• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You know those apple slicer things that look like a wagon wheel pattern blade with a circle in the middle so you can core it and slice it in one swoop? We found one for watermelons. No shit. In hindsight, I’m guessing it was supposed to be more of a funny novelty than something actually used, but… we used it…

    It made it about half an inch into the melon, then shattered like it was some kind of ACME explosion. Bits of plastic went EVERYWHERE, my melon was now wearing a crown of blades, and I was just standing there with a handle still in each hand trying to process wtf just happened, like Wile-E-Coyote still holding the steering wheel of the car that just blew up around him looking straight at the camera like “well that just fucking happened…”

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      19 hours ago

      haha love this, i had something similar but less explosive with a metal temu garlic press… it completely bent out of shape on the first garlic cloves i used it on hahaha

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      2 days ago

      Bargain store potato knives with plastic hilts have only 2cm of blade inside.

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        2 days ago

        “full tang” is the wording to look for on knives. I have gotten cheap ones before that had a little foil strip on the plastic handle to make it look like it was all metal.