Yes, it is a special knife. It is deeply serrated, sort of like a saw and it has barbs on each serrated prominence. However, this might be the first time I used it in 15 years. My inlaws gave it to us when we first got a house. Since I use it so little, I just bagged it up with a bunch of other rarely used kitchen items and sent it to Goodwill.
When I was a kid, Mom had one of these knives, but a sturdier one. She had a big family, a big deep freeze and neighbors who raised big cattle, so she used her frozen foods knife a lot. She also had a stainless steel cleaver that had a saw blade on the back side of the broad blade. Serious utensils! Am I the only one who thinks of dear ol' Mom when I see one of those Klingon battle knives with all the swirls of barbs and blades?
