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Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.
When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?
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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges
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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:19PM (15 children)
Yeah, precisely (and concur on the non-pointy knives for cooking - I dropped one of mine and knocked the point off, now it just gets used for cutting cake).
Except, that if you don't have a pointy knife you will simply find a way to do what you want with a non-pointy one.
After all, machetes (often/usually) don't have points and no one ever died from being slashed with one of those, did they?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:34PM (10 children)
Machetes are really bad at peeling tomatoes, though.
I like knives with a point.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:47PM (1 child)
Teeth are really good at eating tomato skin. Just sayin'.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:55PM
Don't tell me how to cook!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DrkShadow on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:35PM (3 children)
Use a serrated / scalloped knife to cut tomatoes. The flat edge of a knife just squishes them. Seriously, get away from it.
My "vegetable" knife was in the dishwasher when I was cooking a burger -- needed a tomato slice on the quick. Used the finely serrated knife, have never looked back. No need to "poke" it before I can start cutting. No shredded mess as you might expect, either.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Sunday January 19 2020, @11:57PM (2 children)
You need to sharpen your knife, assuming you meant sharp edge instead of flat edge. Yeah, serrated knives have their uses. But my chefs knife can easily slice and dice tomatos.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @04:18AM (1 child)
This thread is about slicing and dicing humans, which begs the question, should the meat be marinated overnight in a sweet and sour sauce? Can the cat eat the bones without having to worry about splinters?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @12:57PM
Actually, it *raises* the question. Begging the question is something different.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/53/Begging-the-Question
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday January 20 2020, @02:15AM (3 children)
Not bad for carving pumpkins, watermelons, or bodies, though.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43AM (2 children)
Have you tried a chainsaw? Environment considerations aside**, they work so much better for carving, especially in the latter case.
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** the environmental impact is going down too lately. Look mate, Bunnings carry a decent range of cordless chainsaws [bunnings.com.au], so if you have solar panels on your home (you have, haven't you?), carving becomes a carbon neutral operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Monday January 20 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)
Really depends on your prefernce for speed over tidiness. This is why every trade needs apprentices- someone to clean up and clean the tools.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @03:19AM
With the note that both the machete and the chainsaw will need cleaning anyway, I concede the point that the clean use of a chainsaw requires higher level of mastery and, consequently, a longer practice to the artistry levels able top arrest the escalation of the mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @02:41AM
After all, machetes (often/usually) don't have points and no one ever died from being slashed with one of those, did they?
Ever been to Rwanda?
And yes they do have points
(Score: 2) by qzm on Monday January 20 2020, @11:29AM
I can only assume you cook with only one knife? how odd.
What they seem to have done is reinvented the japanese Nakiri or Usuba, flat ended knives for vegetable cutting.
The Japanese (and my apologies to the rest of asia, I know you have these also) style of vegetable cutting is to 'chop' not 'rock'.
These quite possible predate Christ, so... not the newest idea ever.
Of course this is nothing but a cheap marketing ploy, but hey.
Also, I would rather be attacked by someone with a small stabbing knife than with a good usuba, because they would open you up rather nastily.. stabbing is not always the mode damaging attack.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 20 2020, @01:23PM
You can put a point on a knife, easily enough. Old man showed me a long time ago. Sit down on a nice concrete sidewalk, parking lot, whatever. Start sweeping that knive back and forth, like you're trying to peel the top off the concrete. It took him about fifteen minutes to put a new point on a nice buck knife with the tip broken off. Another fifteen minutes with his whetstone, and the knife was like new, just a little shorter than new.
(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Monday January 20 2020, @10:50PM
Could you have tried sharpening the end to a point?
Bit-choco-coin anyone?