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A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.
Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.
[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says
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(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @03:33PM (3 children)
I'll point out that a chef's knife is sometimes a two-handed tool. It's not exactly my style, but I've watched people put both hands on the back of the knife, and rock it. I prefer to lift the knife up onto it's point, and rock it one-handed, but those two handed people can mince stuff surprisingly small.
Point is, the chef's knife really IS a multi-purpose tool, and different people use it in different ways.
For that matter, taking the point off of the chef's knife would ruin my own mincing/rocking motion. I've just lost the two or three inches of the knife that gives the most leverage in the rocking motion. Thanks a lot!
You can have my pointy knives when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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(Score: 2) by tfried on Friday June 01 2018, @06:34PM
So what you're saying is the pointed tip does not really serve an important purpose in itself, but is a side-effect of the curvature near the end of the blade?
Well, that, at least, makes sense to me. A santoku knife does have less curvature, there, and therefore can handle less height in a rocking motion. I can understand that people may have different preferences in that respect.
(But should I ever feel the need to pry your pointy knives from your cold, dead hands, I'll be using my santoku for that purpose ;-)
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday June 01 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)
You want to rock with control? Get a mezzaluna or an ulu. And there's no need to a have a pointy chef's knife just to make it rock for chopping.
(Note -- as I said below, there are lots of uses for long knives with points. Chopping with a rocking motion isn't really one that requires one.)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @11:29PM
There's only one way to rock.
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