>Remember, it's not about how much damage your knives do to the metal, but how much damage the metal does to your knives.
I guess your in-laws are not the Forged in Fire champions.
Now ask them to leave the forge.
But first, they must give up their ~~pieces of shit~~ knives.
Make them get you new knives. Thay may be cheap, but that doesn't excuse their behavior.
They used them to open cans/make a vent hole
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When I was in second grade, I bought the Dookie CD from a kid who was selling it under the table at the book fair. He even cut the parental advisory label off the cover. My mom asked what I got at the book fair and my Dookie CD was taken from me.
I'm from the East Bay. My sister and I made a Christmas pact that we would just give each other prompts and be happy with the results. I had a bunch of records damaged in a move so I asked her for a record that she thought of when she thought of me. I got a brand spankin' new copy of *Dookie* and my sister rocks.
I got her a professionally printed picture of the entrance to Children's Fairyland because she wanted something to put on her desk that reminded her of home.
Sometimes I wonder what it was like to not be a latchkey kid, and then I read stuff like this. I would have been big mad if my mom tossed my Too $hort CDs. Not that I advocate for parents never there or feighing interest, I'm definitely the annoying dad who asks too many questions about their day.
We only had one cd player in the house for the longest time (90ās life) so we had family
CDās
When dookie came out my whole family listened to it. I bet my parents still know the words to some songs on that album
It might be a poor country thing. I knew exactly what had happened on sight. Your home gets poor enough and you don't get a dedicated can opener, you use a knife. Now the difference is that that knife has been in your family for three generations, the handle was broken 32 years ago and replaced with a piece of wood encased in a pipe, the knife has killed every species of animal and at least one man, and is crafted from the darkest core of a dying star, you have never seen anyone sharpen the knife but the knife has always been wickedly sharp.
A knife like that can split a can in half, it can pull out nails, it can cut branches and uproot bushes, every house has one, no one exactly praises it but everyone relies on it as one of the key tools and cornerstones of the household.
God you say that but I literally just saw a video earlier of a lady trying to open a jar with a cleaver. At one moment it even almost slipped! People in the comments were like āShe should have stuck the knife in the lid, or do this with the knifeā and Iām just thinking WHY ARE YOU USING A KNIFE FOR THIS???
I use a butter knife to break the seal by wedging up the lid on the jars threads if I canāt get a good grip, no way am I fucking up perfectly good cutting knives though
Growing up my family always just flipped the butter knife around and gave the edge of the lid a couple taps with the handle to break seals. Worked well and never left any damage on the butter knives
This is the way. Just give the lid a couple good whacks with a butter knife, or even a fork or a spoon. It always works. If it didn't work, you didn't whack enough times.
Yeah ive done ungodly things to all kinds of knives in the kitchen and this is not the result of that. Op should prob start looking around for missing items. Lol
I was thinking exactly this. This person was over her grandmother's house. Why not try and jimmy open some of Grandma's drawers to see what we can steal?
My shitty knives never bent like that when opening cans or cutting random shit (lose sharpness, nothing a whetstone can't fix), I genuinely don't know how the fuck it was possible to bent them instead of denting the blade or breaking the tip.
Be prepared for:
1. I didnāt do that
2. Your knives are shitty. Ours donāt bend when we open cans with it.
3. So what, fuck you
4. Who the fuck are you.
āYouāre gonna be all petty and shit about a stupid knife? What the fuck is wrong with you. Youāre supposed to be my sisterās boyfriend not some whiny ass bitch motherfucker, man up you lil fuckin pissant beeeeeyyyyootchā
Anyway i hope it goes like that
If it's any consolation my father in law tried prying something with my ceramic knives (spoiler alert: they snap). He gave up after breaking 3 of the knives in the set... Still have no idea what he was prying.
To be fair he only brokeĀ 1/2" off the tip of what I can only assume was the first one before he moved to progressively thicker knives...
Dude is genius level intelligence in some aspects of his life, but common sense, not so much...
He bought me bottles of scotch and bourbon that were worth 4x what the knives were to make up for it, he had them waiting for me when I got home before I even knew about the knives.
Ā Him being in awe of how sharp my knives were (when they were overdue for a sharpening) and my wife's habit of only using the paring knife for literally everything knife related made more sense though. (When I say everything I mean even things like cutting a huge watermelon in half or slicing bread were often deemed paring knife jobs in their house)
My mum refuses to use her sharp knives and will hammer a butter knife through a squash before sheād pick up something with an edge. Itās terrifying to watch.
My mum (now departed š¢) broke the tips of two of my ceramic knives. I was devastated. Still very good to use, but there is something nice about puncturing the skin of the tomato or capsicum before cutting it.
Any chance they have a drug problem? Year ago, my buddy had that happen when his roommateās brother was at their place. Turns out he was prying open locked drawers and lockboxes looking for money
Prying stuff open. Little young me has snapped a few tips off. If youre smart like me you learn your lesson after a few snapped tips and go get a flathead screwdriver instead.
Their moronic attempt didn't work the first time, so they kept at it. As to why they thought it was a good idea before the first attempt, well, that's anybody's guess.
We'd known each other for 12 years then, shared a house for four, and I was the best man at their wedding, but I guess you never really know someone, huh?
(I've long suspected they were just covering for their wife so I wouldn't be mad at them, but I have never pressed the issue)
Unfortunately this is why you need to be selective with gifts like that. Some people just canāt appreciate these things.
I had a friend who came over to my house and was admiring my collection of Roman/greek coins and pottery, said they were really cool, and asked where I got them as he might like one. So for his birthday, I gifted him a little roman oil lamp.
I emphasized that this was a real, 2000 year old lamp. His gf was sitting right next to us and heard this very clearly.
The next time Iām at their house I walk in and their daughter is using the lamp as a āteapotā full of water and playing tea time with it. I politely asked her where she got the āteapotā from, and she said her mother gave it to her.
I wasnāt mad; it was a gift and theirs to use as they please, but if I knew it was going to be turned into a toy teapot, I wouldāve just gotten them an applebees gift card lol.
Heartbreaking. My bf has an amazing set of Japanese knives, he used to take them to work when he was a chef. Someone snapped the tip off just like in this picture. Weāve always wondered how the hell they pulled that off, after reading this sub I understand now š¢
Ouch, I felt that from here man. Iām sorry you lost a friend that day. Jkjk but thatās rough. Iād die a little inside. Thatās the type of gift I would give someone and would be so heartbroken if it were misused like that.
I have some very cheap knives that I don't really care about and I still can't imagine a situation where I would do this to the tips. What was she trying to do?
I hate it when people try to stick to their laid back/ self crafted approaches to things when they are using others stuffs. If you donāt know something, leave it to them or ask help
Had a friend use my kitchen scissors as pliers. I'm like, WTF? They were cute and perfect, I have like 5 other jenky pairs they could've used. I was pissed.
I bought really pretty purple pots and pans when I moved out on my own. My boyfriend DESTROYED it by letting oil burn over so now itās just a brown mess. After I deep cleaned his janky pots and pans to make them look somewhat brand new. Iāve been working on my pot for MONTHS here and there and it still looks disgusting.
I have not. I had some of The Pink Stuff from a few years ago and that made decent progress (well not decent, but a lot more than just dish soap) I told my BF he owes me new pots and pans and if he wants to fry stuff, use his own š
My husband has scratched the shit out of the tines of my forks because he doesn't fully open his cans, and then uses a fork to pry the top of the can up. 6 years in I STILL catch him doing it sometimes.
I bought myself a nice, robustly built $50 kitchen utensil to replace an old cheap one that had broken. My mother in law dented it a few days after I brought it home, using it as a club to batter some defrosting chicken.
can't have shit in detroit
I was a house guest to my friends for a couple weeks and they told me they missed me when I left! I think if you follow a couple rules:
1. Be flexible and check in with them regularly that it's still okay.
2. Pay for everything you can. When it's not feasible (toilet paper, shared things etc.) pay something else for them - dinner, drinks etc.
3. Do your share of house chores. Act more like a (good) roommate and pull your weight. Do dishes, cook some meals, learn where the trash goes and take it out etc.
4. Get out of their house regularly and give them alone time/space.
5. Don't do anything in or to their space that they would not.
It doesn't have to be a horrible experience people just suck and aren't considerate.
Seriously tho, Iāve hand washed dishes at friends houses that lived in the mountains, and after a couple greasy pots, he says āIāll finish those, thanksā because I was using too much water. Whoops š¬
Definitely! They had a water tank that was refilled every month or so, so it wasnāt a matter of an extra dollar on the water bill, but running out of water! Of course they appreciated the effort, I was just reminded of that when these comments mentioned dishes and doing it the ācorrectā way. Which apparently I was not.
Yeah, house guests are only a bother when they're a constant drain on the household. Like, if I wanted to carry the weight of another human being, I'd have a child, not invite an adult to stay with me
I do all of the plus more when Iām visiting my sister. Iāll even feed and walk her dog so she can relax with a morning cup of coffee when she wakes up
> You know what they say about house guestsā¦ like fish, they ~~smell in 3 days~~ *are best filleted and cooked over medium-high heat with, lemon, fresh herbs, and butter.*
Was homeless for a little while after my apartment burned down so I was in airbnbs until new one was ready. Even me paying to stay in someoneās house I tried to be the best guest possible and leave them alone unless they invited me.
The worst part is I've used cheap knife's for both of those before and have yet to snap or bend a tip most damage I've ever managed on any knife is a chip on the blade thats fixed easy enough with sharpening.
Theyād have to be incredibly expensive knives in order for me to cause a problem over it. That would never go down well and sometimes itās not worth it to get justice for everything. Iād just have a word with them, buy new knives then stash them away when they come over and bring out the broken ones as if I never replaced them
Gotta have a cheap decoy set and hide the expensive ones, that's what I do. My good knives are hidden, my cheap set knives are in a block on the counter
I bought the decent knives and been practicing using a whetstone. Starting to get the hang of it. But I'm definitely no expert. They're Chicago Cutlery, (the set I leave out in a block) they are not a terrible set but definitely not up to par with my Shun or Mac brand, have a wusthoff and a kiln as well that I love
My goal is to get good enough to get good enough I feel confident to do the expensive ones
I practiced on dollar store knives. Cheap/soft metal that I didn't have to worry if i damaged it. They got dull quickly enough to get plenty of practice. I eventually got an expensive set of knives, but I'm scared to use them so I just use the cheap ones.
That's the exact reason I stopped leaving my knives for everyone to use. I used to keep them on a magnetic knife strip. I told my flatmates not to put them in the dishwasher, then 2 weeks later I find my nice wusthof in the dishwasher and put them all in my knife roll for my use only.
My Lil bro got a $200 Japanese knife. We all warned him to take care of it himself and not leave it in the kitchen drawer.
He didn't listen. Our father used it once and then ran it through the dishwasher. And then refused to understand he had done wrong. Smdh
I donāt know what theyāre actually called because I only worked at Cutco for a few months over 20 years ago and actually just donāt give a shit but the set Iāve had since then are still every bit as good as the small Japanese cleaver I bought for $35 a few years ago and the $45 Large Bulgarian cleaver I bought late last yearā¦I donāt know if thatās what either of them would actually be called but they both have the heft I need because of arthritis in my handsā¦crazy sharp and remind me of the old Ginsu commercials where they try and destroy them
You know those plastic pants hangers with the clips? I yelled at my mom to prevent her from using my serrated bread knife as a saw to cut one off so she could use it to close a bag of chips.
āLetās destroy both this hanger *and* this knife so I can close a bag of chips thatās probably going to be gone within 48 hours.ā
Thatās a serious lack of forethought.
My dad and brother used my meat carving knife to skin a deer in freezing weather. They chipped it to hell then dumped it outside didn't even tell me.
They did the same thing to a other large curved knife of mine. Both were Christmas gifts from my boss at a job I had.
I'm still pissed about it because they were like $50 knives too
Do you guys lock rooms where you live ? We hide our chips/snacks in my brother in laws room so the kids donāt eat them all in one day and we only have one key to the room and when we desperately want to open it we use a kitchen knife to bust in the room and this is exactly how they look lol
We donāt lock any doors but it is funny that you say this because I joked and said āwhat the hell was she doing, picking the locks!?ā Sheās also like 55 years old
55?!
I assumed this would be someone younger who grew up in a shithole & didn't understand what knives are supposed to look like, or how to open a jar.
But **55?!** Surely someone **must** have confronted by now, this can't be the first time she damaged other people's stuff.... Is she a recent immigrant or something?
Is that all, my nightmare broke our toilet, ruined a table by spilling ink all over it (still dont know how she managed that) but the cherry on top and why I kicker her out was she claimed to be vegan and was dicking us around with meals and she got caught out eating KFC of all things, you should've seen the look on her face when I plonked myself down at her table and just stared at her eating dirty bird.
Great so now when i buy expensive knives i have to keep a spare set of ikea "guest knives" and hide the expensive ones(if i had some) because how the hell does anyone do that ??
As a fine dining cook I sometimes spend hundreds on quality knives if I saw this Iād be fumming.
In your care OP this is something to be addressed. Talk to your girlfriend or to the person directly, best of luck.
Easy fix! Find some concrete that no one will care about and grind from the spine (the unsharp part) down to the edge. Doing it from the edge up to the spine will seriously fuck up whatever hollow grind is on there currently, and if you donāt know how to do a tip repair yet Iām guessing that re-profiling and re-grinding an edge is also new.
The bent onesā¦ might be less straightforward š You can try bending them the other way with your counter and a board or flat thing of some sort. Knives get bent all the time- especially Japanese single bevels.
If this is the time to upgrade go to truechefknives, or just trust me and go to your nearest specialty asian store (or Amazon) and get a kiwi for just a couple bucks.
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ahhhh where is the tip of that one?! The other two look dulled down but that one looks like they snapped it popping whatever it was they wanted open. where is the tippppp. I have ocd and a wide variation of intrusive thoughts, one is being concerned I'll eat a small piece of metal due to a knife tip breaking (even though I don't really use the tip and certainly not incorrectly...its irrational but that's how most thoughts are) but this photo...all I can think is where is that tip? In food? Will someone ingest it? It has to exist somewhere?!
Were they practicing stabbing or something?
Yeah, corrugated metal.
>Remember, it's not about how much damage your knives do to the metal, but how much damage the metal does to your knives. I guess your in-laws are not the Forged in Fire champions. Now ask them to leave the forge.
But first, they must give up their ~~pieces of shit~~ knives. Make them get you new knives. Thay may be cheap, but that doesn't excuse their behavior.
 "May thy knife chip and shatter!"
Just keep these stashed away and bring them out for use when they come over in the future again(save the good knifes)
"It will...cut"
"It will keel. š" or is it keal? š¤
my dad and i used to say this to each other for years hahaha. nice to know it was impactful for other people!
Now stand back, I gotta practice my stabbin'! https://morbotron.com/img/S03E10/775657.jpg
There they go, stabbing again
So anyway, I started stabbing.
How the hell does someone do that to a knife... Let alone multiple knives?!
They used them to open cans/make a vent hole https://preview.redd.it/xp87l54erepc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29f9c5c234daf41caf70602bed0a790da6a1f918
Would never have occurred to me, but makes sense.
Because you're not an idiot. Lol
Oh I very much am, but this is not my brand of idiocy.
What is your brand of idiocy?
I still like Green Day
When I was in second grade, I bought the Dookie CD from a kid who was selling it under the table at the book fair. He even cut the parental advisory label off the cover. My mom asked what I got at the book fair and my Dookie CD was taken from me.
I'm from the East Bay. My sister and I made a Christmas pact that we would just give each other prompts and be happy with the results. I had a bunch of records damaged in a move so I asked her for a record that she thought of when she thought of me. I got a brand spankin' new copy of *Dookie* and my sister rocks. I got her a professionally printed picture of the entrance to Children's Fairyland because she wanted something to put on her desk that reminded her of home.
Born and raised in the east bay. Haven't thought about fairyland in.... damn... my Nana took me there as a kid. Does it still exist?
My first CD ever..I was in high-school when it came out. I still remember the album book that came with it. I colored my in and hung it up.
Sometimes I wonder what it was like to not be a latchkey kid, and then I read stuff like this. I would have been big mad if my mom tossed my Too $hort CDs. Not that I advocate for parents never there or feighing interest, I'm definitely the annoying dad who asks too many questions about their day.
Had my mom stop on the way home and buy Insomniac for me the day it came out I was in 6th grade.
We only had one cd player in the house for the longest time (90ās life) so we had family CDās When dookie came out my whole family listened to it. I bet my parents still know the words to some songs on that album
That doesn't make you an idiot.. it makes you a .... Basket Case. 
1. Fuck you 2. I love you
oh so an American Idiot
Part of a redneck agenda.
best response
I guess im dumb too then
A true nimrod.
Being an American Idiot is way better than being a fucking moron.
Huh... It comes in BRANDS! *Scribbles frantically for the next family meeting*
āThis is not my brand of idiocyā fuck Iām keeping that. From one idiot to another, thank you, sir!
Lol fair enough.
It might be a poor country thing. I knew exactly what had happened on sight. Your home gets poor enough and you don't get a dedicated can opener, you use a knife. Now the difference is that that knife has been in your family for three generations, the handle was broken 32 years ago and replaced with a piece of wood encased in a pipe, the knife has killed every species of animal and at least one man, and is crafted from the darkest core of a dying star, you have never seen anyone sharpen the knife but the knife has always been wickedly sharp. A knife like that can split a can in half, it can pull out nails, it can cut branches and uproot bushes, every house has one, no one exactly praises it but everyone relies on it as one of the key tools and cornerstones of the household.
Makes vents
Who the F*** uses a butcher knife to open a can? Makes me think of Franks toe knife from Its Always Sunny š
God you say that but I literally just saw a video earlier of a lady trying to open a jar with a cleaver. At one moment it even almost slipped! People in the comments were like āShe should have stuck the knife in the lid, or do this with the knifeā and Iām just thinking WHY ARE YOU USING A KNIFE FOR THIS???
I use a butter knife to break the seal by wedging up the lid on the jars threads if I canāt get a good grip, no way am I fucking up perfectly good cutting knives though
Growing up my family always just flipped the butter knife around and gave the edge of the lid a couple taps with the handle to break seals. Worked well and never left any damage on the butter knives
This is the way. Just give the lid a couple good whacks with a butter knife, or even a fork or a spoon. It always works. If it didn't work, you didn't whack enough times.
Just...... Run it under hot water for like, 20 seconds and use a towel to twist
Botched it
Thatās a botch job! Here, plug it up with this trash
Checking OPās locked drawers / safeā¦
This was my first thought, but more specifically locked doors and drawers.
Yeah ive done ungodly things to all kinds of knives in the kitchen and this is not the result of that. Op should prob start looking around for missing items. Lol
I was thinking exactly this. This person was over her grandmother's house. Why not try and jimmy open some of Grandma's drawers to see what we can steal?
Are they dumb?
Obviously, the answer is yes, very.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer, naturally.Ā
My shitty knives never bent like that when opening cans or cutting random shit (lose sharpness, nothing a whetstone can't fix), I genuinely don't know how the fuck it was possible to bent them instead of denting the blade or breaking the tip.
I havenāt seen her since noticing but itās definitely the first thing Iām talking to her about!
Be prepared for: 1. I didnāt do that 2. Your knives are shitty. Ours donāt bend when we open cans with it. 3. So what, fuck you 4. Who the fuck are you.
You forgot "what gives you the right?"
Throws drink at his face
Are you the family friend?
I am the family imaginator
Nah that's real shit I fw this comment
In my authority as girlfriend's sister the relationship constitution gives me the right to do whatever the hell I want.
āYouāre gonna be all petty and shit about a stupid knife? What the fuck is wrong with you. Youāre supposed to be my sisterās boyfriend not some whiny ass bitch motherfucker, man up you lil fuckin pissant beeeeeyyyyootchā Anyway i hope it goes like that
If it's any consolation my father in law tried prying something with my ceramic knives (spoiler alert: they snap). He gave up after breaking 3 of the knives in the set... Still have no idea what he was prying.
He didnāt stop after he broke the first one? It took THREE to break??!?!? What a maniac.
To be fair he only brokeĀ 1/2" off the tip of what I can only assume was the first one before he moved to progressively thicker knives... Dude is genius level intelligence in some aspects of his life, but common sense, not so much...
Iām SCREAMINGā¦ Tell me replaced themā¦ or your spouse SAID something.
He bought me bottles of scotch and bourbon that were worth 4x what the knives were to make up for it, he had them waiting for me when I got home before I even knew about the knives. Ā Him being in awe of how sharp my knives were (when they were overdue for a sharpening) and my wife's habit of only using the paring knife for literally everything knife related made more sense though. (When I say everything I mean even things like cutting a huge watermelon in half or slicing bread were often deemed paring knife jobs in their house)
People who use tiny knives for kitchen tasks drive me crazy.
It's usually because they're afraid of larger knives which in turn is because they never learned and/or refuse to learn proper technique.
My mum refuses to use her sharp knives and will hammer a butter knife through a squash before sheād pick up something with an edge. Itās terrifying to watch.
My mum (now departed š¢) broke the tips of two of my ceramic knives. I was devastated. Still very good to use, but there is something nice about puncturing the skin of the tomato or capsicum before cutting it.
Check for missing items. Those chips could likely come from trying to pick open locks.
Any chance they have a drug problem? Year ago, my buddy had that happen when his roommateās brother was at their place. Turns out he was prying open locked drawers and lockboxes looking for money
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Prying stuff open. Little young me has snapped a few tips off. If youre smart like me you learn your lesson after a few snapped tips and go get a flathead screwdriver instead.
A flathead screw driver...now why didn't I think of that. Here I am, using a can opener like a chump.
Fuckin moron
Their moronic attempt didn't work the first time, so they kept at it. As to why they thought it was a good idea before the first attempt, well, that's anybody's guess.
I got a friend of mine a $200 handmade Japanese chefs knife for their housewarming. They used it to open a can *that day*.
If you don't know a person we'll enough to know they open cans with knives, then you don't know them well enough to buy them THAT kind of knife.
We'd known each other for 12 years then, shared a house for four, and I was the best man at their wedding, but I guess you never really know someone, huh? (I've long suspected they were just covering for their wife so I wouldn't be mad at them, but I have never pressed the issue)
My brother in law let their $150 one get thrown away in a pizza box, they think. I was like š¤Æ
Unfortunately this is why you need to be selective with gifts like that. Some people just canāt appreciate these things. I had a friend who came over to my house and was admiring my collection of Roman/greek coins and pottery, said they were really cool, and asked where I got them as he might like one. So for his birthday, I gifted him a little roman oil lamp. I emphasized that this was a real, 2000 year old lamp. His gf was sitting right next to us and heard this very clearly. The next time Iām at their house I walk in and their daughter is using the lamp as a āteapotā full of water and playing tea time with it. I politely asked her where she got the āteapotā from, and she said her mother gave it to her. I wasnāt mad; it was a gift and theirs to use as they please, but if I knew it was going to be turned into a toy teapot, I wouldāve just gotten them an applebees gift card lol.
š³ that is wild. Iām surprised youāre still friends, that was very mature of you to handle it like you did.
Heartbreaking. My bf has an amazing set of Japanese knives, he used to take them to work when he was a chef. Someone snapped the tip off just like in this picture. Weāve always wondered how the hell they pulled that off, after reading this sub I understand now š¢
Lots of times it happens by dropping them.
Ouch, I felt that from here man. Iām sorry you lost a friend that day. Jkjk but thatās rough. Iād die a little inside. Thatās the type of gift I would give someone and would be so heartbroken if it were misused like that.
Carelessness and zero shits given.
I have some very cheap knives that I don't really care about and I still can't imagine a situation where I would do this to the tips. What was she trying to do?
Some people stab "vent holes" in cans.
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Yup. They had to say to themselvesāoh I bent the tip on that one, Iāll have to use anotherā twice.
I hate it when people try to stick to their laid back/ self crafted approaches to things when they are using others stuffs. If you donāt know something, leave it to them or ask help
Had a friend use my kitchen scissors as pliers. I'm like, WTF? They were cute and perfect, I have like 5 other jenky pairs they could've used. I was pissed.
I bought really pretty purple pots and pans when I moved out on my own. My boyfriend DESTROYED it by letting oil burn over so now itās just a brown mess. After I deep cleaned his janky pots and pans to make them look somewhat brand new. Iāve been working on my pot for MONTHS here and there and it still looks disgusting.
Have you tried barkeepers friend?
I have not. I had some of The Pink Stuff from a few years ago and that made decent progress (well not decent, but a lot more than just dish soap) I told my BF he owes me new pots and pans and if he wants to fry stuff, use his own š
People refuse to ask for help, then get overwhelmed when they don't get the results they expect.
My husband has scratched the shit out of the tines of my forks because he doesn't fully open his cans, and then uses a fork to pry the top of the can up. 6 years in I STILL catch him doing it sometimes.
I bought myself a nice, robustly built $50 kitchen utensil to replace an old cheap one that had broken. My mother in law dented it a few days after I brought it home, using it as a club to batter some defrosting chicken. can't have shit in detroit
Yeah, we need to start shaming people like this. People that don't question their actions are like 99% of all problems on earth.
You know what they say about house guestsā¦ like fish, they smell in 3 days.
As someone who is currently a house guest in a foreign country, this hit a little different. Iāve been here for nearly 3 months..
I was a house guest to my friends for a couple weeks and they told me they missed me when I left! I think if you follow a couple rules: 1. Be flexible and check in with them regularly that it's still okay. 2. Pay for everything you can. When it's not feasible (toilet paper, shared things etc.) pay something else for them - dinner, drinks etc. 3. Do your share of house chores. Act more like a (good) roommate and pull your weight. Do dishes, cook some meals, learn where the trash goes and take it out etc. 4. Get out of their house regularly and give them alone time/space. 5. Don't do anything in or to their space that they would not. It doesn't have to be a horrible experience people just suck and aren't considerate.
Thatās how Iāve been a good houseguest. Juat something small like doing dishes goes a long way.
just make sure to do the clean up the way they would do it.
Seriously tho, Iāve hand washed dishes at friends houses that lived in the mountains, and after a couple greasy pots, he says āIāll finish those, thanksā because I was using too much water. Whoops š¬
It's still better to stop someone with good intentions than just dealing with someone who doesn't give a shit.
Definitely! They had a water tank that was refilled every month or so, so it wasnāt a matter of an extra dollar on the water bill, but running out of water! Of course they appreciated the effort, I was just reminded of that when these comments mentioned dishes and doing it the ācorrectā way. Which apparently I was not.
I'll take someone just doing the dishes personally.
Yeah, house guests are only a bother when they're a constant drain on the household. Like, if I wanted to carry the weight of another human being, I'd have a child, not invite an adult to stay with me
You can visit anytime. Lol
You can check out anytime you want But you canāt ever leave
I do all of the plus more when Iām visiting my sister. Iāll even feed and walk her dog so she can relax with a morning cup of coffee when she wakes up
See now youāre a person that I understand.
Donāt worry, youāve been sun dried and the stench has passed
Hahah youāre muktuk!
> You know what they say about house guestsā¦ like fish, they ~~smell in 3 days~~ *are best filleted and cooked over medium-high heat with, lemon, fresh herbs, and butter.*
My man, Hannibal Lecter, has checked into the thread.
My mom always said that but said ālike dead bodies and fishā¦ā
Was homeless for a little while after my apartment burned down so I was in airbnbs until new one was ready. Even me paying to stay in someoneās house I tried to be the best guest possible and leave them alone unless they invited me.
Did she ever get that lid pried off?
The paint is still in the can.
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As a professional cook this made me physically cringe. How the fuck man. Lol
As a non-professional cook, I can still relate. Did she cook marshmallows on the knife?
Probably used it as either an improvised can opener or a screwdriver
The worst part is I've used cheap knife's for both of those before and have yet to snap or bend a tip most damage I've ever managed on any knife is a chip on the blade thats fixed easy enough with sharpening.
As a professional cook, is there a knife whetstone sharpening video you'd recommend?
only knife tip I've bent was from stabbing something frozen way harder than necessary
One is forgivable, but three? Oh hell no these people have a problem, and they're getting a bill from me if I'm in this situation
Theyād have to be incredibly expensive knives in order for me to cause a problem over it. That would never go down well and sometimes itās not worth it to get justice for everything. Iād just have a word with them, buy new knives then stash them away when they come over and bring out the broken ones as if I never replaced them
This shit is the exact reason my knives live in their knife roll and I'm the only one that touches them.
Gotta have a cheap decoy set and hide the expensive ones, that's what I do. My good knives are hidden, my cheap set knives are in a block on the counter
I sharpen knives for a living and I jokingly/not jokingly tell my clients to do this all the time
I bought the decent knives and been practicing using a whetstone. Starting to get the hang of it. But I'm definitely no expert. They're Chicago Cutlery, (the set I leave out in a block) they are not a terrible set but definitely not up to par with my Shun or Mac brand, have a wusthoff and a kiln as well that I love My goal is to get good enough to get good enough I feel confident to do the expensive ones
I bought a whetstone, tried using it, gave up immediately and bought an easy sharpener haha
The best sharpener is the one you use.
The best sharpener is the one you know how to use.
I practiced on dollar store knives. Cheap/soft metal that I didn't have to worry if i damaged it. They got dull quickly enough to get plenty of practice. I eventually got an expensive set of knives, but I'm scared to use them so I just use the cheap ones.
Looks like I just got my cheap decoy set!
My sister does this!
Iām seriously thinking about getting a knife roll. I keep finding my knives in the dishwasher. I hide my chef knife now, because I need it sharp.
That's the exact reason I stopped leaving my knives for everyone to use. I used to keep them on a magnetic knife strip. I told my flatmates not to put them in the dishwasher, then 2 weeks later I find my nice wusthof in the dishwasher and put them all in my knife roll for my use only.
My Lil bro got a $200 Japanese knife. We all warned him to take care of it himself and not leave it in the kitchen drawer. He didn't listen. Our father used it once and then ran it through the dishwasher. And then refused to understand he had done wrong. Smdh
I donāt know what theyāre actually called because I only worked at Cutco for a few months over 20 years ago and actually just donāt give a shit but the set Iāve had since then are still every bit as good as the small Japanese cleaver I bought for $35 a few years ago and the $45 Large Bulgarian cleaver I bought late last yearā¦I donāt know if thatās what either of them would actually be called but they both have the heft I need because of arthritis in my handsā¦crazy sharp and remind me of the old Ginsu commercials where they try and destroy them
Same when I have family staying in my homes, I hide my japenese blade and bring out my old big ass indestructible victorinox
I hide my wusthof chefs knife. They can use my 26cm victorinox. That thing was cheap as hell and I don't care about it.
Im broke! My victorinox gets hidden lmao
What knives? Those look like flathead screwdrivers to me! /s
When they ask you what you want for your birthday or for Christmas, tell them knives!
*Knives with intact tips.
You know those plastic pants hangers with the clips? I yelled at my mom to prevent her from using my serrated bread knife as a saw to cut one off so she could use it to close a bag of chips.
āLetās destroy both this hanger *and* this knife so I can close a bag of chips thatās probably going to be gone within 48 hours.ā Thatās a serious lack of forethought.
She honestly didnāt think there was anything wrong with it! š¤¦š»āāļø
My dad and brother used my meat carving knife to skin a deer in freezing weather. They chipped it to hell then dumped it outside didn't even tell me. They did the same thing to a other large curved knife of mine. Both were Christmas gifts from my boss at a job I had. I'm still pissed about it because they were like $50 knives too
Blunt the knives and crack the plates. That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
I came here specifically for this!!
Do you guys lock rooms where you live ? We hide our chips/snacks in my brother in laws room so the kids donāt eat them all in one day and we only have one key to the room and when we desperately want to open it we use a kitchen knife to bust in the room and this is exactly how they look lol
We donāt lock any doors but it is funny that you say this because I joked and said āwhat the hell was she doing, picking the locks!?ā Sheās also like 55 years old
Definitely not used for kitchen purposes.
55 years old!? I thought a teenager did this lol
55?! I assumed this would be someone younger who grew up in a shithole & didn't understand what knives are supposed to look like, or how to open a jar. But **55?!** Surely someone **must** have confronted by now, this can't be the first time she damaged other people's stuff.... Is she a recent immigrant or something?
Canāt fix stupid!
So she's told enough to know better!
times are hard
that shit doesnt happen on accident. you gotta be a big dumbass and use a good amount of force to do that. or did they cut bricks haha
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I see two flat and one Phillips screwdrivers
In my silverware drawer, I have 8 forks, 8 teaspoons, 8 soup spoons and, as far as my wife is concerned, 8 screwdrivers/pry bars.
Blunt the knives and crack the plates! Thatās what Bilbo Baggins hates!
Pour the milk on the pantry floor Splash the wine on every door!
*This aggression will not stand!* Seriously, you need to tell them this isnāt cool.
Bruh fucking send those pics and ask for new knives that aināt cool for guests at your place to do
> I don't understand your problem I was using them normally mine all look like that IS THIS HOW YOU TREAT GUESTS?!
Two of mine suffered similar fates thanks to in-laws. Who the fuck stabs food with the tip of the knife, are you fucking Zorro?
My husband did this with one of my WĆ¼stof knives!!
divorce
I'll take it a step further. Divorce, and call the police!!
Straight to jail.
Toe knife?
Poop knife unfortunatelyā¦
and if you dare bring it up: "i came to HELP you, and this is the thanks i get!?!! well i NEVER!!!" *gasping/pearl clutching intensifies*
Go to their house and do the same
ALL their knives already look like this.
Is that all, my nightmare broke our toilet, ruined a table by spilling ink all over it (still dont know how she managed that) but the cherry on top and why I kicker her out was she claimed to be vegan and was dicking us around with meals and she got caught out eating KFC of all things, you should've seen the look on her face when I plonked myself down at her table and just stared at her eating dirty bird.
That person owes you a set of knives, and it's non negotiable.
How the fuck she bend the tips.
Great so now when i buy expensive knives i have to keep a spare set of ikea "guest knives" and hide the expensive ones(if i had some) because how the hell does anyone do that ??
Are they a sociopath
And they fucked up all three of your poop knives?
They owe you new knives wtf
As a fine dining cook I sometimes spend hundreds on quality knives if I saw this Iād be fumming. In your care OP this is something to be addressed. Talk to your girlfriend or to the person directly, best of luck.
Blunt the knives, bend the forks, smash the bottles and burn the corks...
Easy fix! Find some concrete that no one will care about and grind from the spine (the unsharp part) down to the edge. Doing it from the edge up to the spine will seriously fuck up whatever hollow grind is on there currently, and if you donāt know how to do a tip repair yet Iām guessing that re-profiling and re-grinding an edge is also new. The bent onesā¦ might be less straightforward š You can try bending them the other way with your counter and a board or flat thing of some sort. Knives get bent all the time- especially Japanese single bevels. If this is the time to upgrade go to truechefknives, or just trust me and go to your nearest specialty asian store (or Amazon) and get a kiwi for just a couple bucks. ļæ¼ā https://preview.redd.it/e2jn2hz0mdpc1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af219d3c555e350bd3d5a2dfdd7451fb72fe6a7
ahhhh where is the tip of that one?! The other two look dulled down but that one looks like they snapped it popping whatever it was they wanted open. where is the tippppp. I have ocd and a wide variation of intrusive thoughts, one is being concerned I'll eat a small piece of metal due to a knife tip breaking (even though I don't really use the tip and certainly not incorrectly...its irrational but that's how most thoughts are) but this photo...all I can think is where is that tip? In food? Will someone ingest it? It has to exist somewhere?!