Honey, I sharpened your knives.

My wife gets angry at me if her knives are dull, she uses nylon cutting boards and washes them separate...once I didn't sharpen her main knife she uses and what was she using? my buck 119! lol
 
i keep my kitchen knives hair shaving sharp and when a knife is dull, the wife places it in the corner by the knife drawer and gets another sharp one, out of the drawer. she likes 'em sharp. my paring knives are of varying sharpness. a job that requires me to go toward my thumb is not shaving sharp, like a filet knife. other parers are that sharp, it depends on the job. for example; i cut up a #10 can of tomatoes for making pasta sauce. i quarter and then chop them, using my left palm as a cutting board. the knife has to be sharp enough to cut through the canned tomato easily, but not score my palm. i'm not saying that i couldn't cut myself if i wasn't a bit skilled, but having the right sharpness on the blade makes all the difference. just my 2 cents...ulua
 
I touch up our kitchen knife from time to time as well.
Because of 'thumb cutting technique' my girlfriend's been angry with me a couple of times as well....
now I warn her whenever I give them a touch up. :)
 
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Robert.B said:
My wife gets angry at me if her knives are dull, she uses nylon cutting boards and washes them separate...once I didn't sharpen her main knife she uses and what was she using? my buck 119! lol
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My wife has her own Buck 119--I have the 120. ;)
 
KeithAM said:
My wife has her own Buck 119--I have the 120. ;)
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My wife doesn't like my knives hobby until she needs a knife lol so she'll just make do taking mine...I've had my 119 for AGES, hand rubbed polished blade, hair popping sharp.

I'm glad she doesn't get out my 102X cocobolo! I've had that 10 years longer then the 119 :p
 
When I do the kitchen knives I will allways remind my wife that they are very sharp. And it never fails a week or so later she cut herself. And I am asked why do I have to make they so sharp? So as others have said I to now only sharpen they very little. And that has worked for my wife
 
I can't stand dull knives and the kitchen knives get a regular touch up to keep their edges.

Cutting towards yourself or into your palm is a recipe for shedding blood. Have you ever seen a professional chef using that technique?
 
My late wife was always frustrated at the dullness of her mother's knives when she went over there. She told me to sharpen her mother's knives. I obeyed. Her mother kept cutting herself. She never liked me much anyway. :D
 
Cheeseburger said:
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.
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funny,

i think that's how most pro chefs all around the world, including me, learned paring and peeling and tourning and cutting small things ... how can we be so stupid ...

thanks for enlightening me :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
This is what cutting gloves are for;).
Funny, I would've thought that edge obsessed maniacs who have a kitchen full of knives that can split a tomato in half by dropping it on the edge would have a single glove somewhere:rolleyes:.
 
I keep our kitchen knives razor sharp as well. And my girlfriend cuts herself all the time. It doesn't seem to bother her much anymore b/c she likes the knives SHARP.
 
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