When sharpening a knife, what exactly does honing do?
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Don’t hone a knife. Those sharpening rods that come with knife sets will give you another week of “pseudo sharpness” by turning the knife edge into a jagged mess. Yes, a jagged messed up edge, will feel sharper, like a saw cuts thru wood…but when it wears out those jagged edges it makes, will be even worse.
When a knife is dull, switch to a different knife, and once you have time, actually sharpen the full knife with a sharpening stone. (The easiest sharpener for the home cook, are those devices that swing a stone, on an arm, over the blade edge. Or even those magnetic rolly cylinders….pull thru sharpeners are the worst, even worse than the honing rod)
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