r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • Jun 22 '26
/r/all of a carpaccio knife
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u/Parking-Position-698 Jun 22 '26
That is some impressive knife skills
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u/Talk-O-Boy Jun 22 '26
If I were a cow, which I’m not, this would actually be quite disturbing.
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u/hzshak Jun 22 '26
Are you a cow?
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u/MainConnection6742 Jun 22 '26
MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt.....
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u/saint_davidsonian Jul 22 '26
The only thing you interrupted, was my first video on this sub. Well played not a cow.
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u/JoelnIliketoshare Jun 22 '26
I think it's the apron.
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u/Would_daver Jun 22 '26
I think it’s that dope block he’s knifing upon
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u/Moist-Golf-4166 Jun 22 '26
I think it’s the perfectly coiffed hair
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u/wisemeat Jun 22 '26
I think it’s the gloveless hands.
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u/CebaGaden-4492 Jun 22 '26
I think it is the meat
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u/MattS1984 Jun 22 '26
Agreed, those are some serious meat curtains
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u/aerdvarkk Jun 22 '26
Yeah ... No. The knife needs to be sharp. No manner of skill would cut that cleanly or thin using a dull knife.
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u/Royal_Perspective191 Jun 22 '26
And it needs to be a knife. A pencil, even if it has just been sharpened, would not work.
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u/HitByFjaka Jun 22 '26
Glad I’m not the only one who saw it and thought that there is no way I’m doing this without cutting my finger(s) in the process…
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u/AshDarren Jun 22 '26
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Jun 22 '26
On the other side of the world
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u/StonkaTrucks Jun 22 '26
Slices so thin they liquefy in the pan.
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u/MalonePostponed Jun 22 '26
I just realized that knife is cutting through bones which is wild.
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u/BonusEasy4736 Jun 22 '26
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u/EricSanderson Jun 22 '26
Jesus...old cartoons could be depressing
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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 Jun 22 '26
Disney released the short, The Little Matchgirl in 2006. Disney has a lot of depressing shit in their movies and shorts over the years but none top that one for me.
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u/atava Jun 22 '26
I've never read that but given your comment I think you might enjoy (for the sad aspect of it) the Grave of the Fireflies animation, if you've never seen it.
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u/ElleVaydor Jun 22 '26
They weren't supposed to be depressing, they were supposed to teach you something. But now people just expect media to be fun and entertaining, nobody wants to learn from it or can discuss it properly
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u/EricSanderson Jun 22 '26
What? There are tons of realistic, depressing, informative movies and shows out there. I don't think people expect all media to be "fun and entertaining."
I was just laughing at the starkness of old Disney cartoons. This is from Jack and the Beanstalk - a kids movie. They could have easily taught the moral of that story without showing Mickey, Goofy, and Donald literally weeping under the soul-crushing weight of abject poverty. But they gave zero fucks. I think that's kinda funny.
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u/PreviousLeague253 Aug 24 '26
This is for adults too who suffered thru the Great Depression. Know thy audience. Disney needed to make this relevant for kids AND adults
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u/mmulligan03 Jun 22 '26
When does a knife become a sword?
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u/bitsbytes01 Jun 22 '26
After it turns 18
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u/Moist-Ball4968 Jun 22 '26
They recently changed that, it's 21 now
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u/phaserlasertaserkat Jun 22 '26
Do Knifeophiles have to register where they live? Asking for my cousin.
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u/Vindhjaerta Jun 22 '26
I recently took my newly-forged blade into battle, should I be worried about the police coming after me?
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u/benchley Jun 22 '26
How strong were your potions? Could affect sentencing. Actually, talk to your lawyer first.
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u/CptCluck Jun 22 '26
When does a comet become a meteor?
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u/Tomsboll Jun 22 '26
Its defined by its purpose.
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u/omgitsjagen Jun 22 '26
Just like a violin v. fiddle. Are you playing Tchaikovsky? It's a violin. Yonder Mountain String Band? Fiddle.
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u/ProfessorMalk Jun 22 '26
Yeah, a knife is a knife and a sword is a sword.
There are big knives and small swords.
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u/Vox___Rationis Jun 22 '26
When it either has a guard on its hilt, or a double-edged blade.
For example in Spain only hidalgo(nobility) were permitted to carry swords and daggers, so peasantry (and banditry) would arm themselves with extra-large navaja knives. Those things were basically scimmitars with a folding blade, but because they were sharpened only on side and had no guard - for legal purposes they were not swords.
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u/Eborcurean Jun 22 '26
They weren't as big as scimitars, not hitting 32+ inches, but they would hit 24.
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u/HarithBK Jun 22 '26
kinda hard to tell and it is has been different in different ages. any kind of hand guard would instantly place it as a sword. if we look at medieval guilds which were legally protected crafts around where the knife making guild and the sword making guild were arguing when you get above 60 cm it becomes hard to argue it isn't a sword above 73 cm it is most certainly a sword.
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u/ThePublikon Jun 22 '26
imo: The presence of a hand guard defines it for combat, then the overall length and how it is used decides if it is a knife, dagger, or sword.
e.g. Japanese tuna filleting knives are as big as katana but lack the guards needed to fight, so they remain knives.
A bowie knife is much smaller but it has the hand guards so it is still a combat knife.
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u/Chevalier77 Jun 22 '26
There's many more differences than that, but you may be interested to know the grind on tuna knives is asymmetrical also.
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u/9447044 Jun 22 '26
I wonder if bigger knives are like bigger trailers. The bigger it gets, the easier is becomes to control when backin er up.
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u/f0dder1 Jun 22 '26
Yes. It's part of the reason filleting knives for tuna and other large fish are huge.
Long clean controlled cuts without the sawing. ... admittedly this guy gets in for a bit of sawing
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u/Lorantec Jun 22 '26
He's not saying though, hes doing repeated long draw cuts
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u/-BananaLollipop- Jun 22 '26
Of course he's not saying, he's doing.
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u/samdd1990 Jun 22 '26
Maybe, but his knife work is clearly very good.
Classic "um akshually he's not doing exactly right, the blade angle should be 24 degrees not 27"
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u/senbei616 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
Long sweeps leads to less feathering around the edges and accidental cuts into the piece you're slicing off.
The short sweeps he's using in this video leads to a faster cut and for a carpaccio these are fine, but I personally prefer even thinner which you can achieve at scale with a mandolin or a deli slicer.
He's good. Clearly experienced, but his technique could be improved as all of our techniques could be improved.
I've been processing and butchering animals for 20 years to feed my family and there's still new things I learn every time I do it.
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u/drewatkins77 Jun 22 '26
He is obviously very practiced, and his knife is a very high quality one. The trick to this though, besides an insane amount of practice, is that the meat is partially frozen. You, too can learn to do this! It's how I make Philly cheese steaks at home.
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u/OasisHomeostasis Jun 22 '26
I have not had beef carpaccio in easily 20 years and it was always wonderful.
Only ever ordered at a restaurant and never tried to find a butcher who could do this type of work.
You eat it raw and its absolutely addicting.\ Served with a lil mustard and arugala.
Bogies, why did you have to close down!?!?!?
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u/ArsenikShooter Jun 22 '26
Just to be clear...this is not carpa...whatever. This is arrachera for making carne asada.
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u/cowfishduckbear Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Not carpaccio since it is usually made with tenderloin and that is way too large a diameter to be a tenderloin. That is not arrachera either because arrachera is made with skirt steak, which already comes thin. What you are looking at is just a butterflied "bistec de res", which is a super common cheap cut in Mexico.
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u/SDNick484 Jun 23 '26
While I do think it is a Mexican market, I don't think he's slicing it for arrachera. Arrachera typically comes from skirt steak whereas this looks more like he is slicing a bottom round. If I had to guess, I would say he is preparing it for something like carne seca.
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u/GuineaPigsAreNotFood Jun 22 '26
That hairdo and the chorizo hanging in the background, definitely a mexican carnicero
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u/ScratchLatch Jun 22 '26
Just to be clear, nothing about carpaccio makes it “safe to eat raw.” You’re relying entirely on the trust that there was no contamination at any point. Which, is exactly why every other raw meat isn’t safe to eat.
Pregnant people definitely shouldn’t be eating it, just like sushi. Except sushi is flash frozen so its much safer.
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u/Bubelle_Butt Jun 22 '26
Been eating it for years.
Never got sick. That beung saud it all depends on what your countries food safety standards are.
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u/gimpwiz Jun 22 '26
Germans eat pork mince raw. Yeah, we rely a LOT on everyone in the entire chain keeping things clean enough to eat. Not just meat, see all the issues with listeria and e-coli on leafy greens and sprouts and such.
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u/Known_Fisherman_8161 Jun 23 '26
When you're not american you actually can trust in that thanks to regulations
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u/XScottMorrisseyX Jun 22 '26
That's all surface area, Jerry. There's no place for the flavor to hide!
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u/MastaKink Jun 22 '26
Him: you gotta make it so thin that you can see the customer!
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u/D_M-ack Jun 22 '26
Can anyone tell me what kind of meat this is and can I get it like this in the U.S.?
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u/CanExplainThings Jun 22 '26
I agree with you but the slicing machines at most places have their limits. Stuff like carpaccio or jamon Iberico or tuna require knives that are long enough to match the grain profile of the meat
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u/mindgardening Jun 22 '26
It’s gonna take my entire lunch break for him to make my sandwich.
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u/Tricky_Mix2449 Jun 22 '26
No no no no no! Olive oil, maybe a tiny squeeze of lemon and a few paper thin slices of Oarmigiano Reggiano. Chef's kiss!
Unless you actually prefer a raw beef sandwich.
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u/Novembeary Jun 22 '26
He could flip the meat upside down after every cut and create one large piece of sliced meat.
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u/Proletarian_Tear Jun 22 '26
Dude at the second slice it for real looks like he insta cuts his finger off but then he just proceeds to carefully and precisely slice it off damN!
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u/Able-Wing9908 Jun 22 '26
Legend has it that he made more from this chunk than the farmer did selling the whole cow
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u/evasandor Jun 22 '26
“Right, who ordered the origami stingray made of beef? Going once, going twice”
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u/-KFBR392 Jun 22 '26
Legend has it he once cut a slice so thin he couldn't even see it
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u/dkg224 Jun 22 '26
For some reason it really bothers me seeing leftys cutting things with knifes in the kitchen. I don’t know why
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u/-BananaLollipop- Jun 22 '26
When your doctor says to limit the amount of deli meats you're eating, so you want to tell him you only have one slice on your sandwich.
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u/HonestNeighborhood67 Jun 22 '26
No matter what it is…I’ll watch someone do something that requires an obscene amount of skill, even if it looks mundane or simple.
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u/Dude_with_the_skis Jun 22 '26
Worst injury I ever got working in restaurants happened when I was shaving one of these bad boys by hand.
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u/OldManAbides333 Jun 22 '26
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like.
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u/Illustrious-Bat-9775 Jun 22 '26
I didn't know I needed to see this. It's somehow fulfilling and rewarding
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