There is nothing like the feeling of a good chef’s knife in your hand when you are cooking. Clean cuts, easily chopping through raw vegetables or carving through meats. While they can be expensive, a good set of knives is well worth the price.
I have been told that the most dangerous thing in the kitchen is a dull knife. While I still wouldn’t recommend playing with the food processor or putting your hand blender, there is a lot of truth to this. When you work with a dull knife you end up putting too much pressure on it to over compensate for the poor edge. This can lead to the knife slipping from your hand or from the item you are cutting and risking cutting yourself. Keeping your knives sharp not only makes cooking easier, it is also safer.
There are many ways to keep knives sharp – use a home sharpener, having them professionally sharpened, etc. A tip: if you keep your knives is a block vertically, store them upside down. It may sound strange, but that keeps the blades from resting on the wood when not in use and running across the wood when you take out or replace the knife. Simple, but it helps.
TDC
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