Schoolcraft College has a basic skills class – look under continuing ed. It’s required for any of their hands-on CE cooking classes. It’s taught in 2 sessions, 4 hours each. Looks like you get time with other...

-inch Wusthof Classic. I’d recommend that you take a knife skills class. The chef’s knife is the most-used knife in the kitchen. If you know how to use it properly and care for it properly, cooking becomes more fun and...

Japanese knives are beautiful and really do a great job on veggies, fish and meats, but I never use mine to chop bones. A Chinese cleaver is, for me, harder to control than a chef’s knife or santoku, but it has a lot to do...

with a really skilled sharpener using machines if they’re careful, respect the knife and don’t take off too much steel. The key word here is skilled. A lot of machine sharpeners just put the knife on a rough grinder...

Reviving an older thread, here... I love the Chelsea Market knife lady, which LNG recommended, above (she’s very skilled), but I, too, would like a sharpener more local to the UWS. These days, the sharpener that Harrison...

less usable. Both types of power sharpening have the potential to really screw up your knives. I would reccomend waterstone sharpening by a skilled sharpener. Waterstones remove very little steel to make a sharp knife. This is how...

and an Advanced version. http://www.cartercutlery.com/DVDs.cfm Korin is perhaps the best known. Also look at the info on their site. http://www.korin.com/product.php?pid=193&df=knife For people just starting out cooking, learning...

Could anyone recommend a highly skilled and scrupulous knife sharpening service in the South Bay? Thanks. Has anyone had experience with Williams Cutlery in the Town & Country in Palo Alto, re: knife sharpening (if they offer it)?

://www.edgeproinc.com/productsapex.html at $155-105 than that whole set of Wusthofs. You will be able to filet peppers and float your blade into a tomato to make a clean fine dice among other things. Your knife skills will soar...

Spyderco Sharpmaker. Electric knife sharpeners make me cringe. It takes finese and skill to sharpen a japanese kitchen knife properly, and Spyderco has the right tool to get it done. It even comes with a DVD showing you the...

I need to have all of my knifes sharpened. The only place I know of in the City is at the Ferry Building Farmers Market and it is outrageously overpriced. The last time I went there, all of my knives were sharpened in 30 minutes...

and the owners' son were sharpening. Eventually, the Chinese guy opened a spot across the street—don’t know if it’s still there. Alas, the son had no knife-sharpening skills, so I stopped going and all my knives...

how sharp either will get and stay is as much, if not more a function of your knife sharpening skills than just knife brand or type of steel. If you are using a grinder or a pull through sharpener it is un-likely one will be...

I’ve never sharpened my own knives before and the two we use the most are getting pretty dull. Is it pretty easy to sharpen them at home, and if so, what kind of knife-sharpener is best? Or, is it easier to take them to a...

knife skills course professor told me that I should. I figured that if anyone knew, Chowhounds would....