Cutting tomatoes

[WaterPixie]

Does anyone else NOT use a straight knife to cut tomatoes? I find a small serrated knife is the only useable knife to cut tomatoes, and it does so very easily and accurately.

Granted my main knife is in need of sharpening, but even then. I think serrated is the only knife you wanna use for tomatoes. Especially as they age and get softer, so there's more give as you apply pressure with a knife.

 

[TastyReuben]

Yup, I use what Wüsthof calls their “sausage knife,” which is like a miniature little bread knife, and it flies through tomatoes.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I keep my knives really sharp. I use a straight vegetable knife, usually, although if there are a lot of tomatoes involved, I use a chef's knife.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I use my general purpose kitchen knife, not serrated but I keep it nice n sharp or I use a Victorinox tomato knife.
Yep they make a knife for tomatoes
It's an excellent tomato knife and gives the cleanest cut. Pretty cheap too.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I use tomatoes as a guide to when my knives need sharpening. If I have to use any force or it doesn't cut into the skin readily, it needs sharpening.

So, no. Straight knife only, but then I only have straight knives except for my bread knife.

 

[TastyReuben]

I use tomatoes as a guide to when my knives need sharpening.

Jacques Pepin says the same thing, that if a knife can’t cut through an overripe tomato, it needs sharpening.

 

[Barriehie]

I use my general purpose kitchen knife, not serrated but I keep it nice n sharp...

Yes, mine are a notch less than razors.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yes, mine are a notch less than razors.

It's the only way.

 

[Barriehie]

It's the only way.