Approved EDC uses

[Gobbo_the_civet]

I for one would enjoy watching someone whittle with an axe or saw.

I must admit to using my knife often even when I don't really need to, but why not? Slicing off a mandarins peel is more fun than peeling it off with my nails and teeth.

 

[Shotgun]

The Junglas makes a great food chopper in the kitchen, so I know what you mean about the woods knives.

Heck food prep is the majority of the work a woods knife does so why not?

Even the cheapest crap garbage Kitchen knife will do better in the kitchen than well over 95% of the folders out there that people own and the blades are a better length too....

I have some and they do......

I think of using a folder in the kitchen that same thing as using it as a flick toy ect or just a reason to play with their knife.

The same with a restaurant...

I get you on chefs knives. My girlfriends 5 dollar el cheapo knife she got at the asian food market is a really good knife in the kitchen. Even dull. For paring knives though, my Spyderco Military is still better then most dedicated paring knives I've used.

I for one would enjoy watching someone whittle with an axe or saw.

I've used a hatchet to make fajitas. On a cutting board, in the kitchen, with a set of cutcos within reach. It was a gb mini but still. Life is too short to not have fun with your blades.

 

[BRL]

Only approved use I know if is waving it around menacingly while talking to myself and walking erratically down the hallway.

 

[chevy_racin]

Opening dog food bags (the ones i get are sealed shut with tape).
Opening any other bag.
Taking off the protective plastic wrap on some bottles.
Getting that little child protective top (under the cap) off the bottle of aspirin.
Fondling while reading the knife forum.

 

[Ankerson]

I get you on chefs knives. My girlfriends 5 dollar el cheapo knife she got at the asian food market is a really good knife in the kitchen. Even dull. For paring knives though, my Spyderco Military is still better then most dedicated paring knives I've used.


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I use Custom FB's in the kitchen most of the time personally....

Although the garbage knives get used by others for the most part, I won't let them near my Customs that I use.

 

[coop1957]

Best uses for edc knives:
Killing zombies
sharpening
Foundling until warm
sharpening
Flicking open while watching tv until wife screams
sharpening
Tearing up pants pockets from repeated quick draws
sharpening
Depleting checking account (see below)
sharpening
Opening small boxes that contain new edc knives
sharpening

 

[marcinek]

DUHHH!!! What the hell else is an edc good for, except you forgot cutting water bottles(teach them to hoard my hydration), and hanging meat by said rope and cutting that to. Meat tastes much better after peeled off of cement or dirt floors afterall.

Glad you mentioned the water bottle cutting, because when I'm thirsty, I want water NOW. I don't have time for unscrewing a cap. So an EDC is good for that.

Another use is using the spine of a EDC to beat a desk, coffee table, or workbench into submission. You gotta show those things who's boss.

Other than those two, a knife's pretty much worthless.

 

[Dorito Monk]

Another use is using the spine of a EDC to beat a desk, coffee table, or workbench into submission. You gotta show those things who's boss.

I can't believe I forgot that one, good call.

 

[stabman]

I just used my SmF to cut the leftover turkey and ham from Christmas, then used to to assist with eating of all the food on the plate. It was delicious.
I sure am stupid.

(Oh, I washed the blade first, so I'm probably wimpy as well as stupid now)

 

[Noctis3880]

My carrying a knife for cutting things is just an excuse for me to fondle those well oiled wooden handles:thumbup:. I like cocobolo and desert ironwood best thus far.

 

[Dorito Monk]

fondle that well oiled wood

 

[stabman]

Glad you mentioned the water bottle cutting, because when I'm thirsty, I want water NOW. I don't have time for unscrewing a cap. So an EDC is good for that.

It ain't about thirst, it's about being prepared when those aliens from Camelbak 7 invade Earth.

 

[Noctis3880]

I could find no better way to describe this:

I'm hoping to get a little more of that action, but in a folding knife this Friday:thumbup:.

 

[Reeek]

I make up reasons to "use" mine - a pointer when giving a presentation to the executives, cutting Irish Pennants off of old ladies clothing without permission, helping children cut their knotted shoe strings off without asking their parents first, freeing up all the poor domesticated pets who are held hostage by their mean, cruel leashes, showing the nice LE who pulled me over what a nice edge should look like on a folder AFTER I announce I'm a CCW and am armed to the gill right now. Stuff like that I just try to be helpful to everyone!

I just need to justify pulling it out in public for something other than just opening and closing it.

 

[singularity35]

OMG! You guys actually like, CUT things?

 

[Dekz]

So, what would constitute a "proper" use of the EDC that so many carry, but apparently is useless for everything? (I use it for all of the above things, so I'm too stupid to answer the question)

Agreed. Some of the posts that I see here are so ridiculous that I'm embarrassed about spending time here.

It's a great place for deciding what to buy, but after that I sometimes think it's best to stay away.

 

[puukkoman]

- Fantasize about the "extreme hard use tactical EDC emergency use" things that you'll never do with your knife because you don't work for a living.

Haha! This might be my favorite thing posted on bladeforums in the past several months. LOL!!!

 

[Reasoned1]

As a city dweller of the 21st century, I really don't need anything more than a Swiss Army knife, but I'm proud of my collection of fighting and survival knives, because it's a testament to my manhood and a nature antithetical to domestication under Big Brother. I pity some of you liberal, effeminate, group-thinking, social parasites for your complete lack of testosterone.

 

[allyourblood]

I use mine for everything that isn't listed in the OP.









Oh, and most of the stuff that is, too. Honestly, the only thing I don't carry my EDC for is self defense.

 

[powernoodle]

What allyourblood said. I use a knife for just about everything, including pointless internet photography, but I'm not an abuser. I take it pretty easy on my blades.