Eating Apples with pocket knives?

I've been known to eat an apple or two with my knife but, most of the time I don't even think of it.
 
Strawberries, kiwifruit, mandarins, banana, grapes... forgot the apple it seems...
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353 said:
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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That's a beautiful knife !
What # is it ?
 
Hickory n steel said:
Yep.
I won't use my knife to cut on cast iron at Applebee's or chilli's though, because that's exactly why their steak knives are dull.
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Do try it. At home I eat beef off a small cast-iron surface. I have found the cast iron doesn't dull the knife. Partly because of the softer oxidized oil surface and partly because the iron is pretty soft compared to the blade. Hard ceramic plates now . . . that is a different story.
 
I always have a knife for cuttin' up snacks and doin' food prep. Usually it's got a stainless blade for convenience sake but I'll use HCS blades as well they just need a little more aftercare that's all.

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tiguy7 said:
Apples are a piece of cake compared to grapefruit. I use a modified Boye Stellite 6-B folder.
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Nice one.
I have always been fascinated by that other "mesh" titanium knife you had in the last photo. Those are so cool.
How is the Boye Stellite 6-B folder modified ?
 
Chefget said:
Apple seeds are not too bad if you just eat them...they tend to pass through.

Back in the late 80's I was making juice through with a grinder/extractor...just kept getting sicker till my doctor clued me in. The symptoms stopped almost immediately after stopping the juice.
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Nah I mash 'em up good then swallow.
What symptoms ? We want all the gory details.

Let me guess :
You started sleeping in trees
and you had an uncontrollable urge to wait 'till the last second and then run in front of cars.
(squirrels) (I have seen a squirrel stand and watch a truck coming from a block away . . . waiting . . . watching . . . waiting . . . watching . . . annnnnnnnd just as it gets right up to the squirrel the dumb son of a ______ runs right in front of the truck).
What do you think ? Too many apple seeds ?
 
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The apple gets it, my font tooth is a replacement so I can’t bite apples. You can always clean you knife later if your concerned about that.
 
Wowbagger said:
Nice one.
I have always been fascinated by that other "mesh" titanium knife you had in the last photo. Those are so cool.
How is the Boye Stellite 6-B folder modified ?
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The Boye leaf blade was ground to a clip blade. The Lion Steel Ti Dust is another of my kitchen knives. The 3-D printed handle is useful for straining spaghetti.View attachment 834901
 
Wowbagger said:
Nah I mash 'em up good then swallow.
What symptoms ? We want all the gory details.

Let me guess :
You started sleeping in trees
and you had an uncontrollable urge to wait 'till the last second and then run in front of cars.
(squirrels) (I have seen a squirrel stand and watch a truck coming from a block away . . . waiting . . . watching . . . waiting . . . watching . . . annnnnnnnd just as it gets right up to the squirrel the dumb son of a ______ runs right in front of the truck).
What do you think ? Too many apple seeds ?
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Hehehee...at least they're not the size of deer!

Naw, just a slightly painful stomach and, worst of all, a weird 'almost sick with a fever' feeling for the duration of the latter part of the apple juicing experiment.

Years before probably would have paid for buzz, but at the time was running the kitchens in a luxury hotel :)

-Michael
 
Velitrius said:
Apple always gets the pocket knife.

Have a front tooth that got busted out as a kid, and it's replaced with an appliance nowadays. Eating apples by the slice keeps me from prying into it with the dental work.

Nothing goes with the apple slice quite like a piece of Tillamook Sharp White Cheddar. Takes a knife to slice off a chunk.

Peeling an orange and grapefruit also gets the knife. I circumnavigate the peel with one slice, then turn it 180 and do it again. This leaves 4 sections or "quarter peels" that come right off.

Lastly, we have a local meat guy who makes the finest summer sausage I ever had. Slicing little wheels of it off is a snap with any of the pocket knives I use. Slice off another piece of cheese from the Tillamook baby loaf and your Ritz crackers have never been happier.
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jbmonkey said:
didnt use to. ate the core seeds everything but the stem.....and never understood when folks talked about cutting up an apple.......but broke two front teeth and have them filled and just easier than spending more money to fix them again. funny how gettin older changes things.
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Ahh the sweet, sweet memory of losing your teeth, I didn't have a pocket knife when I lost mine, so I had to avoid apples for a couple of months, and at all of my food in the most awkward way to avoid my broken front tooth
 
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