Ginsu Knife Set Unboxing & Demonstration at Yuji's Tapas Sushi Restaurant Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,871 words · ~9 min read
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Some of our viewers who shop at NCX may have noticed that the other day we had a
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Jinsu knife set on sale and uh I had a
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quite a few requests to do an unboxing. So, I'm going to take it one step
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further, and I'm actually here at Eugi's Japanese Tapest in Vancouver, where
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um one of our employees, um, well, his
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name's Ruji, but that's actually nothing to do with the name of the restaurant, but his brother happens to work here,
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and he arranged for me to come in and not only do an unboxing of the Jinsu
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knife set, but also give you guys a short demonstration using the knives.
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So, here we go. All right. So, as promised, this is the
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unboxing video for the Jins Su Essentials set. So, this is a
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fivepiece bake light prep set. Yeah, I'm not actually quite sure what the
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pronunciation is of this is. As you guys know, this is Linus Tech Tips, so knives
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are not exactly my forte, but here we go. We'll just have a look at the box.
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See what Jinsu has to say for themselves. Here we've got serrated blades. Okay, so they're commercial
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quality serrated blades. Never need sharpening. Many professional chefs
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recommend and utilize this maintenance-free design. Okay. And then
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we also have a Sanu knife. Santoku knife. Okay.
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The set includes a fine-edged Sanu knife expertly designed for fine slicing and
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effortless chopping. So here's all of the stuff that is included. Actually,
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this says five piece cutlery set includes. So you got four knives as well
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as a block to store them in. You've got bake light handles, natural wood knife
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block, and serrated blades. They mentioned that again. and the Jins Su
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story. Several decades ago, a knife was created created that to this day remains
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the sharpest knife on the market. It is the Jins Su knife. And if you want to
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hear just like zoom in a little bit so that uh just move a little closer. You
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don't need to worry about the zoom. We have an apprentice cameraman today who
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is one of the employees here at Eugi's Tapas. So uh there you guys can read
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that if you want. And uh let's go ahead and get this opened up. So I'm going to
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use my uh my trusty Spyderco to open up
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this other knife. And there we are. We
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will find out exactly what's going on inside this box. So, the first thing
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we're going to find is environmentally friendly corrugated cardboard packing.
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It's a lot better than foam. I do prefer to see that versus a foam alternative.
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We have Okay, caution. Sharp objects. Open with care. I didn't imagine that
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when I was opening up a uh knife set that I might find some sharp objects.
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So, it's very helpful of them to uh to mention that for me. Here is our wood
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knife block, which as long as I can find an opening on one side or another. There
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we go. I'll be able to show you guys.
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So, yeah, it's not, you know, single piece construction or anything, but it
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looks reasonably all right. There's a package of do not eat, so make sure you
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don't eat that, please. And uh we've got so yeah, you got yeah, it's made out of
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like about six different pieces of wood that are all sort of uh pressed together
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and glued, but when it's actually sitting on your counter, it doesn't look too bad. It's got little plastic feet,
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so uh shouldn't scratch anything, which is uh which is also nice. And let's open
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up the caution sharp objects open with
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care package. So make sure you're not like, you know, running around while you
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try and open this up cuz that could be dangerous. There's a tip for you. All
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right, here we go. Jins Su bake light set. Limited lifetime warranty. So, they
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are warranted to be free from de defects. The knife will be replaced free
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of charge by sending $3 per knife to cover postage and handling fees to that
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address. Cool. Good stuff. All right. Here are the four knives which come in
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individual plastic packages and then with paper sheets that somewhat cover
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the blades. And uh the thing about a knife package is you probably don't have
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to uh cut it open because you can do that from the inside. So there is the
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6-in chef's knife with the serrated edge
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on it. It's made of stainless. Okay. There is the uh handle. Like I said, not
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a knife expert. I'm not going to be able to tell you guys nearly as much about
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this off the top of my head as I would with say, for example, a motherboard or
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other computer component. And next, we have the 5-in
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sanu. All right, so that's knife number two. Finally, we have the 5-in utility
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knife, which has the same uh the same shape of serrated edge as the 6-in
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chef's knife. And here, why don't I put these in here as we go along? So, this
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gu is going to go here. This gu is going to go here. And then, last but not
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least, we have the 3 and 1/2 in pairing knife. Also a serrated edge. So, thank
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you for checking out the unboxing. There's still more to
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come. So, this is George. This is Ruji
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from our RMA department's uh brother, and he works here at Eugi's Tapus, and
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he is going to be helping us with our knife demonstration. So, the first
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object that we are going to slice up is
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uh please introduce that for us. This is a basic English cucumber.
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Excellent. I hope you guys got a good look at that. It's a very complicated
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thing. So, uh, George, please tell us about which knife you would prefer to
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cut up this cucumber. I would probably take this, uh, 5 in Sunken knife. It's
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got the straight edge. It's probably the one I'm more most familiar with. Okay.
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Um, this serrated edge. I've never used a knife like this before, but the first
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time everything. We'll give it a shot. There's a funny thing. We have a
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Japanese chef who has never once used a serrated blade. So, I'll get him to try
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both knives, and he can give us his impressions of the straight edge versus
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the Jinsu serrated edge. So, uh, here, let's have our first cut. All
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right, that's pretty sharp. Okay, it's pretty sharp. We've gotten that far,
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folks. All right. And then this part I
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do not recommend for novice or beginners. Okay, guys. So, please,
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please do not try this at home. I know I say that a lot on my show, but usually
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I'm just joking. Please do not try this at home. So, he is peeling the cucumber
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by hand with a knife. In fact, he seems to be going a little bit further than
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peeling it. I'm not familiar with this process, so we're just going to have to
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uh stay tuned and figure out what he's doing, but it seems that the Jins Su
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knife is being operated with a far deal more precision and skill than I could
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have done. Once the core, just chuck it away. We throw away the core. Okay, it's
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there in the garbage. Gone. Done. We're done with that.
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Okay. And then we'll just
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So I guess the seeds are unsuitable for uh yes for for Japanese purposes here.
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Well, in this instance, yes. And this is
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a basic julian. And we'll put this inside sushi rolls. Cool. Okay. And I
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guess that would have been quite a bit more difficult to do with a serrated edge. That wouldn't have made a lot of
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sense. Well, you could give it a shot. Okay, let's give it a shot.
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Oh, I meant the peeling part, but uh Oh, hey, the slicing part. Hey, this way.
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This is not too bad.
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All right, we have more demonstrations coming for you though, guys. We are now
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going to uh do a piece of salmon. So, uh, our wonderful volunteer here is
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going to suggest which knife you would use for the, uh, the piece of salmon
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that we have, uh, just sitting right there. Ready? Um, why don't you try
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both? Can you do both? It's a small piece, but uh, okay, we're going to try
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both knives again.
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All right, here I go.
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So there's the knife cutting through the salmon meat.
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Now try to serrated edge.
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It's not working too well. Okay, you can
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tell. Uh, Chef George's recommendation from the Jins Su Essentials kit seems to
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be the 5- in Santoku knife. All right,
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thanks guys for checking out this very random episode of Linus Tech Tips. And
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uh don't forget to subscribe for more videos about well really computers,
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motherboards, overclocking reviews and such, but apparently we also do knives.
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Thanks for watching. So it occurs to me now I did promise to actually demo the
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knives myself. Although my demonstration will be not nearly as interesting as
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George's. So there I cut a piece of cucumber. I also agree with him that
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this knife is quite sharp. Now I'm going to try the other
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one. Oh yeah, that's definitely not as suitable for cutting uh cutting
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vegetables. So, uh, yeah. Yeah, I'm with I'm with him on this one, but I'm also
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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.
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All right. See, can you got stabbing and slicing motion going on here? And then
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finally, the 5-in utility knife. And now I'm down to the parts of the cucumber
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that probably aren't that delicious. So, let's find out uh if cucumber tastes
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good when it's cut by the jinsu
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knife. It's a good cucumber.
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So, thanks for checking out our little video here at Eugi's Tapas. So, we are
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at Oh, he told me the address, but ah, yes. 2059 West Fork in Vancouver. So,
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guys, please feel free to come on down and uh say hi to George. Just uh just
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tell him you're an NCX customer and you saw the video and uh hopefully he'll be
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here when you come by. You can get some Japanese food and it'll all be lots of
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fun. So, thanks for checking out our video and don't forget to subscribe to
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Linus Tech Tips.