Maintain your knife’s precious edge between sharpenings with our top picks. Food & Wine / Marcus Millan Honing with a honing steel or rod is part of regular knife maintenance that keeps your blade in ...

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

A dull knife is a dangerous knife.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I did not learn knife care from my parents, and ...

There are various ways to keep your knives sharp and, while some are more intense and time-consuming than others, you can definitely find one that best fits your needs. Former Commerce Content ...

A dull kitchen knife, in addition to being very inconvenient, can, in fact, be very unsafe to use. When knives get dull, you ...

The most expensive mistake in the kitchen is confusing honing and sharpening. Honing aligns the blade, while sharpening ...

Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, Birmingham-based food photographer, writer, and recipe developer with five years experience who loves cooking and sharing her love of food through photographs.

How do you sharpen a knife? If you looked at your knife under a microscope, you would see that the blade comes to a very thin edge with tiny teeth. From the knife’s perspective, the act of cutting is ...