Knife sets, particularly those that come with a countertop block, usually include a long metal rod that is clearly not intended for cutting. Some call them knife sharpeners, and while they are used ...

Five s kitchen knives laying on a wooden board - Halil ibrahim mescioglu/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's extremely important to keep knives sharp. It make ...

“A dull knife is a dangerous knife.” If you have never heard that saying before I can confirm its validity for you. It’s true because a dull knife requires you to work harder. When your knife is sharp ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Testing out all the razor-sharp blades in a brand-new knife set can be exhilarating, but that metal shaft sitting amongst the knives confuses ...

[MUSIC PLAYING] WES SILER: Back when we started this series, we identified that a lot of the advice out there is just some tough guy trying to one up the other dudes on YouTube. I don't want to be ...

The answer might surprise you. If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: the most important tool for any cook is a sharp knife. I've also heard that a sharp knife is safer to use than a ...

Vincent Lau’s job is to restore and maintain the blades of hundreds of clients a week. At Korin, the Japanese knife and kitchenware emporium where Lau does his work, you won’t find him using some ...

As someone who cooks at home regularly, I stand by the idea that the most dangerous tool in a kitchen is a dull knife. Regardless of your experience level, a dull knife makes it easy to accidentally ...

There are plenty of pocket knife enthusiasts in the world, but not nearly as many knife sharpening enthusiasts. This means many knife owners are walking around with dull pocket knives, and they’re not ...

I remember my dad giving me my first Barlow pocket knife as a child. I still have it. It is also still sharp because he taught me how to sharpen a pocket knife it on the same day, along with a strong ...

I got my first pocket knife when I was five years old, and it didn’t take me long to say, “Hey, this thing doesn’t cut so well anymore.” However, it was several years before I got serious about ...