Honey, I sharpened your knives.

[Cheeseburger]

My wife's two favorite kitchen knives are both Victorinox paring knives. I used one the other day and it was dull. I told my wife I was going to sharpen both of her paring knives. I'm not concerned with whittling hair or polishing the edge on a 3000 grit waterstone, but I'll sharpen until I can cleanly cut paper with no dragging. I figure gut genug (good enough). Long story short, my wife has a nice cut going up the length of her thumb (she cuts small things towards her thumbs...I cringe when I see her cutting like that). I don't feel the least bit bad since she knows she cuts incorrectly (and I stopped trying to "fix" her little things many years ago) and she knows I sharpened both knives. I only felt the swell of pride for a sharpening job well done.

 

[singularity35]

My wife's two favorite kitchen knives are both Victorinox paring knives. I used one the other day and it was dull. I told my wife I was going to sharpen both of her paring knives. I'm not concerned with whittling hair or polishing the edge on a 3000 grit waterstone, but I'll sharpen until I can cleanly cut paper with no dragging. I figure gut genug (good enough). Long story short, my wife has a nice cut going up the length of her thumb (she cuts small things towards her thumbs...I cringe when I see her cutting like that). I don't feel the least bit bad since she knows she cuts incorrectly (and I stopped trying to "fix" her little things many years ago) and she knows I sharpened both knives. I only felt the swell of pride for a sharpening job well done.

Dude! you're hard!

 

[bigbcustom]

Been there done that! Lol! My wife used to pull that all the time, and gripe about her knives not being as sharp as they should be. She always gave me crap about being a knife nut, and her not having razor sharp kitchen knives. So I obliged her one day, and she cut the daylights out of her thumb not an hour after I sharpened her knives in the exact same way as your wife did.

 

[KeithAM]

I don't want my wife to cut herself, so I warn her when I sharpen her knives.

I also go for a "working" edge that will just shave arm hair. I raise a burr on each side with a belt sander, then knock the burr off with a ceramic stick.

Anyway, she accidently cuts herself 2-3 times a year--but I think that's about the same for me.

One thing she forgetfully does that gets her cut is to wipe the knife off with a cloth or paper towel, pressing the cloth along the edge--the edge goes through the cloth, into flesh, then the blood flows.

 

[HoosierQ]

You know many many years ago my mom's elderly aunt came to stay with us. She was much beloved by everybody, me included. She raised my mom.

Somehow, I was pressed into service pealing apples or potatoes or something and it wasn't going well. Aunt Helen tried to show me the "right way" to peel...toward the thumb My mother explained that I was a whittler and it was totally wrong to cut toward one's self in that manner. My mother, not wanting a trip to the ER, told me to continue "whittling style" and after a frustrating few attempts, I was relieved of my peeling duties.

On a subsequent visit by Aunt Helen, a few years later, my mom and Aunt Helen decided that we'd "freeze the chickens"...a phrase which of course leaves out some of the preparatory steps

To this task I was well suited although I had never done this duty before. I sharpened up my Norlund Hudson's Bay Camp Hatchet and WHACK...off with their heads...all 36 of them.

Back on topic, my wife just refuses to let me sharpen the kitchen knives which she uses atop a glass cutting board anyway:grumpy:

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Back on topic, my wife just refuses to let me sharpen the kitchen knives which she uses atop a class cutting board anyway:grumpy:

Funny how advertisers always call those things cutting boards when they're really "glass food preparation surfaces." Great for putting already cut meat on to keep things easy to sanitize, but why would you want to run a sharp piece of steel right into what amounts to a piece of rock? :foot:

 

[Joshua J.]

You can cut things toward your thumb just as safely with a sharp knife as with a dull one. The trouble comes when people are accustomed to applying the amount of force needed to cut with a dull knife, but they are holding a sharp one.

 

[knarfeng]

Honey, I sharpened your knives.

Error in ownership. They aren't yours. They are hers.

My wife is like yours. She prefers that her knives be on the dull side. I generally let her keep them the way she likes them.

 

[cramsey3006]

Same here. I jut put a decent working edge on them and call it good. She's going to bang them around in the kitchen sink and the dishwasher anyway, ruining the edge.

 

[tomsch]

My kids all cook at home and use my kitchen knives. They are very careful and have developed some good habits. I do have a few dull knives that are used for things like cutting pizza. Everyone in the family still goes for the sharp ones though. Last cut in the family was me of course Took a trip to the med center for a few stitches.

 

[Revvie]

sounds like you guys hang out in my house! - I generally put a box of bandaides on the counter after sharpening her knives - I also have to do my mother in law's every time we visit and remind her that they are "sharp" now!
PEACE

 

[Rupestris]

Funny how advertisers always call those things cutting boards when they're really "glass food preparation surfaces." Great for putting already cut meat on to keep things easy to sanitize,...

We have one of those glass food prep surfaces. My wife learned how bad they are real quick. So she went and bought one of those dollar store rigid plastic cutting boards. It promptly broke when she slammed a head of lettuce on it to core it.

I bought a paper micarta board from Epicurean and its been great. Well worth it.

As for sharpening the kitchen knives, we have three Henkles that see the most use. She knows I like to keep 'em sharp so I don't have to warn her.

 

[KeithAM]

I'll give my wife credit for knowing to use wood or plastic cutting boards.

 

[manowar669]

Sharpened a friend's kitchen knives, and his wife was bleeding in a few days.

 

[A.P.F.]

Sharpened a friend's kitchen knives, and his wife was bleeding in a few days.

Your point?

 

[Noctis3880]

Funny how advertisers always call those things cutting boards when they're really "glass food preparation surfaces." Great for putting already cut meat on to keep things easy to sanitize, but why would you want to run a sharp piece of steel right into what amounts to a piece of rock? :foot:

I don't think they realize that glass is "harder" than steel. They think that just because you can smash a glass window open with a piece of metal that there's no negative effects from running a knife along glass.

It's ironic that my brother keeps whining to me about my sharpening methods using rouges to polish the edge and how it's not safe for human consumption when, judging from the number of chips in his knife(which probably went into that chicken), he consumes more metal on a daily basis than I do.

 

[knarfeng]

Sharpened a friend's kitchen knives, and his wife was bleeding in a few days.

Your point?

Yes, please clarify. Self-inflicted I trust?

 

[spydiesenses]

When I saw that title I thought you meant your wife sharpened your knife. I had a friend of mine who "knew what he was doing" and ruined a spyderco I had right after i go it hair splitting sharp, he takes a steel and runs the blade down in almost perpendicular. But back on topic, I just got a spyderco sharpmaker and had my dads meat cleaver shaving sharp... No injuries yet, but it's only been a day so far

 

[Gadgetaholic]

Funny how advertisers always call those things cutting boards when they're really "glass food preparation surfaces." Great for putting already cut meat on to keep things easy to sanitize, but why would you want to run a sharp piece of steel right into what amounts to a piece of rock? :foot:

More excuse to practice sharpening, of course.

I sharpened some of Mum's knives on Xmas day, but I forgot to warn her not to say "I'll probably end up cutting myself now". I'm not sure it is possible to say that and not subsequently draw blood! Then my stepfather cuts himself with a knife that I didn't sharpen - *shrug* if people are going to ignore safe knife handling then I guess they will just have to maintain a good stock of sticking plasters.
Neither cuts were more than a wee scratch, so no one hurt really.

I did avert disaster by opening the blister pack for my . . . ummmm . . . step-niece? Step sister's daughter (well, de-facto step sister - her father and my mother aren't actually married, they've only been together for 30+ years, no hurry). That task could have lead to a worse cut than from a knife, bloody dangerous packaging IMO.

 

[Dan K]

All of our kitchen knives are kept sharp enough to slice a piece of paper towel. I do most, but certainly not all the cooking and prep work; and we each have our won "pet" knives, but share most of them. She can steel a blade, but not sharpen them. She doesn't want to screw up an edge on a $100-$400 knife. Our cheapest pairing knife that we use is about $45. We do however, keep in a drawer some cheap, "sorta-sharp" blade when a visitor demands to help out. We have learned the hard way regarding allowing untested folk to use the good stuff.
Dan