Take a blunt knife to be sharpened and learn the angle
“Handing a kitchen knife to a stranger and admitting you do not know how to keep it sharp feels faintly ridiculous: until you feel the difference in your hand and want to learn how.”
The Recipe
- Take the bluntest knife from wherever you are staying to a cutler or a sharpening stall; ask at a hardware shop for the nearest one.
- Have them sharpen it, then ask them to show you the angle and let you draw the blade across the stone once yourself.
- Watch how they test the edge when they are done, and copy it.
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