Comments on: Is It Bad If I Don’t Sharpen My Kitchen Knives? https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/ Amazing Foods Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Shawn Barbour https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272637 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272637 Wait….. You don't say

]]> By: The Good Plate https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272602 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272602 I was volunteering at a shelter kitchen, and all the knives that had been donated to them over the years were very dull. It was almost impossible to cut what I needed to prep. There was no sharpening steel and no other type of sharpener – but the stairs leading up to the kitchen were concrete. So I sat down with a couple of those knives and sharpened them on the concrete stairs. It wasn't perfect, but it was better.

]]> By: Brian Pulling https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272601 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272601 loving this background music, what is it?

]]> By: dbreardon https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272600 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272600 Just spend $28 for a King KW65 1000/6000 grit whetstone and about 15 min on youtube to learn how to sharpen your blade. It's not that hard. Although, try it out on a cheap knife first rather than your Shun or Wustof. I had an 25 year old set of no name knives that I have never sharpened and were sitting in my draw not being used due to being so dull. I also had an 8 year old cheap walmart purchased Chicago Cutlery Santoku. I was able to get all my knives so sharp I can literally shave the hair off my arm with them. They have been resurrected! Get yourself the King KW65 whetstone. And follow that up with an inexpensive leather strop if you want to be indulgent.
If you own expensive knives ($50 on up – yes, I know $50 isn't very expensive if we are talking about a Shun, Yaxell, Wustof, etc) then you owe it to yourself to get a whetstone or pay someone reputable to sharpen your knives.

Don't go electric. From what I have seen and read, they take a lot of metal off the blade

]]> By: Ebele Umeweni https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272599 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272599 If you have the money buy a work sharp

]]> By: WaywardHero 117 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272598 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272598 Please please please, please DO NOT USE THE PULL SHARPENERS, they take off a lot of steel and change the geometry of the blade so its either cut different or weird, there is a 13 dollar diamond-block at harbor freight that does the job up to 600 grit and a three dollar double-sided block that has about 1000 and 400, both of which are much better than using the dang sharpeners.

The electric sharpener shown is nice but has the same issue plus it can get pricey, a better option is the workshop tool sharpener (the small electric one that has small belts) which sharpens cleaner, nicer and can sharpen at different angles with guides that make it so much easier, and is a whole heck of a lot cheaper

]]> By: Uncle Rat https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272597 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272597 I get my knives sharpened at a local restaurant supply store about once a year. Just honing, using a cheap sharpener, and not letting others use the knives means I can have a near razor-sharp blade every time I reach for a knife. Also, I never use my chef knife for something like Butternut Squash, I use a butcher knife.

]]> By: Bl https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272596 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272596 It explains why U.S. knife brands (mainly cutco and miracle blade) state that they stay sharp for a lifetime

]]> By: Steve Kitella https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272595 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272595 Good job miss! Sharp knives save fingers!

]]> By: Steve Kitella https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272594 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:34:41 +0000 https://amazingfoodstv.com/is-it-bad-if-i-dont-sharpen-my-kitchen-knives/#comment-272594 Keeping your knives sharp is a must! Honing sharpish knives is the basics. Sharpening is usually needed if honing isnt doing the job.

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