OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[MikeDeTiger]

^^^ CANADIAN!!!

[847badgerfan]

Derp.

[847badgerfan]

OK, so what to do about my wife and her penchant for wanting to always put my Global knives into the dishwasher?

I can't give her a beating. She's too kind and nice to be pissed off at.

I've asked repeatedly.

Maybe I should just wash them myself, and buy her a set that she can use and wreck?

I'm off to the sharpening guy from Texas now. Good guy. Loves my wife and many others who use dishwashers.

Sharp knives. Honest work. Cowboy Sharp®. - Cowboy Sharp®

[utee94]

Yeah I have a set of my own knives that I literally hide from my i s c & a aggie wife.  She uses whatever we have lying around and then always puts them in the dishwasher.  Doesn't bother me, they're not mine and I don't use them.

[MrNubbz]

OK, so what to do about my wife and her penchant for wanting to always put my Global knives into the dishwasher?

I can't give her a beating. She's too kind and nice to be pissed off at.

I've asked repeatedly.

Same-same here with many things just get use to telling her then doing it your self

[Wildcat4E]

I can really only report what my eyes have observed the last 10 days here, and I think I've pointed out that a big portion of the local population is actually happy when oil rises and don't mind a bit paying more to fill up their Lexus, Cadillacs, and 100K pickups, since the county is #1 oil producing in the State.

However, the gas prices are set by basically 2 entities, Kroger and a local big convenience store chain.  Kroger has actually been instructed by corporate to follow the convenience store changes, I'm told.

In the last 10 days, they went up $.20 twice, then back down $.21, and back up to $3.99.  It had been $3.59 at the beginning of that yo-yo.  You can't tell me that is following their costs absolutely.  

I guess some of you guys can better figure if the gas prices really correlate to a jump in crude oil from around $70/barrel at the end of January to $102, which is what the web says it is today.

[MikeDeTiger]

Yeah I have a set of my own knives that I literally hide from my i s c & a aggie wife.  She uses whatever we have lying around and then always puts them in the dishwasher.  Doesn't bother me, they're not mine and I don't use them.

Mrs. DeT doesn't put the good knives in the washer but they still get dull from a ton of use.  I've long had some good sharpening stones I used to knock off any dulling, but a couple years ago one of my stepsons got me an automated thing that spins really fast and sharpens knives.  I don't ever use it, because knife sharpening is one of his hobbies and he always asks me if we have any knives he can sharpen when he comes over.  If yes, I tell him, and then we get the knife back a week later or so when he comes back and it's like new.  I don't know when he expects me to ever use that thing he got me.  I think it was a Christmas present, maybe.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

I sharpen mine by hand with whetstones. 

My wife doesn't put any in the washer except two beater knives she knows I don't care about. 

[MrNubbz]

I sharpen mine by hand with whetstones.

Oil stones(i hope) those water stones are a waste of time,guys now realizing diamond stones if the edge needs reprofiling. Then I use the Norton, for cutting silicon carbide (Crystolon) stone then finish with aluminum oxide (India) stone. You can pick it up in a combination set for around 50 bucks give/take 5 bucks. All much quicker and better than the softer Japanese stones. I use mineral oil on the stones food and kitchen safe. easy on clean up also