Give your wife/SO a brief block of instruction before turning her loose with a fucking $150 chef’s knife. I was peacefully surfing when I heard a sharp metallic impact from the kitchen, repeated over and over and over.
When it continued 15 or 20 times in a row, I got up to see what the hell was going on, and I found my wife wielding my favorite 10" Henckels Four Star chopping potatoes. On a tempered glass cutting board.
:stop:
The edge looks like it was beat on a rock. Took me 20 minutes to unfuck it with a Lansky kit.
My mother did the same with a Henckels I bought her a few years ago. She said her knife was not sharp and she never used it. I asked her what cutting board she used and showed me a tempered glass one. I said that was her problem. Then I looked at the blade and somehow she had cracked the blade(from the edge to the backbone). Henckels replaced it no questions asked.
I now have 2 very expensive Henckels knives in my tool box since I would not give her the replacement since she never used it anyway.
I have one of the John Boos "“AA” blocks with the end-grain maple. I could not be more pleased with it. Ten years old, and still going strong. I intend to give it to the grandkids.
Because she’s a nursing student who just finished a microbiology class - the idea of a wood cutting board fills her with horror. I’m going to have to find a good polymer board that won’t fuck up my knives that is also nonporous.
If you have a Sam’s Club, head to their cooking department. They have a great polymer board, that is just the right size to fit in the top rack of your dishwasher.
You can pound away, then place it in the dishwasher for easy disinfection. They are only $10 each.
That’s too funny. I take it she hasn’t started her clinical rotations.
After she digitally disimpacts a couple of homeless guys with lice and scabies, gets hosed by a 400 pounder with C-diff, fixes a blown ileostomy bag, and works on a couple of GI bleeds the wooden cutting board will be back on the counter. :lol:
Nursing tends to weed out the squeamish pretty quick. Interestingly enough, most RNs hate phlegm. That’s why they made RTs.
I hear ya kinda like watching jaws then going swimming for some
costco commercial has nice plastic type boards
or the sams club like mentioned above
but figure anything you can eat raw can go on wood anything that you cant eat raw a touch of bleach in the cleanup on poly type boards
wife still hates raw meat me YUMMMY
watched a chef show from cooks illustrated that talked about boards a bit ago was pretty cool
but I also have a few cheap montana knife commercial kitchen stuff from costco business that I use for junk stuff sharp when sharpened and holds pretty good actually its not my nice stuff but nice to have some decent junk knives also
whats amazing is that cheap filet knife from them is better than my other filet knives and its what we used a lot in Hawaii fixing fish almost daily !!!
but nothing like a nice knife for cutting things but again at least for me things like skinning pineapple and wacking apples in quarters for the juicer a cheap but good knife has been handy as it keeps my nicer ones nicer for a bit longer
