Safe disposal of knives

We're not talking about a veg peeler and steak knives.

"Safe" veggie peelers are not all that innocent. I have one similar to this which frequently slices bits off the fingers of the other hand which is holding the potato I am peeling. With round vegetables and artriticky hands, you have to wrap your fingers well round to keep the slippery spud in place. That photo showing it lying there loosely while the blade peels off the skin is artistic licence.

I never knew kitchen knives can and should be handed in to the police!

Where do you draw the line then Callistemon21? Our steak knives are as sharp as. Surely a knife, unless it's a butter knife, is a knife.

Kitchen knives do not have to be handed into the police. Just disposed of safely. I put mine in the metal recycling skip at the tip.

Elegran kitchen knives go to the tip, where the metal will go to recycling and reused. By the time I dispose of kitchen knives, they are knackered, - tips broken off, bent, or sharpened intil they are so narrow they are in danger of snapping in half. No charity would even contemplate handing them on to anyone else.

Cutlery is different. That would go to a charity shop unless equally knackered.

You've just reminded me I do have an old fashioned knife sharpener which came with a set of carving knives in - er - 1962. I'm off to see if it works.

Monica I have my own knives, used whenever I cook, plus also several stowed away, that I inherited from my Mother-in-law (died forty years ago) Hers are in perfect shape and condition, except that they are blunt. I kept them to hand on to my children when they had homes of their own, but by then they had their own. My grandchildren are beginning to set up home, perhaps they will take them.

If not, they could go to someone else who is setting up home, and they could sharpen them to their own taste. In that they are no different to table knives, which could be lethally sharpened up by anyone who was keen to have a sharp knife.

ayse

Just thought that maybe a good butcher would be willing to give the blades a new edge.

Ours will do this but you need to give them the knives before their early closing day. There was a nominal charge that was donated to charity.