This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
Pros:
when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
In my experience, most people for some reason. Honestly I usually get push back on this, I’m not used to people agreeing with me. There’s usually at least one person for example that tries to claim it’s safer for the knife since if it falls the tip is more protected when up.
This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
Pros:
when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
What sort of psycho puts them blades up? That’s crazy.
In my experience, most people for some reason. Honestly I usually get push back on this, I’m not used to people agreeing with me. There’s usually at least one person for example that tries to claim it’s safer for the knife since if it falls the tip is more protected when up.
Magnetic strips give me the heebie jeebies. I like a nice solid block instead.
I don’t have the kitchen space for a block.