Goosey Scanpan

What an egg..
Brock: 'How big do you think the chook was that layed this egg'?
Ivy: 'Was really, really big one daddy'!


The latest knife acquisition is a ceramic job from kitchen ware brand "Scanpan".

I bought this one for my wife. I think she will like it. It's very light, and will stay very sharp. The blade is made from a material known as zirconium dioxide. As a knife it is both good and bad. The hardness is allmost off the Rockwell scale, somewhere around 650 if you can beleive that. A super high quality Japanise damascus knife comes in at around 65 RHC. So it's about 10 times as hard as what is considered a bloody tough knife. The draw back, and it's a biggy, is a very brittle blade. If you drop it, there's no 'thunk' as it sticks into the floor boards. It's a smash as it shatters into a thousand peices. Also, blades this brittle can't handle a fine pointed tip, so they are a bit half arsed at the pointy end. But as far as edge retention goes, zirconium just keeps on going, and going, and going.

Hope you like it Juzzy.