A dying trade - knife sharpeners

When I was cutting vegetables at my mother's house during the double holiday vacation, I felt that the kitchen knife was unusually sharp and easy to use.

I just let out an exclamation of "Hey", and my sister, who was busy wrapping dumplings beside me, guessed what I wanted to say.

"The kitchen knife is fast, right? Our mom ran into a knife sharpener who just finished sharpening it faster than it is now, and it works great."

The first thing you need to do is to sharpen it.

I have long been accustomed to the bluntness of the kitchen knife, not because I like it, but there is no way.

One is that it is extremely difficult to meet the master of knife sharpening now, and the other is that every day is busy and confused to sharpen the knife thing to forget.

I've bought all kinds of knife sharpening tools, and I've even tried imported brands that cost hundreds of dollars, but they're not very powerful.

The knife sharpeners are basically "now on the sedan chair and now tie ears" effect: grinding a few times on the better, cut a few cuts on the "dull as the beginning".

I asked my mother where she met the master knife sharpener.

The mother said that some time ago, she took her father downstairs to walk, heard someone shouting "grinding scissors, acid kitchen knife", and went home to take two kitchen knives, a fruit knife, and a scissors down to grind.

The mother said that the knife grinding master is almost 70 years old, riding a bicycle, grinding the knife on the back seat of the car tied to the furniture, while walking and yelling business.

Listening to his mother, the knife sharpener was originally a farmer, then the land was expropriated by the government, he and his partner and son and daughter were settled into the building. The old man could not stay idle, often around the neighborhood, heard the neighbors say that the knife is not fast and can not find a place to grind, so he learned to grind knives and scissors when he was young to pick up the craft.

The mother said the master knife grinder told her that every once in a while will come to this neighborhood to do business, he is familiar with many of the elderly in this neighborhood.

I asked my mother if the knife sharpening master's business is good.

Mother said grinding a kitchen knife 5 yuan, grinding fruit knife and scissors are 3 yuan, business should be good.

My sister interrupted my mother's words, explaining that now, in addition to the old people still think of sharpening knives, the young people are too busy to even cook, who still need to sharpen knives.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are going to do it.

The young people in the city are cooking at home less and less. Even if they do, the meat, fish, ribs and so on are half-finished products. For cutting knives, they are replaced when they are dull, or they use convenient knife sharpeners to cope with the matter.

Besides, many of the tasks that used to require a traditional cleaver can now be replaced by ceramic knives that don't need to be sharpened and are exceptionally sharp.

As for the scissors, the original probability of home use is not very high, young people in addition to go to the supermarket to buy or online poking, grinding scissors for them, do not mention how rare.

Sister said, don't have to think to know the business of sharpening scissors is not good.

Perhaps in a few years, old craftsmen like knife sharpeners will slowly fade out of people's lives, and the old objects of those old craftsmen may become cultural relics and be displayed in museums.

"Grinding scissors and kitchen knives" can only be seen in literature and movies.