“A dull knife is a dangerous knife.” If you have never heard that saying before I can confirm its validity for you. It’s true because a dull knife requires you to work harder. When your knife is sharp ...

While there are various tools available to sharpen knives, whetstones are the most recommended tool by experts because they provide control and precision. Using a whetstone — or a sharpening stone — ...

Viral videos claim that you can sharpen your knives with something almost everyone already has: Aluminum foil. This is ...

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A serrated blade is great for ripping through heavy rope and other fibrous materials, and also keeps an edge longer due to its increased surface area. But, the reality of using knives is that even the ...

Sharpening stones, or whetstones, have a steeper learning curve than other sharpening options, but the payoff is huge. They offer more control and precision over the sharpness of your knives.

Though it's a painstaking task, you don’t have to do it often. Nick DeSimone is a pasta-obsessed vegetarian chef who spent nearly 10 years in restaurants before becoming a food writer. They review ...

The sharpness of your knife can really make or break your experience in the kitchen. Slicing and dicing tomatoes or cleaning the silver skin off a big hunk of meat are chores that can be made daunting ...

—it’s a dull knife. Once that blade is dull, it forces a person to misuse a knife, resulting in problems. Traps don’t get carved right. Meat doesn’t come off the bone of your deer right. And, in ...

Before you sharpen your knife, it’s important to know its material, its unique shape, and the angle in which to sharpen it. The material determines how often you have to sharpen a knife, the ...