Episode 749: Knife Sharpening
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K 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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