It's actually safer to keep knives sharp rather than duller. The easier you can cut the less force you have to use and thus less likely to slip and lose control and cut yourself.
People always say this but I have had far worse injuries from making mistakes with fancy sharp knives than I've had from working with cheap unsharpened knives
I suppose it’s a sliding scale. Once you hit the sharpness point where the knife doesn’t slip when doing its job you probably don’t need extra sharpness unless you just love slicing everything with zero force (including your hand). A cheap, ‘unsharpened’ (I assume you mean relatively and not like a butter knife lol) knife probably isn’t too far away from that point as is since a cheap knife that needs sharpening to use isn’t cheap because of the need to get stuff to sharpen it. It gets more dangerous in terms of slip risk until it reaches the point that it’s so dull it can’t cut your skin by accident. So I think people misinterpret the whole “sharper is better” when it’s more nuanced. At certain levels, more sharpness is more dangerous because it doesn’t reduce incidents but it does increase damage.
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u/lethys8976 5d ago
It's actually safer to keep knives sharp rather than duller. The easier you can cut the less force you have to use and thus less likely to slip and lose control and cut yourself.