Honing is an important part of keeping your knives super sharp. Here’s how to hone a knife and the difference between honing and sharpening.
Is your favorite knife not cutting like it should? Maybe you used it to slice up some corks to make a wine cork pirate ship, and since then it’s been a little bit….wonky? Chances are you need to hone that sucker! Until recently, I had no idea how to hone a knife or that sharpening was different from honing. Here is the difference:
Sharpening is when you shave down the blade to make it…well…sharper. Honing is when you use a tool to straighten the blade, so it cuts better.
You really only need to sharpen your knives once or twice a year, but it turns out that we should all hone our blades a lot more frequently. Over at Eat Drink Better I wrote a piece on how to hone a knife, including a video that gets a little bit more into honing vs. sharpening and how to do each. You can read the whole thing – and see the video – below! {Image Credit: Knife photo via Shutterstock}
