The kitchen knife was not designed around task optimization. It just ended up that way because of the connection to knife design in general. The shape made sense given the constraints of the time — forged metal, a handle you could grip, a blade that could be sharpened on a stone. But the linear knife wasn’t originally optimized for cooking. It was optimized for staying alive. When a single blade had to serve as weapon, hunting tool, and meal prep instrument, the geometry that mattered most wa...

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