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Yep, you're not alone. I posted the same thing about a year ago. My wife knows to not put them in the dishwasher, but I often find them tip down in the sink. | |||
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My good knifes that were hand made are hidden and will never be out and used by anyone but me. Even though I dated this girl for 20 years, she is still clueless. She has no respect or the foggiest ideas about knives and the same with my tools. I am gone so much I don't worry about the tools because i never use them. When I was still in construction it pissed me off to no end. It does piss me off when I need a screwdriver, tape measure etc.. With this rage in mind that is why I keep my knifes put up and hidden. | |||
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True story from a couple months ago. So I hear the wife bitching in the kitchen... Wife: "We ain't got a single knife in this house that will cut anything!" I look to see what she is doing... She is attempting to slice a pizza... with a knife... on a metal pizza pan!!! Me: "Ack! Where is the pizza cutter???" Wife: Pointing to a drawer... "In the drawer..." Me: "Sigh... Well, you shouldn't use a sharpened knife on a metal pan if you expect it to stay sharp. Why aren't you using the pizza cutter?" Wife: "Well you do it then if you don't like the way I'm doing it so how bout you just fix your own supper from now on if I can't do anything to suit you Mr particular..." Collecting dust. | |||
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My wife tends to destroy the coating on the Teflon coated pans and then never ever ever cops to doing it. She must have used a kitchen knife to scramble/make eggs. The poor pan had hundreds of little divots in the bottom. I didn't even bother to bring it to her attention... I just tossed it... — Pissed off beats scared every time… - Frank Castle | |||
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I find some of our best knives in the sink with forks and spoons in a pot coated with whatever it was she was cutting. No rinse, no washoff, no dry, nuttin. I gave up. One of my friends said after hearing his wife complain about dull knives he sharpened all of the ones she usually picks. Heard a scream from the kitchen the next evening. She was used to the dull knives and almost cut off her thumb... | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
My business partner came into my office and wanted to know what was so funny!! Thanks for the laugh! ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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Why would I want a knife that is so delicate it can't be used to cut vegetables up for bird food? ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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Think chicken bones, nut shells etc. I actually have a variety of cleavers to chop hard stuff. My knives are for slicing, paring, de-boning etc. One of my ex-wives tried to chop through a lamb shank (raw) with one of my Sabatiers. Looked like a saw blade afterwards. Note I said "ex" No quarter .308/.223 | |||
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I have no problems here. Everyone in my family knows that my knives are dangerously sharp. As Doug Mercado says, “Your blade will cut”. I end up cutting a lot of things that others might have cut because they don’t want to use my knives. ———- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for thou art crunchy and taste good with catsup. | |||
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You've got an audio bug in my kitchen don't you. I gave up after buying a couple of nice, but relatively inexpensive (< $100) knives for her and watching her drag them through the electric "sharpener" with the 80 grit stone and rotating metal guide. I threw one of those power knife destroyers away, she bought another one. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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I took a very expensive non-stick pan ($150) full of Chili to my mother in laws house. I was being nice, I made them dinner. When I got the pan back, it looked like someone had used a bunch of nuts and bolts to scour the pan clean. I was fuming. Walk into the garage, and wife is using a $200 custom made Japanese Gyuto kitchen knife, and is chopping large boxes of cardboard up into smaller piles, for recycling. I blew a gasket. Women are just designed to not understand how to use a quality tool properly. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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Tell her you want that knife replaced for your Christmas present.....give her the part number and tell her what store locally sells it. When she goes to buy it and sees what it cost.....the lightbulb "MAY" go off. | |||
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Men evolved to shape and use tools. Women evolved to shape and use men. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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Mrs DF has free reign. If she screws it up, I buy another one. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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We don't have uber expensive cutlery, a set of Zwilling JA Henckles Professional S. They get thrown in the sink, bowls, whatever until they are put in the dishwasher. They're KITCHEN knives not family heirlooms. When they dull, they get sharpened. Going on 20 yrs with this set so if they go tits up (unlikely), I've gotten plenty of use out of them. Would I do that to my damascus knife with the burl handle - NO. But it isn't kept in the kitchen. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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My drawer, my stuff, including a few special knives. Her drawers, group drawers, whatever she wants. | |||
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My mom would completely ruin that entire set in 10 days FLAT. All of her kitchen knives have custom handles. All melted with different designs from the dishwasher heating element and on and on. | |||
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This is how I see it. They are tools, I treat my very expensive knives just the same as I would a 19.00 knife. They aren't used improperly, but they do get tossed in sink or dishwasher if I am being lazy. I try to immediately wash them and dry them by hand. PS thank God, she knows that knives are only knives and not a leather man tool. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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That's about it for me except my wife is the one who uses the knives. Every so often and at least before Thanksgiving, I sharpen the Shuns using my Worksharp with the Blade Grinder attachment. Yeah, some of them get chipped but that's why I have an 80 grit belt to repair the ships away. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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