The Meat We Eat - Part 4: The Shochet's 3 Best Friends

I'd like to introduce you to Shak's three best friends. First the khadasha which is a kiter of which was written by the tar is a classic in fact are enjoined to every month and this edition even has it broken up into a monthly limu. This is the base of it the one of the most beautiful ever written. It carries major huskas including a rare huskama from a prime solvich of brisk. >> When I was learning I didn't know which safer to use and they to the old told me that uh you got to get a a bas he he didn't have any children and because of that he wrote a safer and he said which should be as for him like children. These are kalafen from a small chicken kalif, a lamb kaf from the famous home of JD Miller and sons from the lower east side. World famous kalafen that go for a tremendous amount of money today still even though they haven't been produced since the 60s. This is a calf kalof and this is what we call a gas kof a khalif for behemagas. The metallurgy is borrowed from steel houses all over the world. Shakam are always looking for the next best steel. The knife is meant to be perfectly smooth and extremely sharp. The knife is structured in a way where the spine is thicker and it's ground down till a very very fine edge. And this brings us to the third friend of the stones. This stone is an black surgical Arkansas stone from the Widita Mountains. One of the most prized glacer or a smoothing stone. The technology for stones we borrow from the straight razor world. Even though the Torah doesn't allow you to shave your face with a razor, but you need their stones in order to turn your knife to a level of keenness and sharpness and smoothness that nobody ever needs for a kitchen knife. This is a Japanese clay stone. The red side is rougher and the white side is smoother. This is a diamond stone. Little tiny particles of diamond are laid into these plates at different levels of coarseness and finness. Diamonds are harder than metal and they efficiently grind off the metal that we don't need. This is a Japanese ceramic stone. It's one of the newest technologies and it's made out of a ceramic that's extremely extremely hard and efficient and we are seeing more and more Shakam use these stones. Although the final finishing sham prize this the old natural stones in fact there's a famous stone called the German green stone or the cher stone from the thorrigon region in in Germany which you cease for sale sometimes sham sell them to each other like the miller kalafen for thousands of dollars and these are the sham's best friends >> you have to use stones now the first one is a rough stone because it you you want to wear down the metal usually two sides, you know, that it's very rough on one side and and not so rough on the other side. But both of them you can't go into afterwards because it it's m it'll make a um uh dr which is um a wire on the on the metal and you have to take it off. So you take it off with a smooth stone. You look for imperfections in the stone itself. Usually black dots or something like that. Meaning you'll take this the the draw off, but you're rubbing it on top of something else that has some kind of imperfection in it. So you you have to get your stone that are that are basically they're that are perfect.