The disappearing professional sharpener

I cut vegetables in my mother's house for two holidays, and I feel that the kitchen knife is particularly sharp and easy to use.

No sooner had I uttered a compliment than jiaozi's sister guessed what I wanted to say.

"Is the kitchen knife fast? My mother met a sharpener who just finished grinding faster than now. It always works. "

Sharp tools work efficiently.

I have long been used to the dullness of kitchen knives, not because I like kitchen knives, but because I have no choice.

First, it is extremely difficult to meet the current sharpening master. Besides, I am so busy that I forget to sharpen my knife every day.

I have bought all kinds of sharpening artifacts, even hundreds of imported brands have tried them, and they are not very powerful.

The sharpener is basically the effect of "getting pierced in a sedan chair": grinding it a few times will be easier to use, and cutting a few knives will be "as always" dull.

I asked my mother where she found the pencil sharpener.

My mother said that she took her father for a walk downstairs some time ago and heard someone shouting "sharpen scissors and kitchen knives", so she went home and took two kitchen knives, a fruit knife and a pair of scissors to sharpen them.

Mother said that the sharpener was almost 70 years old, riding a bicycle, and the sharpener was tied to the back seat of the car, shouting business while walking.

According to my mother, the man who sharpened the knife turned out to be a farmer. Later, the land was expropriated by the government, and he, his wife and his son and daughter were placed in the building. The old man is restless and often wanders around. He heard his neighbor say that the kitchen knife was not fast and he couldn't find a place to sharpen it, so he regained the skills of sharpening knives and scissors he learned when he was young.

Mother said that the sharpener told her that he would come to this community to do business every once in a while, and he was familiar with many old people in this community.

I asked my mother how the business of the pencil sharpener was.

Mom said that 5 yuan grinds a kitchen knife and 3 yuan grinds a fruit knife and scissors. Business should be good.

My sister interrupted my mother and explained that besides the old people, I also want to sharpen the kitchen knife. Young people are too busy to cook, who needs to sharpen their knives?

Think about it, too. Most of the people who can hear the shouts of "grinding scissors and chopping knives" at home are elderly people who are idle at home.

Young people in cities are cooking at home less and less. Even when cooking, meat, fish and ribs are semi-finished products. For a kitchen knife, replace it if it becomes dull, or use a convenient sharpener to deal with it.

In addition, many jobs that used to require traditional kitchen knives can now be replaced by ceramic knives that don't need grinding and are extremely sharp.

As for scissors, the probability of family use is not very high. It is not surprising for young people to sharpen scissors except to buy them in the supermarket or find them online.

Sister said, you don't have to think about the pencil sharpener business.

Perhaps in a few years, old artists like pencil sharpeners will gradually fade out of people's lives, and the old objects of those old artists may become cultural relics and be exhibited in museums.

The cry of "sharpening scissors and chopping knives" can only be seen in literary works and film and television works.