Keep your knife sharp and the chef happy. There are few moments in the kitchen more frustrating than trying to slice a ripe tomato with a dull knife. Most home cooks know that a quality chef’s knife ...

If you’ve never sliced something with a truly sharp knife, it’s a revelation, turning an arduous task into a pleasure. We called upon the nation’s expert knife makers, knife-store owners, and the ...

Keep your knives on the cutting edge with regular honing and sharpening.

A dull knife is a useless tool. While electric sharpeners offer convenience, speed and power, manual sharpening stones, called whetstones, offer greater control over the angle of an edge. They’ve been ...

“I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever’s sharp,” Wolfgang Puck once said in an interview. Knives are essential tools in every kitchen, but what do you do when yours start to lose ...

In the long list of skills grandpa knew better than us, there’s the ancient art of knife sharpening. It takes more than a honing steel and a couple swift swipes of the blade to tighten an edge: ...

Keep your blades razor-sharp.

If you’re known to abuse kitchen knives and make other knife-related kitchen mistakes, you need to know how to sharpen a knife at home. You don’t want to dispose of kitchen knives regularly or risk a ...

It's that time of year again. Time to pick our bird, prep our pies, and get to celebrating the holidays. This means you may be digging that electric knife out of the backwoods of your pantry or ...