Chantry Manual Knife Sharpener - Sharpens Smooth or Serrated Blades

Product Information

We choose the most popular manual and electric knife sharpeners available at UK retailers to test. We buy all the products we test and rate them on the two factors below. Sharpening ability

By understanding the benefits of steeling, you can understand the limitations of steeling. Because its purpose isn't to remove metal from the edge, it cannot take a dull edge and refine it to a new sharpened edge. That is the purpose of the sharpener. Sharpeners come in many different forms such as stones or even quality electric sharpeners. You can even take your knives to be sharpened professionally from time to time if you prefer not to sharpen your knives yourself. The purpose of the Chantry Steel is to keep your knives sharp so you don't have to sharpen your knives as frequently. Keeping it at that angle, pull the knife down the honing steel while pulling the handle towards you.

Kitchen Knife Sets & Knife Sharpeners

Many knife sharpener models require you to simply pull the blade of your knife through the electric or manual sharpener where coarse and fine sections firstly sharpen, then hone the blade. Safe and fast, they can make blunt blades glint in seconds. A whetstone functions in a similar way with different levels of coarseness, enabling you to firstly sharpen the dull blade then restore the razor-sharp edge. These are ideal for straight edged knives as are the traditional sharpening steels. Types of knife sharpeners

A honing steel, sometimes also called a honing rod or a sharpening steel, doesn't exactly sharpen your knife. Instead, it realigns the cutting edge to smooth out microscopic bumps and jagged edges. When the sharpener has more than one setting, the coarse setting is the sharpener and the fine one is normally similar to a honing steel. We rate each knife sharpener on how easy it is to set up and use, plus how easy the instructions are to follow. Things we learnt testing knife sharpeners Originally developed for, and still used in, the food processing industry, the Chantry Classic was designed by Robert Welch in the 1970s and is on permanent display in the New York Museum of Modern Art as a 1970s classic.Sheffield Choice Plus Knife Sharpener works in the same way as the Chantry Knife Sharpener but the internal working cannot be replace. If your sharpener has more than one setting, select 'coarse' for very blunt knives. The fine or honing setting is for everyday knife maintenance. Finish with a honing steel for best results. Rinse and dry the knife. You may also need to clean up the area around the whetstone. Repeat this action three to six times. You can go for three if your blade is just a bit dull, and more if it's blunter. The Chantry Modern was designed by Sam Hecht in 2005 and is a winner of a Design Plus Award (Ambiente - Frankfurt 2005).