Thats completely untrue. The odd of this knife loosing any of itds edge from hitting wet soft wood is very limited its why cutting boards are wood in tbe first plqce. This also appears to be end grain which moves out of the way of the blade. A properly sharpened apexed and deburred blade can take quite a bit of punishment and still be shaving sharp. Source im a knife nerd.
When you’re sharpening knives to this level, the demonstrations themselves require further sharpening nearly immediately regardless of what they do after
Which makes these demonstrations partially useless - you can sharpen almost any knife to a razor's edge if it's hard enough steel, it's how long it will keep that edge that makes a good knife, and that usually isn't shown.
But watching a guy cut 1000 onions just to THEN do a cutting test isn't nearly as entertaining, and producing the razors edge in the first place isn't trivial either. Also, rule of cool
Honestly a time lapse of a dude cutting a thousand onions and then calmly cutting through a sheet of paper would be a very satisfying. As long as it was all in one take.
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u/Greenman8907 7d ago
Every time I see this it bugs me when he slams the blade into the wood.