Turkeys Don’t Carve Themselves – So Get A Cordless Carving Knife
Filed Under: Holiday Dinners, Uses
I should have bought a cordless carving knife. Where to begin? Have you ever planned a big family get together where you were hosting dinner, and everything just seemed to be going TOO perfectly? I’m curious, is it abnormal to have everything going smoothly and then suddenly you realize how well it’s all been working out and panic sets in because you know something is going to go terribly wrong? I mean, I’m not by nature a pessimist but it just seems to be the way of the world, you know? Family events do not go smoothly. It just doesn’t happen.
Of course this story begins the year before, right after my wife and I got married, and of course it ends up being my fault. Such is also the way of things. We were out getting some appliances we needed for the kitchen when I spotted an electric knife. Now, my mom had one of these things and it was great. It also happened to be a lot cheaper than the set of knives that came in the big wood block, which is what my wife originally wanted. They had a cordless knife there too, but it was also more expensive so I went with the standard model.
My wife went along with it because of the price on the other knife set and also because I promised her we could return it if she still hated it in a week. Needless to say, she loved it, and lest I forgot to mention that I have to take the blame for that as well. We used it for over a year with no problems. We do have a small kitchen and didn’t have much company over, but those things never really raised any alarm bells until afterward.
So my wife’s parents and siblings come over and we’ve got ham and turkey, a real feast. We serve appetizers, then all head into the dining room. My wife served the soup course and everyone loved it. Now we bring out the main course, to the delight of all… and realize there is no electrical outlet in the dining room. And we have no regular knives, other than your standard table knives which are not very sharp. THEN my wife had to explain to her confused parents that we had no knives, and of course however it was phrased the basic gist of the reasoning was: because my husband was too cheap to buy any. Needless to say, after I brought everything back in the kitchen, sliced it and returned, the mood of the evening had taken a bit of a turn. Moral of the story? The cordless knife was still a lot cheaper than the ones in the wood block!
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