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Yeah, they hold the edge much longer than a steel knife, but I have several dislikes with them.
Higher friction is one, the brittleness is another. You really can't do this[^] with a ceramic knife.
The brittleness also leads to another problem as far as I'm concerned, most ceramic knives have a very high edge angle of up to forty degrees to compensate for the brittleness which makes them less... well, not less sharp, but rather... they simply don't cut as well's a knife with a 10-15 degree edge. You'd know what I mean when you cut a tomato and the chopping board remains dry.
So they really are each others opposites with different strong points.
That said, I really should buy my wife a ceramic knife of her own.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You really can't do this[^] with a ceramic knife.
TBH I wouldn't do that with my steel knives either! 
And you can't crush garlic with the blade either.
But I vastly prefer them for "normal" tasks: salad prep, veg check, chopping onions, meat, ...
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I really should buy my wife a ceramic knife of her own.
Oh yes. most definitely. And make it a nice pink handle so she can tell which she is destroying is hers, if she is anything like Michelle.
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OriginalGriff wrote: TBH I wouldn't do that with my steel knives either
It's just to show how thin the edge is, uhm, actually no, it's a test the knife sharpener does to see if it has been properly made.
OriginalGriff wrote: And you can't crush garlic with the blade either.
You can with the blunt side, but I'm actually cheating and use a garlic press.
OriginalGriff wrote: But I vastly prefer them for "normal" tasks: salad prep, veg check, chopping onions, meat, ...
I get your point, but it's actually when you chop onions you really notice the difference using a sharp knife with a low edge angle, there's no need to cry as the onion cells aren't crushed.
It's rather for flexible stuff like meat where the secondary edge angle doesn't matter that much.
OriginalGriff wrote: if she is anything like Michelle.
It sounds like it. 
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Always did it that way, except I do the horizontal cuts before the vertical ones, it's easier that way.
Also have to love the comment:
"Gordon Ramsay: How to peel a banana
29 million views"
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The kitchen appliances or .NET 5? 
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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stay safe
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Just wait. As dogs will get "the zoomies" just before bed, soon everything life will try try n' get you up about will be met with your own meh. 
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Itz gud!
It's because of all those electrolytes!
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Pole in the middles makes rust. (8)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Shouldn't it be 7 letter? or 's' has a role?  ..
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Yes, 8 letters, and s is significant.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Corrodes?
Pole : Rod
Middles : Cores?
in middle is CORRODES ?
cheers,
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Dang! Beat me to it!
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Wow, that was close.
cheers,
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Victory goes to you though! Well done 
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Yes! Pipped OG by seconds! All yours for tomorrow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Pole ROD
in the
middles COR ES
makes rust.
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Missed by *THAT* much!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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This was the word I came up with and confused now. Wouldn't the word be CORRODE. How is tense playing a role here in CCC? 
[this is just a learner's query]
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Let's deconstruct the clue:
Pole -> ROD
in -> inserting letters
the middles -> CORES (plural)
makes rust -> meaning .. CORRODES (present tense).
The letter S is multitasking!
Hope this explains it.
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: the middles -> CORES (plural)
I got that as clue in first place itself - my original post was in this reference.
Hence the query now:
as a final word, can it be a different tense word too?
middle -> CORE
why make it plural and confuse. Is this allowed or okay with CCC?
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The tense matches:
"makes rust" === "corrodes"
Using "makes" in that way is part of the cruciverbalist's deception. It's part of the meaning, not a "scaffolding" element of the clue.
Many clues are of the form "(anagram pieces) make/s (meaning)", but not this one.
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Remember, the idea of a cryptic clue is to send the solver off on the wrong heading if he isn't very careful. That's why there are so many words that could be an anagram indicators that are also sometimes used to not indicate an anagram at all! 
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