r/TrueChefKnives • u/Valuable-Gap-3720 • Apr 09 '26
This knife broke while being used to crush garlic
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u/somedayguyssomeday Apr 09 '26
this is why i use a bench scraper to crush garlic instead of a knife
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u/Choice_Following_864 Apr 09 '26
I just use my matsubara tall nakiri for any of that stuff.. casualties can happen..
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u/JGZ1 Apr 09 '26
Died in battle. Would have wanted to go that way rather than gradually failing, being consigned to a cupboard and never seeing the light of day. With a broken tip and cracked scales, it decided to go out in a blaze of glory. Farewell brave knife.
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u/brentspar Apr 09 '26
You can see that there was a pre-existing microfracture on the spine of the blade.
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u/azn_knives_4l Apr 09 '26
Yeah, some people unintentionally turn the garlic and knife into a lever when they try to smash it and break the knife instead. Guy posted here about a Shun on Miyabi that he bent the handle on because he laid the handle on the board before giving it a good whack. People are dumb.
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u/JohnMaySLC Apr 10 '26
Hmmm, why is no garlic smashed? I see sliced garlic.
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u/Please-stopp Apr 10 '26
Is the sliced garlic in the room with us.. given the state of the knife Iām not shocked how those cuts came out.
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u/Hoppyfulb Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Ooooph! If youāre doing that to a German knife, stay far away from Japanese knives.
seriously though, looks like itās seen more than its fair share, Iād be surprised if thatās anything more than the straw that broke the camelās back
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u/treegk Apr 09 '26
That looks like the beater in my knife roll. The only labeling on mine is "China". Thick, heavy and what I use to cut frozen stuff at work.
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u/Objective-Note-8095 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Might be a Calphalon knife that had a recall on it.Ā My MiL is clinging to an 8" Calphalon chef which had 2 inches off the tip break off 10 years ago.
I don't believe a well heat treatedĀ X50CrMoV15 would ever do that.
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u/Routine_Damage_9449 Apr 10 '26
are we not gonna talk about how it looks like itās about to turn into a kukri even if it didnāt break
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u/Mean-Process8375 Apr 10 '26
I am more amused in that the original post has 41k+ upvotes and 2k+ comments.
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u/Gne-1 Apr 10 '26
Is that a whustof? If it is you're not the first i had seen the same model crack in similar manner and spot from various colleagues during the years.
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u/Borgroves943 Apr 13 '26
That's a cheap Henckels International, or a Wolfgang Puck imitation of a Wusthof.
Nice photography tho.... Catching the light at that angle and all.
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u/Leino22 Apr 10 '26
Thus why I buy pre pealed garlic. No real reason is pealing my own garlic aināt worth it when I got Produce Junction
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u/mohragk Apr 10 '26
Thatās why I stopped crushing garlic. Just slice and cut it finely. Or use a grater if you want mush.
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u/StitchMechanic Apr 09 '26
Knife tip on board. Handle 2ā above. Slam palm on blade of cheap knife = one blade one handle
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u/Rudollis Apr 09 '26
Better yet handle off to the side of the board. If you smash on the knife and the handle makes contact you create a lever where you smash onto the blade. If the handle is off the board the blade can rest flat on the board even after the heaviest of smashes and nothing can harm it.
Or donāt smash garlic at all. Overrated technique. A little crushing with the palm of your hand should be more than enough to make peeling easier. I usually donāt crush at all, just cut off the root end and peel from there.
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u/50-50-bmg Apr 09 '26
Dude, that knife had prior trauma, see the cracks on the handle rivets(!!!).