I bought mine for cutting lettuce so it doesn’t brown. I didn’t realize how much I was going to like it or I would have bought the set!
Hmmm… tell me more about loving ceramic knives. I love me some new kitchen stuff. Which one do y’all have?
A hearty second on the ceramic knife advice.
I’ll add my seal of approval to ceramic knives. We have some uber sharp metal knives that I’ve cut myself with before and bled like a stuck pig. Ceramics are pretty good for most things.
@ThelmaLou we got some of these
plus I think Aldi had a small paring knife, and we found another small Farberware somewhere. I broke one accidentally—I stuck the blade in something, using it like a screwdriver, and twisted too hard. I’m also noticing some of the are staining now, but we’ve had them 3-4 years so I can’t complain, really.
That’s something I would do. A friend and I once put together three bookcases using butterknives because we didn’t have screwdrivers.
Think of them like the pre-torn designer jeans-- a sign of use and wear that ups their glamor value.
I got mine about 5 years ago on Amazon. It was cheap enough that I didn’t dither about ordering it. I just looked at mine and don’t see any stains, but I probably wouldn’t care a whole lot. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it doesn’t have the weight of a metal knife and I’m a “rocker” which depends more on knife weight than chopping.
If you are a “chopper” you would probably like the lighter weight better.
BTW, lettuce doesn’t brown when cut with ceramic knives like it does with metal knives.
Ceramic knives have a reputation for breaking at the tiniest insult. I’ve been lucky enough to have had one for the last 12-14 years but I did break a bit of the tip off early on. It wouldn’t be surprising if they were better now. My steel Shun is far superior, though.
I just tried this for the first time, but not for the car. On the recommendation by a friend who runs a glass shop, I used it on our glass shower doors. And it’s the shit there too.
Had to first clean the glass with CLR a couple if times to clean off any scale, and the applied two coats of Rain-X. So far, the glass has stayed much cleaner with minimal water spotting. Hell, I may try it on the car next.
Edit: if you try this, make sure you have good ventilation when applying the Rain-X. No smell once it’s dry, but pretty annoying fumes when you are putting it on.
Only place I have seen ceramic knives in Canada (having spend zero time looking) is at the dollar store. Very cheap. Very good at cutting vegetables. Surprised at how good it was.
About 10 years ago at a yard sale, I bought a set of four kookies with the Miller High Life logo printed on them. (I claimed them off waivers, in baseball parlance.) I didn’t think I’d have much use for them, but then I started using them all the time on train rides home from work with my friends. (You were allowed to drink beer on this train system.) They kept our bottles & cans cold on hot summer days, and they were a great conversation piece!
I still have them, but I don’t use them nearly as much anymore since I started working from home.
I thought this was found to be a myth/marketing scheme after those green plastic lettuce slicers started coming out. Though I do want to try a ceramic knife. But I’d have to get rid of one of my current lineup, or get a 2nd knife magnet bar and a bigger kitchen.
A second magnetic bar won’t do you much good with a ceramic knife.
It does when justifying why a bigger kitchen is required.
@needscoffee plastic knives work as well. I used them in the past, but they tend to need hand washing and I want things in the dishwasher because I feel that’s more sanitary.
Haha! No, for my older knives. Although I’d probably try sticking the ceramic one up before face-planting.
Huh, I’ve never heard them called “kookies” before.
^^ They’re “koozies”, though autocorrect may have kicked in, but you probably knew that.
Auto-correct, how so? “kookies” isn’t a word, either.
Perhaps as they were typing kooz, it was autocorrected to kook?
^^ Yes, it’s not hard to figure out.
Oh no! Someone made a typo on the internetz!