Why does washing knives in the dishwasher dull them?
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Been washing my knives in the dishwasher for years. The knives themselves are even more years old, never been sharpened.
Sure, I bet they’re not the sharpest knives in existence, but we’re talking ridiculous amounts of subjective “sharpness” here. I just used one to cut fruit, veg and chicken (in that order). Nobody would say it didn’t do so like a “sharp” knife.
This is one of those “if you have thousand-dollar knives and think you can tell the difference” things, and for most people it’s just not relevant for a kitchen knife because most of the things you cut with it aren’t even hard.
The only knife I’ve dulled in the last 10 years is the one that I literally use for absolutely everything from boxes to being an impromptu screwdriver to cutting through plasterboard, to cutting up thick plastic. It took years to dull it.
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