be used every single day for chopping vegetables, slicing meat, preparing fruit, trimming ingredients, and countless other jobs.
And unlike disposable kitchen gadgets, a good knife was something people generally wanted to maintain.
Sharpening helped extend the useful life of a blade.
There was also a practical reason to care about knife condition.
A properly maintained knife can perform more predictably than a badly neglected one. A dull or damaged blade can require more force and make food preparation frustrating.
That doesn’t mean sharpening automatically makes every knife safer—technique and
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