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The other night I ate my dinner dinner with a fork and my TiNi-coated BG-42 Sog Autoclip because TV was good and I was too lazy to get up and go get a knife from the kitchen. Then I left it there to let the caked-on food dry into a sticky goo as I reclined in a chinese-food and reality-TV induced semi-coma.
Later when I went to stick my dishes in the dishwasher I looked at the Autoclip there stuck to the plate with super-glue-like Mu Shu Chicken sauce and wondered. "Hmmm.... I THINK BG-42 is only borderline stainless but it DOES have that Titanium Nitrade coating on it..." Since I've become a bit of a knife snob lately (buying customs and Sebenzas and all that), and my level of curiosity being what it is, I didn't hesitate much longer. (I've been known to do worse to satisfy curiosity.
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After a 45-minute bath with a nugget of dishwasher detergent and a crowd of other utilitarian stainless riff-raff my Autoclip was allowed to slowly air-dry in the dishwasher over the next 24 hours or so.
Guess what! It rusted! Oh, boy, did it rusted!
Right through the TiNi like it wasn't even there. It's the kind of rust that's like oozing, growing leprosy that stains the dishrack and gets on other things.
Curiosity cured.
If you ever get the hankering to test the corrosion-resistance of a particular steel or blade coating, I'd say a night dancing in the 'ole dishwater disco would do the trick.
Later when I went to stick my dishes in the dishwasher I looked at the Autoclip there stuck to the plate with super-glue-like Mu Shu Chicken sauce and wondered. "Hmmm.... I THINK BG-42 is only borderline stainless but it DOES have that Titanium Nitrade coating on it..." Since I've become a bit of a knife snob lately (buying customs and Sebenzas and all that), and my level of curiosity being what it is, I didn't hesitate much longer. (I've been known to do worse to satisfy curiosity.

After a 45-minute bath with a nugget of dishwasher detergent and a crowd of other utilitarian stainless riff-raff my Autoclip was allowed to slowly air-dry in the dishwasher over the next 24 hours or so.
Guess what! It rusted! Oh, boy, did it rusted!

Curiosity cured.
If you ever get the hankering to test the corrosion-resistance of a particular steel or blade coating, I'd say a night dancing in the 'ole dishwater disco would do the trick.
