[Sca-cooks] A Knife Problem

[Johnna Holloway]

After a decade or two or almost three of marriage and with our son  
finally into his late teens, I have been investing
in better knives. This does not mean that these expensive knives sit  
out in the knife block or are in the top drawer where the general use  
steak and paring knives are kept.  For sanity reasons, I still hide  
them away in my speciality drawers. The ones where I keep my stuff and  
where they aren't supposed to go into... yes those drawers!

There are various reasons why I do this, almost all connected with  
situations where they needed a knife for an art project or to make  
something for science olympiad or they needed to cut something and the  
scissors were too far away.  Want to cut a a chunk of something or cut  
hard plastic-- grab a knife. Can't find the exacto blade? Use one of  
her knives.  And once used, the knives when the projects are done  
invariably end up in the sink too which is another no-no for good  
knives.

Thus we have my drawer and my knives hidden away.

At least this is how we keep the peace in our house and how I preserve  
my knives.

Johnnae


On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> On Dec 26, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps wrote:
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>> My dear wife, who had previously been warned repeatedly regarding  
>> the proper use and care of cutlery, has managed to break about two  
>> inches off the tip of my henckel chef's knife.  Clean break at  
>> approximately 90 degrees to the blade.  Any suggestions?  I've  
>> contacted henckel but as she was clearly misusing the blade I  
>> suspect that such is not covered by warrenty.   About all can think  
>> to do is have it ground round.
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> She was opening a can of cocoa, right? C'mon, you can tell us!
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> Adamantius (thinking you have a nice new Chinese vegetable cleaver)
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