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Home Cooks’ Biggest Disadvantage

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 16, 2013

The single biggest problem in home kitchens. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Dull knives. It's the single biggest problem in home kitchens. The. Single. Biggest. Problem. It's the main reason cooking seems more difficult than it should be. And I'll say this again, too. Guys and girls, the best Valentine's Day gift you can give your lover/cook, get his/her knives professionally sharpened or buy a good sharpener. Again: Nothing says "I love you" like a really sharp knife. I get mine—I use Wusthof, btw—professionally sharpened at a wet-grind sharpening place, and OpenSky found this astonishingly effective and easy-to-use sharpening "stone," called the DMT Sharpening Stone. (It's not really a stone, but rather a patented diamond-dust coated perforated steel sheet on rubber; see video below.) If you have to saw on a lemon rind to get the ...

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The Importance of Sharp Knives

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 22, 2011

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

OpenSky's knife sharpener offer to people who follow me there forced me to think about sharp knives (I had to write the copy). Normally, I only think about sharp knives when they aren't. Here's the fact: the biggest problem in home kitchens is dull knives. There is no greater hindrance to the person in the house who does the cooking than dull knives. Almost without fail, every friend's kitchen I go to, there is not a sharp knife to be found. The only kitchens I've been in where there are sharp knives, are the big fancy ones where no one cooks. And my mom's. Because she only uses those crappy ceramic knives, so her nice Wusthofs, used on my once- or twice-a-year visits remain pristine. (OpenSky has ...

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Posted in Kitchen Tools, Technique, Tools, Video | Also tagged How to Steel a Knife, knives, Opensky, sharpening stone, technique, video | Comments closed

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