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Originally Posted by jte1130 Whats the thinking on electric sharpeners such as the Chef's Choice line of sharpebers? |
i feel they are the easy way out, and definitely keeps you from living up
to your potential.
such sharpeners tend to take more metal off the blade than necessary,
and the fixed angle doesn't do you any favors unless you really don't
care.
even with "western" knives that are sharpened equally on both sides,
they will work better if sharpened "assymetrically", that is, more on
side than the other. if a knife is sharpened equally on both sides it
is sometimes called a "50/50". a right handed person tends to cut
"pushing out" or "away" from the body. by sharpening the edge to
something like "70/30" you can make your knife cut very straight
slices in meat and other things.
you can't make "70/30" or "80/20" edges with an electric sharpener.
they have one fixed angle and that's that.