How many of you practice good knife "hygiene"

How often do you clean your edc blade?

  • More than once a day regardless of use

  • At least once a day regardless of use

  • Only after it gets obviously dirty

  • Only after I have noticed it's been dirty for a while

  • It's gotta be a filthy mess before I even consider it

  • I think wiping it down with oil once in a while is good enough

  • Can't remember last time I did

Results are only viewable after voting.
ShaiHulud said:
I should probably find some more tape to cut, and leave on, just to oppress you lot😏
Click to expand...
If you could translate that to English, it would be helpful. Try not to impress the trolls, generally the mean-ness is because the only love in their lives is univirgining their olive oil.

Yeah Lcrossaint, I have a knife in the truck and work areas and use kitchen knives for food, but still find that at the end of the work day the phone and the edc are dirty enough that it affects image quality on the phone and how long blades stay sharp - but to be clear it's more about staying sharp than clean. I don't know if it's buildup from just daily tasks that stick to the cutting edge or what, but removing it keeps it sharp longer.

As far as being the strange ones, I think a lot of that is that people carry daily but the knife doesn't get used.
 
ElementalBreakdown said:
If you could translate that to English, it would be helpful. Try not to impress the trolls, generally the mean-ness is because the only love in their lives is univirgining their olive oil.

Yeah Lcrossaint, I have a knife in the truck and work areas and use kitchen knives for food, but still find that at the end of the work day the phone and the edc are dirty enough that it affects image quality on the phone and how long blades stay sharp - but to be clear it's more about staying sharp than clean. I don't know if it's buildup from just daily tasks that stick to the cutting edge or what, but removing it keeps it sharp longer.

As far as being the strange ones, I think a lot of that is that people carry daily but the knife doesn't get used.
Click to expand...
maybe try washing your hands once in awhile would help.........
 
🙄

I like to think about the early people's and their "hygiene" practices. I suppose there's no way to truly tell how or when they cleaned off their knives but I doubt it was as OCD as people are today about it --- to borrow a line from gangs of new york, "no son, never, the blood stays on the blade, one day you'll understand".
Bottom line and take away is, if it can crust off and fall into the mechanical workings (folding knife only) wipe it off, otherwise leave it. The exception to this rule are knives that are both used for food and non food uses
 
An easy habit I've fallen into, over many years' time, is just to wipe down the blade with a Windex-moistened paper towel after I've used it for anything even moderately dirty or messy, or when I notice visible smears, smudges, fingerprints, etc. on the blade. That's more important for non-stainless blades, for the sake of minimizing corrosion. But I do this with every EDC blade I use, regardless. Over those many years, I've noticed it's pretty much all I've needed to do. And it's simple.

And for the few times when the Windex might not be effective for cleaning glue, tape residue, etc. from the blade, I'll usually rely on Goo-Gone for that, after which I'll remove the oily residue the Goo-Gone leaves with the Windex-wetted paper towel again.
 
Yup, exactly the same thing except the alcohol is better at disinfecting the phone probably.

Before I put you on ignore too jb, I was going to ask if you prefer the Pompeii or Bertoli, but I am sure with the amount you must go through ya have to keep it to the store brand.
 
ShaiHulud said:
🙄

I like to think about the early people's and their "hygiene" practices. I suppose there's no way to truly tell how or when they cleaned off their knives but I doubt it was as OCD as people are today about it --- to borrow a line from gangs of new york, "no son, never, the blood stays on the blade, one day you'll understand".
Bottom line and take away is, if it can crust off and fall into the mechanical workings (folding knife only) wipe it off, otherwise leave it. The exception to this rule are knives that are both used for food and non food uses
Click to expand...
Our Neolithic ancestors didn't deal with opening lawn or pool chemicals and (which I in fact just did) things like diatomaceous earth, all of which I prefer not to either mix or have in my pocket etc.
 
ElementalBreakdown said:
Yup, exactly the same thing except the alcohol is better at disinfecting the phone probably.

Before I put you on ignore too jb, I was going to ask if you prefer the Pompeii or Bertoli, but I am sure with the amount you must go through ya have to keep it to the store brand.
Click to expand...
I don't do olive oil....except eating it.

okay, go ahead and ignore away......
 
Normally I don't clean it unless it gets dirty. Tape residue, finger oils, and streaks are fine for my use. If I get mud on it or something I will wipe it off just to keep it out of the action. If I need to use it for food etc for whatever reason it gets washed. After sharpening it gets wiped off with alcohol to remove and sharpening debris, tape residue, sharpie marker etc.
 
Exactly why I am moving to stainless blades in the future only...
 
I just thought of another reason why I like my edc kinda sterile-"ish" - I propagate a lot of bonsai from cuttings, and notching the stems sometimes helps encourage a new branch to grow. If I do it with a knife that's not relatively clean it often causes the cutting to fail.
I have specialized tools, but sometimes it's a heck of a lot easier to pull out my knife and do it.
 
What is this stuff on my knife ?
I think I may have ruined my knife from cutting all those apples, because I tried rubbing alcohol and I tried soap but it's not coming off.
20240731_101129.jpg
20240731_101044.jpg

Hypothetically speaking because I would never actually do this, but say I was replacing the manifold gasket on my lawn mower and used my blade to pick the old one off and open the new one without washing it afterwards then used my knife to cut open a snack what would happen ?
I think those gaskets are known to the state of California to cause cancer, so I'm pretty worried that some of that cancer stuff could get into my snack if I ever do this.
 
jbmonkey said:
what kinda olive oil do ya use?
Click to expand...
If it’s cutting food and I wanna oil the whole blade I just use mineral oil. For stuff that doesn’t cut food, or to go in pivots only I use Tri-Flow.

I use olive oil on my knives plus strop since it’s what they recommend. Nothing else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top