They haven’t had the option until now so that’s trivially true. This is among the first times this tech has been put into a hand-held knife. Until now it’s been limited to industrial food processing where you’re cutting something sticky. Turns out you can prevent sticking just by vibrating the blade at a few khz. No chemical coatings required.
I don’t expect wide adoption among chefs and this won’t at any point replace a substantial proportion of normal knives. And this implementation of the tech is silly and bears all the flaws of modern product design. But it is cool tech.
Ultrasonic cutting tech is really cool tbh. That doesn’t mean the fucking thing has to be internet connected and have firmware updates .
But it isn’t? No serious chef would use this bullshit.
They haven’t had the option until now so that’s trivially true. This is among the first times this tech has been put into a hand-held knife. Until now it’s been limited to industrial food processing where you’re cutting something sticky. Turns out you can prevent sticking just by vibrating the blade at a few khz. No chemical coatings required.
I don’t expect wide adoption among chefs and this won’t at any point replace a substantial proportion of normal knives. And this implementation of the tech is silly and bears all the flaws of modern product design. But it is cool tech.
Vibrating blades have been a thing a lot longer than the internet has.