ShatteredHeart wrote:
Very.
It's not quite as bad to use a perfectly clean surgical knife, even though that's still pretty bad - CUTTING IS NOT GOOD
And just wondering... Does holding the tool under a blowtorch for a good ten seconds sterilize it?
No. The only way to achieve medical sterilization is via an autoclave, which uses not much immense heat but also pressure to kill off microbial life. Flames not only dull the edges of the implement, but begin to break down the metal's structural integrity by causing 'pores' to open, allowing contaminants to have a place to go and breed. On top of that, I'm not sure I would want a combustible, like acetylene or propane, all over the instrument that will soon go through my flesh.