Contrary to what you may think, the dull knife in your kitchen is the more dangerous one.

Knives can be intimidating to people. I mean, intimidating in more ways than just having one brandished threateningly at you. Some people are afraid to get too involved in the kitchen because the preparation; chopping, slicing, dicing, and all that can be scary when you're worried about a super sharp knife removing your fingertips. But take heart, folks: the sharper your knife the less likely you are to cut yourself.

It's true! When you sharpen your knives, say with a Smith's Electric Knife Sharpener, they're less likely to catch or hang up on whatever it is you're chopping. It's those hang ups, and your jerking or pulling the knife to compensate, that lead to miscues and missing digits. So stay sharp! Think of the knife sharpener not as a silly single-purpose gizmo languishing in the kitchen of rich dilettantes; think of it as a piece of machinery dedicated to sparing you stitches or worse.

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