Knife Sanitation?

stabman said:
I wash it with stuff I use to wash things.
Soap and hot water, hand sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol...whatever I have around.

I don't open bags of poop with my knife like old Boris did, so I'm not too worried anyway. :D
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Thanks for the memories!

For me it depends on what I have done with the knife before hand. Usually I do nothing to clean it before use. I will wash the knife after though. That is more important to me.
 
blade dude said:
I've learned to love 10w oil sandwiches over the years so the little whatever on my knife is nothing
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One shop I worked at had so much oil particulates and smoke floating around that the coffee pot had oil on top of the coffee.
Just a thin layer, but it did not improve the taste of the coffee.
 
Well, if its a knife that has bearings a little bit of steak juice is all it takes to ruin it for ever. just a paper weight after that.....
 
stabman said:
Very often, yes.
I always have hand sanitizer in my bag.
I also have a roll of toilet paper in there...if you have to crap in the woods, you'll want both those things. ;)
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You do know that wasn't aimed at you, right? :)

But thanks for sharing....which do you use where??

There's a recent thread about bug-out bag contents currently active here if you'd like to get that around.....
 
Before cutting food: dry napkin wipe.
After food: I wipe mine with hand sanitizer, but only 'cuz I have it at my desk and a dry napkin is usually not effective.
 
brandoak said:
Well, if its a knife that has bearings a little bit of steak juice is all it takes to ruin it for ever. just a paper weight after that.....
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I generally only cut steak with the blade not the pivot. I am also very good at cleaning the pivot area if it happens to get gunked up. YMMV.
 
MTURBO said:
I have never given it any thought. Good question.

The most I have done is spray it with a garden hose from time to time or pour a beer over it.
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Waste of a good perfectly good beer if you ask me! :D:thumbup:
 
I carry a few alcohol prep pads in backpack. I use them to clean the blade before food if it's been a while since I've washed it and after cutting oily or sticky food that I don't want to wipe off on my shirt or jeans.


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EChoil said:
You do know that wasn't aimed at you, right? :)

But thanks for sharing....which do you use where??

There's a recent thread about bug-out bag contents currently active here if you'd like to get that around.....
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Hand sanitizer for hands and blades.
Toilet paper for wiping of the butthole. ;)
 
Diluted bleach solution and then wipe with olive oil or equivalent food grade oil. Cheap and effective.

One cap of bleach per gallon of H2O makes a great sanitizer. After being in the food business I can tell you there is a difference between clean and sanitized. Working with food requires sanitized to be safe. When camping I make up a bucket of sanitizing bleach solution and after eating and cooking utensils get washed with soap and water, they get dipped in the bucket and air dried. Over the years I have often been responsible for food prep in camp. I take great care not to give anybody the Hershey Squirts from unsafe food handling or sanitation.
 
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