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Cooking & Baking

sir pball

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7. The thing is, knife skills need development and maintenance..

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2018, 12:01 PM

May 2018

..whereas gadgets work well enough and are generally simple and safe enough for a child to use.

Yeah, I can probably dice avocados or clean strawberries faster with a knife than you can with a tool, but I've been doing it for 20 years (with some of the same knives the whole time, natch) - try and work as quick without the almost instinctual feel and it's going to end in blood, tears and possibly stitches!

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