{"id":21145,"date":"2025-09-02T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21145"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:46:18","slug":"worlds-sharpest-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/worlds-sharpest-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Sharpest Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"189\" data-attachment-id=\"21146\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/worlds-sharpest-knife\/worlds-sharpest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,221\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"worlds-sharpest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-1024x189.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-1024x189.jpg\" alt=\"Packaging for the &quot;World\u2019s Sharpest Knife,&quot; showing a serrated blade cutting a red tomato and marketing text.\" class=\"wp-image-21146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-1024x189.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-620x114.jpg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-768x141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest-668x123.jpg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/worlds-sharpest.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it must have been about 20 years ago. I was in the supermarket and they had a guy demonstrating these kitchen knives. He sliced a lot of things up quickly, thinly and efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The knives, from China had lifetime guarantee.<br>I noticed he had a lot of plasters on his fingers.<br>There was a deal where you could buy 3 of the larger sized ones very cheaply. I bought 3, a very small paring knife and a fish filleting knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later as I left the store I saw the salesman being handed over by the security guards to some policemen. I think he had been shoplifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve still got the knives. Most of them are still quite sharp. I now prefer my heavier cook&#8217;s knife for chopping most things. They are good bread knives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it must have been about 20 years ago. I was in the supermarket and they had a guy demonstrating these kitchen knives. He sliced a lot of things up quickly, thinly and efficiently. The knives, from China had lifetime guarantee.I noticed he had a lot of plasters on his fingers.There was a deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/115134817547084912","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3lxu67epbyq2g"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[1996,1998],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-ramble","8":"tag-small-story","9":"kind-article","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5v3","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21147,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145\/revisions\/21147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21145"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}