Chef's Choice M130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum (Review)
Chef's Choice M130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum
| Average Customer Rating: 4.5 |
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| I've been using a similar Chef's Choice sharpening system for 3 years now. I know there are people who say that you should take your knives to a professional knife sharpener to get sharpened. But I don't have the time or money to do that whenever my knives start to get dull. I can tell you that over 3 years, my knives have remained very sharp and show no signs of deteriorating. Maybe I'm blind, but I just don't see it. For sharpening knives at home, this is the way to go. I picked one of these up during Amazon's Lightning Deal for an incredible price. I'm giving it to a friend for Xmas. NOW HE WON'T KEEP CALLING ME TO BORROW MINE!!!! ;-) I like to work with wood and demand that my chisels and planes be mirror smooth and sharp enough to easily shave hair off the back of my hand. This takes, um, a lot of time to say the least. In the kitchen I want a knife that can do its job and be thrown in the dishwasher. This means my kitchen does not contain high end carbon steel knives. I own a basic set of stainless steel Gerber knives and a few odd blades and a pair of cooking scissors. Having said that I wont say that this device will put a razor edge on your blade but it will allow you to take a very dull kitchen knife and put a very good working edge on it in about 24 seconds with no effort. Plug in the unit, drag through the progressively finer grinding slots and keep on cooking. The knives are sharp and very ready to work but I wouldn't describe them as razor sharp like a chisel. Later touch ups would need about 8 seconds because you skip the first to slots. The sharpener is sturdy and the motor sounds substantial. Its heft and quality remind me of a Kitchen-aid mixer. In use: At each slot you drag the blade through the left side and then the right side before proceeding through the next slot. Step one if starting with a very dull blade drag through slot one for a gross grinding. Step two drag through slot two for a finer sharpening. Step three drag through slot three for a good polishing. Skip step one if the knife is not very dull. Later touch ups will likely only need to be dragged through slot three. Now you are ready to use the blade on food. Jim I have been searching for a knife sharpener that was exactly what it claimed to be and I have just found it. I have "resharpen" all of my knives that I had tried to sharpen with various other shaperner and this one worked quickly to return my knives to their former glory and a few of them to even better condition than before. Thanks to Chef's Choice for providing a tool that will keep my kitchen knives sharp for a long time hopefully. bmlove |
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