How To Sharpen Kitchen Knives. When most people at home use a "honing steel" or "butcher's steel," or. Sharpen and care for your kitchen knives for safer, faster cooking.
How often you use your knives will determine how often you need to sharpen them. Sharpening a chef's knife manually doesn't have to be a daunting task. Except that unlike those two examples, you can—and Place the whetstone on your kitchen countertop so that it's pointing outward from your belt buckle.
So, when we started investing in high-quality chef's knives, we called on him to teach us to take care of it.
I cook at home often, probably using my chef's knife at least four times a week, so that is a knife I sharpen on a stone about four times a year.
We took a lesson from legendary knife maker Bob Kramer. How To Care for Kitchen Knives. To sharpen a very dull knife, use first the coarse and then the fine side of the whetstone; to sharpen a blade in better shape, use only the fine side.