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Spilled Milk

Episode 749: Knife Sharpening

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew.

0:05.5

And I'm Molly.

0:06.3

And this is Spilled Milk, the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any.

0:10.4

Today we are talking about knife sharpening.

0:13.6

And I think this was one from, oh, no, it's suggested by listener Emily.

0:17.7

Thank you, listener Emily.

0:18.6

Oh, thank you, listener Emily.

0:19.4

And I'm glad we're doing this today because I'm, as I mentioned, still recovering from gum surgery. And so, like, there are still things I can't eat, so I'm not going to do. But you can eat knives. But I can eat knives. Crunch, crunch, crunch. We found the one thing you could do. Yeah, but no, but I can still, like I can still use my hands. Your scissor hands. I can still use my scissors hands,

0:39.2

but I have to keep them sharp. Okay. So. Okay. Yeah, these are, these are, like, we have a lot of beloved characters that drop in on the show. There's Mr. Etymology. There's normal Pete. There's Edward Ciceroans, and we made up all these characters.

0:56.9

Mrs.

0:57.3

Cupperson. Mrs. Cuffison, yeah. And no one is going to tell us to cease or desist. Absolutely not. All right. Okay, let's put a disclaimer up at the top of this episode, which is this. If you don't want to hear a middle-aged guy drone on about knife sharpening for half an hour, you're dismissed.

1:15.6

You can, like, it's a free show. You can wait for next week's episode because that is for sure what's going to happen.

1:22.3

Okay.

1:23.0

But maybe there'll be something interesting along the way. I can't promise, but I'll try.

1:27.1

I sure hope so. Yeah. Because I can't promise, but I'll try. I sure hope so.

1:28.4

Yeah.

1:28.7

Because I can't leave.

1:29.9

As I was researching this last night, I was like, oh, this is really interesting. And I don't know if anyone else will agree. Okay. No, I get it. I get it. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Molly, you're also, like, you're dismissed. and I can just like, I can just do the whole show myself.

1:43.9

I have some errands to run.

1:45.3

Okay, Molly, do you have any knife sharpening memory lane?

1:47.8

I do. also like you're dismissed and I can just like, I can just do the whole show myself. I have some errands to run.

1:45.4

Okay, Molly, do you have any knife sharpening memory lane? I do. So I remember that my dad had a knife

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