Who here brings their knife out for dinner?

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I bring my knife everywhere but my knives seldom touch a ceramic plate. That is a no fly zone for me.

I have used my knife on quite a few occasions at restaurants or diners to make food edible for my toddler like cutting a sandwich up into smaller pieces but the knife still never touched a ceramic plate and it usually comes out, does it's job and then returns to my pocket.
 
I do at times but almost never for food. It's always to cut the straw for my kid's drink. Some places don't use bendy straws and give a full size straw for a short kids cup. My kid tips the cup with a tall straw no matter how many times I tell him to pick up his drink and hold it in front of him. Instead he tips the cup and spills some out either on the table or on himself. So I always cut his straws. I've had stupid people make comments when they hear my 0562CF click when it locks up. I always ignore the silly remarks.

One time I had my 0452CF and heard a comment..... "are you planning to fillet a fish with that thing"
 
9 times out of 10 I have a knife on me when I go out (including out to dinner). But I never use it to cut up my meal.

But if you prefer to use one of your folders to dice up some steak then why not?
 
Sixate, I often cut the straws too. If they are gonna stock kids cups why cant they stock short straws? I now usually bring my own travel cup for my kid because most of the kids cups are disposable anyway and I am pretty green.
 
Final Option said:
Just curious when you have steak at home do you use a steak knife or
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At home, I sometimes use one of my folders or fixed blades because, hey, knife. :D

I told my wife before that some people on the internet thought that was weird.
She said "Why? It's a knife, right? Aren't you supposed to use them to cut stuff?"
Is it any wonder that I love her? ;)
 
I have multiple times! Im with ya op I recently pulled out my presidio 2 to cut my sons steak at logans! Was provided a terrible knife that wouldn't cut toast! Ur not alone
 
I use a lot of my more martial folders to cut meat during food prep. It gives me a nice tactile reinforcement of how they function.

As a rule when the food is cooked i won't need anything other than a butter knife or my teeth to finish it.
 
I don't go out to restaurant all that much, maybe 2-3 times a year (save a lot of money eating at home or even better, eating around a camp fire).

But when I eat around a camp fire, I tend to use my Busse knives to prepare my food and meat. Also, not eating at restaurants but at home and campfires provides me plenty of excuses to use my knives, not some 3rd rated restaurant knives that hasn't been sharpened in the last 10 years. Pfffft! :D
 
I do the same like most: use my knife to cut straws and such for my kids, sandwiches in half, etc.

But this has got me thinking. I do go out for prime rib and steak often enough and I order blue-rare. Many times I find the supplied cutlery mashes the meat before it cuts. I think I'd really enjoy having a razor sharp non-serrated blade of my own to slice the meat with surgical precision. My wife would laugh, and I'd tell her to zip it... after all that red meat I'll be asleep as soon as we get home anyways so the couch is as good a place as any.

Thank you for planting the seed for an excuse to buy another knife!
 
Went out to Ruth's Cris couple weeks ago. Ridiculous prices for good, not great, steak.
The knives supplied were worse than a joke. They looked nice, but wouldn't cut anything.
We were a table of 4 and both girls and my friend borrowed my knife.
Funny thing??? I think it was the first time any of them ever used a sharp knife.
Joe
 
palonej said:
Went out to Ruth's Cris couple weeks ago. Ridiculous prices for good, not great, steak.
The knives supplied were worse than a joke. They looked nice, but wouldn't cut anything.
We were a table of 4 and both girls and my friend borrowed my knife.
Funny thing??? I think it was the first time any of them ever used a sharp knife.
Joe
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Ya, I've done the knife pass around thing at restaurants before with family too!
 
Yes, I have pulled a blade out when their knife sucked. Super fancy places usually have good knifes. 1st time I pulled one out with family, thought I was crazy, but they ended up asking to use it lol. I've never heard a word from another table.
 
jc57 said:
I don't often eat steak. It's not one of my favorite foods.
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I tend to avoid using my pocket knives for food prep or as eating irons simply because I use them for so many other things and I have very rarely, if ever, encountered restaurant cutlery so poor that it wasn't up for the job.

That said, I don't see a problem with doing it, though if you do it in a restaurant I'm in, be prepared, as I may invite you to have a seat at my table so I can talk knives. ;)
 
I don't eat out like I used to, especially since my divorce. I don't think I've ever been in a restaurant where their cutlery wasn't up to the task. Steak houses aren't my thing, but when I have gone they've usually had a pretty nice knife for me to use. When I do "whip it out" is when I've taken my 90 yr old mother to a church function, and pull out my knife to cut her food up (same as a toddler). For that, I usually have something very colorful and friendly looking like my HEA Poison or WE 606, where at most I get "cute" comments because they look like they're made by Fisher-Price. If it's gray, it's same as a black rifle. ZOMG! A switchblade!
 
I always have a knife, well almost always, and if I needed to use it for cutting food or what ever I would. I will say that places like Outback & Logan's with those big thick serrated knives those are the worst at cutting steak I have used.

Danke42 said:
I won't go to a restaurant that serves steak you can't cut with a spoon.
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I eat a lot of steak..which probably pisses off my doctor. But I never had a steak that needed a better knife then what was provided. And while I always carry a knife, if I needed to whip it out to cut my steak, I would complain and go find another steak joint.
 
I rarely go out to eat, but I would use my knife at a restaurant, not on a ceramic plate though. That being said, I use my pocket knives for food prep at home, whether or not a kitchen knife is right there. Because, I need to find as many excuses as I can to use my knife so I can better justify the next one:D. Also, what else will I use as a beacon to other nuts?
 
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