When you help out at a friends kitchen and take a nice looking knife they're usually like "it's shit, don't use that! use this." then hand you an old piece in seemingly questionable condition that was used to skin bears during The War and is still so sharp you need safety goggles just to look at it.

Is this world-wide or just an Eastern-European thing?

#cooking

@buherator Dunno, best piece in my kitchen is ceramic but I do have a super stupid paper-knife looking thing that's sharper than it looks

@joandaro yeah "paper-knife looking" + super sharp fits the category!

@buherator …and to think about it yeah the most pretty one is shit
Left to right:
Super Shitty One™️ but somehow stays in the kitchen
The one I usually use
The killing paper-knife

…so probably it is worldwide

@joandaro That's a perfect group, thanks :D

(sidenote: I've never encoutnered a good ceramic, but apparently they do exist!)

@buherator @joandaro I've enjoyed my ceramic knives ( set won in an office party raffle years ago), but I've never been wealthy so it's very possible for "best quality I've ever personally had access to" and "kind of mediocre, actually" to have some overlap.