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Were you cutting tomatoes with a serrated knife? If not, you should be - they do a far better job.
by petepete 1y ago
Were you cutting tomatoes with a serrated knife? If not, you should be - they do a far better job.
- dlcarrier 1y agoI cut through tomatoes with my pairing knife all the time, with no resistance, and it has a straight blade.
- petepete 1y agoYeah if it's sharp enough it'll be fine. All tomato knives are serrated though, they glide through allowing thin, delicate slices. https://sabre-paris.co.uk/collections/tomato-knife https://sabre-paris.co.uk/collections/tomato-knife
- dlcarrier 1y agoI've never seen a knife like that where I live, in California. The only small serrated knifes people here have are stake knives and on rare occasions sausage knives. It's strange how two relatively similar cultures can have such oddball differences. This is while living in California's Central Valley, where a third of the world's tomatoes are grown, so it's not like tomatoes aren't a major part of the culture here. I wonder if it's because most of California's settlement was within the last 200 years, with modern metallurgy making it common for knifes to hold their edge long enough to easily cut tomatoes with only occasional sharpening, negating the need for a special knife just for tomatoes. Nationwide advertisements for knives show people using straight-bladed knives for cutting cucumbers and tomatoes, despite stated stake knives being extremely common, so tomato knives are likely rare throughout the country, not that much of the country is any older than California.
- Aardwolf 1y agoCan one even sharpen a serrated knife without destroying the teeth? Google search autocomplete shows I'm not the only one wondering that
- petepete 1y agoI guess it depends on the style of serrated edge. But if you look at commercial tomato knives you'll see they're all serrated.
- account42 1y agoIs that just because they not expected to be sharpened though?
- _9ptr 1y agoI don't think so, not at home.
- amluto 1y agoIt’s kind of tedious, but you can do it with a tool like the DMT Diafold Serrated Knife Sharpener. On most serrated knives, you will also want to lightly sharped/deburr the other face at an extremely shallow angle using a whetstone that either you don’t care about too much or that is extremely resistant to scratching (e.g. a DMT-style flat stone). If you do that part on something like a traditional Japanese stone, you will make a mess.
- xxs 1y agoYou cant realistically sharpen serrated knives. Having a sharp straight edge knife is quite easy
- bccdee 1y agoYou can't sharpen a serrated knife, though. When it becomes irritating to cut tomatoes with my straight knife, I know it's time to sharpen it—that's how I avoid getting used to a dull knife.