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Kitchen Knife Aesthetics

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Meditation on the making, sharpening, and using of cooking knives. The most pleasing element is its fine distinction between sharpness as a property of an object vs sharpness as a relation of the knife edge to the practice of cutting — the aesthetics of the object against the aesthetics of process. This wouldn’t have made proper sense to me before I started using a really good Japanese knife…