When I first learned to cook, I purchased a mechanical sharpener simple enough to use each time my knife began to dull. Then, several years later, I heard the term "honing" for the first time and ...

Honing. Performed much more frequently than sharpening, honing maintains a knife's edge and ensures that it's ready to tackle ...

All four knives in the seven-piece set are of great quality, but the honing steel and shears left us rather disappointed. The plastic handles don't match the rest of the set, and both just feel ...

Its edge also held up excellently after thorough use, requiring less honing than most of its competition. Its sky high price point makes it tricky to recommend, however, making this knife better ...

It's time to dust off that strange metal tool that's tucked into the center of your knife block. If this contraption is unfamiliar to you, it's called a honing rod, and it's not too hard to use.

As you use the knife that edge degrades – it gets chipped and small burrs form (areas where the metal bends and curls over itself). You can fix these small issues by honing your knives regularly ...

This will happen faster the more often you use your knife. A typical knife set should come with a honing steel that will help you realign and straighten your knives. When sharpening, keep your ...

For the time being, you can purchase the Henckels Modernist 14-pc Self-Sharpening Knife Set with Block for $200, instead of $657. This massive $457 price drop includes free shipping, but can only be ...