Favorite knife to eat an apple with

I use my teeth. The peel is the best part. If I did cut apples to eat, I would use a kitchen knife.
 
I use an Opinel #8 for fruit almost every day. Although I have many knives from many different brands, none work better than my #8 for apples. Most modern style knives (such as spyderco and benchmade) have thicker blades and thicker edge grinds. My Great Eastern 73 and 72 patterns work really well, too, they have a blade geometry close to what the Opinel offers.
 
I can't eat them anymore, unless they are cooked, because they hurt my teeth.

But I am making a little knife that might be good for this purpose.

Third one from the right in this picture. It has a FFG, and is .078" thick at the spine. OAL will be 6 3/4", and blade 2 7/8".

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Interesting thread. I always carry one knife or other, but always eat my apples out of hand, cores too. Now getting an orange peeled, another thing entirely - out comes the blade without fail. No particular favorite either.
 
why do you need a knife, do you have blunt horseshoe shaped teeth?

the only fruit like thing i cut up before eating it would be cucumber and paprika
 
Vicarious Reality said:
why do you need a knife, do you have blunt horseshoe shaped teeth?

the only fruit like thing i cut up before eating it would be cucumber and paprika
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Cause not everyone in the earth is the same as you? Personally I don't like eating bruises on apples and I personally find eating slices to be more civilised. Unlike yourself, I don't attempt to force my opinion on anyone else. Everyone to their own.
 
Vicarious Reality said:
why do you need a knife, do you have blunt horseshoe shaped teeth?

the only fruit like thing i cut up before eating it would be cucumber and paprika
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Because I enjoy using a knife to cut apple slices. The level of ignorance some individuals can achieve on the internet never ceases to amaze me.
 
Whatever is in my pocket was the first thing that popped in my head, usually either an Old Timer trapper or mini-whittler.

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Usually my Vic Cadet or Super Tinker. Which ever one I happen to be carrying. SAK's and apples were made for each other.
 
Wowbagger said:
You are right though the Endura 4 is great, great. The knife bellow it is even better (for apples) (another grind job).
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Is that 4" Ti-Lite wearing a flat-grind with secondaries on both sides of that blade. If so, I'd like to here more about that one. Love those Ti-Lites.
 
Vicarious Reality said:
why do you need a knife, do you have blunt horseshoe shaped teeth?

the only fruit like thing i cut up before eating it would be cucumber and paprika
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I can't speak for the others, but I cut mine because my front teeth are fake (due to a boating accident). When the dentist replaced them with porcelain veneers, he said to never eat an apple without cutting it up first , or I'd risk popping them out. So cutting the apple seems cheaper and less painful than another few thousand dollar dentist appointment.

Also, maybe now I think its classy :).
 
Hey, my dentist told me never bite apples with implants, cut them into chewable pieces instead. It cost me new car amount of $$$$$$$ I had to pay for dental work, cause insurance didn't cover anything!

My "apple eating" knife is regular 3.5"-4" paring kitchen knife.
 
While I would not "think" this to be "my favorite knife to eat an apple with" it was in my pocket, it is "a" favorite knife, and I've not pocket-knife pealed an apple since Scouts so ... snack time is happy time ;-)

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I chose the smallest apple I could find, thinking to make things as interesting as possible.
I will say the apple kept wanting to work it's way up the blade away from the ricasso, but it tasted good in the end ;-)

Might just become an apple-a-dayer.
Thanks for the thread.
 
The best apple knife is a Chaparral, in my experience. But a Vic Pioneer or Cadet are pretty good too.
 
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