Same with my Swedish mum, must be a universal mum thing. She uses my grandfathers rusty old thing. Also got her new, REALLY nice ones, she got mad, refuses to use them. And she’s a retired cook…
At a guess: storage, because they're nice, so you can't USE them, because then they might be LESS nice?
Or: farmers prioritizing good tools for their work over their family's is an ancient issue. Dad, that is not YOUR hunting knife, stop using it for a prybar!
My girlfriend and I do basically all the cooking for her family’s seven fishes Christmas Eve feast/ party and we literally bring our own knives because the first year we were just mashing everything lmao.
I wouldn't swap my knives for it. But maybe it does its job.
Of course, I haven't tried using it. It could well be blunt as an arse. Cooking in someone else's kitchen can be a horrifying insight into how unseriously people take things.
I need to try harder at relaxing. That works, right?
I think the serrations is for cutting rope chords, with the curve for slicing thinner strands. I'm guessing they're not filed bc that would be harder to use a knife w two working ends like that. Definitely an oddity of a knife
this is why every year right before thanksgiving i get my shuns sharpened up and wrap them in the knife roll i made my mom sew for this express purpose and transport them down the valley. can you imagine trying to do thanksgiving with these
I've similarly put together a travel kit with a full-scale-but-snubby knife, ceramic rod, preferred peeler and a microplane. The knife is better than anything I'm likely to find in a parent's house or an AirBnB, but not so snazzy that I'd mourn it much if lost. Such a stress reducer!
Another congruency between our moms. I am not going to fly with knives so there’s just one large, good paring knife I keep sharp enough to scare her and leave all her various other knives as blunt as metal spatulas, just as she likes them (it’s “safer” in her opinion)
I would have to arrive a day early with my whetstone and put an edge on those butter knives. Or just one little one plus the cleaver; the latter’s close enough to a Chinese cooking knife to handle most of it.
I was at my dad's trying to slice an onion and my dad handed me a knife that I later found out had been given to him by my grandmother after his divorce from my mom in 1992. It did not appear to have been sharpened once in the intervening 32 years.
Lol I relate to this so much. My mom has knives made by some local factory that shut down in 1985 near where I was born and they haven't been sharpened once.
😂 my experience trying to hack apart a turkey with what was basically a butter knife at thanksgiving this year is why I brought my own knifes to the family gathering this time so I feel your pain
i got my dad a pair of Kai Pure Komachi knives (8 inch chef's knife and nakiri) and i'm going to hide all of the 40 other dull knives that have somehow ended up in the multiple knife blocks on his counter.
That’s me cooking in my mom’s kitchen. 😂 “Mom, hand me the tongs. No tongs? I need the strainer. No, I can’t use a plastic strainer from 1983. I need a ladle—no…a metal ladle. I don’t want it melting.” …and on and on.
i bought my mom tongs and a pepper mill for christmas last year because i was so sick of "no tongs" and her gross dusty old pre-ground pepper from 1999
Do people just stop buying new things at a certain age? My folks do this too. I bought them a new TV one year and they protested because there’s was “perfectly fine.” (Literally 30 years old)
We bought my ILs kitchen knives this year, and we won’t talk about how much they were a gift for us as well (since we’re the ones cooking Christmas dinner).
All of these knives can be found in a first level D&D campaign. Very aesthetic, but the DM makes you roll at disadvantage because the handles are so weird.
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Or: farmers prioritizing good tools for their work over their family's is an ancient issue. Dad, that is not YOUR hunting knife, stop using it for a prybar!
Short, curved blade one side.
Bottle-opener rather than can-opener IMO (I do not like on blade).
Dunno what the serrations are. Too short a length to saw anything big and are blunted.
But keep it sharp (scratches say so) and it could chop veg?
Of course, I haven't tried using it. It could well be blunt as an arse. Cooking in someone else's kitchen can be a horrifying insight into how unseriously people take things.
I need to try harder at relaxing. That works, right?
HP xmas
The blade was so thin it flexed side to side and so sharp you could flense the skin from your hands if you looked at it wrong.
A terrifying implement but great for peeling things.
I don't even know how he got all those, because it's definitely more than he could have acquired via divorce and inheritance
Also, why does anyone need a can opener ON their knife?
Just get a separate device!
“Mom knives” is universal and more effectively gets at the thing about moms.