Knives up? Knives Down?

[21TonyK]

Meaningless drivel but working across so many sites I see many, many, many weird things being done. One that always makes me wonder is why anyone would store knives "tips down". I'm sure there is an explanation but when I've questioned it I normally get "thats the way I've always done it".

So, what are you? Tips up?



Or tips down?



(no, not my knives, just generic internet pics)

[oddman]

Tips up

So much easier to grab one

[Checkmate]

In the drawer. It makes it exciting because I have my fiercely sharp Kai Shun knives in there, alongside my Wusthof ones. Careful with hands hopefully!

[sherman]

Tips down but I dont keep my knives on a magnetic strip high up on the wall.
I use a knife block that lives on the counter.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ikea-365-knife-block-...

[fttm canada]

Knife blocks blades inward facing , my wife does this too which is a pleasant surprise .

[daqinggregg]

Logic and safety considerations, suggests tips up.

Aesthetically, tips down.

I never let common sense get in the way of pleasure.

[ferret50]

Tips up.

Tips down means that you are reaching over the blade to grab the knife, suprised the 'elth and Safety mob have not poked noses into this!

[sherman]

ferret50 said:

Tips up.

Tips down means that you are reaching over the blade to grab the knife, suprised the 'elth and Safety mob have not poked noses into this!

Tips up
The blade is more exposed. Risk of someone grabbing the blade and cutting themselves or tripping over and poking themselves in the eye with an exposed point.

People are stupid.
H&S have bigger issue to worry about in kitchens

[simon_harris]

H&S say neither, melt the knives down and cut things by staring at them - it is much safer.

[TIGA84]

I've got a rack, sadly my knives aren't as nice as those though!

Tips up. Mine are on the side of my built in oven at high level, so effectively at right angles to the actual floorspace, so I have the added point of them also being facing the wall.

[Mars]

I store mine like this:

[21TonyK]

sherman said:

Tips up
The blade is more exposed. Risk of someone grabbing the blade and cutting themselves or tripping over and poking themselves in the eye with an exposed point.

This is the explanation I don't get. The blade is in the same place and just as exposed either way up and to get a tip in your eye you'd need to do some spectacular gymnastics and headbut the wall hard enough to fracture your skull anyway!

I had one chef just say "its safer" but then this was the same chef I replaced the next day on food safety grounds.

I think its more what you are told by your first head chef, no real logic to it.

[sherman]

Chefs are by nature usually clumsy idiots(Im sure your not Tony). Anything that prevents them from stabbing themselves in new and unusual ways is all the better.

[miniman]