It is crucial to keep knives sharp so that they cut through food with less slippage. Dull knives are dangerous because a dull blade requires more force to do the job and so has a higher chance of slipping and missing the mark. Plus, poorly cut food will not cook properly. A sharp knife will produce food that is evenly cut and therefore will cook at an even rate.
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:
- Paper test: A sharp knife should slice through a piece of paper easily.
- 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.
- Onion test: Try cutting an onion’s outer skin. A dull knife will not be able to cut through it.
Whether you’re out in the wilderness with only a few pieces of gear or can’t find a sharp knife to save your life, a knife sharpener isn’t always there when you need it the most. Fortunately, knowing the basics of how to sharpen a knife and using a little quick thinking and ingenuity, you can use a variety of household tools to sharpen your knives.
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.
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.
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
Diamond Knife Sharpening Stone Knife Sharpener 1- 4Pcs Set Ultra-thin Honeycomb Surface
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Sharpen for these: Chef knife, Santoku knife ,Paring cleaver, Scissors
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