Wusthof Culinar 9-Inch Diamond Steel Review

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Essential To Keep Your Knives In Top Condition. No Collection Of W_Sthof Knives Is Complete Until You’Ve Added This Essential Maintenence Tool! Regular Maintenance Of Your W_Sthof Knives Insures A Lifetime Of Cooking Pleasure. With Regular Use Any Knife’S Edge Will Lose Its “Bite”. Under High Magnification, You Would See That The Cutting Edge Itself Actually Consists Of Rows Of Tiny “Teeth” Which Must Be Periodically Realigned For Optimum Cutting Performance. The Key To Using A Honing Steel Is Holding The Blade At A Consistent 20 Degree Angle As You Simulate The Motion Of The Blade “Shaving” Off The Surface Of The Honing Steel Itself. The “Tip Down” Method Shown Here Works Best As It Lets You Always See The Contact Point Of The Knife And The Steel. At Some Point, Any Quality Knife Will Require Professional Sharpening. For Warranty Information, Please Click Here.

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Although steels often are touted as sharpening tools, few actually sharpen knife blades. Steels do, however, perform the vital task of resetting a knife’s edge, which bends when contacting a cutting surface or other hard object. Because this tool’s oval, stainless-steel rod contains diamond dust, it’s hard enough to somewhat sharpen a blade. “Somewhat” is key. Using this steel won’t replace a professional sharpening job, which proceeds from coarse grinding to ever-finer grinding at tightly controlled angles. But it will lengthen intervals between sharpenings better than a steel without diamond dust because it accomplishes the final task of a professional sharpening, which is polishing the edge to a fine point while realigning it. A steel should be at least as long as the knife blade being drawn across it, so this steel’s 9-inch rod handles nearly all household knives. The steel’s elegant satin-finish handle is sculpted from 18/10 stainless steel, the distinguishing feature of Wüsthof ‘s Culinar line of cutlery. –Fred Brack