SC - Sharpening tools (Was water bugs)

[Elaine Koogler]

Maybe I'm just a "klutz", but I have found that I tend to cut myself worse with
dull knives than with sharp ones!  I really hate dull knives!!!!!!!!!!

kiri

Par Leijonhufvud wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
> > I have one of those, and will occasionally use it at home, or my lady
> > wife will. When I need to repair a badly sharpened knife, or a chipped
> > edge, I have a series of Arkansas whetstones that I use (normally
> > three). For everyday professional use I have a gizmo that looks like one
> > of those folding Asian butterfly knives, with a diamond-dust-coated
> > "steel" inside. It does a fine job, used judiciously in conjunction with
> > an actual deburring steel.
>
> I've played with several of the "gizmos", but come to the conclusion
> that I don't like the fact that they are fixed angle. Fixed angle is a
> Good Thing if you agree with them on what it is supposed to be. But if
> you don't... The diamond stuff is good, but or some reason I have never
> liked them very much. Real, honest, stones, ceramic sticks and a steel
> is my way to go.
>
> > strop, but it seems unnecessarily anal-retentive, so I use it only for
> > razors and such.
>
> I know it is on the anal-retentive side, at least on normal cooking
> knives, but I love that first "hot knife through butter" feeling they
> have when they are at that "absolute" level that a strop will give
> them... I think I'll quit now, before I start sounding *too* kinky.
>
> > I find it interesting that I actually used to work with a Swedish cook
> > whose name was Par, and he told me that all my knives were too sharp,
> > that that was a good way to hurt yourself.
>
> I have heard that from some people, for all I know it might a
> pecuiliarilly Swedish fallacy. I have never subscribed to it. If nothing
> else since the cut from a sharp knife will heal easier -- all other
> things being equal -- than one from a dull. The nice way all the
> knife-cuts on my hands have healed is evidence of this. Nice thin lines,
> with hardly any bulking scar tissue.
>
> > He said blunt knives were definitely the way to go.
>
> I think that sensitive souls might object if I express my true feelings
> regarding this opinion. Imagine, if you will, instead a lenghty rant
> filled with inventive insults regarding a persons intelligence,
> ancestry, personal hygienic, sexual and social habits, not to mention
> vivid descriptions of GBH inflicted in inventive and drawn out ways
> uppon said person.
>
> > He also was genetically risotto-challenged, but that's another
> > story.
>
> Allergy or inablility? I have never had my risottos judged by anyone
> with the slighest schred of knowledge of how the real product is
> supposed to turn out, so I can't give an opinion on how good I am with
> them.
>
> > I wonder if he was our Par's Evil Twin?
>
> Since I AFAIK have no twin it should not be. Some simple information
> might helt dispell the notion: if he was 6'2" tall, weighted close to
> 220 lb of well trimmed muscle, had reddish blond hair, and very handsome
> it can't have been my twin.
>
> /UlfR
>
> --
> Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
> Don't discount flying pigs before you have good air defense.
>                 -- jvh at clinet.FI
>
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