My new favourite knife

I just bought one of these non stick knives on a whim, whilst buying my fathers christmas present. It was pretty cheap, about £6 I think, but bright green and zingy. Since then it has been in use nearly every day. For those of us with weakened hands through chronic pain, anything that helps every day activities such as cooking is very welcome. I cant believe the difference it has made to some of my food preparations. Cutting vegetables seems to only take half the effort. It doesn't work on everything - especially very sticky things like glace cherries, but then nothing does, and for that amount of money this has to go down as one of my best buys of the year.

Chopping Food

OK, so not everything makes life easier. My husband recently broke our "Alligator" onion chopper, so we wanted to get a new one. We thought we would try one of these. Sadly it is probably the hardest thing to use and worse than actually chopping by hand! The thing cant cope with half or even quarter onions, and even if you cut it into eighths, you still have to push it down so many times your wrist gets sore. Unlike the Alligator which did need a push, but thanks to the design you could even use your elbow and just lean on it. We cant send the round one back, but will still be throwing it in the bin, as its just no use at all.