Kitchen & Pocket Knife Sharpening, what do you use?

[two_bit_score]

Lansky's system.

 

[bunyip]

I have and old set of Henckel knives that are SS and hold an edge like a surgeon's scalpel.

I would say therein lies the difference, I bought the SS for her from Aldi after she put my Dick in the dishwasher (have fun with that!!).

 

[Molalla1]

I would say therein lies the difference, I bought the SS for her from Aldi after she put my Dick in the dishwasher (have fun with that!!).

. . . well one could surmise that there is good SS and not so good.

 

[California]

. . . well one could surmise that there is good SS and not so good.

There's good SS and then there's SS that's impossible to sharpen. We've settled the estates of several elders in the last decade and ended up with our share of a lot of kitchenware. For full size carving knives I kept one that sharpens easily when there's a turkey etc to carve, and discarded several that looked as good but just weren't satisfactory. Likewise with the little paring knives my wife loves - but she also uses them to slice sandwiches etc on the Corelle (ceramic) plates so I always re-sharpen one before using it myself. (My wife does 95% of the meal prep, I'm not going to argue with her!) Not all SS is bad for sharpening, just a lot of it.

 

[Molalla1]

There's good SS and then there's SS that's impossible to sharpen. We've settled the estates of several elders in the last decade and ended up with our share of a lot of kitchenware. For full size carving knives I kept one that sharpens easily when there's a turkey etc to carve, and discarded several that looked as good but just weren't satisfactory. Likewise with the little paring knives my wife loves - but she also uses them to slice sandwiches etc on the Corelle (ceramic) plates so I always re-sharpen one before using it myself. (My wife does 95% of the meal prep, I'm not going to argue with her!) Not all SS is bad for sharpening, just a lot of it.

Good deal . . . (with the wife, I also ) yes when you can buy a nice looking carving knife for $2-3 dollars one must consider.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Question. How do you sharpen ceramic knives, I don't have any but curious as I believe they are deadly sharp.

I dont think you can sharpen a ceramic knife. I tried on my HF diamond hone and it didn't work. I really dont like ceramic knifes anyway, they are too brittle and easily broken or chipped.
Also, I see nothing wrong with SS knives if you buy good ones, cheap ones wont stay sharp but good quality ones are great. I like the German SS knives from Solingen Germany (Ed. Wusthoff Dreizackwerk) that I have had for more than 30 years and they stay razor sharp for months and require just a few strokes on my HF diamond stone to bring back the razor edge.

 

[4570Man]

There's good SS and then there's SS that's impossible to sharpen. We've settled the estates of several elders in the last decade and ended up with our share of a lot of kitchenware. For full size carving knives I kept one that sharpens easily when there's a turkey etc to carve, and discarded several that looked as good but just weren't satisfactory. Likewise with the little paring knives my wife loves - but she also uses them to slice sandwiches etc on the Corelle (ceramic) plates so I always re-sharpen one before using it myself. (My wife does 95% of the meal prep, I'm not going to argue with her!) Not all SS is bad for sharpening, just a lot of it.

When you try slicing on a plate with a ceramic knife you get a pile of broken plate.

 

[whistlepig]

Ceramic can be sharpened with diamond stones. Diamond stones are more expensive than ceramic knives these days. I just buy another ceramic knife.

 

[whistlepig]

Sharpening became so time consuming that I quit sharpening because I didn't have the time. For me stainless is the worst steel for sharpening and edge holding. Anyway the wife bought me one of these. Expensive but all the knives we have now have been shaving sharp for over a year

 

[ArlyA]

A steel. Why not? They work fine.