We have special knives for cutting breakfast rolls in our house

Very dull but also very German. Are you impressed yet?

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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 154d

I have that knife. It is a good knife for sandwich making. The serrated edge cuts bread, and the rounded tip makes it good for spreading things that need spreading.

_wizard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 154d

Liberated a steak knife from Outback steakhouse long ago. Similar in design and my favorite sammy accessory.

Pat@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 153d (1 reply)

We sometimes use a steak knife (not the big cutting ones, the sharper serrated table knives) for bread rolls. Sweden's a lawless hellscape compared to you down south.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 153d

I'm morally appalled.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 154d (3 replies)

If it's so dull, get it sharpened.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 153d (2 replies)

Or demote it to poop knife.

olof@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 153d

Demote?

Skanky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d

There it is

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 154d (12 replies)

What’s a breakfast roll?

Edit: yes, I guess it’s a roll you only have at breakfast, but is there something that forbids them the rest of the day? Do you have special rolls for each meal?

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 154d

Of course. This is Germany after all. It's all laid out in the Frühstücksbrötchenzeiteinteilungsgesetz.

SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 154d (4 replies)

you'd think that, but a breakfast roll is your morning poop

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 154d (3 replies)

And that warrants its own knife?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Breakfast roll refers to both the food and the after event. Both need their own knife, but some use the same knife, a shared knife, if you will.

If you don't know the poop knife story, here it is, archived off Reddit:

https://www.originalpoopknife.com/pages/the-story-of-the-poop-knife

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 154d (1 reply)

I could have happily lived out the rest of my life in the ignorance I was accustomed too.

TIL American toilets have a much higher water line than the ones I’m used too. And some people need a poop knife.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 154d

No one has a poop knife.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 154d (5 replies)

It’s sorta an English breakfast folded into a French baguette. I guess it’s an acquired taste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_roll

brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 153d (1 reply)

That doesn't look anything like what they mean by breakfast rolls in Germany. These look much more like it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%B6tchen

They are topped with butter, followed by cheese or minced meat. Or, in the morning, people tend to prefer sweet toppings such as jam or hazelnut nougat spread.

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 153d

I somehow missed the “German” in the post, sorry. Much better! I am very fond of Deutsche Brötchen <3

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Yikes! This is an affront to the sacred tradition of Frühstücksbrötchen.

Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 153d (1 reply)

On the one hand, you are right.
On the other hand:
Would!

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d

You barbarian!

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 154d

I get it. I have a set of ceramic knives I use almost exclusively for cutting soft flesh vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. And the peppers get cut with a cleaver if I'm cutting pretty much any other thing at the same time, so they're really just tomato knives.

They're great for cutting tomatoes, though.

Defectus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 153d (2 replies)

I cut mine with this swedish monstrosity. Also good for cutting cake horizontally. Which I think it's meant for.

Smol knife for scale.

Edit: probably around 50 years old

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d (1 reply)

I'm shocked and dismayed at such a wanton display of anarchy.

Defectus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d

Anarchy is one of the main pillars in my household.

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 153d

Hey we do too! No rounded tip though

Full tang stainless steel. Works like a champ. Got it years ago in a block set.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 152d (1 reply)

when it's blunt does it go to the toilet as the poop knife?

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d

Need a brown one for that, otherwise you have to wash it.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d (4 replies)

that is very pretty. is it copper?

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 154d (3 replies)

It's just cheap stainless steel with a cheap plastic handle. But it does the job pretty well.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d (2 replies)

is it actually that beautiful green or are my eyes being betrayed by your dazzling photography skills

hikaru755@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 154d

Looks like skewed white balance to me, that happens very commonly when photographing against a wooden background.

I suspect this is a bit closer to what it actually looks like:

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d

Well, I did my best.

vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 152d (1 reply)

Is it just me or it looks like Marge's hair

may_be@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 150d

It does

BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 153d

Me too but mine have wooden handles. Best kitchen purchase in years.

Griffus@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 153d

Don't know what a breakfast roll is, but that is a butter knife.