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From the first time I started following knives – outside of the kitchen, of course – I have discovered different kinds of people who EDC their knives for different reasons. Of these, I have been able to justify why you could need a knife when running, carry a knife for camping or take a knife…
Knives are a big part of the woodcarving industry and they can be used to generate different outcomes. For the best results, it is best to choose different types of knives that are well suited to diverse operations. It is much like how you can use a chef knife for almost everything in the kitchen…
I have almost exclusively used stainless steel knives all my life, and I know that the same is true for most of you. While I don’t plan on switching the core material of my blade anytime soon, it helps to keep an open mind that there are other materials out there. One of these is…
For those of us that have seen the Rambo movies, those notches on the back of his knife look cool. Those movies were made a long time ago now but I have started seeing a lot of these tacticool knives around with notches. So, what do the notches on the back of these knives stand…
I won’t disagree with the fact that glass cutting boards look good right out of the box. They also will not get grooved in after a lot of cutting is done on them, so they have lesser chances of storing bacteria that would affect your next meal. That, and they are easy to clean. With…
Many of us might never need to know how to sterilize a knife. After all, that is the stuff of surgeons and medical practitioners alone, right? Wrong. There are a series of reasons why you need to know how to disinfect your knives by yourself. Whether a kitchen knife or pocket knife, you might be…
I’m not judging you but a lot of us have been caught spreading butter with table knives. As soon as you read that, you might even realize that you still did it recently. Ha-ha. But then, the table knife can be used to spread butter too, right? It is also the butter knife, only that…
The last thing you want to see is a dent in your knife blade. Of course, some microchips happen along the edge of the knife from time to time which is why I recommend you hone your blade after use. However, when the chip is so serious that you notice it, something is truly wrong…
Sharpening your knives with a whetstone is one of the best ways to get that blade back to winning ways very fast, and I have talked about how to do so extensively here. However, before you even start sliding the knife’s blade on the whetstone’s surface at all, there are some things you need to…
If you’ve ever done some research into sharpening your knives well so that they come out the best versions of themselves again, chances are you have come across the word ‘burr’ more times than you care to remember. It seems that everywhere you turn, someone is mentioning it as part of their knife sharpening checks…
