Bienvenue a Le Cordon Bleu: Student Knife Kit.

As promised (though i made this promise weeks ago), here is a post on the student knife kit from Le Cordon Bleu. Receiving this kit was probably one of my biggest highlights of the day! (yeah, I'm weird like that... I get more giddy over knives than I do with jewellery! hehehe).  

A smooth, black soft folding knife case housing 41 set of stainless steel Le Cordon Bleu engraved German Wusthof utensils of all sorts and smack-down in the centre of the cover is the bright white emblem of Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. This is kit is given to all pâtisserie debutant students on the first week of class.

Boy oh boy, are they ever heavy! (Especially if you have to climb 6 flights of stairs, carrying these babies). Unfortunately for us pâtisserie students, we won't be using all the knives given to us... such as the cleaver knife and the boning knife. I don't know why they have included them into the kits, and I'm sure they could've replaced them with utensils that we actually needed more but alas these are the standard Le Cordon Bleu kit.

Cuisine students on the other hand are given a different set of knives and all are placed in a big money-like squared metal suitcase. I find it a little funny seeing them lunging their little money-case around in the chef uniforms... because somehow whenever I see these suitcases, I am reminded of Hollywood movies and how they use these cases to transport money.

Included in the kit were:

1. Knife Case
   
2. Wavy Edge Slicer
3. Flat Icing Spatula
4. Bent Icing Spatula
   
5. Cook's Knife- 9"
6. Meat Fork
   
7. Paring Knife
8. Filleting Knife
   
9. Turning Knife
10. Boning Knife
    
11. Light Cleaver
12. Scissors
13. Sharpening Steel
14. Zester
    
15. Melon Baller
16. Apple Corer
17. Channeling Knife
    
18. Trussing Needle
19. Vegetable Peeler
20. Pastry Brush
    
21. Pastry Crimper
22. Piping Bag- 350mm
    
23. Piping Bag- 430mm
24. Plastic Scraper
25. Sugar Thermometer
    
26. Exoglass Spatula- 30cm
27. Whisk- 30cm
28. Table Fork
29. Soup Spoon
30. Teaspoon
31. 7 Stainless Steel Nozzle- U6, U8, U10, U12, U20, A7, D7, 
32. 4 Plastic Nozzle- StH, E6, E8, PF16

Also included in the kit are:

• an electronic balance (scale) including batteries
• Stewart Large Plastic Container for leftovers
• Cylindrical Small Plastic Container
• Two scale bowls

All in all the total estimate price of the Le Cordon Bleu student knife kit is priced to be over US$1,000. Students are expected to label or engrave all their utensils in class because sadly we were told that theft of knives and utensils are quite precedent in the school.