Knife horror stories (was Re: [Sca-cooks] Sabatier knives

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

>How do you feel about driving the mechanic's "loaner" car? ;-)

Hehehe, I don't, as they usualy don't have hand controls!  LOL

>>Repeatedly I asked him not to do it,
>>and repeatedly he said "it's just a knive"...
>
>And that sounds like some kind of professional dominance game to me.

Not following, me dominating, or him playing the silly game?

>>(this is the guy who did mayonaise using
>>French's mustard, in the robot-coupe, and came to me wondering why his
>>mayonaise was glo-in-the--dark yello.....)
>
>"Whutevah!" "Dey like it like dat!"

Bingo!  Yeah, really :-)

>Interesting. I use my chef's knife to open tins of olive oil all the
>time. I was also taught there's a right and a wrong way to do it (one
>quick, sharp, whack with the absolute heel of the blade, which has a
>rather obtuse, chisel-like bevel/edge. And there are knives I'll use
>for the job, and ones I won't. Did he try to plunge the point in or
>something amazingly stupid like that?

Well, yeah, I use my chef's knife when my bone cleaver isn't handy.  But,
yeah, you use the *heel* of the thing.  And yes, he plunged the tip of the
point straight down...  And it snapped...

>  Or am I just an abusive sodoff without realizing it?

Dunno, haven't worked with/for you yet... :-)  How do we fix that?

>you'll need to use even more skill to do
>the same work with bad tools than you would with good ones you're
>used to.

I'm glad you see my point :-)

Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
Clan of Odds
Shire of Forthcastle, Meridies
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"You must deal with me as I think of myself" - J. Hockenberry