How to treat a cutYou're shopping vegetables for dinner when the knife slips and cuts your hand. There may be a lot of blood, but is your injury serious enough to go to hospital?Firstly, what you need to do is think about where the cut is. A cut on your hand or foot may be ...
How to Treat a CutYou're shopping vegetables for dinner when the knife slips and cuts your hand. There may be a lot of blood, but is your injury serious enough to go to hospital?Firstly, what you need to do is think about where the cut is. A cut on your hand or foot may be ...
Letting your wooden handles dry out. If any of your prized kitchen knives have wooden handles, it is imperative that you treat them with mineral oil from time to time to prevent them from drying out or cracking (and the same is true for cutting boards). Coating a dry wooden handle with ...
You can use a sharp, sterilized knife to remove dead tree bark affected by sunscalding. Round off the sharp corners to help your tree heal. Leave the wound open and uncovered, and don’t apply any paint or tar to the spot. Spray the wound with fungicide if you’re treating a tree th...
STEELING your knives. But I think most home cooks think that using the rod pictured above is for sharpening. Read on – I’ve interviewed Chad Ward, a knife expert and author who will show you step by step how to properly hone your knife. Plus, do you like the knife that I’m ...
knife that will be used, without being able to rely as much on changes to heat treatment. However, I did get decent properties with all of these steels with forge heat treatments, and these were the very first coupons I had ever heat treated in a forge. So can you get good results ...
Another concern that some knifemakers have is quenching too rapidly, worried it will lead to microscopic quench cracks or other bogeyman. And while I would be cautious when quenching anything in water, every steel that we have heat treated with Parks 50 has resulted in excellent toughness regardl...
Because splits could continue to open up, deal with them first to stabilize the slab, using butterfly keys as shown below. Lay your keys across the split and trace around them firmly onto the slab with a craft knife or marking knife. After freehand routing close to the scribed lines, ...
Short-term epiglottic entrapment may be cured by anti-inflammatory treatments, but most cases will need surgery to improve racing performances.Mathieu LacourtMarcel MarcouxProceedings of the 55th annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners: Las Vegas, Nevada, December 5-9,...
End grain also has a self-healing property where the fibers will expand and close gaps where a knife penetrated deeper than expected. If you use face grain you'll have a cutting board that is no good pretty soon due to all the knife slashes, and edge grain surfaces will do the same ...