Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. If there’s a knife block set on your counter, congrats—you’re officially an adult. But have you ever used the honing steel ...

Maintain your knife’s precious edge between sharpenings with our top picks. Food & Wine / Marcus Millan Honing with a honing steel or rod is part of regular knife maintenance that keeps your blade in ...

Knife sets, particularly those that come with a countertop block, usually include a long metal rod that is clearly not intended for cutting. Some call them knife sharpeners, and while they are used ...

A dull knife is a cook's worst enemy, and easily the most dangerous tool you can have in your kitchen. Thankfully, keeping your knives in good condition to use isn't terribly difficult, and you ...

Which honing rods are best? While there are lots of great kitchen tools that can help with any task imaginable, knives are still the backbone of every cook’s toolkit. It makes sense that keeping your ...

Steel is a soft metal, so the blade actually becomes frayed. 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 ...

How do you sharpen a knife? If you looked at your knife under a microscope, you would see that the blade comes to a very thin edge with tiny teeth. From the knife’s perspective, the act of cutting is ...

Knowing what tool is used to sharpen knives will save you a headache when you find that yours are becoming dull. Most of the time you don’t need a power tool or an expensive knife-sharpening system to ...

The skilled human hand lost another small round against the machine last week, and U.S. industry thereby took an important stride toward solving one of its most acute wartime bottlenecks—cutting tools ...