As long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a sharp knife. My dad, a former butcher, taught me to sharpen knives, starting around age 6. We used his sharpening stone on weekend ...

As a former chef, I’ve long known the value of a sharp knife. So naturally I leapt at the chance to assess eight knife sharpeners in my own kitchen as part of Consumer Reports’ Outside the Labs ...

A sharp knife is safer, faster, and far more satisfying to use—but only if you maintain it properly. After testing electric ...

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Whether you spend four dollars or a thousand on your kitchen cutlery, the time is inevitably going to come when they require sharpening. And while you must be careful with sharp knives, dull knives ...

A deep, hands-on dive into the different types of sharpeners, their benefits and drawbacks, and much more. If nothing else, every knife owner — be that in the realm of EDC, culinary, survival or ...

I’ve used hundreds of knives—in culinary school, in professional kitchens, and now at home as the resident chef—and I can tell you that the real magic isn’t always in the knife so much as in the ...

If you find that your chef's knife can no longer cut a tomato without resistance or smoothly dice an onion, it's probably overdue for a knife-sharpening session. Although electric and manual knife ...