If it was just me using them it'd be about the same, but my wife and her mother currently do most of the cooking, and they fall into the "certain individuals" category. I've given up trying to change habits and now just roll with the easiest solution
Heh. My wife definitely abuses our knives. I was a little flustered when I caught her using the nakiri to cut pizza on top of the aluminum tray and smashing garlic with the edge. I was wondering why it went from sharp to slipping off an onions when trying to cut through it.
How often do you sharpen knives? I do mine between once and twice a year and find a ceramic hone is able to keep them in good shape provided certain individuals don’t use them.
I've started buying knives from Knifewear, and our general purpose knife went years between sharpens. I took it back to them after it's first couple years of use and they said it didn't need anything beyond a hone yet. I think it was after 4 or 5 years that it finally needed more than its regular hone.
Some of the last discussions were knives. I picked up those rolling knife sharpeners for around $40 and they work decently good. Basically it's just using a diamond plate vertically vs horizontally.
I still like whetstones better, and I kinda find the amount of passes with the rolling I need to do a lot because the pressure isn't as high. The rolling sharpener can only do shorter knives, so certain naikiri or cleavers can't be done with it. But for a complete newbie/moderate user of knives, this is great set for basic knife sharpening vs those ceramic pull sharpeners.
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Some of the last discussions were knives. I picked up those rolling knife sharpeners for around $40 and they work decently good. Basically it's just using a diamond plate vertically vs horizontally.
I still like whetstones better, and I kinda find the amount of passes with the rolling I need to do a lot because the pressure isn't as high. The rolling sharpener can only do shorter knives, so certain naikiri or cleavers can't be done with it. But for a complete newbie/moderate user of knives, this is great set for basic knife sharpening vs those ceramic pull sharpeners.
The second video, where the woman cuts meat with the knife after sharpening it isn't exactly a selling point.
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