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DrHenley
: Different yes, cheating no.
My tomato slicing test was done years before your own test, and it was also done with a ceramic knife instead of a steel one.
Also the tomato half & the grape half are resting on a thin layer of their own fluids, which makes it very easy to push them away instead of slicing through them.
This is very visible in the second clip when i make the apparent mistake of trying to cut a thicker slice, then the half tomato gets pushed away.
Slicing with one hand and trying to capture it with a camera in the other hand was not easy
So far i just never tried to slice a whole tomato the way you did, but i am quite sure that the Takamura R2 in the grape video could have done it.
The ceramic knife might have been even sharper, but also a bit thicker behind the edge, so i have my doubts about that one.
Now i do have a few custom Sabol Brothers gyuto's lying around that i still have to do some testing with, and buying some tomatoes is already on my list.
If i manage to shoot some reasonable footage it will be posted in this thread.