2 years I ago I sliced maybe 1.5mm frommy thumb-tip; when taking off the bandage, I could clearly see the "straight cut" and that some material was missing.
Until today, it recovered completely
2 years I ago I sliced maybe 1.5mm frommy thumb-tip; when taking off the bandage, I could clearly see the "straight cut" and that some material was missing.
Until today, it recovered completely
Lol, I once sharpened my knives and went to cook. During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife is", next thing you know, i cut about 1/4" of my finger tip off, right through the finger nail with zero resistance.
Besides the blood getting everywhere and needing superglue to stop it, it grew back completely fine.
You shouldn't really sharpen kitchen knifes too sharp. And even if they're not super razor sharp (cutting a finger with no resistance), you should still warn people new to your kitchen or even family members/regular users right after each re-sharpening.
Additionally, too low angle will make the knife very suspectible to blunting and/or require constant drawing on the sharpening steel¹. Unless you have super high quality steel like Japaneese knifes or some craft smith knifes.
Butcher knifes, to be used along with a chainmail glove, are fine. Just don't test their sharpness on body parts. Or use them to shave a bit of hair, but very carefully.
1: https://www.dick.de/messer/en/sharpening/dickoron-family/dic...
> You shouldn't really sharpen kitchen knifes too sharp
There is a sentence among cooks: "only with a stub/butt knife you cut yourself" - isnt this true anymore?
It's totally true, and more so true in a slaughterhouse. Blunt knifes cause strain injuries on joints, and make people use much more force than necessary, which comes at a loss of precision. And then it turns out, that with enough force, a semi-blunt knife will still cut through a kevlar anti-cut glove and hit fingers.
BUT!, once the knife is sharp enough for a job, and I mean for comfortable work, not just barely enough, then it's enough.
Giving somebody who never held a sharp knife in their life a knife that is so sharp it will cut their fingers without them feeling it (or even close to that sharp) is like telling somebody to run a coding agent on their system and not in a VM. Things can get bad really fast.
Most people (at least in central Poland where I come from) used semi blunt knives* for everything. Some would have a household knife sharpener or maybe even low quality sharpening steel like the ones you get in a knives set. Maybe they or their grandma had a butcher in the family. They will have nice sharp knives that can cut tomatoes without crushing them.
But with a knife that is sufficiently thin, a throwaway leather belt, a little skill and an hour or more of time, you can get a mirror-like polished blade that is so sharp you can amputate limbs in seconds. Just need to go through the joint at a correct angle.
That's how our grandfathers shaved.
* just realized I was typing plural for knives wrong - with an 'f'
"During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife"" Is there something missing in the story? (drugs, coercion, self harm ideas, anything) I have had my fair share of avoidable cuts, but none of them included looking at the edge before happening.
I didn't look at the edge, I was just thinking of that idea while slicing some vegetables and coincidentally not paying attention at the same time.
The way you asked that question is wholly inappropriate for a public forum and also rude.
Irony deficiency
What, last night?
haha :D Sorry,English is not my native language! What I meant was: "During the last years until today"
Is this sentence better?
In your first comment, replace “until today” with “since then” and you’re good!
“Until today” is one of those English phrases that is particularly unfair on non-native speakers. You know “until” and you know “today” and so it’s completely natural to combine them in the way you did.
But as ever, English is dumb and annoying and hard work, all at the same time.