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5 Tips To Getting The Most Out Of Your Knife Sharpening System
Gone are the days when a bench stone was only knife sharpening system available to sharpen the blade of your household knife or a professional tool. Now, we have a range of choices that includes Bench Grinder, Chain Saw Sharpeners, and Grinding Wheels, etc. As always, there are two ways to use these tools of knife sharpening business: a right way and a wrong way. The right way will help you get most out of your knife sharpening system and the use the wrong way might blunt the edge of your knives and tools, if not break it. And we obviously will talk about the right way here.
5 tips to get most out of a Knife Sharpening System Tip 1: get zircon alumina oxide based grinding wheel
Although aluminum oxide is the most common material used in a grinding wheel, I will suggest you to go for zircon alumina as it works best with steel and certain types of metal alloys. Grinding wheel that has zircon alumina in it will be durable.
Tip 2: Look at the grit size of the grinding wheel
Grit size is another thing you need to look at while deciding on a grinding wheel. A higher number in the context of grit size means finer grain and a lower number means coarser grain. Keep this in mind and this will decide the output of your knife sharpening system.
Tip 3: Ensure steadiness of bench grinder wheel for better accuracy
A bench grinder is cheaper sharpening equipment that can be used to sharpen kitchen knives, drill bits, hand tools, and cutters, etc. The wheel which is used in this sharpening equipment comes of different sizes. You not only need to find the right wheel size for the bench grinder tool you will use for your sharpening system, but you will also need to use a tool rest to provide steadiness to the wheel. This has significant impact on sharpening accuracy.
Tip 4: Choose automatic chain sharper over manual one
This is no-brainer, but still I thought to mention it here. Automatic chain sharpener will discount the human error from the equation. When using an automatic chain sharpener, you will not require caring for the proper placement of the sharper tooth, or care for pulling the head promptly up.
Tip 5: Go with a professional Knife Sharpener
Well, at the first glance this tip may look out of the league. But just one closer look will tell you how wrong your presumption was, particularly when you need to sharpen your professional tools. All knife sharpening systems work great, but only when handled by a qualified person. Let go of your DIY (Do it yourself) attitude, it will hurt your business, and hire a pro to do this job. There are quite a few available.
Don't pinch pennies if you can save dollars in price of your professional tools by hiring someone who is into knife sharpening business for many years.
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Mid range-Expensive Knife Brands?
Hello,
I would like to get my mom a set of knives however I was wondering what brand makes good set of high quality knives that last? Any pro cooks out there help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brett
Shun makes very good knives. Don't buy the one sided blades though, they are extremely sharp and if you don't know how to use them they will pull and cut you. These knives are beautiful and extremely comfortable. (If you're right handed, I think they make left handed handles but I'm not sure)
Globals look pretty but they hurt my hands if I'm doing a lot of knife work.
MACs are really good and less expensive than Shun. These are really easy to keep sharp.
If your mom is going to use these knives, and not just show them off in a block I wouldn't recommend buying a whole set. They put too much crap in those people never use.
You need:
A chef's knife, (seems like shorter people like shorter knives and taller people like longer, heavier chef's knives)
A Utility Knife, (I'd get a MAC santoku, really great little knife)
A Boning Knife, (Forchsner makes the best)
A bread knife,
And a Paring Knife.
In the kitchen I really don't use much else, besides a cleaver for chopping bones and a scimitar for big fish, I doubt your mom would need those. Maybe a cake knife if she does a lot of baking.
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