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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(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.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(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