{"id":5331,"date":"2012-01-17T23:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/2012\/01\/sharp-knives\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T23:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:47:04","slug":"sharp-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=5331","title":{"rendered":"Sharp knives!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I used to use a whetstone to sharpen my knives.<\/p>\n

They are so messy- and my stone was small- by the time I finished, I hadn\u2019t sharpened all my knives-<\/p>\n

it was too much of a hassle.<\/p>\n

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My mother had this sharpener- metal circles that you pulled the blade<\/p>\n

through the center and it pared the edges finer.<\/p>\n

This is old.  The circles are rusty and don\u2019t move as freely as they used to.<\/p>\n

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Pampered Chef sells this knife with a cover that has a built in sharpener-<\/p>\n

the idea is that each time you pull it out it sharpens the blade.<\/p>\n

\"007\"<\/a>\"006\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nice idea, but it doesn\u2019t really work that well.<\/p>\n

So- I\u2019m going to try to sharpen this knife using a couple of gadgets.<\/p>\n

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The Rada  company has a sharpener that uses the same principle as my mother\u2019s old one<\/p>\n

– but there are only two circles and they are not rusted together so they work.<\/p>\n

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Look at all the metal filings in the center of the paper.  Those are from the edge of the<\/p>\n

knife.  The blade is a little rough, though, since we are pulling it between the circles.<\/p>\n

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So I use the steel rod that will file down the rough edges on the blade.<\/p>\n

\"014\"<\/a>\"015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And there is the edge- the new edge I was looking for- a sharp knife.<\/p>\n

How do you sharpen your knives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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