an electric powered knife having a handle and a pair of blades, the handle having a motor configured to power a pair of motorized blade drivers;

the knife handle further configured to removably attach the pair of blades to the blade drivers and having a blade release configured to enable release of the blades therefrom;

each blade of the pair of blades further having a lower cutting edge, an upper non-cutting edge and a handle insertion end;

each blade of the pair of blades having a lock sentry positioned about the blade proximate the handle insertion end, the lock sentry having a curved leading surface, a curved rear surface, and a point (P1) located at where these two curved surfaces intersect;

the insertion end of each blade further having an upper edge extending longitudinally from the non-cutting edge, each upper edge further defining a line (L);

each lock sentry further having a height (h) measured as the shortest distance between the point (P1) and the line (L);

the knife having the handle insertion ends of the pair of blades inserted in the handle and removably mated with the blade drives; and

a stand base having a blade lock connected thereto and defining at least one blade slot and configured to receive the pair of blades, the blade lock further configured to accept and retain the pair of blades within the at least one blade slot, the blade lock further configured to be urged open by insertion of the curved leading surfaces of the lock sentries positioned about the pair of blades.