J.A. Henckels International Everedge 13-Piece Knife Set with Bonus Cheese Knife
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Manufacturer: J.A. HenckelsBrand: Henckels
Model: 35386-000
Product features:
- Includes 8-inch chef's, 5-inch tomato, 8-inch bread, 6-inch utility, 6-inch boning, 2-1/2-inch paring, and six 5-inch steak knives in hardwood block
- Bonus cheese knife ideal for slicing cheese and spearing slices
- Stamped, mirror-polished, stainless-steel, micro-serrated blades
- Durable, hygienic, polypropylene handles
- Lifetime warranty against defects
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of J.A. Henckels International Everedge 13-Piece Knife Set with Bonus Cheese Knife
Customer Review: Only relatively painful; the thoughts will last for lifetimes.
Summary: 4 Stars
A rainy Dallas night, 1986. My brother was on spring break from college, staying with us at our parents' ranch house in the basement of the newly established Forth Worth convention center. We were having a somewhat ceremonious dinner in honor my brother, who was now nearly a stranger in our own house, to celebrate his first appearance back home since he began studying Quatret-Astrohyroglyphic Concubine Theory at Burbank Community College. Mom and dad went all out, spending nearly $25.00 on several two liter bottles of diet Mt. Dew and the largest basket of Kentucky Fried Chicken that $23.50 could buy. At about seven o'clock that evening there was a knock at the door.
A man in black stood at the patio steps of the convention center. It was raining and he was covered head to toe in an expensive black suit, replete with leather gloves to match the suitcase he held in his left hand, complimenting the umbrella he held in his right. Troughs of water fell on him and turned into beads before rolling off the panels of his umbrella. He was tall and lanky and spoke with a slight accent, it was either German or Austin. He asked if he could come inside for just a moment. We were reluctant at first; we never let anyone inside our family home since the great fabric softener and microwave oven disaster of 1979. But due to our already celebratory mood coupled with mother nature's wrath we decided to make an exception to the rule and allow him into our home. He asked to use the restroom and we allowed him. When he came out he was dry except that we noted that his hair was extraordinarily greasier than we remembered it being. He also smelled like Vick's vapor rub and menthol paste, as I can recall. His age had also deteriorated heavily. When he entered into the powder room he was not much older than my brother and myself. When he came out he was a man that was much older, but we couldn't really determine how much older. In the face he still looked young, though quite weary and weathered. But his body was frailer than we remembered it being. He also now held a colostomy bag, about half full, by his side. He set it on the counter of the kitchen table very casually before pulling up an empty seat in between my sister and myself. The site of the bag sitting there, still connected to whatever it was connected to - a series of transparent wires dangled from the cusp of his pants and ended at the top of the bag - disgusted us all. But we didn't want to be rude to the helpless stranger so we tried our best to pretend like we hadn't noticed anything wrong with this. That was until, moments later, when he asked my little sister if she wanted to see a magic trick.
"Okay," he said as he showed her the back of his hand, wiggling his thumb like an earthworm aimlessly crawling around in the soil. "I'm going to cut off my thumb... I have to warn you, no matter how real this looks I want you to remember that what I am doing is just an illusion."
"I know how this works," my sister said somewhat annoyed. "I've seen this done before." Maybe she was a little rude in her approach, but she had a point. She was 17 at the time and in all probability was no longer entertained by such amateur parlor tricks. "I know what you're going to do. You're either going to pretend that your other hand is a blade and swipe it past your thumb and then show us the thumb, your other thumb, in between your index and middle finger. It's the stalest joke in the book."
The man laughed. "You're about half right." He said. "But this is different. I bet you've never seen anything like this before. I bet none of you have."
He moved the colostomy bag from the tabletop and replaced it with that expensive black leather suitcase, the kind you would find in upscale New York boutiques like Office Depot. He turned the dials on the combination, 432 as I can recall, and popped the lid. A bronze glow emitted from the cracks. Inside were a set of knives, fourteen in all if you were to include the bonus "cheese knife" which he kept sealed away in fibrous pouch. He reached into the open suitcase and pulled out the knife with the longest blade - the 8 inch chef's knife - and once again showed us the back of the hand, again twitching his thumb.
"This is just an illusion," he repeated to us in a deadpan and matter-of-fact way before he took one hefty swing with the knife. It showed no resistance what-so-ever on the bones, muscle, and skin of his thumb, chopping through it as if it were wax. The man gripped the stump for a second, although he showed no visible signs of pain. We were shocked and equally appalled over what he had just done. But he appeared significantly less so. "It's all just an illusion," he repeated again. "I bet none of you have ever seen that before."
We didn't know what to say. We were left speechless. But we were led to believe him since there was no blood exiting from the wound. He bent down and picked up his thumb and laid it on the table.
"So--" my sister said with some hesitation. "Was that... Was that rubber?"
"Nope. You can have a look for yourself; all flesh and bone. Touch it."
"I don't think I want to..."
"It's okay. I won't mind."
"I thought you said this was an illusion. What's your thumb doing on the table?" My brother asked, perturbed. No one in the room would dare fidget with the thumb, whether it was real or fake.
"It was an illusion though. It is not really there; it is only there because your mind wills it to be there. It is all a part
"Hmm..." I grunted.
"So you don't believe me?"
"Well.... It's not that I don't believe you," I said. "It's just that I find what you're telling us quite difficult to believe. You're saying that your thumb and knuckle are still connected."
"That's correct. I can show you how I did it if you like."
"I'm not really interested in you doing it again, especially not on me. Or anyone else here for that matter."
He sighed. "It's a shame that you must approach this with such a closed mind. I really think I can show you something wonderful, a party trick that will entertain small children and adults alike, for eons to come. But you don't want to evolve; you don't want to see the greatness that awaits you."
I paused for a second and thought over what the man had said. Although he came off as slightly arrogant in his tone I have to say that he made his points as clear as Tuscan whole milk. I was being close minded as were the rest of us. All of this was, after all, just harmless magic. We were overreacting. And I couldn't let our guest know that we had such close minds and weren't the family of progressives they figured us as. What would the neighbors think? If word got out about this would they invite us to any more wine and battery acid parties? I severely doubted it. For myself and my family's status I decided to concede to the man's wishes. "All right," I said hesitantly. "Why don't you show me how it's done."
"Excellent!" he said with a cheerful smile showing us that childish glee in his eye. "Just lay your hand on the table here..." I did as he said. "Now, I'm just going to show you the fundamentals of how this trick works. Don't be alarmed when I begin to swing the knife down on your thumb. And whatever you do, don't attempt to take retract your hand or move it in anyway from the position it's in now. The blade will look like it's going in but I can assure that it won't touch you. This is all magic. Remember that, say it with me. M-a-g-i-c."
"Magic," I said significantly less amused.
"Good. Okay. You ready?"
"I suppose so."
"Great!" And then he swung down as hard and as fast as he could.
He lied to me.
The knife went in quickly but not completely painlessly. I felt it rip through my skin and crush my bone. The thumb popped right off and a geyser of blood erupted from the stump. To say I wasn't in pain would be a lie but strangely enough I felt somewhat euphoric when this happened because if it weren't for the cutting-edge, razor sharp design of J.A. Henckels' everedge technology I would have been tumbled over in pain. J.A. Henckels might not have been able to save my thumb from the man in black, but he made the process go by much smoother than it otherwise would have. What made it more impressive, on top of that, was that the knife had been used before - at least once before to cut through the man's own thumb - and the blade had not dulled.
I grabbed tightly around my wrist as the blood pumped through my veins, gushing all over the dinner table and into our personal portion sized buckets of KFC Horsebutter. My family was in shock. The man grabbed my blood-saturated hand and stuck nearly the entire thing in his mouth. "Finally!" he screamed with delight as he began to eat through my flesh and drink whatever blood poured out into his tongue, "I can rejuvenate myself again!"
After he chewed up my hand, and made it all the way up to the elbow, he finally reveled to us the awful truth of the matter. "You fools! Magic doesn't exist! I can't believe you were stupid enough to believe that garbage!" he screamed with a mouth full of my bone marrow, obviously oblivious to common manners and decency as he spit when he talked.
The man then immediately ran up to top of the convention center and leaped off the roof, believing he was an eternal winged serpent.
It would take `Ol Hoss Richardson, our town's local coroner and short order frycook and lone magical black person (played here by Morgan Freeman), nearly two weeks to get all the pieces of him scraped up from the concrete patio. "Poor Mr. Heckels," he said as he solemnly scraped up the last piece of refried brain matter off the front step with his spatula. "He had all the money in the world, but it couldn't buy him his sanity back. I guess that's what that business does to a person if they stay in it long enough. I guess that's what it does." Hoss went on, silently scrubbing away at the matter with the toothbrush until our pario steps were as clean as they were before that beautiful man in black ever stepped foot on them and into our lives.
I visit J.A. Henckels' gravesite at least twice a year for the past 23 years. I visit him once at Christmas where I bring him a ham and a bottle of sparkling grape juice, the other is on the anniversary of when he touched our lives. I still don't have a thumb, but that doesn't matter. Henckels showed me that there are more important things in life than needless appendages, there are knives out there - complete sets of them which you can purchase for less than $45.00 - which will cut through anything: metal pipes, copper pennies, human bones, and even right through the very soul. And all of these cuts come quick and clean, with beyond excellent precision so that you are never left with snaggled flesh and chipped bone. I'll always remember him for that. God bless you Mr. Henckels, wherever you are.
- Mitch Albom
Cat Fancy Magazine
June, 2009
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Description of J.A. Henckels International Everedge 13-Piece Knife Set with Bonus Cheese Knife
Equip your kitchen with a set of knives from one of the most esteemed names in cutlery. Representing value, as well as a recognized brand name, these knives never need sharpening and are economically priced. As well as the basics for food prep, this set also contains six steak knives and a bounus fork-tipped tomato/cheese knife.The blades in this set of slim, lightweight knives are stamped in stainless steel, and their edges are microserrated and therefore touted as never needing sharpening. The handles are formed of tough polypropylene and are seamless, allowing for better hygiene. The set includes six kitchen knives, six 5-inch steak knives, and a rubber-footed wood block that has slots for them all. The kitchen knives include an 8-inch chef's knife with a curved blade for rocking through a chopping task; a 5-inch tomato knife with a narrow, curved blade; an 8-inch bread knife; a 6-inch utility knife; a 6-inch boning knife for meats, poultry, and fish; and a 2-1/2-inch paring knife for peeling and cleaning vegetables and fruits. As a bonus, a pronged-tip knife designed to slice cheese and spear the slices is included. While the knives are dishwasher-safe, they should be hand washed to preserve their edges. Unlike Henckels's premier knives, which are made in Germany, these knives are made in China; however, they do carry the company's lifetime warranty against defects. --Fred Brack
What's in the Box
8-inch chef's, 5-inch tomato, 8-inch bread, 6-inch utility, 6-inch boning, 2-1/2-inch paring, six 5-inch steak knives, hardwood block
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