"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> Steve B wrote:
>> What is the situation at your house on sharp knives?
>>
>> I know we recently have an unnamed poster who has a bandaged hand
>> from a slicing accident.
>>
>> I can sharpen knives so I can shave with them, yet have limited my
>> wife to TWO knives she may use. She's just too dangerous. One is a
>> Sandoku and the other a Jenny Chin cleaver style Asian knife. Both
>> very sharp.
>
> I keep our assortment of knives as sharp as I can. Knives don't cut
> people, knife wielding madmen and ****ed off wives do.
>
> My wife is not good with a steel so I do that for her. If there is
> something to be cut that she is not sure about, I get the job because she
> take warfarin. Normal peeling and cutting are no problem, cutting
> something unfamiliar, she gives it to me.
>
> The trick to preventing accidents, of course, is proper handling with a
> sharp knife and never forcing a cut. Good idea to keep band aids and
> stuff handy too because accidents happen even to the most experienced at
> times.

Been on warfarin since June 2002.