You just got gorgeous granite countertops installed. And now you're almost scared to use them. Every time someone reaches for a knife or slides a pan across the surface, you wince a little, right? But here's the thing. Most of what people worry about with granite countertops in Winnipeg , homeowners choose every year, the scratching, the damage, the fragility, is actually way overblown. So let's go through the 7 real facts about granite scratch resistance together. How Hard Is Granite Actually? So there's this thing called the Mohs hardness scale. It measures how easily a material gets scratched. Runs from 1 to 10. Diamond sits at 10. A human fingernail is around 2.5. Where does granite land? Right between 6 and 6.5. A regular steel kitchen knife? That's only about 5.5 on the same scale. So the knife is actually softer than the granite. In other words, your countertop is harder than your knife. Not the other way around. Fact #1 — Knives Won't Scratch Granit...