For 'every day' kitchen knife sharpening are these any good:-
If not what would anyone suggest for keeping ordinary knives sharp? That's knives used for peeling potatoes etc. It would also be nice if it could sharpen serrated bread knives too (the above claims to do this).
I've had one like this one in use for the last fifty years.
OP here, yes, I remember having one of those. It wouldn't manage the serrated bread knife I guess but for the rest should be OK.
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When I was a butcher's boy, they used an ordinary steel to keep their knives sharp. Used regularly, they're excellent at keeping an edge.
FWIW there are thousands of reviews on amazon.co.uk, the overwhelming majority giving it 5 stars.
Myself, I keep a traditional steel handy and use it often.
I bought one at a trade show. Yes they work well, but not as well as purported to, but is that not always true of advertising blurb?
I keep one of these in my kitchen drawer. Works for me.
Tim
Yes they work fine. I've had one for 7 years or more. Mine was badged 7Day Shop but they no longer stock them.
The only price I could get from your link was one for 20 euros. Ebay seems best place for Anysharp :-
Same here. They give a really sharp edge on most cheapish kitchen knives
- which is all we have.
My son has a really posh kitchen knife, and he won't let me sharpen it on this, as he says it removes too much metal. I think he's perhaps being a tad precious about his knife, but I respect his wishes.
Watch out, as there are some cheap clones around, which are not as well made. I think we paid around £8.
Mech engineers use bench grinders because they work best. Can you do all your diy tools on that little thing?
Serrated knives can be sharpened on an abrasive wheel, it sharpens the tips and ignores the other bits - and that works. And eventually it deserrates it.
NT
A butchers steel is used to hone an already sharpened edge. All butcher's k nives eventually will require regular sharpening. When barbers still used c ut throat razors they used a leather strop as a hone but still had to send their razors away for professionally sharpening.
None of those devices will sharpen a serrated blade. The correct way to sha rpen a serrated blade is with the appropriate sized round file on each of t he scallops individually. Personally I'd throw the blunt scalloped knife a way and buy a new one before Id go through that torture.
Yes, but rather difficult on a small knife with a blade only two or three inches long. I use a steel with my carving knife.
Yes, but are they cool? Can't your phone sharpen knives? My DIL has at least half a dozen huge, vicious looking knives, but not one of them cuts anything. I keep my mouth shut
Ah, yes, I was wondering about a stone being suitable.
Why would I want to do all my tools on it? :-) Different tools surely need different ways to sharpen them. I have a bench grinder but it's not really sensible/suitable for kitchen knives IMHO. Apart from anything else one can't really expect all kitchen users to go out to the garage, don protective gear and use the bench grinder just to put a better edge on a knife to peel potatoes. We need a simple, low-tech, safe way to sharpen relatively cheap and cheerful knives.
Very useful! Serrated knives have their uses, especially as bread knives. I think I actually prefer a bread-saw but they seem to be rather out of fashion nawadays.
That sharpener removes too much metal for my liking. I got this one because it's kinder to the blade and does a good job.
Not sure why a vegetable knife needs to be so sharp. Maybe it's getting pressed into service as a tool knife from time to time.
In other words it doesn't sharpen it.
The only way to sharpen on a wheel would be to grind out the scallops entirely, but why bother they're generally cheap as chips.
Besides the steel in these knives doesn't lend itself to being sharpened.
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it's how I do mine, and works fine. It's the tips that do the cutting of the food, not the scallops.
Kitchen knives have very variable quality steel, but I've yet to encounter anything so bad as to be unsharpenable.
NT
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