Child safe knife storage?

[harken]

My wife and I are expecting soon (yay), but I’ve realized that the way my knives are stored now (mag strip on a wall above where I usually prep meals) may not be the most child friendly.

Do any of y’all with children have a solution that protects the knives and the kids ? I was thinking some sort of drawer solution (so there can be child locks), but wanted to ask!

Thanks!

 

[aporigine]

My wife and I are expecting soon (yay), but I’ve realized that the way my knives are stored now (mag strip on a wall above where I usually prep meals) may not be the most child friendly.

Do any of y’all with children have a solution that protects the knives and the kids ? I was thinking some sort of drawer solution (so there can be child locks), but wanted to ask!

Thanks!

Young children are relentless in exploring new ways to die. A locked cabinet is my recommendation.

 

[Vertigo]

Young children are relentless in exploring new ways to die. A locked cabinet is my recommendation.

Buddy of mine had his mag strip on the side of his fridge. Just kept moving it up higher and higher as the kiddo grew. Like man I know you wanna show them off, but *please* stop tempting fate, that kid WILL find a way to unalive himself on those things

 

[AT5760]

Here’s a prior thread from when my kids were younger.

https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/kid-safe-knife-storage-setup.40429/

TLDR - drawer storage with child safe lock.

 

[aporigine]

I was fortunate enough to first get into cutlery once my offspring passed the age of reason.

“Stop carrying on! I told you there was a reason.”

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

Kids, man. They're expensive and irritating.

 

[Just a DK]

I just do 2x this and keep it in the middle of the island.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/131515...6e35&ref=search_recently_viewed-3&frs=1&sts=1

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

Those Jones blocks are REALLY REALLY nice.

 

[aporigine]

I just do 2x this and keep it in the middle of the island.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1315150531/walnut-knife-block-knife-stand-knife?click_key=93bdeefd9e958e837e0d2216ad6a11c11033fa3f:1315150531&click_sum=67d76e35&ref=search_recently_viewed-3&frs=1&sts=1

that merely edits the really bright ones from the gene pool.

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

that merely edits the really bright ones from the gene pool.

Ok???

 

[aporigine]

Ok???

We wanna educate but not eliminate the serious outliers.

 

[aporigine]

We wanna educate but not eliminate the serious outliers.

The flat part of the bell curve (on the right) is destiny.

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

We wanna educate but not eliminate the serious outliers.

Is that so? I was unaware.

 

[aporigine]

Is that so? I was unaware.

I’m one in a hundred thousand. (per test)

I spent time with one in a hundred million.

They are the best of our future. Or so I am confident.

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

I’m one in a hundred thousand.

I spent time with one in a hundred million.

They are the best of our future. Or so I am confident.

I mean, THEY might be. But are the rest?

 

[aporigine]

I mean, THEY might be. But are the rest?

The rest are never to be dismissed. We move together toward the future, awesome/ awful.

Oops thought this was unpopular opinions

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

Just put them in a drawer with edge guards to protect your knives. Teach your kid not to touch stuff. I kept dangerous stuff out of their toddler reach of course but we almost never locked things up or moved anything they reached for. We taught them not to touch stuff. There were many battles that would've been easier to just move whatever the item was (glass, vase, plate, etc.) but we chose to fight and deal with the short term tantum and stubbornness that in the end pays big dividends.

My daughter took the same path with our granddaughter.

 

[mikaelsan]

I keep a knife block on top of the fridge most effective I could think of here

 

[Jovidah]

A locked basement or dog kennel tends to be the safest storage solution.
If neither of those are available, chaining the child to keep it out of reach of the knives can also work.

 

[tostadas]

I asked the AI for ideas and this is what it came up with. Seems safe to me.

 

[Yoshi]

I use magnetic wall mount and table stand, all my kids fingers and toes are still intact.

 

[petrel]

By the time a child is tall enough to reach into a kitchen drawer or a magnetic strip on the cabinet, they should already be helping out in the kitchen and doing a little supervised cooking, and most certainly should have been taught about knives and other dangerous things.

That said, if you get into the habit of hosting your children’s friends/playmates it could be a very different story.

 

[AT5760]

My middle child was capable of climbing up the cabinets, on the counters, and accessing nearly anything in our house at 18 months.

Not sure it’s practical to teach a kid that age to cook or use knives.

 

[petrel]

Then teach them not to climb on the cabinets.

 

[AT5760]

Obviously.

 

[sumis]

knife safe child storage is the ticket.

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[HolyDiverScallop]

My middle child was capable of climbing up the cabinets, on the counters, and accessing nearly anything in our house at 18 months.

Not sure it’s practical to teach a kid that age to cook or use knives.

Teach that kid parkour.

 

[BillHanna]

My biggest issue has been curious outsiders. Your family has firearms, but you can’t respect an edge?

There was another child who thought Harper was lying about them being sharp.

Then there’s the MIL who believes knives shouldn’t be sharp.

 

[Dave]

I feel like teaching your kids to not touch stuff they shouldn't be touching is the way to go. Maybe let Darwin take the wheel every once in a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Jovidah]

My middle child was capable of climbing up the cabinets, on the counters, and accessing nearly anything in our house at 18 months.

Not sure it’s practical to teach a kid that age to cook or use knives.

Yeah my parents had the same problem when I was young; I climbed in, on and out of all kinds of stuff several times my height long before I had the ability to really be taught anything.

Relying on 'teaching' young kids might work as a safety policy if you're lucky - which is fine for stuff like vases - but it's far from foolproof. Wouldn't be my go-to for stuff that can actually hurt them. There's plenty of tragic examples where it didn't work with guns.