Metal Fragments in Food from Hard blade vs Soft blade

Hashishiin said:
Neither have I, in general, over 20 FRN knives from three countries. I am still a total advocate of FRN. I can assure you I am not making up anything about Spyderco. They are my favorite knife brand. I have never had any other issues with FRN. It is probably like Vic cellidor QC, where once every 20 knives, that happens.

I was slicing food with the K390 blue, and there was a blue piece of plastic in there. Knife was new and I was looking to patina it. When she called me over, I was like "Nah, that's not it..." but I did not know what to say when confronted with the blue plastic. Sure, I guess it is not out of the realm of possibility that it was different plastic, but 2 + 2.
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See anything missing from the scales? It just doesn’t do that. You’d have to slice a piece off on purpose.

Also, she “confronted you” and was “very peeved”? Wow.

I’ll take “Things that didn’t happen” for $1000, Alex.🤣
 
AntDog said:
See anything missing from the scales? It just doesn’t do that. You’d have to slice a piece off on purpose.

Also, she “confronted you” and was “very peeved”? Wow.

I’ll take “Things that didn’t happen” for $1000, Alex.🤣
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Blue plastic. I am putting two and two together. It is real.
Fxing weirdo.
 
If visible pieces of metal are breaking off the blade ( assuming it’s not hitting bone or similar hard material), that means the blade is crumbling due to absence of proper tempering after hardening.

Dark pieces wiped off after stropping are likely mixture of metal and stropping compound, the ingestion of which is not better than ingesting blade pieces alone.

I think most knives sold today wouldn’t pose any health hazard by the means suggested by the OP.
Microchipping detectable at electron microscopy level has insignificant health effects. One should be more concerned about the exposure from FDA approved and not disclosed miriad chemical additives in the food itself than the ultramicroscopic tiny amounts of microchips from a knife blade. You get more very small hard particles (rocks, ceramics, glass) with your food than from your kitchen knives. Silica crystals in many food plants can be abrasive too, yet we don’t get shredded intestines from eating them.

Keep calm and carry on! :)
 
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AntDog said:
Plastic bag as noted in PMs. Spyderco’s good name is intact (as well as your handle). Hatchet buried.🤜🤛
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Yessir, for anyone not understanding - my better half corrected my memory of the situation, and recalled to me it was indeed a piece of similarly colored plastic from a salad bag that I cut open, and not the FRN from my Dfly handle.
 
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