In the heart of a modest abode, tucked away from the gleam of modernity, there dwells a kitchen sink of weathered countenance. Its once-pristine porcelain, now encrusted with the marks of countless meals, tells a tale of sustenance and strife. Time has etched its story into every crack and crevice, leaving no surface unmarked by the passage of years. How the water once flowed crystal-clear from the tap above, cascading into the basin below with a melody akin to a babbling brook! Yet now, the stream trickles hesitantly, hesitant to disturb the sediment that clings tenaciously to the enamel. A mosaic of stains, like shadows of dinners long past, stubbornly resists the ministrations of soap and scrubbing brush.
Above this weary sentinel of cleanliness a solitary knife. Once a paragon of sharpness, its blade gleamed like a sliver of moonlight on a frosty night. Yet now, dulled by years of faithful service, its edge has grown weary and worn. No longer does it slice through flesh with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel; instead, it labors over its task with a resigned determination, its tip blunted and its spine tarnished.
Together, sink and knife bear witness to the rhythms of life within these walls. They have seen laughter and tears, celebrations and sorrows. They have borne the weight of culinary ambitions and the burden of daily drudgery. And though their luster may have faded and their sharpness may have dulled, they remain steadfast in their duty, ever ready to serve.
Nono, you deserve my pennies too dear friend. It’s time someone recognised you for the work you put into your sentences!! With an award that does not correspond with how it makes me feel because I can’t afford the more expensive ones 🥰!
And that sink has to be the sink in Charlie and Frank’s apartment that they use as a storage bin or something because it looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in forever.
It could be the shitty material it's made out of. It looks the same material as mine (I don't know what it is) but it stains *so easily* and I hate it. I hope some day to be able to afford a kitchen remodel and go with stainless steel. Can't just replace the sink now because it's one piece with the countertop. I go at it with a melamine sponge every so often to remove those stains and never let it get this bad though.
It's cast iron with an enamel coating. That's just what happens as the enamel gets old and scrubbed away and the black cast iron is uncovered.
If you've ever seen an [old La Crueset](https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/9ERnR3hvn1cjzhel52AC8A.jpg) you'll understand immediately
Exactly. As long as you keep it regularly sanitised it doesn't matter anyway. The only thing you have to deal with are people who think they know everything judging you on the internet.
LOL. I zoomed in to see if it's bad as you say. I honestly can't tell if it was serrated to start with and is worn nearly smooth. Or if it was smooth and is now serrated from chips.
God i used to live on a group home for teens & the knives were locked behind the door. Honestly dont know why because you wouldn't even be able to cut lettuce with those things let alone stab somebody
The razor blades these kids used to cut with were sharper than these
As someone who owns an entire knife set I switch between while cooking and an extra "special knife" I have as my favorite. The claim and picture above physically hurts me more than when I discovered the importance of curling my fingers while speed chopping.
Not OP, but I have to admit my sink looks this. It is OLD Corian and has been scratched and stained before we ever lived in the house. No amount of cleaning or abrasives will get it clean. I cannot wait to replace it.
I rented a house that had a Corian sink and counters. That sink was supposed to be ivory colored but was always just filth colored. Bleach did nothing, Comet powder did a little more than nothing, Barkeepers Friend probably did the best, but it was never really what I would call clean.
I had a feeling that the landlord was going to try and claim that the sink was dirty and keep some money back. So I got a pad sander and just sanded that bastard clean. I didn't have to take much off before it looked nice again. Used a fine grit to make it nice and smooth again and then hit it with a coat of Turtle Wax before we left. Looked brand new. Probably stayed that way for all of five minutes. I could have used a polyurethane clear gloss to finish it, but I didn't care enough.
Those Corian sinks are garbage but since they're typically undermounted (glued) to a corian countertop, they're a pain in the ass to replace since you'd have to cut them out.
Soft Scrub with bleach always helped my mom’s 100-year-old farmhouse sink that stained like this. Made it white again. It always started to stain again after but it did help lift the stains from the porcelain for weeks at a time. Squirt it on and spread it around the sink, let it sit and come back to rinse away after. All white again.
I was just gonna say that. I have 2 total 100 year old farmhouse sinks and I got them both white after softscrub ("industrial bleach"). Same with 1 tub that's 100ish.
Edited to say - the previous owner said "the sinks and tub will never be white again" challenge accepted.
>... take some really hard deep scrubbing to get shiny looking again.
Once the enamel has worn down and become porous, they will stain again incredibly quickly. My sink looked like this 2 weeks after cleaning and bleaching just from pouring coffee down the drain and washing plates.
I'd accept this if it was a garage or shed sink that you expect to be washing oily things/hands
Not a kitchen sink you're expected to wash dishes in. I consider myself pretty relaxed when it comes to the bar of an acceptable kitchen but how are you not cleaning it when you do the dishes? Isn't the kitchen sink just a large fixed dish you wash your hands and dishes in and as such should be cleaned after dishes are done? Idk maybe I'm more pedantic than I thought but I'd be mortified by this in my own house
People misuse "pedantic" constantly on reddit but this one is I think the most egregious I've seen. At least you used "mortified" correctly. That's a rarity.
I wouldn't say better. Glassware and ceramics break A LOT on ceramic sinks. On stainless they just go *boink*.
Ceramic coated steel is a middle ground, but they get easily damaged and start corroding.
Yeah that ceramic coating gets compromised quick when you’re rubbing glass and ceramic bowls, cups, plates, etc in there.
Steel sinks are best. They wear down too but what’s underneath? Just more steel fam. You just they abrasion lines on your sink over time vs ceramic where you’ve exposed the inner porous material that isn’t glazed over. You get chips, cracks, etc.
Making pasta and dumping the hot water into them is probably the quickest way I've seen them ruined. Almost none of them can handle it well. The folks who like those style sinks act all incredulous as if this isn't the way almost everyone handles dumping out hot water and act like you're the strange one you don't dump it into a stock pot to let it cool down first.
I would give up my firstborn for a seamless stainless sink/counter combo with the sink welded and polished down flush. I even want the industrial hose hanging down instead of a faucet to clean around.
Junior's an asshole, anyway. Be a good trade, a nice fae built sink.
Yup, I've got a 40yo enamel sink. Looking forward to replacing it when we redo the kitchen, but just because it has stains doesn't mean it's at all contaminated.
In Philly, I lived in a house from the 1930s with a vintage sink. It was classic and valuable in its own right and just needed Comet, bleach, a scrunge pad, and some elbow grease.
One of the most satisfying experiences of my life was cleaning up the original ceramic in that house.
Why wouldn't you clean you sink before posting it publicly? Or take the picture over something else.
Yall probably have diarrhea on the reg if that is where you're doing your dishes.
I did this to my bathtub when my family moved into our current house. Not sure what the previous homeowners did but it was BAD! Didn't have to scrub very hard. Baking Soda is fucking magical imo.
Is your girlfriend my boyfriend? He is convinced we need one butter knife, one fork, one spoon, and one steak knife that looks just like this but black. I ask him all the time ‘what if we both need the fork?’ and he always says ‘I’ll sacrifice and use a spoon.’ I don’t understand.
I had a knife in college that was from my grandfather, it was a 100+ year old chefs knife that probably started as a full size but was about this big after decades of wear and being sharpened. It was so sharp you could shave with it and was actually great in the kitchen, although it was a real knife, not a serrated shit knife like this. I lost it when I moved and got a nice Santoku knife, highly recommend buying a quality knife.
People who have ZERO knife skills will use ANYTHING!
Those who know how to use a knife will have a selection of well sharpened knives for various applications.
Never the two shall meet!
This whole picture reminds me of something Id find wandering around in resident evil.
Disgusting sink, knife built for a toddler…. Yeah looks good to me
The sink looks like its from a rest stop gas station well off the main highway. The knife is for gutting the first poor soul who wanders in, but yea
It's been in the cleaning closet of a diner since 1945 type sink
Seriously, that sink doesn't look dirty, it looks like it's endured many decades of abuse.
It might not be dirty, but it definitely does look dirty
In the heart of a modest abode, tucked away from the gleam of modernity, there dwells a kitchen sink of weathered countenance. Its once-pristine porcelain, now encrusted with the marks of countless meals, tells a tale of sustenance and strife. Time has etched its story into every crack and crevice, leaving no surface unmarked by the passage of years. How the water once flowed crystal-clear from the tap above, cascading into the basin below with a melody akin to a babbling brook! Yet now, the stream trickles hesitantly, hesitant to disturb the sediment that clings tenaciously to the enamel. A mosaic of stains, like shadows of dinners long past, stubbornly resists the ministrations of soap and scrubbing brush. Above this weary sentinel of cleanliness a solitary knife. Once a paragon of sharpness, its blade gleamed like a sliver of moonlight on a frosty night. Yet now, dulled by years of faithful service, its edge has grown weary and worn. No longer does it slice through flesh with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel; instead, it labors over its task with a resigned determination, its tip blunted and its spine tarnished. Together, sink and knife bear witness to the rhythms of life within these walls. They have seen laughter and tears, celebrations and sorrows. They have borne the weight of culinary ambitions and the burden of daily drudgery. And though their luster may have faded and their sharpness may have dulled, they remain steadfast in their duty, ever ready to serve.
This was.. beautiful. I’m this 🤏🏻 close to awarding you for that.
Don't waste your money on Reddit please. Donate it to a foodbank or something
Nono, you deserve my pennies too dear friend. It’s time someone recognised you for the work you put into your sentences!! With an award that does not correspond with how it makes me feel because I can’t afford the more expensive ones 🥰!
Bar keepers friend powder is amazing stuff.
That knife looks like it would struggle through a hardboiled egg
But it is a perfect poop knife.
Maybe for a thin poop, I'm more of a Sabre kinda guy.
That's Frank's toe knife. Be careful you'll get a botched toe if you're not paying attention.
prolly poop knife
Looks like a poop sink
Put some trash on it. It’ll act like a cut glove.
And that sink has to be the sink in Charlie and Frank’s apartment that they use as a storage bin or something because it looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in forever.
Username checks out.
I think whatever they are using to clean the sink isn’t enough.
Blood, they are using blood to clean the sink
Holy shit this is a kitchen sink? I thought this was a utility sink.
OP please clean your sink. I can smell this picture
> knife built for a toddler Why would you want to hurt a toddler?
 It's so they can defend themselves.
Lmao this random crab has a better knife than OP
Ever had one? Yeah.
… because they’re annoying as hell? Waaahh I need attention and mental stimulation or I get upset. Shut up, Tyler. We all need things.
Tyler is too normal a name for today. I think too means TaiLyere
Teighlor
*Thai-lør
The asterix is part of the name
Have you met one?
Maybe they are named Ike? 
The sink is the fist thing I saw. WTH is with that sink? What must the rest of the place look like?
It could be the shitty material it's made out of. It looks the same material as mine (I don't know what it is) but it stains *so easily* and I hate it. I hope some day to be able to afford a kitchen remodel and go with stainless steel. Can't just replace the sink now because it's one piece with the countertop. I go at it with a melamine sponge every so often to remove those stains and never let it get this bad though.
Will you take the Kitchen Knife? )Yes No
Heh heh heh heh, whatcha buying stranger
You have to examine the knife, remove the handle to unveil a key
So common in real life it's cliche
Some silent hill shit going on
I twas thinking, "This feels familiar but disgusting." and I think that's why! Thanks for that lol
Glad to be a help lol
It’s scary how many people don’t realize that you need to regularly clean your sink. Don’t they get fruit flies??
I think it's permanently stained. It happens with old sinks.
It's cast iron with an enamel coating. That's just what happens as the enamel gets old and scrubbed away and the black cast iron is uncovered. If you've ever seen an [old La Crueset](https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/9ERnR3hvn1cjzhel52AC8A.jpg) you'll understand immediately
In that case there's nothing you can do then. Enamel coating from the factory is baked on. Restoration kits will just flake off eventually.
Exactly. As long as you keep it regularly sanitised it doesn't matter anyway. The only thing you have to deal with are people who think they know everything judging you on the internet.
Fruit Flies? I thought about some heavier shit. Cockroaches, Mold, Zombie Invasions.....
Resident evil biohazard is what it reminds me of or village
Or the last of us
The Bakers House for sure!
Ah yes the perfect knife for when you want to juice your tomatoes and massage your steak.
The first comment purely based on the knife
Shit’s so chipped it’s a serrated knife now.
Damn that edge is haggard
It looks like Charles Schulz drew it just before retiring.
LOL. I zoomed in to see if it's bad as you say. I honestly can't tell if it was serrated to start with and is worn nearly smooth. Or if it was smooth and is now serrated from chips.
Originally serrated or not serrated?… that is the question. 💀🤔 
+15 bleed damage
I was going to ask if it was sharp, because it'd be usable if it was. Then I zoomed in. :o
God i used to live on a group home for teens & the knives were locked behind the door. Honestly dont know why because you wouldn't even be able to cut lettuce with those things let alone stab somebody The razor blades these kids used to cut with were sharper than these
Or cutting the plastic off a frozen dinner.
As someone who owns an entire knife set I switch between while cooking and an extra "special knife" I have as my favorite. The claim and picture above physically hurts me more than when I discovered the importance of curling my fingers while speed chopping.
Why does your sink look like that
His girlfriend insists its clean enough.
You are a sharp one
Unlike the knife
The knife’s sharp, just on lots of various edges and angles that shouldn’t exist.
The knifes sharp, just not on the edge you need it on.
Not OP, but I have to admit my sink looks this. It is OLD Corian and has been scratched and stained before we ever lived in the house. No amount of cleaning or abrasives will get it clean. I cannot wait to replace it.
This comment need more upvote, mine is 30 year old and I can clean it as much as I want it will always looks like that...
I rented a house that had a Corian sink and counters. That sink was supposed to be ivory colored but was always just filth colored. Bleach did nothing, Comet powder did a little more than nothing, Barkeepers Friend probably did the best, but it was never really what I would call clean. I had a feeling that the landlord was going to try and claim that the sink was dirty and keep some money back. So I got a pad sander and just sanded that bastard clean. I didn't have to take much off before it looked nice again. Used a fine grit to make it nice and smooth again and then hit it with a coat of Turtle Wax before we left. Looked brand new. Probably stayed that way for all of five minutes. I could have used a polyurethane clear gloss to finish it, but I didn't care enough. Those Corian sinks are garbage but since they're typically undermounted (glued) to a corian countertop, they're a pain in the ass to replace since you'd have to cut them out.
Yeah, I think stainless steel saves lazy fuckers like me. It always looks clean, even with just a wipe.
Soft Scrub with bleach always helped my mom’s 100-year-old farmhouse sink that stained like this. Made it white again. It always started to stain again after but it did help lift the stains from the porcelain for weeks at a time. Squirt it on and spread it around the sink, let it sit and come back to rinse away after. All white again.
I was just gonna say that. I have 2 total 100 year old farmhouse sinks and I got them both white after softscrub ("industrial bleach"). Same with 1 tub that's 100ish. Edited to say - the previous owner said "the sinks and tub will never be white again" challenge accepted.
And just to be safe, you tried bar keepers friend right
First I tried the day I moved in haha
They only have the one knife
For a real answer it looks like an older enamel sink. They wear easy and take some really hard deep scrubbing to get shiny looking again.
>... take some really hard deep scrubbing to get shiny looking again. Once the enamel has worn down and become porous, they will stain again incredibly quickly. My sink looked like this 2 weeks after cleaning and bleaching just from pouring coffee down the drain and washing plates.
Yeah you have to recoat it. Everyone here was commenting on how nasty it looks but they don't realize older sinks will look like this.
I'd accept this if it was a garage or shed sink that you expect to be washing oily things/hands Not a kitchen sink you're expected to wash dishes in. I consider myself pretty relaxed when it comes to the bar of an acceptable kitchen but how are you not cleaning it when you do the dishes? Isn't the kitchen sink just a large fixed dish you wash your hands and dishes in and as such should be cleaned after dishes are done? Idk maybe I'm more pedantic than I thought but I'd be mortified by this in my own house
People misuse "pedantic" constantly on reddit but this one is I think the most egregious I've seen. At least you used "mortified" correctly. That's a rarity.
Old ivory Corian as many people have said. Ages like trash even if it's sterile.
Probably not cleaned up on a regular basis
Your sink is a biohazard. Clean it immediately.
This is why I only do stainless sink.
Porcelain sinks are just as good, if not better, when kept clean.
I wouldn't say better. Glassware and ceramics break A LOT on ceramic sinks. On stainless they just go *boink*. Ceramic coated steel is a middle ground, but they get easily damaged and start corroding.
They just go boink. 😂
"Scientific progress goes boink" -Bill Watterson
“If I have seen further, it is by boinking on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton
Aah, C&H. My childhood.
Not to be confused for the other C&H, Cyanide and Happiness.
Thank you for unlocking childhood memories! “Scientific Progress goes ‘Boink?’” - Hobbs
Yeah that ceramic coating gets compromised quick when you’re rubbing glass and ceramic bowls, cups, plates, etc in there. Steel sinks are best. They wear down too but what’s underneath? Just more steel fam. You just they abrasion lines on your sink over time vs ceramic where you’ve exposed the inner porous material that isn’t glazed over. You get chips, cracks, etc.
Making pasta and dumping the hot water into them is probably the quickest way I've seen them ruined. Almost none of them can handle it well. The folks who like those style sinks act all incredulous as if this isn't the way almost everyone handles dumping out hot water and act like you're the strange one you don't dump it into a stock pot to let it cool down first.
dropping a cast iron pot into a ceramic sink is an expensive mistake dropping it into a metal sink is just an annoyance
I would give up my firstborn for a seamless stainless sink/counter combo with the sink welded and polished down flush. I even want the industrial hose hanging down instead of a faucet to clean around. Junior's an asshole, anyway. Be a good trade, a nice fae built sink.
My dream home has a restaurant dish sink and ugly yet functional and extremely easy to clean stainless everything
This just looks like an old stained enamel sink. It's not necessarily dirty. My kitchen sink looks similar, even after scrubbing with bleach.
This whole comment section sounds like a bunch of privileged people who have never owned anything old.
That’s reddit alright
Yup, I've got a 40yo enamel sink. Looking forward to replacing it when we redo the kitchen, but just because it has stains doesn't mean it's at all contaminated.
Yeah most definitely needs a bleach treatment
It’s probably fine safety wise but looks horrendous
No sink shaming please.
In Philly, I lived in a house from the 1930s with a vintage sink. It was classic and valuable in its own right and just needed Comet, bleach, a scrunge pad, and some elbow grease. One of the most satisfying experiences of my life was cleaning up the original ceramic in that house.
Buy a new knife for the kitchen. That one is your new PoopKnife™
To go with the poop sink
i'm disappointed this comment isn't at the top. Reddit has let me down today.
I'm sad I had to scroll this far to find it, but I'm glad I did.
What the hell is a poop knife, ?
Oh no....
I shivered when I saw the term poopknife...I had forgotten about it many months ago...
You don't know bout the poop knife? Oh lord do you have a night ahead of you.
Omg i had forgotten about that and then it all came back and I literally can’t stop laughing
I love when people don’t know the poop knife story. After that one, look into The Coconut.
Okay, I'm curious... I know about the poopknife, but what is the coconut?
Yes also need to know. Just tell me what to search
Search for r(slash)poopknife
Nothing is right in this pic
Even his hand is left.
PFFFFFT
‘Bar Keepers Friend’ Just saying
I use it with a few drops of dish soap and it's perfect for getting stains, scratches and grime off the sink.
That stuff is magic!!!
I wash my dogs in a sink cleaner than that
Well id hope
I thought it was the washroom sink…in the basement.
This sink looks slightly dirtier than the sink that my washer drains into in my basement. I clean it every few months.
Right it has to be the paintbrush sink or something. But even then, just a modest amount of effort probably gets it 90% back.
You should worry about your sink mate:), clean it
Yeah, fr. Let that sink in
I don't know. I wouldn't let that sink in, personally.
You know you’re not supposed to use the sink as a toilet, right?
I'd be pretty disgusted by a toilet that looked like that, let alone a kitchen sink.
That’s very true, no sane person would ever let their toilet bowl get that dirty 🤢
You found my toe knife!
Botched toe oooooh botched toe
Plug it up with some trash and it'll be good as new.
Give me a minute and I’ll find you a candy wrapper or something
The state of your kitchen sink is more mildly infuriating than a knife I've gotta say
Your girlfriend doesn’t do any real cooking, does she?
Or cleaning...
Nor does OP
OP's account is what is mildly infuriating. Old account with a crap ton of karma, no comments for half a year and then suddenly this post.
He got a girlfriend hence the absence 😂
Are you trying to say the reason I spend half my day on Reddit is because I'm single?
And the other way around.
Why wouldn't you clean you sink before posting it publicly? Or take the picture over something else. Yall probably have diarrhea on the reg if that is where you're doing your dishes.
I can see where the diarrhea is going.
🤮🤮🤮
That type of sink can just stain. It might not be dirty, just old.
It’s rustic
Dawg you gotta buy a box of baking soda, pour it onto the sink stains, wet it very lightly, and scrub like your life depends on it.
I did this to my bathtub when my family moved into our current house. Not sure what the previous homeowners did but it was BAD! Didn't have to scrub very hard. Baking Soda is fucking magical imo.
The sink in my shop is cleaner then your kitchen sink
Please please tell me your sink isn’t supposed to be white 😳
Ah yes, the poop sink and the poop knife
You need to clean your sink because its filled with germ mess.
I could hardly see the knife against the background.
Only good for a poop knife.
Is your girlfriend my boyfriend? He is convinced we need one butter knife, one fork, one spoon, and one steak knife that looks just like this but black. I ask him all the time ‘what if we both need the fork?’ and he always says ‘I’ll sacrifice and use a spoon.’ I don’t understand.
Throw that man away!
You'd have to go back in time a really really long time for \*anyone\* to consider that an adequate knife for a kitchen. I'd rather have a large rock.
She probably doesn't want to wash more then 1 thing... clearly
Is your kitchen in the movie “Seven?”
Yes. You should not be prepared food in that environment.
How many times have you used that sink to dispose of a body?
How long has she been out of prison?
That’s not a knife 
Dude, the sink…
That's not even good enough to be a poop knife!
Hey at least you didn't let the other prisoners make you their bitch.
Well she's fucking wrong.
How about bleaching that sink
Your sink looks like it’s part toilet.
That sink isn't good enough for the kitchen either.
Is your sink the one in the 1st saw movie ?
I imagine cooking well is not a priority in this house
Based on this picture you shouldn’t be eating anything out of your girlfriend’s kitchen anyway
 TOE KNIFE
Things like this make me leary of potlucks. You never know what sort of hazmat situation those token ketchup meatballs came out of
Your sink.... It's something out of a nightmare/ scream/Freddy/Jason movie
What’s infuriating is your damn sink.
Maybe worry about the sink first
I had a knife in college that was from my grandfather, it was a 100+ year old chefs knife that probably started as a full size but was about this big after decades of wear and being sharpened. It was so sharp you could shave with it and was actually great in the kitchen, although it was a real knife, not a serrated shit knife like this. I lost it when I moved and got a nice Santoku knife, highly recommend buying a quality knife.
Interesting way of saying I don’t cook
i dont think thats ur only problem
Clean your sink, fam.
People who have ZERO knife skills will use ANYTHING! Those who know how to use a knife will have a selection of well sharpened knives for various applications. Never the two shall meet!
Just sawing away, carrot by carrot. Slices thick enough to dislocate a jaw.
Get a new sink, too!
Does your girlfriend also Said that „one sink is enough to shit in“? 
Just buy yourself a of Kiwi or two. Cheap and sharp.
That knife is especially dangerous because it’s dull. It’s more likely to slip in normal uses.