There’s nothing quite like the feel of a new, factory-sharp chef’s knife ... You can fix these small issues by honing your knives regularly with a honing rod or similar.

A sharp knife transforms your cutting experience ... for knife maintenance -- I'm sure you're all familiar with the honing rod and knife sharpening stone or whetstone -- but I wanted the knife ...

Rolling knife sharpeners have been something of a viral sensation recently and promise to make knife sharpening easy. They all work on pretty much the same principle: a magnetic block holds the knife ...

That’s just fine, but if this happens repeatedly (like in daily use), the blade becomes less sharp ... 90-degree angle to the rod, as if you were about to cut the honing steel in half.