Sean, I keep my good knives on a magnetic strip on the wall - that way the blades aren't touching anything and dulling. [link]
Honing stones are fun! And provide a great opportunity to practice your maniacal laugh. I use something like this: [link]
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jan 05, 2007 7:48:57 am PST #284 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Kevin - Jan 05, 2007 7:49:09 am PST #285 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Hey peeps. A few days ago I wrote about my problems getting financing to move. A few people suggested what to do, and I did as suggested - and I've been given the money for a deposit now! Just need to find a shiny flat in Liverpool now. Looking at ones in the city center near my work, as I'm a big metrosexual looser.
DavidS - Jan 05, 2007 7:50:02 am PST #286 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As bon notes, the magnetic strip is a good option.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 7:50:33 am PST #287 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sean, Tom and I go a decidedly low-tech way of flattening paper towel rolls and sliding a chef's knife in there. (We don't have any good smaller knives.) For our other, we were pleased as punch to get it back from getting it sharpened with a little cardboard sleeve. Sadly, we've not gotten that again. So, cardboard casing, laid in drawer.
We have a honing steel, that looks like a little sword, and we (ideally) before every use, slide each side of the knife at about a 45% angle an equal number of times just to keep the blade in line. Do we do this every time? No, but we should. But we don't. We send them to be sharpened a couple times a year, usually mom and pop hardware stores can do that.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 7:52:00 am PST #288 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
also, we covet a magnetic strip solution to our knife storage. Until then, stupid cardboard sleeves.
SailAweigh - Jan 05, 2007 7:52:02 am PST #289 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Let loose the metrosexuals of war!
Er, you did mean something like that, Kevin, yes?
Fred Pete - Jan 05, 2007 7:53:26 am PST #290 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Robert Blake.
That's right, I'm wrong.
The character was Tony Baretta. And to complicate things even more, the related series Toma starred Tony Musante.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 05, 2007 7:54:58 am PST #291 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We send them to be sharpened a couple times a year, usually mom and pop hardware stores can do that.
Right, because as Alton has said on more than one show, never buy any appliance that claims to sharpen knives, or attempt it yourself unless you've been trained. The former never work and the latter could be dangerous to your knives, your health or most likely both.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 05, 2007 7:56:04 am PST #292 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
it's like 5-6 bucks to do both chef's knives.
DavidS - Jan 05, 2007 7:56:38 am PST #293 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Looking at ones in the city center near my work, as I'm a big metrosexual looser.
Nothing's looser than a metrosexual, that's for sure. Downtown Liverpool sophisticates on the prowl.