man be careful with that . there is still al lot of small amounts of rust. if that gets in ure food u will get sick. lock jaw bro is no joke!!!

yummy rust

That’s a good point.

get all the rust off. then take a magnify glass and just look it over to make sure all the rust is off

a lot of food vendors in india make food products sometimes with rusty stuff.... gets ppl very sick. then someone attacks their food stall etc.

Rust doesn’t make people sick, it might taste bad but it won’t do anything more than that if eaten

Rust itself doesn’t cause tetanus. It’s bacteria.

does rust play some part in tetanus? i thought it did. does the bacteria come from the rust?

Tetanus bacteria lives in dirt. Cutting yourself on a rusty dirty object gives it a way into your bloodstream.

This is correct. Rust does not cause illness. Bacteria cause illness.

It ain't the rust.

I assume the potatoes are going to be cooked no?

Rust is just good dietary iron.

Exactly, I've cooked on my rusted out cast iron pan dozens of times before re-seasoning it in the past. No lockjaw here.

Nope. Rust does help in that it makes the surface of an object pitted giving it more surface area for bacteria to inhabit but that’s about it.

hmmm strange i was always under the impression it was rust that cause lock jaw tettnus from hearing stories about ppl stepping on rusty nails and dying. rust literally contributes nothing to it. i feel so dumb noww

does the rust contribute in anyway to the lockjaw?

why is it associated with stepping on rusty nails. or rust like objects cutting ppl?

Mandoline slicer.

Consider getting it rechromed, then it'll be ready for another 60 years of service.

I’ve got a similar one from my parents that’s as old as I can remember 60+ years, the blade has never been sharpened and still cuts potatoes cleanly. Seen a lot of potatoes coming from a family of 8.

The rusty nail thing is probably a big part of why the myth came to be. Metal in soil is a great way to make it rust while also harboring the bacteria.

Rust greatly increases the surface area where the bacteria can live. Puncture wounds are more likely to impart the bacteria. Metal in soil is a common source of puncture wounds and metal sitting around in soil is rusty.

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thanks

I have 3 almost like it and use them weekly on potatoes mostly

What is dremmel? The tool?

What is a dremmel? Google doesn’t come up with anything?

One “M”

Damn good answer

Just buy the steri strips now before you need them to put your hand back together.

My kitchen rule is no mandolins. Only for music!!

Ah, they mean a Dremel! Why would OP decapitalize it and add an ‘m’?

Careful of your fingers!

These things are great for processing vegetables, but they'll fuck your shit up if you're not careful.

He capitalised it because it’s a brand name. He added an extra m by mistake.

No, they decapitalized it although it’s a brand name… Which, together with the added ‘m’, made it unrecognizable.

Oh, right. Brain fart I guess.

Still using a capital “D”. https://www.dremel.com/us/en

Why was that your reply? Lol

Are you low on iron?

Hm, you’re not getting it: The tool / brand is “Dremel”. OP was talking about a “dremmel”, which was confusing.

I sit corrected.

Wow… I was just making what I thought was an obvious joke. I geuss this sub isn’t for the non serious

You didn’t even acknowledge their reply, so it came off as super rude, at least to me.

I didn’t acknowledge because I’m a busy person and I don’t have all day to spend on Reddit replying to things. It was clearly a joke and it bombed. That’s what happens sometimes with senses of humor and strangers. I don’t care and I’m moving on with my life and deleting this post as I have other things to do. Have a good day

Lol big mad ✌️

Would probably be good to drop it in some Evapo-Rust

Thanks

I’d go for nickel plating. Looks just a little more refined than chrome to me.

While I do agree that nickel is a finer finish, replating in nickel while it is embossed as "chrome steel" would be so disordered in my brain!

If OP doesn't have pendant issues they should totally do that though :)

Chrome steel here doesn’t refer to the plating, it refers to the alloy - chrome is added to the steel itself to improve corrosion resistance

You're comment here, of information I already knew, has no impact or alteration for my personal opposition to nickel plating in this scenario.

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