A good knife is probably the most important bit of kit you’ll buy for your kitchen. But if you don’t look after it, it will end up being replaced when it doesn’t need to be. As James Ross-Harris of knife makers Blenheim Forge says, too often kitchen knives are “treated as almost disposable objects, used until they are blunt and then rejected. It’s sad to see.”
A knife is, after all, a tool that needs to be maintained. “There’s a huge amount of satisfaction to be gained from taking something that doesn’t work as effectively and bringing it back to top condition,” says Helen Symonds, co-founder of knife emporium Kitchen Provisions. Not to mention being cheaper in the long run. So from sharpening to cleaning, here’s how to keep your kitchen knives on pointe.
