It always hurts! “Ah, that knife, I have to take care of it!” » and we postpone it. A dull, useless knife has no place in the kitchen. Sharpening is therefore important for greater efficiency and precision. An incredible grandmother’s trick, easy and safe, allows you to sharpen your edges, immediately and in less than a minute, with what you have at home.
You have decided to offer the whole family fresh products, for healthy, tasty and dietary food. In the kitchen, you have invested in food processors and excellent utensils that make your job easier. On the cutlery side, you are provided with: a paring knife, a slicer, a slicer. Cutting the meat, slaughtering the fillets, deboning on your cutting board, all this does not scare you anymore. To peel vegetables, your peeler never leaves you. Thus secured, you are “armed” for any eventuality! Almost, because all these tools become blunt…
Kitchen knives. Source: spm
The trick to sharpening a knife: a cup of coffee?
By dint of passages in the dishwasher (to avoid in priority, wash them by hand) and even just by using them, they begin to dull, lose their ability to slice. The infallible test: slicing a tomato with the skin on. If the knife turns this simple gesture into lint… It’s high time to take care of your steel blades whose cutting edge is no longer effective. Here is a trick that will allow you to rectify all this in “two steps, three moves”.
To sharpen your knife, you need an abrasive material, but not too much… Like stone… Let’s see… In the dishwasher, you have what you need. The underside of the bowl washed yesterday! Observe the porcelain circle without varnish, it is abrasive but not too much. This is what you needed. For an unbeatable value for money sharpening!
Sharpen the knife with a mug – Source: spm
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How to sharpen your knives?
Just a few seconds… Your knife will be clean and dry. Your steward can also to be sharpened in this way. Lay the bowl or cup, or even the plate upside down on your workspace. Count between 5 and 6 passages of the knife, of its blade on the grainy edge, on one side then the other: a real blade of Japanese knives.
The bottom edge of the bowl is just what you need. Source: spm
It’s then up to you to adjust your gestures for the rendering you want. Take care all the same for your safety and that of those who will also use your freshly sharpened knives! In this case, you can sharpen less hard, but more often. The mug is still available…
Other methods to sharpen your knives
Never mind. The first is to have sandpaper of different qualities in your kitchen drawers. It is still expensive and a bit dangerous.
You can also opt for artisanal sharpening, regular, at the sharpener, or with a whetstone or a sharpening steel.
The sharpening steel, an investment, for professional equipment. Source: spm
As you have seen, the trick to sharpening your knives in an emergency is unstoppable: a cup, a bowl and you’re done. Transmit it, share it… But you can also use the aforementioned solutions.
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