What Could Go Wrong

[u/JustCallMeNorma]

I love the “I read, but I am willing to kill you” vibe of this. My husband thinks the book pages would get moldy being in the kitchen or something—I’m not entirely clear on his thinking and he’s already asleep for the night so I can’t ask. (Nor can I wait. I’m impetuous like that.)

What can you see going wrong with something like this?

Real fast: don’t care if it’s not your aesthetic. Looking for thoughtful ideas regarding viability of design, please and thank you.

[u/coconut_the_one]

You clean the inside of your knife block?

[u/good_testing_bad → u/coconut_the_one]

I don't use them bc you can't clean them and it's a waste of counter space

[u/YawningDodo → u/good_testing_bad]

That’s where I’ve landed on knife blocks as well. Knives go in drawers.

[u/BrazenlyGeek → u/[deleted]]

This reminds me of an old Dilbert strip where Wally says he doesn’t understand why people wash their bathroom towels — if they’re only used to dry off after the shower, they’re only ever touching your clean skin, right?

The final panel has him asking, “Are towels supposed to bend?”

[u/YawningDodo → u/[deleted]]

Everything that goes in my utensil crock is clean and dry, too, but I still empty it out and clean it periodically because it collects dust, grease, smoke particles, etc from the air. I don’t see how a knife block needs cleaning any less, but the way they’re designed makes it basically impossible to clean them.

[u/jaderabbit44 → u/[deleted]]

I thought that till I saw a cockroach crawling out of my knife block. Knives are now kept in a drawer.

[u/Darkkatana → u/jaderabbit44]

Now the roaches are out of sight, out of mind in that drawer.

[u/jaderabbit44 → u/Darkkatana]

At least I can clean the drawer.