Quiet chopping.
Husband got new knives for his birthday so now he takes a great pride in his chopping ability. I think he thinks that he is the Australian Iron Chef with his cleaver, I do not think so however. We eat after Wrigglebot is in bed as this gives Husband time to get home from work and cook dinner as I am banned from cooking for him or using his knives, or even washing his knives.
I don’t complain about his cooking, I think it is great, however I feel like I have to constantly remind him to chop quietly as he usually bashes the cleaver through meat and bone into the chopping board envisioning cameras around him and giving a running commentary on his knife technique. It is loud and it frequently wakes up Wrigglebot who has just drifted off to sleep which does not make me happy.
So here is my word of warning: if you are considering a gift of knives to the cook in your family make it a prerequisite that they chop quietly.
November 8th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I wish that if I bought my husband a set of knives, that he would stay in the kitchen long enough to cook me a complete dinner – He is one that does enjoy to cook meat…And that’s it! If he had his way, we would eat steak every night of the week, with no vegetables of course, as he ‘doesn’t know how to cook them’!