The Surprising Ways You Are and Aren't Ruining Your Knives — Tips from The Kitchn

Does this scene sound familiar? Your Amazon Prime package comes and somebody at your house grabs a knife to start hacking away at the packaging. These packages come more often than our UPS driver would like, and if I don't beat my husband to it, that's him with our good chef's knife.

It's been one of our longest-running debates; every time he saws through the packing tape I cringe and tell him he's ruining our knives. (The knives, by the way, were the first nice things we bought when we got into food and cooking. They're Wüsthof knives that we've had for ages.) As he tears open the box he says the same thing every time: "It's fine, I'm not hurting anything."

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