Sharp as a tack?

[tim]

Thought I'd treat myself for my birthday. Bought a Kasumi £100 steel chef's knife for 1/2 price. Yes - it is very sharp - slices a ribbon off an A4 sheet of paper. So - tried it on the task I find most challenging - root veg.

Guess what? Next time I shall go back to my unbranded 6"Ceramic knife - one of 3 for £18 the set!!

A bit disappointing. But, strange - the Kasumi knife sliced a lemon by it's own weight, whereas the Ceramic one bounced!

[tim]

[goodlife]

Nice to hear you are back Tim ;D...so you have perfect knife for the job then...think of all those G&T you can make in timely fashion..chop, chop and lemon done for the drink ;)

[grannyjanny]

I bought a tomato knife from Amazon £3.99, two of my friends have them. The only trouble was I cut myself twice getting it out of the wrapping. That is seriously sharp.

[Tulipa]

Lovely to see you posting Tim, hope all is well with you xx

I know what you mean about knives, I have an old prestige one, same era as my spatula thing, over 30 years old, still as sharp as anything, much better than these new ones ;)

Take care

T.

[Morris]

Be careful with a new, sharp, knife! 

The children still remember when I sharpened the knives (having kept them quite blunt when they were very small) and promptly sliced my thumb to the bone!

[Vinlander]

Give me sharp every time:

I was using razor blades to make balsa gliders when I was seven, and worked up to 1.5 metre spans by the time I was 12 - but the only time I ever cut myself was with a blunt knife.

If you are used to a sharp knife that goes exactly where you tell it, you really notice how much more dangerous it is to force a blunt one... which can go all over the place.

If you're used to taking liberties with blunt knives then sharp ones might be a surprise!

Cheers.

[pumkinlover]

Our "best" knife is a tesco one which we found when out walking, having been dropped by a previous walker sat on the same seat for lunch. ;D ;D ;D
We've bought supposedly sharp knives before- though nothing in the league of your Special one Tim! but this is still the best

[shirlton]

We got titaniom set about 10 years ago and its still doing ok. Tone has to get a stone to the large one now and again

[djbrenton]

I must confess I'm a sucker for sharp things. My current kitchen knives are Mastergrade I O Shen whcih are three layer steel ( hard in the middle, more flexible on each side) and have very pretty handles. Being Japanese they  have a different profile to European knives and are sharper.

http://www.hartsofstur.com/acatalog/IOSHEN_Knives.html