I ordered a Kuhn Rikon really sharp all-purpose knife for $12.45. (I can't afford expensive knives.) This has a 5" blade. I never thought much about the fact that both blade & handle are the same colour with the blade having a nonstick plastic coating to make the knife, at first glance, uniform from top to tip.
And there's the problem. Every knife I've ever used has a blade and handle of different colours, so it's easy, even from the corner of your eye, to pick it up correctly. The first time I used this damn stupid knife, I picked it up by the blade because handle & blade look so similar. I cut myself real good - and it has happened a few more times.
I've had to train myself to pay great attention just to be able to pick up this weapon of hand destruction. But when you are working fast in the kitchen, when you have lots of different vegetables to cut, when you have to empty your cutting board into the cooking vessel many times, then go back to more chopping - you don't want to have to worry all the time about something as simple as picking up a knife.
$12.45 + shipping - shot.
Thanks for listening.
And there's the problem. Every knife I've ever used has a blade and handle of different colours, so it's easy, even from the corner of your eye, to pick it up correctly. The first time I used this damn stupid knife, I picked it up by the blade because handle & blade look so similar. I cut myself real good - and it has happened a few more times.
I've had to train myself to pay great attention just to be able to pick up this weapon of hand destruction. But when you are working fast in the kitchen, when you have lots of different vegetables to cut, when you have to empty your cutting board into the cooking vessel many times, then go back to more chopping - you don't want to have to worry all the time about something as simple as picking up a knife.
$12.45 + shipping - shot.
Thanks for listening.
