Best Grilling Companion Spyderco?

[SpyderEdgeForever]

If you could pick one specific Spyderco knife to have on you and by your side at a grill/cookout, which would you choose?
I pick the Spyderco Endura 4 Emerson Wave, here is why:

Good Utility-Saber blade for cutting open packages of hotdogs and meats and to cut up steaks, chicken, fish, vegetables, and other foods.

The Emerson Wave Opener has been proven to be a good bottle opener if needed.

Great emergency combat knife if some varmint decides to invade and attack your grill area!

:)

Easy to clean FRN and VG10 Stainless steel.

[npad69]

my vg10 stretch
from gutting fish, scoring pork, peeling carrots and onions, to slicing grilled squid and roast pork belly and so on..

if its only for heavy food prepping and light wood processing
i go for the resilience

[PayneTrain]

Usually I bring my Stretch. Secure handle, good size blade, and a healthy curve. If I need a little more length, I'll take my Military. If it's gonna be extra messy, I grab a mule.

I never thought of the wave as a bottle opener. Does it work well? Though I usually like to challenge myself to open every bottle with something different, something that was never meant to open bottles. I remember a credit card being quite a challenge.

[chaps]

As it happens, I just grilled out with a Manix 2 LW - I suspect I shall do so again.

[tap78]

Mili

[Brock O Lee]

Definitely the Military, for blade length.

[PSquared]

My Centofante 3 is my go-to "braai" (barbecue) knife - good slicer, full grip on the handle and if someone with a little less respect for knives than I have uses and damages it, it isn't a crisis.

[ThePeacent]

No question, Pacific Salt because:

a. Weighs nothing, can carry two of them and not even notice (one for lending others and handing out)



b. Yellow scales (no scaring people, more firendly looking, easy to spot between the forks, grills, fire, meat, etc.)



c. Backlock (easier to open/close with fire/cooking gloves on, most people in the BBQ would know how locking mechanism works and could use it)



d. Strong tip (people may use it for prying beers and bottles, may stab into ceramic plates and metalic grills, bones in the meat, etc.)



e. H1 steel (no maintenance, no rust, just wash off the mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup in the sink and ready to go, easy to sharpen back, serrated is a true meat-chainsaw)



f. Price tag (not overly expensive, can be replaced if lost/broken, people won't drop their jaws and eyes when they ask about what did it cost)



That is, in fact, the folder I carry and use/lend at dinnings and that kind of situations

[tvenuto]

For some reason I usually pull out my D'allara to grill. Although I'm just on a back concrete pad and I walk in and out of the house often so it's not really a choice that impacts me much.

[xceptnl]

[paladin]

Serrata

[Doc Dan]

I have thought about this and I normally take an Endura or a Delica. But, I was at a BBQ and was the only real knife person there. I was asked if I had a sharp knife and loaned it to someone and found my beloved knife uncomfortably close to the heat. Now, FRN and G10 will burn or melt. So, thinking on it, I decided that a stainless Endura would be my choice (too bad they are not FFG).

[ohcyclist]

If I am running the grill or the pit then a southfork is my top choice. If I am just there to eat, ti fluted Millie if my top choice for length and ease of cleaning.

[Nate]

Usually it's just whatever I'm carrying that day, but I have pulled out my sb Caly 3.5 or South Fork specifically for grilling/steak knife duty on several occasions.

[xceptnl]

Another one from the archives as summer comes to a close. Let's see more....

[Tdog]

Usually K05 and sometimes K04 :spyder:

[xceptnl]

Usually K05 and sometimes K04 :spyder:

They certainly have their place as well, though usually I don't take them outside the kitchen unless I'm headed camping.

[Tdog]

Usually K05 and sometimes K04 :spyder:

They certainly have their place as well, though usually I don't take them outside the kitchen unless I'm headed camping.

Dern, you makin me HONNNNGRY. Fine lookin steaks and great knife too. My grill is just on the back porch, K05 is my most used Spydie :) Most used knife for all my kids as well.

[twinboysdad]

2 which always includes a Ladybug Hawkbill for packaging and rougher cuts and an FFG for meat duty. Has been Native Maxamet most recently

[Mako109]

This season it has been the Endura for me!