Here I had a fish head, on it's way to a soup for me. Now the thing here is that the gills need to come out of the fish head. So then, a chance to test the DIREKT in action! As we noticed before, the serrated version of the DIREKT has the serrations in an unusual place at the front. There is also a plain edge version but we are not concerned with that now.
As you see, I had a Cold Steel kitchen knife handy too. It's a nice blade, but it's made for different tasks, and I deemed it too thin for this kind of aggressive cutting. There's always a chance of chipping or breaking a blade that's too thin. If I had a serrated version of the same knife, I might have used it, but now I only have the plain edge Cold Steel kitchen knife.
This test proves that the serrations at the front do work for certain tasks. Gills can be kind of hard to get out of a fish, but the DIREKT managed well. Also, it was strong enough to break the backbone of the fish - another task not suited for the thinner Cold Steel kitchen knife.
In my eyes, the DIREKT is somewhat akin to a Japanese pulling saw. These Japanese saws are different from western ones; the Japanese pulling saw is only used in one direction, as the name implies - to pull.
Oh, and that was one great assortment of veggies in that soup... you don't see all of them in the pic, like the chinese sprouts, the water chestnuts, the little shallot onions... yum, yum...