Tom: Basic Tips for cleaning and sharpening knives

Q: I purchased an authentic Chinese knife recently. I like the way it is carried out large cutting jobs quickly, if I work mainly with bones. But it is pure steel and rust every time I wash my. Any suggestions on how to avoid this? Moreover, where I sharpened my knife professionally?

A. Never wash kitchen knives as you wash everything! Never use a knife in the sink with all the dishes and plates! And never, never, never knives in the dishwasher!

Professional chefs give their knives a quick cleanup immediately after they are done with them. Run water through the leaves, wipe it with a plastic bristle brush if necessary. Then wipe with a towel, and preferably stored in a block. This routine is particularly important for the type of metal, which appear to have the knife. I must say, not to be attached to this knife you, no knife that easily rusts away from the best quality.

Now, under normal use knives should be sharpened in only rare once or twice. I'll cut knife for many years blunt while efficiently. What do you do before each use, however, is to use a steel rim true frequency. The one I have is coated with diamond dust. Only a small portion of the blade from the blade when you do this.

Real grinding and sharpening remove the metal, and it takes years for the life of the blade. The best way to work is to be done, again, to do what leaders do: a professional sharpener do the work. A guy who diameter reaches most farmers' markets sharpens week. (Magazine Girod Saturday morning, noon Tuesday but Uptown). Normally, it takes your knives at this time to sharpen. Sometimes there is so much to do out in the store, sharpening their knives and come in the next week.

I'm not a fan of pencils origin. The best thing I know, the election of the head 2 The worst are the devices that what looks like coin stacks network with another made. This can even metal knife die. It may be good for a boy scout knife, but that's it.

Another question: Avoid that his knife around. Never store in a drawer. Use a block of wood or of magnetic media screwing a wall.

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