Does magnabar scratch knives?
I grew up with knives on a magnet bar. My mom still has them there. No one in our house has ever cut themselves on one of those knives while getting them off/putting them on the rack, and she taught 2 kids to cook in that house. Didn’t seem to hurt the knives any….Mom’s still using knives she got as wedding gifts 40+ years ago (yes, they’re good knives). And you’re right about the twist. I’d forgotten that, but I know we always used it. I keep my knives in a plastic grid block, where the grid keeps the blades from banging into each other, but there’s open air in the block. I’d prefer a magnet strip, but Mr R doesn’t like them, and (more importantly) there really isn’t room for a strip anywhere near where I use the knives.
I’m pretty sure magnetic strips are supposed to be the “proper” way to store knives anyway, on account of the fact that the actual sharp bit doesn’t get bashed about like it would if you stored them in a block or loose in a drawer. And if you are just worried about what they look like, any scratching would surely occur on the side that isn’t on display, so cosmetically scratching would be a problem, assuming you hang them on the same side every time. I don’t have problems with scratching on my knives, and I don’t even twist, I slide them off the metal strip, because it makes a cool swishing noise, like in the movies when a baddy pulls a knife on someone. I am easily amused.
