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8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone

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8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone

First of all, we have to distinguish whether your knife needs to be sharpened

Here are the ways

3 Ways to Test If a Knife Is Sharp:

  1. Paper test: A sharp knife should slice through a piece of paper easily.
  2. Tomato test: Tomatoes have a tough outer skin with a very soft interior, meaning that a dull knife will squish a tomato before breaking the skin.
  3. Onion test: Try cutting an onion’s outer skin. A dull knife will not be able to cut through it.
8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
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Before we delve into things, we must make it clear what we’re talking about when we say sharpening. The general term for “sharpen” is to give something a keen edge. The knife term for “sharpen” is a bit more specific. It means making a knife sharp by actually removing metal from the blade to form an edge.

There are 8 things you can use if you have no sharpening stone with you .

Coffee Mug

Simply turn the mug upside down, search for the raw part of the cup (which is the rougher part of the bottom that prevents the cup from sliding around), and run the knife across the mug until you get your desired edge.

8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
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Sandpaper

The best grit will depend on the knife and how much you want to sharpen. If possible, start with a coarser grit and work your way up to a finer grit for maximum sharpness.

Smooth Stone

When you don’t have a sharpening stone, use a smooth and flat stone. Rocks in or along rivers work perfectly, but you could also make one by grinding two rocks together.

Spine of Another Knife

A honing device that’s easy to find is the thick spine of a second knife. (Yet another reason why you should carry two knives.) The same way you run the knife along honing steel is the same way you’d run it along the unsharpened spine of a blade.

This works best when the knife you’re sharpening the steel on has a different hardness level.

8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
sharpening stone

Cardboard

Don’t even have nylon straps? If you’re anything like me, you’ve got cardboard boxes from Amazon and Knife Depot lying around the house. Cardboard isn’t as effective as leather belts or nylon straps, but it will work for stropping a blade.

Let me introduce you a very convenient sharpening stone

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8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
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Sharpen for these: Chef knife, Santoku knife ,Paring cleaver, Scissors

Sharpening for these: Boning knife, Fillet knife, hunting pocket knife

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8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
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8 items you can use to sharpen knives, if there is no sharpening stone
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