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Cutting cooked meat seems like about the worst possible demonstration they could have come up with because we already have disposable wood cutlery able to easi
by BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
Cutting cooked meat seems like about the worst possible demonstration they could have come up with because we already have disposable wood cutlery able to easily cut meat that you can readily buy by the hundreds at Target/Walmart/Amazon. The standard food demonstration for sharpness is slicing ripe tomatoes, and demonstrating toughness needs an uncooked winter squash.
> "Surprisingly, our wooden knife is actually three times sharper than the typical stainless steel dinner table knife,"
The typical stainless steel dinner table knife is slightly serrated, which means it doesn't need to be sharp to work well. Being sharper than something that doesn't need to be sharp to function properly is a very dumb comparison.
Sharpness also has no relation to durability except possibly in the inverse. A typical steel dinner table knife will keep doing its job for decades and thousands of wash cycles without any maintenance. Meanwhile there's a great youtube channel where a guy makes razor sharp chef's knives out of random fragile materials like jello.
- agumonkey 5y agoJust reminds me that paper moved fast enough can probably already cut meat
- danarmak 5y agoI got a papercut and I'm made out of meat!
- agumonkey 5y agodon't try this at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfkhdKcEiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfkhdKcEiE
- dehrmann 5y agoThat'd make for a hell of a paper cut.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoThat's amazing. I'm impressed by the ingenuity of people making videos like this.
- Razengan 5y agoObligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Made_Out_of_Meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Made_Out_of_Meat
- baremetal 5y agoyou can cut wood with paper. replace the blade on your tablesaw with a bit of paper and try it :)
- Freestyler_3 5y agoThis is why you don't wipe glass(es) with paper cloths, micro scratches will eventually make it look like sanded glass.
- whyenot 5y agoThey also created hardened wooden nails and hammered them into wooden planks. That seems like a better example.
- netcan 5y agoNot an example of the same thing, really. Nails don't need to be that hard. They're typically made from thin mild steel. If it's hard enough to be used as cutlery, demo it like every knife gets demoed. Slice up some tomatoes, chop roots, and see how it holds and edge. If it can still cut 2m slices, it's functional kitchen knife. You can cut a steak with the disposable softwood knives we already have.
- SamBam 5y agoKind of. It took nearly two minutes to drive that skinny main though three skinny boards. A metal brad of the same size would go through that would in 3, maybe 4 whacks. The way they were hitting it looked either like they had never hammered before, or that they were afraid of shattering the nail.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoYeah, honestly, I was super interested when I saw the title and read the article, but when I saw both of the videos (the steak cutting one and the nail one), I thought "Are they trying to use these demos to convince people of the inferiority of the wooden products?" In the steak cutting one, the way one little edge piece is cut off looks like a plastic butterknife could have done just as well. Your description of the nail driving one was spot on - that video was downright embarrassing.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoLook at how the person is holding the hammer makes me suspect they've never used one before, or at least never been shown how to use one properly.
- burnished 5y agoI thought you were being mean or exaggerating or something, because after eight or so whacks I thought they had driven it through. Nope. Very delicately handled.
- a1369209993 5y ago> Meanwhile there's a great youtube channel where a guy makes razor sharp chef's knives out of random fragile materials like jello. Do you have a link? Search isn't producing anything useful for me. (Particularly to the jello video, but I can't find the channel either.)
- amelius 5y agoProbably dried jello, which can be sharp until it touches water.
- magicalhippo 5y agoA dried jello knife that turns into, literally, jello when stabbing someone... let's hope no-one beats me to Hollywood with that.
- bumby 5y agoHmmm...maybe dried jello bullets are next since the whole "ice bullet" didn't work out https://mythresults.com/episode1 https://mythresults.com/episode1
- Kungfuturtle 5y agohttps://youtu.be/Oadf4KNYz-I https://youtu.be/Oadf4KNYz-I
- a1369209993 5y agoThanks! Channel seems to be http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ, FWIW.
- krick 5y agoIf somebody never watched it, I recommend starting with the older videos, though. There isn't any dependency on the chronological order per se, but once finished with "just" making knifes from all kinds of stuff the guy gets way more esoteric over time, and some stuff he does admittedly gets rather hard to follow, since it has little to no commentary. Like instead of just using kitchen salt he'll extract it from sea water first or do something even more obscure.
- joe_guy 5y agoThis article was frustrating because it seemed to not understand the value of why we use what materials we do. I could make a knife from wood now and it would be sharp enough to cut steak. It, just like cheaper steel knives, wouldn't remain sharp as long as it's higher value counterparts. They mention wooden nails but don't mention if they'll fill an important role nails do -- their success isn't only that they're hard enough to nail through wood, but that they can bend. Houses move. The nails have to have that bit of movement too. Yes yes, you've made wood roughly as hard as steel, but steel has more than hardness going for it.
- Cyril_HN 5y agoI have never, ever considered that the use of nails is their ability to bend slightly. Very interesting idea.