POCKET KNIFE: what are your favorite uses?

Also I love to cut my steak with my Eka Swede 88 instead of a butter knife I use my pocket knife which cuts steak like butter.. And I enjoy the meal more!!
 
Definitely opening clamshell packaging. I love being able to slice through that awfully annoying and notoriously difficult packaging with impunity.
 
Sometimes I open stuff , slice an apple, it's like a standing joke at work. They say "did I show you my knife?" I don't have anything that spectacular but I do enjoy what I got. :D
 
Tommy07 said:
Also I love to cut my steak with my Eka Swede 88 instead of a butter knife I use my pocket knife which cuts steak like butter.. And I enjoy the meal more!!
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Yes. I so much more enjoy a meal out when I don't use the provided knife. Forks and spoons usually work fine but the knives are lacking. I know mine is sharp!

Butcher1 said:
I think I like using my knives to slowly wear down my sharpening stones more than anything
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You can't let those stones get ideas of their own and out of control.
 
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Favorite uses? I'd have to say food prep and breaking down cardboard boxes - I seem to do a lot of both.
 
I prefer drinking tequila that I don't have to shoot...but I think I've only done the salt & lime thing once in my life. (Thanks for stirring up a fun memory, though).

As for the original question - I generally use whatever traditional I'm carrying for food service, and the modern for other tasks. Unless, of course, the food task requires something larger.
 
Hardly a pocket knife, I know, but I use my SwissChamp for so many things. I just used the reamer and blades on it to put another hole in my belt. Yay for slimming down!

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Recently I've also used the file to take the edge off my nails and the large blade for food prep. I've also used the tweezers to get a splinter out of my hand.

The actual pocket knife on me right now (the SC is a belt knife for me) is the medium Espada, which I don't use often as I usually carry it with a smaller, less threatening blade which tends to get the job done. I did use it today to slice open a pack of delicious spicy noodles, however.
 
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Buying them. :D

Followed by fondling them, looking at them, and hoarding them. :thumbup:
 
melmac said:
Definitely opening clamshell packaging. I love being able to slice through that awfully annoying and notoriously difficult packaging with impunity.
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Me too.. but I use this little guy for clamshell packaging. that's the ticket ;)

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Food prep. I take a lot of road trips, and I camp a lot... Bread, bagels, cheese, apples, salami,... I also like to make pointy sticks!

Sticking with the citrus theme, the first use for my Gayle Bradley 2 was to cut an orange. I only wish I would have taken a better photo with an angle showing how straight that first cut was. The GB2 is the best food slicer I have found yet.

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melmac said:
Definitely opening clamshell packaging. I love being able to slice through that awfully annoying and notoriously difficult packaging with impunity.
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I do enjoy this when I have a really sharp knife. Can't say that I have any particular favorite uses for any folder. I just use them for whatever needs cutting on a daily basis.
 
I must say, opening clam-shells with a knife is nightmarish for me.

I much prefer scissors or possibly that thing Tommy07 posted.
 
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