Thursday, April 13, 2006

A timely way to love your wife!

Sharpen your knives before it's time to carve the Easter ham. If you don't have good knives that need sharpening, purchase some. Steel from Solingen, Germany, can say "I love you" to your wife every time she (or you) effortlessly cuts food for the family meal.

5 comments:

Mercy Now said...

I guess this is better than buying her power tools so that you can use it:o) BTW, happy Easter as we celebrate the resurrection.

Bike Bubba said...

Thanks--you too. This post actually was inspired by an incident from an Easter when I was called to cut the ham because the hostess wasn't comfortable doing it. A bit of honing (on a thankfully decent knife), and 3 minutes later dinner was served.

Bike Bubba said...

Can't quite endorse Cutco; it's still a basically serrated edge (despite their protests to the contrary), and the handles are made to fit a very small hand. That'll cramp up bigger hands like mine.

Good steel, but there are some places where there is no substitute for a good, straight blade--and even Cutco implicitly admits this by putting exactly that on their new "Santoku" knife.

Speaking of USA knife companies, I used to be able to endorse Chicago Cutlery--until they started degrading their name with cheap serrated knives made in China.

Mark said...

I know that some people say that you can harm yourself with a dull knife... My mother-in-law has figured out how to solve that -- by making sure that the knives are COMPLETELY dull.

:^)

Bike Bubba said...

Those are called "clubs," Mark. :^)

They're also some of the most dangerous things around; you end up using so much force to "cut" (bludgeon) your food that your hand slips and you get a nasty laceration.

One doesn't need a whole block of fine knives to get started, either; I did a lot of good cooking with a paring knife and a 6" utility knife, both of which I still have.