Steel Knife Sharpener
Sharpening steel or Honing steel is one of the essential accessories of kitchen that are used to sharpen the blunt knives. The steel knife sharpener are usually made of very hard, high carbon steel or ceramic, is a long tapered rod attached to the knife handle. Using a steel knife, you could reshape the blade by elucidating the roughness, leaving a straight and nice edge.
It is fairly simple and quick, takes about 60 seconds of time to attain a sharpened knife. How to get the steel knife sharpener is very well understood through the below key points.
- If you’re left-handed then hold the steel knife sharpener with your right hand pointing it downwards with the tip resting on dry cutting board; otherwise hold it with left-hand. It is exactly the same way when you insert a nail into the board using hammer.
- Now with your other hand, hold the knife against the steel sharpener with the back of the blade so that the handle of the knife touches the steel.
- Tilt the knife at an angle of 22 and half degree so that the cutting edge of knife meets with the shaft of the steel sharpener. If you find difficulty in measuring the angle then don’t you worry just remember 90 degree is a right angle and half of it is 45 degrees and half of 45 is 22 and half degrees. So simple, isn’t it?
- Maintaining the same angle, slowly snatch the blade towards you and simultaneously start gliding the blade downward along the shaft of the steel. If you want to cover the whole blade length then keeping at the same angle repeat the same step near about 9-10 times.
- You are almost done. Just switch to other side of the blade and give the other side ten more strokes on the steel. That’s it! You have got a sharpened knife using steel.
While performing this task, certain points need to be considered and followed correctly.
- The steel knife sharpener should be longer than the knife to be sharpened, for instance if you’re using chef’s knife, which is of 10inches length then your steel knife sharpener must also be 10inches or more but not shorter than chef’s knife length.
- When you are done with steel sharpener, make sure that you rinse the blade and wipe off the blade using a towel to make it dry so that if they are any metal filings left out on the knife’s edge are removed.
- Be handy while using steel knife in the kitchen.
It is very simple to get the steel knife sharpener by sharpening the knives which are totally blunt using steel and you can master yourself with repetitive practicing.