer to
cut up this cucumber. I would probably take this, uh, 5 in Sunken knife. It's
got the straight edge. It's probably the one I'm more most familiar with. Okay.
Um, this serrated edge. I've never used a knife like this before, but the first
time everything. We'll give it a shot. There's a funny thing. We have a
Japanese chef who has never once used a serrated blade. So, I'll get him to try
both knives, and he can give us his impressions of the straight edge versus
the Jinsu serrated edge. So, uh, here, let's have our first cut. All
right, that's pretty sharp. Okay, it's pretty sharp. We've gotten that far,
folks. All right. And then this part I
do not recommend for novice or beginners. Okay, guys. So, please,
please do not try this at home. I know I say that a lot on my show, but usually
I'm just joking. Please do not try this at home. So, he is peeling the cucumber
by hand with a knife. In fact, he seems to be going a little bit further than
peeling it. I'm not familiar with this process, so we're just going to have to
uh stay tuned and figure out what he's doing, but it seems that the Jins Su
knife is being operated with a far deal more precision and skill than I could
have done. Once the core, just chuck it away. We throw away the core. Okay, it's
there in the garbage. Gone. Done. We're done with that.
Okay. And then we'll just
So I guess the seeds are unsuitable for uh yes for for Japanese purposes here.
Well, in this instance, yes. And this is
a basic julian. And we'll put this inside sushi rolls. Cool. Okay. And I
guess that would have been quite a bit more difficult to do with a serrated edge. That wouldn't have made a lot of
sense. Well, you could give it a shot. Okay, let's give it a shot.
Oh, I meant the peeling part, but uh Oh, hey, the slicing part. Hey, this way.
This is not too bad.
All right, we have more demonstrations coming for you though, guys. We are now
going to uh do a piece of salmon. So, uh, our wonderful volunteer here is
going to suggest which knife you would use for the, uh, the piece of salmon
that we have, uh, just sitting right there. Ready? Um, why don't you try
both? Can you do both? It's a small piece, but uh, okay, we're going to try
both knives again.
All right, here I go.
So there's the knife cutting through the salmon meat.
Now try to serrated edge.
It's not working too well. Okay, you can
tell. Uh, Chef George's recommendation from the Jins Su Essentials kit seems to
be the 5- in Santoku knife. All right,
thanks guys for checking out this very random episode of Linus Tech Tips. And
uh don't forget to subscribe for more videos about well really computers,
motherboards, overclocking reviews and such, but apparently we also do knives.
Thanks for watching. So it occurs to me now I did promise to actually demo the
knives myself. Although my demonstration will be not nearly as interesting as
George's. So there I cut a piece of cucumber. I also agree with him that
this knife is quite sharp. Now I'm going to try the other
one. Oh yeah, that's definitely not as suitable for cutting uh cutting
vegetables. So, uh, yeah. Yeah, I'm with I'm with him on this one, but I'm also
going to show you guys the other knives that we didn't look at yet. So, this is the 3 and 1/2 in pairing knife. Okay.
All right. See, can you got stabbing and slicing motion going on here? And then
finally, the 5-in utility knife. And now I'm down to the parts of the cucumber
that probably aren't that delicious. So, let's find out uh if cucumber tastes
good when it's cut by the jinsu
knife. It's a good cucumber.
So, thanks for checking out our little video here at Eugi's Tapas. So, we are
at Oh, he told me the address, but ah, yes. 2059 West Fork in Vancouver. So,
guys, please feel free to come on down and uh say hi to George. Just uh just
tell him you're an NCX customer and you saw the video and uh hopefully he'll be
here when you come by. You can get some Japanese food and it'll all be lots of
fun. So, thanks for checking out our video and don't forget to subscribe to
Linus Tech Tips.