/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19619004]

>a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife

[Anonymous No.19619007]

>>19619004
That’s an old urban wive’s legend.

[Anonymous No.19619016]

>>19619004
Yeah a clean cut will be easier to stitch back up. A dull knife will crush and tear the flesh.

[Anonymous No.19619023]

>>19619004
>Mfw I slice tomatoes with a baseball because it's so much safer than a kitchen knife

[Anonymous No.19619050]

>>19619004
YES CHEF!

[Anonymous No.19619058]

Post the woman cutting potatoes with the dullest knife ever.

[Anonymous No.19619223]

>>19619023
CWC has a better face trim than I do.

[Anonymous No.19619250]

>>19619016
a dull knife doesnt cut do you know what dull means?

[Anonymous No.19619288]

>>19619250
Not a completely dull knife, you fucking midwit—a knife that is dull when compared to a very sharp knife, but can still cut things.

[Anonymous No.19619350]

>>19619004
bait thread but it's unironically true. if you have to wrestle around with what you're cutting then you're more likely to fuck your shit up.

[Anonymous No.19619361]

>stab someone with a sharp knife
>they heal from it basically instantly

[Anonymous No.19619370]

>>19619004
>knife is so sharp is slips between the atoms, doing no damage

[Anonymous No.19619372]

>>19619004
Lol what kind of retard bait is that? It’s just not true. I’ve never cut myself with a butter knife or a dinner knife but everyone who cooks has cut themselves with whatever kind of edged knife they use for food preparation.

[Anonymous No.19619375]

>>19619016
Wasn't the saying more about dull knives being more prone to slipping from where you're actually trying to cut?

[Anonymous No.19619379]

>>19619375
Yeah because millions of people unalive their hands off every year while buttering toast

[Anonymous No.19619460]

>>19619379
People don't butter their toast by cutting it you retard. Also this >>19619288

[Anonymous No.19619466]

>>19619379
Dull knives as in proper edged kitchen knives that went duller due to repeated use you dumb cunt
Do you even cook at all?

[Anonymous No.19619475]

>>19619223
That’s sugar ray

[Anonymous No.19619500]

>>19619466
My 8" Victorinox is never dull and I only use a honing rod. Try again, child.

[Anonymous No.19619515]

>>19619500
sure bud

[Anonymous No.19619517]

Gemmy thread.

[Anonymous No.19619637]

i never cut toward myself or push hard, because i know how to slice instead of just pushing, so all my injuries have resulted from clumsy handling while not cutting. i keep it mom-sharp now.

what's an example of a hard food that has people pushing hard and slipping? i'm not aware of any that wouldn't require a different tool. even frozen bananas cut like butter with good technique. what's a hard food? name one (1) food that requires significant force (you can't)

[Anonymous No.19619654]

>>19619250
>t. genuine retard

[Anonymous No.19619669]

>>19619637
The most effort I ever require when cutting is halfway through a particularly stubborn potato

[Anonymous No.19619696]

>>19619637
Melons with hard rinds
Avocados
Bagels
Some hard skinned cheeses
Hard cured meats

[Anonymous No.19620080]

>>19619004
Your thread sucks OP, but it had knife in it. I need tips on a good kitchen knife, I wanted to get something a little on the nicer side for my dear friends birthday that's coming up at the end of the year. Do you fuckers got any good recommendations?

[Anonymous No.19620086]

>>19619637
Butternut squashes.

[Anonymous No.19620111]

>>19619669
even fibrous sweet potatoes cut like butter (which i don't eat) because i slice instead of push/chop

>>19619696
>Melons with hard rinds
start it with the point and then slice. it's effortless.
>Avocados
wtf those are soft
>Bagels
i don't eat bagels, because they suck, but don't people use bread knives for those?
>Some hard skinned cheeses
i don't eat cheese
>Hard cured meats
i don't eat meat

>>19620086
even sun cured squash is easy with good technique

No food requires significant force. People don't know how to use knives. You're in machete/pruner/trimmer/chainsaw territory if it does need force.

[Anonymous No.19620122]

>>19619004
chefbros why is a butter knife so fucking dangerous compared to a butcher knife

[Anonymous No.19620135]

TRUE Knife Sharpness Danger Ranking™:

>Will kill you if you even lightly touch the edge
Japanese knife folded one mirrion times

>Will disable you for life
Butcher knife that is sharp but not that sharp

>Will give you an ouchie
Butcher knife that is that sharp

>Is safe, can stabs kids with it and they'll be fine
Dull knife

[Anonymous No.19620229]

>>19619004
This is bullshit. The only dangerous thing about using a dull knife is that you'll be careless if you switch to a sharp one.

[Anonymous No.19620297]

>>19619004
"Dull" knives are still sharper than a rock — they're very thin sheets of metal.

Dull knives are terrible tools and are more likely to cause accidents as people expect the knives to behave a certain way, and then they behave in another way.

Nothing is quite as dangerous as a dull person wielding a knife, though.

[Anonymous No.19620302]

my mom abused some Cutco knives for decades while not even honing them, so they could crush a melon without breaking its skin, and i could whack the edge against myself without any danger. She wouldn't send them in for free sharpening because she didn't want to be without them, even though they were useless in that state. We'd been using the other serrated knives for everything because of that. i live alone now and sharpen my knives at least once a decade :-)

[Anonymous No.19620312]

>>19619515
Mfw the kid consents

[Anonymous No.19620316]

>>19619004
You're a faggot for posting this

[Anonymous No.19620320]

>>19619004
if you disagree with this statement, you do not know how to properly use a knife

[Anonymous No.19620321]

Sharp knives produce almost no resistance when cutting, the only way you can injure yourself with them is if you cut towards you,.which you shouldn't be doing anyway.

[Anonymous No.19620323]

>>19619004
only if you cut super close to your fingers, super fast, like they teach you to do in culinary school. If you cut slowly and carefully a dull knife is much safer.

[Anonymous No.19620328]

>>19620323
yes, having to apply pressure to cut through a fucking tomato is much safer than having to apply no pressure at all
you are a real genius

[Anonymous No.19620330]

>>19619004
The actual meaning is "a dull knife is more prone to accidents than a sharp knife", which is true. Obviously a sharp knife is more dangerous if the intention is to do damage.

[Anonymous No.19620530]

Decidedly untrue for me since cutting myself is 100% of the time a result of my hand slipping or having a brain fart and leaving my thumb exposed, and never due to the knife malfunctioning or losing its grip due to lack of sharpness. There are times where I've sliced into my thumb and needed stitches, where an ultra sharp mini katana would have cleaved straight through it. And other times were I've glanced my thumb but avoided a deep cut by quickly relieving pressure/force, where a sharper knife would have sliced right in regardless of force.

[Anonymous No.19620534]

>>19620328
>having to apply pressure to cut through a fucking tomato is much safer than having to apply no pressure at all
it literally is. the sharp knife can cut through your fingers with no pressure as well. and you don't have to apply pressure even with a dull knife, you just have to slide the blade.

[Anonymous No.19620569]

>>19619637
Agreed on all counts. The idea that a dull knife forces you to just press down on and crush your food to cut it is objectively false. What you're talking about is poor technique vs good technique which has nothing to do with the sharpness of your knife. Even a blunt knife can slice through things like onions and tomatoes without force if you slide the blade along. Yeah you can't tap-chop with the sheer weight of the blade, you have to slice. But I wouldn't want a knife that can do that, because if it can literally just drop straight through an onion with nothing but its weight, it can do the same to my fingers. 100% of my injuries with my chef knife have come not from poor technique or excessive force from using a dull knife but from my hands just slipping due to poor motor control, or simply a momentary lapse in concentration, and each time the cut would have been twice as bad with an ultra sharp knife.

[Anonymous No.19620574]

It's sad that I can't tell if half the people in this thread are trolling or not. Either everyone here has great b8 or this board is totally infested with complete retards.

[Anonymous No.19620577]

>>19619370
>knife so sharp is cuts atoms, causing nuclear fission
>simply cooks my food instead of causing a nuclear detonation (there is not enough nuclear material in your average steak to cause a nuclear detonation)

[Anonymous No.19620581]

>>19620111
nigger what do you eat, soy food and flax seed?

[Anonymous No.19620692]

>>19619004
I put a butterknife through my hand trying to cut celery at my gramma's when I was like five.

[Anonymous No.19620701]

>>19619016
more importantly, a sharp knife will cut your food with little effort. a dull knife will have to have force put into it, making it more likely that you will slip and hurt yourself.

[Anonymous No.19620775]

>>19619004
>It's sad that I can't tell if half the people in this thread are trolling or not
it's really simple if it's a question, or statement in the OP, it's a troll thread. 95% of all posts on this board, and all other boards are troll threads.

[Anonymous No.19620995]

>>19619223
It's shopped to hell and back you fucking nerd

[Anonymous No.19621007]

>>19620692
My mom put a butter knife and a huge piece of glass into her hand while trying to use the knife to pry a fucking candle out of a glass jar like a total moron. Knife went straight through the glass into her hand along with a huge piece of glass

[Anonymous No.19621013]

>>19620775
true, the fucking bait questions in OPs turn this site into twitter and suck everyone's time and imagination