'The good knife'

Ghost Buster

In this day of post celtic tiger excess (:D) most homes have full sets of gleaming Sabatier knives. Some of us may have most of the payments made.

But growing up did your house have 'The Good Knife' namely the wooden handled one , possible with those vicious wee serrations, which was a little less blunt than the others and so used for slicing the soda bread and slicing the bacon?

keith16

Yes, but you would be killed stone dead if you were found using it without the bread board.

Frosty McSnowballs

Any knife that didn't make a bollox of a tomato was our good knife.

wazky

After the recession hit, I put my good knives to some actual use and started mugging people with them.

Ghost Buster

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Any knife that didn't make a bollox of a tomato was our good knife.

Tomatoes eh!!! la de frickin dah!!!!!! Fancy pants indeed. We just had turnips.

Frosty McSnowballs

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Tomatoes eh!!! la de frickin dah!!!!!! Fancy pants indeed. We just had turnips.

Turnips? Ya posh bastard! I bet you even had something to boil Them in too, huh...huh?

MadsL

Lack of tinkers to sharpen them is the problem...

shopaholic01

Yes, brown wooden handle and serrated blade.

I came across it clearing out my childhood home after my parents died, still had pride of place in the cutlery drawer.

Nodin

MadsL wrote: »

Lack of tinkers to sharpen them is the problem...

It's amazing the number of people who buy crap knives and/or never try to sharpen them.

Ghost Buster

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Yes, brown wooden handle and serrated blade.

I came across it clearing out my childhood home after my parents died, still had pride of place in the cutlery drawer.

Our used to have a blue painted wooden handle. We also had, i must confess, a second good knife with a crack bone handle

Freddy Smelly

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Tomatoes eh!!! la de frickin dah!!!!!! Fancy pants indeed. We just had turnips.

mmmm turnip juice

shopaholic01

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Our used to have a blue painted wooden handle. We also had, i must confess, a second good knife with a crack bone handle

We were so poor we only had one ............ and nothing to cut with it.

Tope

I don't remember a good knife, but we had a pair of good scissors. It was kept in a drawer in the sitting room, and woe betide any child who used it without permission. Big sharp pair it was with black metal handles. In fact, my mum still keeps it in the same drawer 30 years later and it's as sharp as ever, must really be good quality!

coolhull

I used to get get in trouble for sharpening my pencil with the good knife

Teyla Emmagan

Ours has a brown wooden handle with two studs in it. The blade of the knife itself is a crazy S shape from years of being sharpened by my Dad. It's not serrated though.

My mother also has a special spoon which has come down the generations, she calls it the 'medicine spoon', it's about 10 inches long. You'd want to be putting couch syrup into cattle to have call for it.

CrinkElite

Ask a butcher for the little black handled serrated knives, the ones with the sticky tape on them when they're new;
Cut the leg off the table so they would!

Footoo

keith16 wrote: »

Yes, but you would be killed stone dead if you were found using it without the bread board.

Bread board? Ha. We didn't even know what they were.

coolhull

The 'good knife' in our house was used for everything, from turning screws to slicing Xmas cake..

martinedwards

On the farm, my Mum used to buy the "wee black handled knives"..... veg knives I suppose.... 6 at a time, because my Dad would "borrow" them to open the blue plastic nitrogen fertilizer bags, and nver return them

as to a "good knife"

it looked like this......

http://www.farmtojar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/boning-knife.jpg

Hownowcow

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

My mother also has a special spoon which has come down the generations, she calls it the 'medicine spoon', it's about 10 inches long. You'd want to be putting couch syrup into cattle to have call for it.

My mother had a special spoon. It was made of wood. I didn't like it.

Dj Grimreefer

I guess we'll have to get them to change the Cluedo game, and issue an appology,

"Sorry guys, It was actually Colonel Mustard who killed them with the good knife in the ballroom and not Prof. Plum with the candle stick as previously thought. We would like to extend our apologise to Mustards family as they try to ketch up with these events, Mrs Mustard said things have been sweet and sour since the incident and would like to thank everyone for yr support"

They also mentioned that Mrs Mustard was quite saucy

Pensivepuca

I thought this was going to be a thread about Aristole and his quote about a good knife is one which cuts well.

NuckingFacker

MadsL wrote: »

Lack of tinkers to sharpen them is the problem...

Our were always razorlike..just saying..