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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Thu May 5, 2016, 03:22 AM May 2016

My split-personality kitchen knife

On hitting a tomato:

"I know you're joking, bro. Look at that skin! Look at the size of those seeds! Hell, part of the stalk is still on. You cannot actually expect me to slice this tomato, bro."

On hitting my thumb:

"I am Tsumugari no Tachi, the Blade of Destiny. I have many names, some of which you are unworthy to hear: I am called grass-cutter, he who harvests the unready; I am called sword-of-heaven, he who sends evildoers to their fate; I am called April-snow, come and gone as fast as a spring frost; these are enough, and now you shall feel my bite! PATH THROUGH OBLIVION!"

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My split-personality kitchen knife (Original Post) Recursion May 2016 OP
Mine would rather chop my finger than onions... Phentex May 2016 #1
Your fingers or the onions? So Far From Heaven May 2016 #5
lmao at that one TeamPooka May 2016 #6
How should I phrase it? Phentex May 2016 #7
I think the implicit question was the smell of the onions...or your fingers? pinboy3niner May 2016 #8
... Phentex May 2016 #9
Harvester of the Unready. Iggo May 2016 #2
So true (nt) Recursion May 2016 #3
your knife is dull Kali May 2016 #4
So true. I can testify. My Swiss Army Knife: trof May 2016 #14
Get a ceramic plate or cup. blogslut May 2016 #10
Cool, thanks! Recursion May 2016 #11
A dull knife slices parts of your body faster than it ever cuts anything else. hobbit709 May 2016 #12
Eh? Beethoven1111 May 2016 #13

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
7. How should I phrase it?
Sat May 7, 2016, 06:41 AM
May 2016

When chopping an onion, my knife would rather chop my finger instead of the onion? Or, my knife prefers to cut my finger rather than cut the onion. It prefers fingers to onions.

Kali

(55,032 posts)
4. your knife is dull
Thu May 5, 2016, 12:50 PM
May 2016

you are much more likely to get cut by a dull knife than a sharp one (or so I read somewhere, I seem perfectly able to cut myself with both kinds )

trof

(54,256 posts)
14. So true. I can testify. My Swiss Army Knife:
Sat May 7, 2016, 06:48 PM
May 2016


It's tiny. About an inch and a half long. The jpg is just a smidge larger than life size.
It also had a toothpick and tweezers.
Handy as a pocket on a shirt.
Never leave home without it.

Hard to get a really sharp edge on the blade, though.

I was trying to slice some large dog treats (kinda like Milk Bones) for some smaller dogs, and slipped and put a nice gash in my finger.

blogslut

(38,026 posts)
10. Get a ceramic plate or cup.
Sat May 7, 2016, 07:24 AM
May 2016

Turn it upside down. Holding your knife almost completely flat, run the blade, bottom-to-top, against the un-glazed part of the dish.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
11. Cool, thanks!
Sat May 7, 2016, 08:20 AM
May 2016

There's a guy who rides his bike around the neighborhood and then hooks up his bike to a whetstone wheel and sharpens knives, but back in the States I think that will be great!

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