{"id":16408,"date":"2012-04-24T05:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=16408"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:39:35","slug":"useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-keeping-a-small-blunt-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/04\/24\/useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-keeping-a-small-blunt-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Tips for Kitchen &#038; Such &#8211; Keeping a Small, Blunt Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16410\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16410 \" title=\"blunt knife blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blunt-knife-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blunt-knife-blog.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blunt-knife-blog-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blunt knife can be useful too :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have a humble collection of kitchen knives for all kinds of mincing, dicing, slicing, chopping and hacking action. There is however one particular knife which I deliberately left it blunt over the years. This knife has found a niche in the kitchen where no other knife can claim its place. Its role is to cut soft foods such as silken tofu and century eggs on my palm.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, on my palm, and with lots of care of course! :) IMO, it is easier to invert silken tofu from its container onto my palm and cut it straight away into small cubes and drop them into soup as compared to cutting it on a chopping board and then risk bruising those delicate cubes during the transfer into the soup. I also like to cut century egg on my palm as I hate having to scrub the sticky black yolk off the chopping board during washing later.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty proud of my blunt knife. :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a humble collection of kitchen knives for all kinds of mincing, dicing, slicing, chopping and hacking action. There is however one particular knife which I deliberately left it blunt over the years. This knife has found a niche<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/04\/24\/useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-keeping-a-small-blunt-knife\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Useful Tips for Kitchen &#038; Such &#8211; Keeping a Small, Blunt Knife<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/knives-1-blog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}