Eating Apples with pocket knives?

Gideons said:
who eats an apple or other food with their pocket knives and why?
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No.
Never.

Well maybe once in a while.
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See how a hollow ground blade can screw up an apple slice ?
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Some times I bring in a team to break down an apple.
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Or I disect the apple core. I call it field stripping; get the stem out and the leaf like stuff in the navel but eat the seeds and the rest.
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My Little Monster shown above (Japanese high carbon White Paper steel) is the most fun to use on apples. He gets a fair amount of apple time.

And then there is my sure fire edge test : If I take the knife down the skin of an apple or a bell pepper or a tomatoe is the real test . . . and the edge bites I know the geometry is right . . . if the edge then sinks in under the weight of just the blade in that sickening lovely way THEN I know the edge is pretty much sharp enough. If it fails to catch or skips then the edge bevel is convexed and the edge isn’t the least bit sharp . . . one of the two or both. (well . . . rarely do I ever have a convexed edge unless it is a new knife that I haven’t reprofiled and given the rub rub on the Edge Pro.

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The REAL apple cutter is The Chef but she uses her Japanese fixed blade.
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Lapedog said:
The seeds contain cyanide. A few apples worth is not enough to hurt you but from many apples it can. Also they are poison to animals
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eaten many of them...still here. also used to bite down on fishing weights made of lead as a kid cause i was taught that way. might explain a lot about whats wrong with me today.:)
 
Because dem tactical folders often got wide blades, which make them ideal to spread cheese or Nutella on fresh bread, and it's kinda cool doing this with a nicer knife :)
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Other food ?
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Don't get me started. Lets just say I never go into the kitchen without my Holdout I . . . anything else is just too iffy.
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Why use a folder to cut up food ? You're kidding right ?
. . . well the food needs to be cut up . . . there is one knife or another that I want to fool around with . . .
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jbmonkey said:
eaten many of them...still here. also used to bite down on fishing weights made of lead as a kid cause i was taught that way. might explain a lot about whats wrong with me today.:)
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Yup, split shot.
Used to do the same thing, and have at least a pound in the tackle box still so I'll be doing it some more
 
I do, quite often. I've used various knives: SAKs; Case mini-trapper and medium stockman; Spyderco D4, E4, Military, PM2, Native 5; CRK Insingo (large and small) and Inkosi; BM axis TSEK.

Of the lot, I probably use my SAKs the most for the task, especially my Pioneer.

I don't get fruit juice or other food matter into the pivots, so that's never been a concern to me. You can avoid that with even a fairly small blade by the way it's used.

I "have to" eat my apples sliced. I don't like biting out pieces from fruit. It feels gross to me.

Jim
 
Lapedog said:
The seeds contain cyanide. A few apples worth is not enough to hurt you but from many apples it can. Also they are poison to animals
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I eat apple seeds weekly (for like forty years now) and apples most every day that The Chef cuts up for me (she's a party pooper and leaves out the seeds).
What symptoms should I look for ?
I do have an addiction to watching old '50s Sci Fi B movies and can't get enough of them. Do you suppose this is a manifestation of my apple seed "problem" ?
. . . other than that . . . I was going to say I'm pretty normal . . . but you guys aren't going to buy that are you ?
 
James Y said:
I don't like biting out pieces from fruit. It feels gross to me.
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not to mention squirty and drippy.
I've been known to eat a grape whole . . . but then that means passing up a chance to slice it in two with one of my knives.
I think grape halves are the way to go ;)
 
HAHA! Check my sig line

There's just something about being in the great outdoors while eating an apple sliced with a favorite pocketknife that brings me joy. It occurred to me one day that I've never been sad or had a bad day while doing so.
 
gazz98 said:
I don't cut up my apples. I just chop away with my teeth. I don't always remember what I used the blade for last and if I remembered to clean it. I don't/won't carry a knife exclusively for food prep unless I'm camping.
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It was explained to me that if one licks the blade first and then wipes it under one's arm THEN it is sanitized and safe for use on the apple. :D :p :) :thumbsup:
 
NSBFL said:
HAHA! Check my sig line

There's just something about being in the great outdoors while eating an apple sliced with a favorite pocketknife that brings me joy. It occurred to me one day that I've never been sad or had a bad day while doing so.
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Kind of : "The worst day of fishing is still better than a day at work" sort of bear.
 
I don't if I'm eating the apple by itself. My teeth are still good and biting into a nice, crisp apple and getting that tiny splash of juice is really nice.

I will, however, quite happily use my pocket knife to cut up an apple if combining it with cheese or peanut butter, as those combinations are quite delicious.
 
Gideons said:
Was just eating an apple... just curious, who eats an apple or other food with their pocket knives and why?

-Gideons
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Eating apples with pocket knives is one of my favorite things to do. I use the old thumb technique, not cutting it up beforehand, but just holding it, and cutting it as I go. This way, I can put whatever I don't finish back in the refrigerator. I use a more classic than tactical knife, something like a Opinel or Laguiole, preferably something with a long, slim blade.
 
My Grandfather used his knife for everything. Skinning a squirrel, cleaning out gunk on a lawnmower, cutting gum out of carpet, slicing a sandwich in half and even cutting up an apple. I can promise you he never cleaned it. The best it ever got was a wipe down on his pant leg. Because of him I am pretty much the same way! I eat an apple almost everyday and always use the knife in my pocket.
 
Velitrius said:
Apple always gets the pocket knife.

Have a front tooth that got busted out as a kid ...
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Similar story here.

Lost my two front teeth in a boating accident when I was 13, and my replacements are porcelain. They work great, but the dentist told me to never eat an apple without cutting it again. So I haven't.

I keep a carbon Opinel #6 in my work bag. Having a separate knife for the food means that I don't have to worry about washing my EDC of tape gunk/etc before I eat.
 
I always dice and cut out the core/seeds. Sometimes I also peel the apple first. I then wipe the knife down and use it as a fork putting pieces of apple in my mouth.

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Coyman Neemus said:
Eating apples with pocket knives is one of my favorite things to do. I use the old thumb technique, not cutting it up beforehand, but just holding it, and cutting it as I go. This way, I can put whatever I don't finish back in the refrigerator. I use a more classic than tactical knife, something like a Opinel or Laguiole, preferably something with a long, slim blade.
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Interesting, I tried the old thumb method, felt awkward especially when their was only half left and was just more efficient for me to just bite an apple lol
 
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