Great for taking whole things and making them into many things. I use it often, i used it today, i cut some baby carrots in half the long ways, ive been experimenting lately with eating vegetables with mixed results. Anyways, the knife is a great tool for the kitchen and it always nice to know its got my back in a jiffy just in case someone (or some ‘thing’!) comes stormin in to my kitchen ready to take my life. If it werent for the few times the knife totally betrayed me and cut me instead of a baby carrot, it would be an easy 5 stars. But if you’re worried about cutting yourself, just do what i do and keep your knives dull. The safest knife is a dull knife. Think about it, the dullest knife in the world would basically be a spoon. And if you had the sharpest knife in the world, if you dropped it, it would hit the ground and just start slicing through your floor and just keep going into the earth slicing away until the whole planet was cut in half like a goddam deviled egg killing everyone you know including the people that you claim to ‘love’ and yet you never seem to make time for them and now the earth has been cut in half by a knife you over sharpened and its too late. 4 stars.