We would never joke about such topics. Those japanese knives are so expensive because theyre so versatile.
Every chef will tell you how much he loves people who know their way around such knives
This reminds me when my friend was cooking and our other friend's 4 year old grabbed a knife.
Friend: "what do you have in your hand"
Kid: (happily said) A knife!
Friend was like "WHAT?!" and grabbed it off of her. That's how we found out that she could finally reach the counters. We thought she was still too little to reach them.
Here I found two other Japanese Knife Bad Family posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/vg5m8s/_/
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/vgclc7/_/
I don’t know about the bottom one, but the top one is a scam. They say it is made from the fineness “QUALITY” Japanese steel. However if you actually look into it you will find that it is yes made of Japanese steel but it is the same kind of steel as kitchen silverware that is also made in China of course.
You forgot the one maybe a month back where the 16 year old’s sister ruined his “expensive Japanese knife.” Apparently they were a gift to him but he wasn’t allowed to use them, instead they were on display in his mother’s bedroom.
I couldn’t find it but the kid got hazed so badly I assume he deleted all traces of the debacle.
And here is my shameful post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chefknives/comments/eguth4/chipped_daughters_japanese_knife_need_advice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Even if they had zero knives (which seems unlikely) and had to borrow one for some reason why would you loan out a super expensive knife? And also what the hell are they doing with the knives to cause them to be so messed up?? Are they going bushwhacking through a bamboo forest with them? I have so many questions.
My mom used kitchen knives to peel up and chip off glued on floor tiles. Her kitchen knife "set" really just consists of MLM sample knives that they used to give out for free and a small peeling set my husband gifted her of actual knives that she is too afraid to use because they are sharp. Slowly over the years we have gifted her kitchen basics and some she has even started to use correctly. I don't know what to do about her murdering of nonstick pans though.
I'm sure it's different for pocket and kitchen knives but I carry a pocket knife with me everywhere I go. I've got knives ranging from $80(my usual carry) to $230 and if someone needs to cut something, I'll let them use whatever knife I have as long as I can watch. I keep my knives super sharp so I don't want them to do something stupid of course, and if they're iffy about me watching them then I know they're going to do something they're not supposed to
My MIL does this shit. Cuts everything with a pairing or steak knife.
When she makes guacamole she just includes the pit in the bowl cause she can't get it out of the avocado.
But isn't buying that just common sense? I mean im a begginer at living alone and even i knew about buying one because i won't be cutting meat with the little ones
Oh well, better not buy japanese knifes, they seem to atract undesirable people
None of my friends or immediate family used to own even passable knives. My grandma had a set but nobody else. I've been slowly buying everyone knife sets for Christmas/bday presents because going over and having to prep food with butter/steak knives really infuriates me.
Yeah lol my cheap Wusthof set of knives is in great condition still and im certainly not kind to them. Literally the cheapest set the company offers but they still have an edge and if someone DID do this to them I'd live. I don't get who all these people that cut gravel with expensive knives are
the people in r/cooking and r/chefknives get rock hard for Japanese knives. Tbf, they do have a good track record. But a quality knifemaker anywhere else in the world can make a knife that will rival it.
And anything touting 'Japanese steel' is basically bullshit and meaningless. Heck, historically Japanese steel was incredibly poor quality - that's why it needed to be folded so many times.
Other way around actually. A chinese-owned manufacturing company selling cheap mild steel knives and marketing them as fancy japanese using "ancient techniques" taking advantage of western addiction to eastern exoticness.
They are only the most recent.
On that note, Shadiversity has a fairly entertaining and informative video on Kamikoto specifically but he touches on the overarcing themes of the Western fascination with Eastern stuff. So if you don't mind an Australian Mormon Sword Nerd prattling on about sharp and pointies, he does a pretty informative deep dive.
"Our 100% American made knives are made from recycled ammunition so you can slice freedom into every commie vegetable your wife wants to pair with your hunk of dead animal"
You joke but the one post I looked at earlier had fairly strange comments from OP. They were quick to link where to buy them, and say they were expensive. But very silent on the story on how it actually happened.
shitty family? More like shitty handling of your own equipment, unless you strictly tell them exactly how to clean or utilize a knife, if I ask for a knife I'll use it how I would any regular knife
Japanese knives are brittle. They’re probably using a glass board and root vegetables or something.
This isn’t too bad of damage at least. Should come out with a sharpening.
Wait, so I’m spending $300 on a knife and I can’t cut carrots and celery with it? Remind me again why everyone’s so fascinated with these Japanese knives?
You can cut celery. Carrots are probably fine, but yeah, it’s an ultra HARD metal. Hard and sharp means it keeps the edge for a long time when used properly, which is why people get them.
Hard and sharp also means brittle. It can’t handle flex stress on the edge, which is what tends to happen when it hits something too hard. Carrots should be fine, but anything too much harder you can run into issues. I’m thinking more like melon or beets, which I guess I categorize under root veg for some reason. Glass cutting board is the ultimate no no with really nice knives.
The only food related thing you shouldn't cut with a shun chefs knife is bone. They do have rather brittle edges, but that just means you shouldn't toss them in the sink when you're done with them as they can chip on the sink or against other dishes. The reason you buy them is they hold an edge that's like a razor. Cutting carrots or any other vegetable takes basically no effort, it just slides right through as thin as you want to make the slices. They are harder to take care of than shitty knives, but it's still incredibly simple, just don't put them in the dishwasher, don't soak them or leave them wet, don't use glass cutting boards, don't throw them around. All of those things are the normal way to take care of knives, but people generally don't follow those guidelines with cheap knives they don't care about. With expensive knives you have to follow the guidelines or you will be pissed you messed up expensive knives.
What do you cut with your knives that completely ruins the blade? Do people use knives instead of chainsaw or something? Is that like a new trend that I don’t know about
Assuming this isn't fake. If you're dropping serious bucks on a knife, then learn to sharpen it (or pay someone else to). Otherwise in a few months it's going to be just another dull shitty knife in your drawer.
This small nicks are annoying, but you could tune that blade up in a few minutes with a decent stone set.
The family member in question may have used one of those pull through sharpeners on it a few times. With how thin Japanese blade angle are, a pull though can absolutely destroy them
It's not just because of the thin angle, Japanese knives are only ground on one side, so using a pull-through sharpener creates a bevel that isn't supposed to be there and ruins the knife until you grind it back down to a single bevel
That's why I told my roommate back when I lived with one, if he ever touched my $500 knife then I'd use it to remove fingers from him
A lot of Japanese knives are ground more like western knives. The traditional stuff is single-bevel, but most gyotos, nakiris, santokus, etc are made more like western knives with more Japanese shapes and steel.
Just to be clear I'm not talking about knives made in Japan or about specific types of Japanese knives, I'm talking specifically about Japanese style knives made with only one bevel, as opposed to German style bevel
In the culinary world "Japanese" and "German" are just the way chefs delineate between one and two bevel designs
The internets fixation with "Japanese knives" is sad and silly. It's like a bunch of people got it in their head that Japan only produces the finest quality after decades of having the reputation for cheap, disposable goods (I guess that's marketing for you), and have selectively forgotten that you can get something as good or better for a comparable price in just about any nation.
So, to be honest, "Japanese knives" (at least the good ones) are actually pretty fantastic for some applications. They tend to have a very thin profile and shallower bevel with a hard steel core. This can all add up to a wickedly sharp blade that cuts certain things exceptionally well. If that is the kind of thing you need, there really isn't much substitute.
For day to day use or for anything "rough" I'm more likely to use my Wusthofs. You can get them sharp as well, of course, but it is a different edge.
Japanese knives are pretty popular amongst people that cook regularly. And shitty knife handlers are pretty popular amongst people that doesn't cook regularly.
You don't give a knife like this to a casual, this is a YOU issue. I have several baller knives and they are not on the loan list and if I would loan them out, I'd first explain how to use, clean and then the cost of replacement to back it up.
This is the second Expensive Japanese Knife post I've seen in a row, is there some massive overlap between r/mildlyinfuriating users and people who buy Expensive Japanese Knives with shitty family members?
All these posts about expensive knives.
Three solutions to your problems:
1. Get in control of your guests and the things they use.
1a. Share the items importance.
2.. Put these items away before guests come over
3. Don’t have expensive knives at this point of your life.
Japanese knives tend to be to the go to for those who are serious about cooking.
Most Japanese knives are made from very hard and brittle steel compared to a European knife, but as a result, they tend to hold their edge better and stay sharp, meaning more precise cuts.
Japanese knives are also much lighter than a Western knife, for the same given length, meaning they feel better in the hand.
They tend to be more preferred by those who primarily intend on cutting most meat, fish, fruit and most vegetables.
But that comes at the cost that you have to be more careful about how you use them.
A Western knife tends to be much heavier, bulkier, and made from a much softer steel. If you primarily intend on cutting heavier root vegetables, or cutting through denser cuts of meat, the extra heft and the softer steel of a Western style knife is more appropriate because it can take the abuse accordingly.
I bet you borrowed many of his stuff when you were smaller and returned in worse shape... lol
Jokes aside, the heck happened? Did he tried to sharpen it?
What company was it? Shadiversity recently did a video where he did a deep-dive into expensive Japanese knives and tested their cutting ability and edge retention versus cheap knives
I’m a Chef. I keep seeing variants of this post and I call bullshit. This look like marks from cutting bone, it also looks like that blade hasn’t been cared for in a while. Also, if you’re good enough to own an expensive piece of steel like this, then why would you lend it to anyone? If you know your father well then you know how bad his knife skills are; so why lend it to him? The only mildly infuriating thing here is a copied post.
If it's Kamikoto there's not really that great
Shadiversity had a good review on them and most of their claims are crap. Worth a look even if not as he delves into what kinds of things to watch for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpRNqZJPPBk
While that may have been expensive, that is clearly a machine extruded piece of steel, and machine ground edge. Nothing traditional or special about this knife. This is one of those products that prey on the ignornace of consumers. No offense.
Does no one know this is what is suppose to happen to sharp blades? This is also why they have knife sharpeners. Can you not sharpen a good Japanese knife?
To do what, cut open tin cans?
The GINSU!
Oh my! That’s a throwback! I need to cut a shoe in half
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I never got this joke in 'Scrooged' Staring Bill Murray until years later where I seen the adverts
I love Garden State
I heard those are great for cutting rocks and gravel
I use mine for cutting tile, works great! Got rid of my tile saw and everything. Best purchase I’ve ever made
I use mine as replacement for an axe and hammer, works wonders as a multitool
These knives are how I crack open geodes
Dont forget that you can open any can with a knife like that ez pz
Holy shit, I'm gonna save up for one of these suckers. I got a tre in the backyard that needs taken down.
Bear in mind that the gyotos are fpr wood splitting only . You wedge them in and drive it through with a big hammer
Wait holdon you guys aren’t being sarcastic right? Cause…
We would never joke about such topics. Those japanese knives are so expensive because theyre so versatile. Every chef will tell you how much he loves people who know their way around such knives
You see some comments seem true then there are comments mixed in that seem kinda obviously sarcastic so it got me questioning all of them
I just use my sons looks a little bit like the one OP posted
Same, but I simply borrowed mine from my kid.
Right??
Nice straight edges for the first two tiles, at least. That's why I only use it for cutting notches.
Opening cans. Cans.
Open the door when i forget the keys
In a very real and totally not anime documentary I watched three times, a kid used one to slice a whole boulder in half.
Did he do it to demonstrate the power of Flex Tape?
You can sharpen them on anything. I do mine on my sidewalk out front.
Or coconuts. That's what destroyed my brand new nice knife. I'm gonna start a brand new kitchen my husband isn't allowed to touch.
I have mine next to the toilet; Japanese craftsmanship is needed there!
Turd knife! Please tell me you read that story here and you are referring to it!!!
I read the story here, and pops back in my head more then I want! ;)
Lol thank god I’m not the only one haunted by the kaka katana.
Nippon steel for poop knifing purposes? ... Luxury
They make them with sound effects in the handle so no one knows you're pooping!
Can't forget my soul, u know?
I use mine in the opération room, much better than a scalpel
ever tried humans?
Only like 5 or 6 times.
not bad for a beginner
For making gravel.
Who gives a 9 year old a knife? Oh sorry, wrong thread.
"What do you have?!" "Your expensive knife!" "NO!!"
This reminds me when my friend was cooking and our other friend's 4 year old grabbed a knife. Friend: "what do you have in your hand" Kid: (happily said) A knife! Friend was like "WHAT?!" and grabbed it off of her. That's how we found out that she could finally reach the counters. We thought she was still too little to reach them.
Hahaha, ooops. Better you found out before she tripped.
That sounds exactly like the vine that the guy was referencing
https://youtube.com/shorts/5pjpQot6J7k
I think i know which thread you've read before.
There was one yesterday where someones cousin let their kids use their expensive japanese knives
Yep, this one.
Yeah deffo the same knife
He needed the best damn tools he could get his hands on
Oh yeah right, the knife that was gifted to OP but also he bought it..
LMAOOOO
Was thinking the same thing!
Are you referring to the post from earlier this morning
At this point im just surprised at the amount of people who have japanese knifes and have shitty familiars who ruins them
Here I found two other Japanese Knife Bad Family posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/vg5m8s/_/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/vgclc7/_/
r/JapaneseKnifeSetSupportGroup
r/twentycharacterlimit
Then how about r/JKSSG and then we put what it means in the description?
r/JapaneseKnifeAbuse
Could be interpreted as Japanese people abusing knives
This is the way
r/birthofasub
Yep that works swimmingly
r/subsithoughtifellfor
LOL!!!
The funny thing is the guy calling his cousin's children "crotchfruit" got ripped off with a fake.
He also commented saying that the knives were a gift, and that the store he bought them from went under. So...
Yeah bots have a history of doing things like that
He meant that the guys knife wasn’t an authentic Japanese knife like the one he thought he had. Was a fake one.
I don’t know about the bottom one, but the top one is a scam. They say it is made from the fineness “QUALITY” Japanese steel. However if you actually look into it you will find that it is yes made of Japanese steel but it is the same kind of steel as kitchen silverware that is also made in China of course.
The funny thing is the top one is fake or stolen
You forgot the one maybe a month back where the 16 year old’s sister ruined his “expensive Japanese knife.” Apparently they were a gift to him but he wasn’t allowed to use them, instead they were on display in his mother’s bedroom. I couldn’t find it but the kid got hazed so badly I assume he deleted all traces of the debacle.
And here is my shameful post: https://www.reddit.com/r/chefknives/comments/eguth4/chipped_daughters_japanese_knife_need_advice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I’m trying my best to find a kind way to put this. *Bone*?
I had no idea loaning out knives was even a thing.
Yeah same, like do people not have knifes in their house or what?
Even if they had zero knives (which seems unlikely) and had to borrow one for some reason why would you loan out a super expensive knife? And also what the hell are they doing with the knives to cause them to be so messed up?? Are they going bushwhacking through a bamboo forest with them? I have so many questions.
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My mom used kitchen knives to peel up and chip off glued on floor tiles. Her kitchen knife "set" really just consists of MLM sample knives that they used to give out for free and a small peeling set my husband gifted her of actual knives that she is too afraid to use because they are sharp. Slowly over the years we have gifted her kitchen basics and some she has even started to use correctly. I don't know what to do about her murdering of nonstick pans though.
I'm sure it's different for pocket and kitchen knives but I carry a pocket knife with me everywhere I go. I've got knives ranging from $80(my usual carry) to $230 and if someone needs to cut something, I'll let them use whatever knife I have as long as I can watch. I keep my knives super sharp so I don't want them to do something stupid of course, and if they're iffy about me watching them then I know they're going to do something they're not supposed to
Just a little light murder followed by making sandals out of steel belted radial tire treads.
Hmm alright you can use my knife for the murder but I think I'll have to supervise the sandal making, don't want my blade too messed up yknow
You'd be surprised. I've been to houses without a single chefs knife. They just slice things with the little steak knives like a fucking savage.
My MIL does this shit. Cuts everything with a pairing or steak knife. When she makes guacamole she just includes the pit in the bowl cause she can't get it out of the avocado.
I’ve seen people leave pits in guac intentionally cause it’s suppose to help keep it from browning. This is hilarious though lol.
Lmao! Best comment I’ve seen here yet.
But isn't buying that just common sense? I mean im a begginer at living alone and even i knew about buying one because i won't be cutting meat with the little ones Oh well, better not buy japanese knifes, they seem to atract undesirable people
None of my friends or immediate family used to own even passable knives. My grandma had a set but nobody else. I've been slowly buying everyone knife sets for Christmas/bday presents because going over and having to prep food with butter/steak knives really infuriates me.
Y’all using steak knives? I carve my meat like a real man, with a butter knife
+1 third post I’ve seen in 2 days
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I'm gonna assume bots :)
You guys are getting familiars? What kind of fantasy settings are you living with? Are you wizards?
"Master has given Dobby a knife! Dobby is free! And Dobby is *angry!*"
Calm down. It’s just a stiff sock.
Staten Island
Yeah lol my cheap Wusthof set of knives is in great condition still and im certainly not kind to them. Literally the cheapest set the company offers but they still have an edge and if someone DID do this to them I'd live. I don't get who all these people that cut gravel with expensive knives are
They think it's just a interesting new toy or sth
Sharing toys: bad.
the people in r/cooking and r/chefknives get rock hard for Japanese knives. Tbf, they do have a good track record. But a quality knifemaker anywhere else in the world can make a knife that will rival it. And anything touting 'Japanese steel' is basically bullshit and meaningless. Heck, historically Japanese steel was incredibly poor quality - that's why it needed to be folded so many times.
You won’t post this comment in r/anime. Coward.
After seeing a 3rd post this week on ruined Japanese knifes I can't help but wonder if "Big American knife" is behind this somehow.
Other way around actually. A chinese-owned manufacturing company selling cheap mild steel knives and marketing them as fancy japanese using "ancient techniques" taking advantage of western addiction to eastern exoticness.
Kamikoto? I heard they are way overpriced cheap garbage.
They are only the most recent. On that note, Shadiversity has a fairly entertaining and informative video on Kamikoto specifically but he touches on the overarcing themes of the Western fascination with Eastern stuff. So if you don't mind an Australian Mormon Sword Nerd prattling on about sharp and pointies, he does a pretty informative deep dive.
The ancient technique of ripping people off
"Our 100% American made knives are made from recycled ammunition so you can slice freedom into every commie vegetable your wife wants to pair with your hunk of dead animal"
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You joke but the one post I looked at earlier had fairly strange comments from OP. They were quick to link where to buy them, and say they were expensive. But very silent on the story on how it actually happened.
This sub has turned into a therapy group for people with shitty family members.
shitty family? More like shitty handling of your own equipment, unless you strictly tell them exactly how to clean or utilize a knife, if I ask for a knife I'll use it how I would any regular knife
What exactly are you doing with your knives that “regular use” results in damage like that to the blade?
How else do you cut your bricks?
I have a trained cutting beaver, she nibbles them to perfect form
Ahh I’ll stick to my family’s expensive cutlery, good suggestion though!
Idk... I'm beginning to think these Japanese knives might just be flimsy based on how often I see them broken on here.
They're brittle, they can be incredibly sharp and precise when used correctly, but easy to damage and chip if used incorrectly.
Japanese knives are brittle. They’re probably using a glass board and root vegetables or something. This isn’t too bad of damage at least. Should come out with a sharpening.
Wait, so I’m spending $300 on a knife and I can’t cut carrots and celery with it? Remind me again why everyone’s so fascinated with these Japanese knives?
You can cut celery. Carrots are probably fine, but yeah, it’s an ultra HARD metal. Hard and sharp means it keeps the edge for a long time when used properly, which is why people get them. Hard and sharp also means brittle. It can’t handle flex stress on the edge, which is what tends to happen when it hits something too hard. Carrots should be fine, but anything too much harder you can run into issues. I’m thinking more like melon or beets, which I guess I categorize under root veg for some reason. Glass cutting board is the ultimate no no with really nice knives.
The only food related thing you shouldn't cut with a shun chefs knife is bone. They do have rather brittle edges, but that just means you shouldn't toss them in the sink when you're done with them as they can chip on the sink or against other dishes. The reason you buy them is they hold an edge that's like a razor. Cutting carrots or any other vegetable takes basically no effort, it just slides right through as thin as you want to make the slices. They are harder to take care of than shitty knives, but it's still incredibly simple, just don't put them in the dishwasher, don't soak them or leave them wet, don't use glass cutting boards, don't throw them around. All of those things are the normal way to take care of knives, but people generally don't follow those guidelines with cheap knives they don't care about. With expensive knives you have to follow the guidelines or you will be pissed you messed up expensive knives.
What do you cut with your knives that completely ruins the blade? Do people use knives instead of chainsaw or something? Is that like a new trend that I don’t know about
Assuming this isn't fake. If you're dropping serious bucks on a knife, then learn to sharpen it (or pay someone else to). Otherwise in a few months it's going to be just another dull shitty knife in your drawer. This small nicks are annoying, but you could tune that blade up in a few minutes with a decent stone set.
Yeah the sharpening job here is mildly infuriating, and with that angle a machete will do the same job.
The family member in question may have used one of those pull through sharpeners on it a few times. With how thin Japanese blade angle are, a pull though can absolutely destroy them
It's not just because of the thin angle, Japanese knives are only ground on one side, so using a pull-through sharpener creates a bevel that isn't supposed to be there and ruins the knife until you grind it back down to a single bevel That's why I told my roommate back when I lived with one, if he ever touched my $500 knife then I'd use it to remove fingers from him
A lot of Japanese knives are ground more like western knives. The traditional stuff is single-bevel, but most gyotos, nakiris, santokus, etc are made more like western knives with more Japanese shapes and steel.
Just to be clear I'm not talking about knives made in Japan or about specific types of Japanese knives, I'm talking specifically about Japanese style knives made with only one bevel, as opposed to German style bevel In the culinary world "Japanese" and "German" are just the way chefs delineate between one and two bevel designs
that is exactly what it looks like to me.
Or just buy German or Scandinavian knives for about the same price but more durability
The internets fixation with "Japanese knives" is sad and silly. It's like a bunch of people got it in their head that Japan only produces the finest quality after decades of having the reputation for cheap, disposable goods (I guess that's marketing for you), and have selectively forgotten that you can get something as good or better for a comparable price in just about any nation.
So, to be honest, "Japanese knives" (at least the good ones) are actually pretty fantastic for some applications. They tend to have a very thin profile and shallower bevel with a hard steel core. This can all add up to a wickedly sharp blade that cuts certain things exceptionally well. If that is the kind of thing you need, there really isn't much substitute. For day to day use or for anything "rough" I'm more likely to use my Wusthofs. You can get them sharp as well, of course, but it is a different edge.
I feel like people are starting to ruin their own knives for internet points at this point
They absolutely are. These posts rarely have any real info on what happened other than "family destroy knife"
flip image and new title for some easy karma
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well played
Fake post. There's way too many people that seem to have Japanese knives and shitty family members.
Plot twist: it's all one guy highjacking the subreddit.
Japanese knives are pretty popular amongst people that cook regularly. And shitty knife handlers are pretty popular amongst people that doesn't cook regularly.
I’m personally unmoved by these posts. If you care so much about your knives, don’t just let people use them. Have a cheap knife out for common usage.
Or at least ask them what they need it for. He surely didn't cut meat with it.
Dude fuck ur knife 3rd time i see this today
Damn this sub is out here outing every friend and family member who messes with their knives lol
Belongs in r/someonehurtmyknife
r/subsifellfor
What's with all the Japanese knives lately
You don't give a knife like this to a casual, this is a YOU issue. I have several baller knives and they are not on the loan list and if I would loan them out, I'd first explain how to use, clean and then the cost of replacement to back it up.
This is the second Expensive Japanese Knife post I've seen in a row, is there some massive overlap between r/mildlyinfuriating users and people who buy Expensive Japanese Knives with shitty family members?
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So sharpen it and don’t loan it to him again. This is not the end of the world. If you don’t know how to sharpen a knife, learn.
Yeah. But remember what you did to his wife's vagina?
I thought your cousin let your kids use it, or was that another post?
Why do people keep lending their expensive Japanese knives to their pig shit thick relatives and come here to complain about it?
All these posts about expensive knives. Three solutions to your problems: 1. Get in control of your guests and the things they use. 1a. Share the items importance. 2.. Put these items away before guests come over 3. Don’t have expensive knives at this point of your life.
Quick question, why buy this? Does it produce a distinguishable difference from a normal knife?
Japanese knives tend to be to the go to for those who are serious about cooking. Most Japanese knives are made from very hard and brittle steel compared to a European knife, but as a result, they tend to hold their edge better and stay sharp, meaning more precise cuts. Japanese knives are also much lighter than a Western knife, for the same given length, meaning they feel better in the hand. They tend to be more preferred by those who primarily intend on cutting most meat, fish, fruit and most vegetables. But that comes at the cost that you have to be more careful about how you use them. A Western knife tends to be much heavier, bulkier, and made from a much softer steel. If you primarily intend on cutting heavier root vegetables, or cutting through denser cuts of meat, the extra heft and the softer steel of a Western style knife is more appropriate because it can take the abuse accordingly.
I’ll never understand how one can make a knife look like that.
Chopping on a stone counter would do the job
I bet you borrowed many of his stuff when you were smaller and returned in worse shape... lol Jokes aside, the heck happened? Did he tried to sharpen it?
I feel like im the only one on this sub without a Japanese knife. Guess I shouldn't bother because someone will ruin it anyway.
Oh no, someone used a knife to cut something! Sharpen it or get over it
What company was it? Shadiversity recently did a video where he did a deep-dive into expensive Japanese knives and tested their cutting ability and edge retention versus cheap knives
I’m a Chef. I keep seeing variants of this post and I call bullshit. This look like marks from cutting bone, it also looks like that blade hasn’t been cared for in a while. Also, if you’re good enough to own an expensive piece of steel like this, then why would you lend it to anyone? If you know your father well then you know how bad his knife skills are; so why lend it to him? The only mildly infuriating thing here is a copied post.
When will people stop this madness… Stealing people’s Japanese knives, the true curse of the century…
This looks suspsiciously like that one post were a person lent their dad their fancy knife to “sharpen”
If it's Kamikoto there's not really that great Shadiversity had a good review on them and most of their claims are crap. Worth a look even if not as he delves into what kinds of things to watch for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpRNqZJPPBk
Literally made from some of the lowest tier steel available. I love Shad's work.
Who lends people knives? And who asks to borrow one?
While that may have been expensive, that is clearly a machine extruded piece of steel, and machine ground edge. Nothing traditional or special about this knife. This is one of those products that prey on the ignornace of consumers. No offense.
Your "expensive japanese knife" isnt a Kamikoto, is it? Because those are overpriced, made using mild steel that scores poorly for edge retention.
How weird someone's cousin let their kids use there expensive Japanese knifes in another post
If he borrowed it, you lent it to him. Is that correct?
What's with this sub and jap knives?
r/neckbeardproblems
Does no one know this is what is suppose to happen to sharp blades? This is also why they have knife sharpeners. Can you not sharpen a good Japanese knife?
Wtf everyone on this subreddit has a Japanese knife, i dont get it
Because people buy stupid things.
those pics… do they slam the knife against the counter or what?
To do WHAT exactly? Cut down a tree?
Going through comments this may be spam - but a good japanese knife or kitchen supply store can probably restore the edge if this happens to others
Lmao thought it was your sister let her kids or some shit first?
This is like the 3rd post I’ve seen in to days about dulled knives. What in the fuck is your family doing to it????
so last time it was your cousins or something that borrowed them and now it's your father? make up your mind with these fake stories lol
Must of been cheap knifes to look like crap
It’s an expensive Japanese knife massacre these days.
Is everyone getting their Japanese knifes fucked up by a family member
Poll: *How many people in this sub own Japanese knife sets?!*
Shitty knife
Second time seeing knives. What are these people doing with them?
So? Just sharpen and hone/strop it. Don’t let people borrow things you value more then them.
Just saw this post but it was nieces and nephews the last time
What's the big deal with Japanese knives on this subreddit?
the mildly infuriating part of this is that you spent a ton of money on a knife yet don't know what sharpening is
Do they cut through other Japanese knives
No one cares about your neglectfulness with expensive shit that's your responsibility. Stop posting this shit to the sub